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of Arizona, in the counties of Modoc and Siskiyou in the 
State of California, in the counties of Chaffee, Conejos, 
Dolores, Moffat, Montezuma, and Park in the State of 
Colorado, in the counties of Carson City, Churchill, Clark, 
Douglas, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, 
Lyon, Nye, Pershing, Storey and Washoe in the State of 
Nevada, in the county of Otero in the State of New Mex-
ico, in the counties of Jackson, Josephine and, Malheur 
in the State of Oregon, in the counties of Beaver, Carbon, 
Duchesne, Emery, Garfield, Iron, Juab, Kane, Millard, 
Piute, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Tooele, Uintah, Wash-
ington, and Wayne in the State of Utah, or in the county 
of Penobscot in the State of Maine. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 454. The amount by which the applicable alloca-
tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives under sec-
tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ex-
ceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is $0. 
SEC. 455. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency 
to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce section 
1037.601(a)(1) of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, 
as proposed to be revised under the proposed rule entitled 
‘‘Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Efficiency Stand-
ards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles-
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Phase 2’’ published by the Environmental Protection 
Agency in the Federal Register on July 13, 2015 (80 Fed. 
Reg. 40138 et seq.), or any rule of the same substance, 
with respect to glider kits and glider vehicles (as defined 
in section 1037.801 of title 40, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, as proposed to be revised under such proposed rule). 
SEC. 456. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior to imple-
ment, administer, or enforce any rule or guidance of the 
same substance as the proposed rule regarding Risk Man-
agement, Financial Assurance and Loss Prevention for 
which advanced notice of proposed rulemaking was pub-
lished by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on 
August 19, 2014 (79 Fed. Reg. 49027) or the National 
Notice to Lessees and Operators of Federal Oil and Gas 
and Sulphur Leases, Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) 
issued by such Bureau (NTL No. 2016–N03). 
SEC. 457. None of the funds made available under 
this Act may be used to enter into a cooperative agree-
ments with or make any grant or loan to an entity to es-
tablish in any of Baca, Bent, Crowley, Huerfano, Kiowa, 
Las Animas, Otero, Prowers, and Pueblo counties, Colo-
rado, a national heritage area, national heritage corridor, 
national heritage canal way, national heritage tour route, 
national historic district, or cultural heritage corridor.
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SEC. 458. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency to hire or pay the salary of any 
officer or employee of the Environmental Protection Agen-
cy under subsection (f) or (g) of section 207 of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 209) who is not already 
receiving pay under either such subsection on the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 459. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to propose or develop legislation to redi-
rect funds allocated under section 105(a)(2)(A) of the 
Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 (43 U.S.C. 
1331 note). 
SEC. 460. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to develop, propose, finalize, implement 
or enforce the rule entitled ‘‘Management of Non-Federal 
Oil and Gas Rights’’ and published by the United States 
Fish and Wildlife Service on December 11, 2015 (80 Fed. 
Reg. 77200), or any rule of the same substance. 
SEC. 461. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency to enforce the requirements of 
part 112 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, with 
respect to any farm (as that term is defined in section 
112.2 of such title).
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SEC. 462. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of section 1913 of title 
18, United States Code. 
SEC. 463. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act under the heading ‘‘Environmental Programs and 
Management’’ may be used for the Office of Congressional 
and Intergovernmental Relations of the Environmental 
Protection Agency. 
(b) The amount otherwise provided by this Act for 
‘‘Environmental Programs and Management’’ is hereby 
reduced by $4,235,000. 
SEC. 464. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
draft technical report entitled ‘‘Protecting Aquatic Life 
from Effects of Hydrologic Alteration’’ published by the 
Environmental Protection Agency and the United States 
Geological Survey on March 1, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 
10620). 
SEC. 465. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency 
to develop, finalize, promulgate, implement, administer, or 
enforce any rule under section 112 of the Clean Air Act 
(42 U.S.C. 7412) that applies to glass manufacturers that 
do not use continuous furnaces.
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SEC. 466. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
final rule entitled ‘‘Hydraulic Fracturing on Federal and 
Indian Lands’’ as published in the Federal Register on 
March 26, 2015 and March 30, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 16127 
and 16577, respectively). 
SEC. 467. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-
force the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Greenhouse Gas Emis-
sions and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and 
Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles-Phase 2’’ published by 
the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Reg-
ister on July 13, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 40138 et seq.), with 
respect to trailers. 
SEC. 468. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-
force the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Health and Environ-
mental Protection Standards for Uranium and Thorium 
Mill Tailings’’ published by the Environmental Protection 
Agency in the Federal Register on January 26, 2015 (80 
Fed. Reg. 4156 et seq.), or any rule of the same sub-
stance. 
