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mittees on Appropriations: Provided further, That, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, the National 
Park Service may not accept donations or services associ-
ated with the planning, design, or construction of such 
new facilities without advance approval of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, 
That funds provided under this heading for implementa-
tion of modified water deliveries to Everglades National 
Park shall be expended consistent with the requirements 
of the fifth proviso under this heading in Public Law 108–
108: Provided further, That none of the funds provided 
in this or any other Act may be used for planning, design, 
or construction of any underground security screening or 
visitor contact facility at the Washington Monument until 
such facility has been approved in writing by the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND 
(RESCISSION) 
The contract authority provided for fiscal year 2006 
by 16 U.S.C. 460l–10a is rescinded. 
LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and 
Water Conservation Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 
460l–4 through 11), including administrative expenses, 
and for acquisition of lands or waters, or interest therein, 
in accordance with the statutory authority applicable to
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the National Park Service, $9,421,000, to be derived from 
the Land and Water Conservation Fund and to remain 
available until expended, of which $1,587,000 is for the 
administration of the State assistance program. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations for the National Park Service shall be 
available for the purchase of not to exceed 245 passenger 
motor vehicles, of which 199 shall be for replacement only, 
including not to exceed 193 for police-type use, 10 buses, 
and 8 ambulances: Provided, That none of the funds ap-
propriated to the National Park Service may be used to 
process any grant or contract documents which do not in-
clude the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided further, That 
none of the funds appropriated to the National Park Serv-
ice may be used to implement an agreement for the rede-
velopment of the southern end of Ellis Island until such 
agreement has been submitted to the Congress and shall 
not be implemented prior to the expiration of 30 calendar 
days (not including any day in which either House of Con-
gress is not in session because of adjournment of more 
than 3 calendar days to a day certain) from the receipt 
by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 
President of the Senate of a full and comprehensive report 
on the development of the southern end of Ellis Island, 
including the facts and circumstances relied upon in sup-
port of the proposed project: Provided further, That in fis-
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cal year 2006 and thereafter, appropriations available to 
the National Park Service may be used to maintain the 
following areas in Washington, District of Columbia: 
Jackson Place, Madison Place, and Pennsylvania Avenue 
between 15th and 17th Streets, Northwest. 
None of the funds in this Act may be spent by the 
National Park Service for activities taken in direct re-
sponse to the United Nations Biodiversity Convention. 
The National Park Service may distribute to oper-
ating units based on the safety record of each unit the 
costs of programs designed to improve workplace and em-
ployee safety, and to encourage employees receiving work-
ers’ compensation benefits pursuant to chapter 81 of title 
5, United States Code, to return to appropriate positions 
for which they are medically able. 
If the Secretary of the Interior considers the decision 
of any value determination proceeding conducted under a 
National Park Service concession contract issued prior to 
November 13, 1998, to misinterpret or misapply relevant 
contractual requirements or their underlying legal author-
ity, the Secretary may seek, within 180 days of any such 
decision, the de novo review of the value determination by 
the United States Court of Federal Claims, and that court 
may make an order affirming, vacating, modifying or cor-
recting the determination.
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In addition to other uses set forth in section 407(d) 
of Public Law 105–391, franchise fees credited to a sub-
account shall be available for expenditure by the Sec-
retary, without further appropriation, for use at any unit 
within the National Park System to extinguish or reduce 
liability for Possessory Interest or leasehold surrender in-
terest. Such funds may only be used for this purpose to 
the extent that the benefiting unit anticipated franchise 
fee receipts over the term of the contract at that unit ex-
ceed the amount of funds used to extinguish or reduce 
liability. Franchise fees at the benefiting unit shall be 
credited to the sub-account of the originating unit over 
a period not to exceed the term of a single contract at 
the benefiting unit, in the amount of funds so expended 
to extinguish or reduce liability. 
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH 
For expenses necessary for the United States Geo-
logical Survey to perform surveys, investigations, and re-
search covering topography, geology, hydrology, biology, 
and the mineral and water resources of the United States, 
its territories and possessions, and other areas as author-
ized by 43 U.S.C. 31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as 
to their mineral and water resources; give engineering su-
pervision to power permittees and Federal Energy Regu-
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latory Commission licensees; administer the minerals ex-
ploration program (30 U.S.C. 641); publish and dissemi-
nate data relative to the foregoing activities; and to con-
duct inquiries into the economic conditions affecting min-
ing and materials processing industries (30 U.S.C. 3, 21a, 
and 1603; 50 U.S.C. 98g(1)) and related purposes as au-
thorized by law and to publish and disseminate data; 
$974,586,000, of which $63,770,000 shall be available 
only for cooperation with States or municipalities for 
water resources investigations; of which $8,000,000 shall 
remain available until expended for satellite operations; of 
which $23,320,000 shall be available until September 30, 
2007, for the operation and maintenance of facilities and 
deferred maintenance; of which $1,600,000 shall be avail-
able until expended for deferred maintenance and capital 
improvement projects that exceed $100,000 in cost; and 
of which $174,765,000 shall be available until September 
30, 2007, for the biological research activity and the oper-
ation of the Cooperative Research Units: Provided, That 
none of the funds provided for the biological research ac-
tivity shall be used to conduct new surveys on private 
property, unless specifically authorized in writing by the 
property owner: Provided further, That no part of this ap-
propriation shall be used to pay more than one-half the 
cost of topographic mapping or water resources data col-