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AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY 
TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH 
For necessary expenses for the Agency for Toxic Substances 
and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in carrying out activities set forth 
in sections 104(i) and 111(c)(4) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and 
section 3019 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $74,691,000: Provided, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, in lieu of per-
forming a health assessment under section 104(i)(6) of CERCLA, 
the Administrator of ATSDR may conduct other appropriate health 
studies, evaluations, or activities, including, without limitation, bio-
medical testing, clinical evaluations, medical monitoring, and 
referral to accredited healthcare providers: Provided further, That 
in performing any such health assessment or health study, evalua-
tion, or activity, the Administrator of ATSDR shall not be bound 
by the deadlines in section 104(i)(6)(A) of CERCLA: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall 
be available for ATSDR to issue in excess of 40 toxicological profiles 
pursuant to section 104(i) of CERCLA during fiscal year 2019, 
and existing profiles may be updated as necessary. 
OTHER RELATED AGENCIES 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF 
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 
For necessary expenses to continue functions assigned to the 
Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental 
Quality pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 
the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970, and Reorga-
nization Plan No. 1 of 1977, and not to exceed $750 for official 
reception and representation expenses, $2,994,000: Provided, That 
notwithstanding section 202 of the National Environmental Policy 
Act of 1970, the Council shall consist of one member, appointed 
by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, 
serving as chairman and exercising all powers, functions, and duties 
of the Council. 
CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pursuant to 
section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, including hire of passenger 
vehicles, uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902, and for services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at 
rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem equivalent to 
the maximum rate payable for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 
5376, $12,000,000: Provided, That the Chemical Safety and Hazard 
Investigation Board (Board) shall have not more than three career 
Senior Executive Service positions: Provided further, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, the individual appointed to 
the position of Inspector General of the Environmental Protection 
Agency (EPA) shall, by virtue of such appointment, also hold the
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position of Inspector General of the Board: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Inspector General 
of the Board shall utilize personnel of the Office of Inspector General 
of EPA in performing the duties of the Inspector General of the 
Board, and shall not appoint any individuals to positions within 
the Board. 
OFFICE OF NAVAJO AND HOPI INDIAN RELOCATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian 
Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93–531, $8,750,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That funds provided 
in this or any other appropriations Act are to be used to relocate 
eligible individuals and groups including evictees from District 6, 
Hopi-partitioned lands residents, those in significantly substandard 
housing, and all others certified as eligible and not included in 
the preceding categories: Provided further, That none of the funds 
contained in this or any other Act may be used by the Office 
of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation to evict any single Navajo 
or Navajo family who, as of November 30, 1985, was physically 
domiciled on the lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe unless a 
new or replacement home is provided for such household: Provided 
further, That no relocatee will be provided with more than one 
new or replacement home: Provided further, That the Office shall 
relocate any certified eligible relocatees who have selected and 
received an approved homesite on the Navajo reservation or selected 
a replacement residence off the Navajo reservation or on the land 
acquired pursuant to section 11 of Public Law 93–531 (88 Stat. 
1716): Provided further, That $1,000,000 shall be transferred to 
the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior, 
to remain available until expended, for audits and investigations 
of the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation, consistent 
with the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.). 
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE CULTURE AND 
ARTS DEVELOPMENT 
PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE 
For payment to the Institute of American Indian and Alaska 
Native Culture and Arts Development, as authorized by part A 
of title XV of Public Law 99–498 (20 U.S.C. 4411 et seq.), $9,960,000, 
which shall become available on July 1, 2019, and shall remain 
available until September 30, 2020. 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institution, as 
authorized by law, including research in the fields of art, science, 
and history; development, preservation, and documentation of the 
National Collections; presentation of public exhibits and perform-
ances; collection, preparation, dissemination, and exchange of
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information and publications; conduct of education, training, and 
museum assistance programs; maintenance, alteration, operation, 
lease agreements of no more than 30 years, and protection of 
buildings, facilities, and approaches; not to exceed $100,000 for 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and purchase, rental, 
repair, and cleaning of uniforms for employees, $739,994,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2020, except as otherwise 
provided herein; of which not to exceed $6,917,000 for the 
instrumentation program, collections acquisition, exhibition re-
installation, and the repatriation of skeletal remains program shall 
remain available until expended; and including such funds as may 
be necessary to support American overseas research centers: Pro-
vided, That funds appropriated herein are available for advance 
payments to independent contractors performing research services 
or participating in official Smithsonian presentations. 