SEC. 469. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to enforce permit requirements pursuant to part 14 of title
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50, Code of Federal Regulations, with respect to the ex-
port of squid, octopus, and cuttlefish products. 
SEC. 470. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency to issue any regulation under 
the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.) 
that applies to an animal feeding operation, including a 
concentrated animal feeding operation and a large con-
centrated animal feeding operation, as such terms are de-
fined in section 122.23 of title 40, Code of Federal Regu-
lations. 
SEC. 471. For ‘‘United States Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice–Resource Management’’ to reinstate the wolf-livestock 
loss demonstration program as authorized by Public Law 
111–11, there is hereby appropriated, and the amount 
otherwise provided by this Act for ‘‘Environmental Protec-
tion Agency–Environmental Programs and Management’’ 
is hereby reduced by, $1,000,000. 
SEC. 472. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may used by the Secretary of the Interior to imple-
ment, administer, or enforce any rule of the same sub-
stance as the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Oil and Gas and Sul-
phur Operations in the Outer Continental Shelf-Blowout 
Preventer Systems and Well Control’’ and published April 
17, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 21504), the final rule issued by
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the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement 
with 
that 
title 
(Docket 
ID: 
BSEE–2015–0002; 
15XE1700DX EEEE500000 EX1SF0000.DAQ000), or 
any rule of the same substance as such proposed or final 
rule. 
LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR EXECUTIVE ORDER 
RELATING TO STEWARDSHIP OF OCEANS, COASTS, 
AND THE GREAT LAKES 
SEC. 473. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Ex-
ecutive Order No. 13547 (75 Fed. Reg. 43023, relating 
to the stewardship of oceans, coasts, and the Great 
Lakes), including the National Ocean Policy developed 
under such Executive order. 
SEC. 474. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency 
to take any of the actions described as a ‘‘backstop’’ in 
the December 29, 2009, letter from EPA’s Regional Ad-
ministrator to the States in the Watershed and the Dis-
trict of Columbia in response to the development or imple-
mentation of a State’s watershed implementation and re-
ferred to in enclosure B of such letter. 
SEC. 475. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement or enforce the threatened 
species or endangered species listing of any plant or wild-
life that has not undergone a review as required by section
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4(c)(2) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1533(c)(2) et seq.). 
SEC. 476. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement or enforce the threatened 
species listing of the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse 
under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1531 et seq.). 
SEC. 477. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior to treat 
any gray wolf in any of the 48 contiguous States or the 
District of Columbia as an endangered species or threat-
ened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 
(16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) after June 13, 2017. 
SEC. 478. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to treat the New Mexico Meadow Jump-
ing Mouse as an endangered species under the Endan-
gered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). 
SEC. 479. None of the funds made available by this 
Act shall be used to give formal notification under, or pre-
pare, propose, implement, administer, or enforce any rule 
or recommendation pursuant to, section 115 of the Clean 
Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7415). 
SEC. 480. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-
force the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Accidental Release Pre-
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vention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under 
the Clean Air Act’’ published by the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency in the Federal Register on March 14, 2016 
(81 Fed. Reg. 13638 et seq.). 
SEC. 481. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to carry out any rule issued after the 
date of the enactment of this Act that is a major rule 
described in subparagraph (A) of section 804(2) of title 
5, United States Code. 
SEC. 482. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency 
to make grants pursuant to section 6 of the National En-
vironmental Education Act (20 U.S.C. 5505). 
SEC. 483. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to destroy any buildings or structures 
on Midway Island. 
SEC. 484. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Department of the Interior for 
the purpose of destroying any records regarding, related 
to, or generated by the Inorganic Section of the United 
States Geological Survey Energy Geochemistry Labora-
tory in Lakewood, Colorado. 
SEC. 485. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to consult with the National Science 
Foundation with respect to section 106 of the National
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Historic Preservation Act of 1966 or section 7 of the En-
dangered Species Act of 1973 with respect to any Environ-
mental Impact Statement prepared pursuant to the ‘‘No-
tice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact State-
ment and Initiate Section 106 Consultation for Proposed 
Changes to Arecibo Observatory Operations, Arecibo, 
Puerto Rico and Notice of Public Scoping Meetings and 
Comment Period’’, published in the Federal Register May 
23, 2016. 
SEC. 486. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used enforce the decision in Civil Action No. 
14–1807 (JDB), United States District Court for the Dis-
trict of Columbia, issued March 29, 2016. 
SEC. 487. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, or enforce the pro-
posed rule entitled ‘‘Oil and Gas and Sulphur Operations 
on the Outer Continental Shelf–Requirements for Explor-
atory Drilling on the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf’’ as 
published February 24, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 9916). 
SEC. 488. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Director of the United States Fish 
and Wildlife Service— 
(1) to issue a final rule for the proposed regula-
tions listed under docket number FWS–R7–NWRS– 
2014–0005; or
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(2) to implement the final rule entitled ‘‘Alaska; 
Hunting and Trapping in National Preserves’’ and 
dated (80 Fed. Reg. 64325 (October 23, 2015)). 
SEC. 489. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Department of the Interior to 
require changes to an existing placer mining plan of oper-
ations with regard to reclamation activities, including re-
vegetation, or to modify the bond requirements for the 
mining operation. 
SEC. 490. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Department of the Interior, the 
Environmental Protection Agency, or any other Federal 
agency to lease or purchase new light duty vehicles for 
any executive fleet, or for an agency’s fleet inventory, ex-
cept in accordance with Presidential Memorandum—Fed-
eral Fleet Performance, dated May 24, 2011. 
SEC. 491. None of the funds made available by this 
Act for the ‘‘DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR—NA-
TIONAL PARK SERVICE—NATIONAL
RECREATION
AND 
PRESERVATION’’ may be used in contravention of section 
320101 of title 54, United States Code. 
SEC. 492. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used may be used to eliminate the Urban 
Wildlife Refuge Partnership.
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LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 493. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to limit outreach programs administered 
by the Smithsonian Institution. 
SEC. 494. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to treat the Mexican wolf (Canis lupus 
baileyi) as an endangered species or threatened species 
under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1531 et seq.) or to implement a recovery plan for such 
species that applies in any area outside the historic range 
of such species. 
SEC. 495. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-
force the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Clean Energy Incentive 
Program Design Details’’ published by the Environmental 
Protection Agency in the Federal Register on June 30, 
2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 42939 et seq.), or any rule of the 
same substance. 
SEC. 496. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay legal fees pursuant to a settlement 
in any case, in which the Federal Government is a party, 
that arises under— 
(1) the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.); 
(2) the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.); or
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(3) the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). 
SEC. 497. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement the Final Comprehensive 
Conservation Plan for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 
Alaska for which notice of availability was published in 
the Federal Register on April 13, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 
19678). 
SEC. 498. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to remove Arctic Sales 255, 258, and 
262 from the 2017–2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and 
Gas Leasing Proposed Program for which notice of avail-
ability was published on March 18, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 
14881). 
SEC. 499. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to declare a national monument under 
section 320301 of title 54, United States Code, in the ex-
clusive economic zone of the United States established by 
Proclamation Numbered 5030, dated March 10, 1983. 
COMPLIANCE WITH GREAT LAKES COMPACT 
SEC. 500. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by a State in contravention of the inter-
state compact regarding water resources in the Great 
Lakes—St. Lawrence River Basin consented to and ap-
proved by Congress in Public Law 110–342.
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SEC. 501. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-
force the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Special Regulations, 
Areas of the National Park Service, Golden Gate National 
Recreation Area, Dog Management’’ published by the Na-
tional Park Service in the Federal Register on February 
24, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 9139 et seq.; Regulation Identifier 
No. 1024–AE16). 
SEC. 502. None of the funds made available by the 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
modification to boating restrictions contained in the news 
release issued by the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service entitled ‘‘Minor Modification to Boating Restric-
tions at Havasu Wildlife Refuge’’ and dated May 20, 
2015. 
LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 503. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of section 321(a) of the 
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7621(a)). 
SEC. 504. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract with any offeror 
or any of its principals if the offeror certifies, as required 
by Federal Acquisition Regulation, that the offeror or any 
of its principals— 
(1) within a 3-year period preceding this offer 
has been convicted of or had a civil judgment ren-
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dered against it for: commission of fraud or a crimi-
nal offense in connection with obtaining, attempting 
to obtain, or performing a public (Federal, State, or 
local) contract or subcontract; violation of Federal or 
State antitrust statutes relating to the submission of 
offers; or commission of embezzlement, theft, for-
gery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, 
making false statements, tax evasion, violating Fed-
eral criminal tax laws, or receiving stolen property; 
(2) are presently indicted for, or otherwise 
criminally or civilly charged by a governmental enti-
ty with, commission of any of the offenses enumer-
ated above in paragraph (1); or 
(3) within a 3-year period preceding this offer, 
has been notified of any delinquent Federal taxes in 
an amount that exceeds $3,000 for which the liabil-
ity remains unsatisfied. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2017’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 14, 2016. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5538 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Department of the 
Interior, environment, and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and 
for other purposes.