FACILITIES CAPITAL 
For necessary expenses of repair, revitalization, and alteration 
of facilities owned or occupied by the Smithsonian Institution, by 
contract or otherwise, as authorized by section 2 of the Act of 
August 22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623), and for construction, including 
necessary personnel, $303,503,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which not to exceed $10,000 shall be for services 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For the upkeep and operations of the National Gallery of Art, 
the protection and care of the works of art therein, and administra-
tive expenses incident thereto, as authorized by the Act of March 
24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), as amended by the public resolution of 
April 13, 1939 (Public Resolution 9, Seventy-sixth Congress), 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in 
advance when authorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for mem-
bership in library, museum, and art associations or societies whose 
publications or services are available to members only, or to mem-
bers at a price lower than to the general public; purchase, repair, 
and cleaning of uniforms for guards, and uniforms, or allowances 
therefor, for other employees as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901– 
5902); purchase or rental of devices and services for protecting 
buildings and contents thereof, and maintenance, alteration, 
improvement, and repair of buildings, approaches, and grounds; 
and purchase of services for restoration and repair of works of 
art for the National Gallery of Art by contracts made, without 
advertising, with individuals, firms, or organizations at such rates 
or prices and under such terms and conditions as the Gallery 
may deem proper, $144,202,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2020, of which not to exceed $3,640,000 for the special 
exhibition program shall remain available until expended. 
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS 
For necessary expenses of repair, restoration and renovation 
of buildings, grounds and facilities owned or occupied by the 
National Gallery of Art, by contract or otherwise, for operating
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lease agreements of no more than 10 years, with no extensions 
or renewals beyond the 10 years, that address space needs created 
by the ongoing renovations in the Master Facilities Plan, as author-
ized, $24,203,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That contracts awarded for environmental systems, protection sys-
tems, and exterior repair or renovation of buildings of the National 
Gallery of Art may be negotiated with selected contractors and 
awarded on the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price. 
JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 
For necessary expenses for the operation, maintenance and 
security of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 
$24,490,000. 
CAPITAL REPAIR AND RESTORATION 
For necessary expenses for capital repair and restoration of 
the existing features of the building and site of the John F. Kennedy 
Center for the Performing Arts, $16,800,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of the 
Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 1356) including 
hire of passenger vehicles and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $12,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2020. 
NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foundation 
on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, $155,000,000 shall 
be available to the National Endowment for the Arts for the support 
of projects and productions in the arts, including arts education 
and public outreach activities, through assistance to organizations 
and individuals pursuant to section 5 of the Act, for program 
support, and for administering the functions of the Act, to remain 
available until expended. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foundation 
on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, $155,000,000 to 
remain available until expended, of which $141,750,000 shall be 
available for support of activities in the humanities, pursuant to 
section 7(c) of the Act and for administering the functions of the 
Act; and $13,250,000 shall be available to carry out the matching
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grants program pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Act, including 
$11,250,000 for the purposes of section 7(h): Provided, That appro-
priations for carrying out section 10(a)(2) shall be available for 
obligation only in such amounts as may be equal to the total 
amounts of gifts, bequests, devises of money, and other property 
accepted by the chairman or by grantees of the National Endowment 
for the Humanities under the provisions of sections 11(a)(2)(B) 
and 11(a)(3)(B) during the current and preceding fiscal years for 
which equal amounts have not previously been appropriated. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
None of the funds appropriated to the National Foundation 
on the Arts and the Humanities may be used to process any grant 
or contract documents which do not include the text of 18 U.S.C. 
1913: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated to the National 
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities may be used for official 
reception and representation expenses: Provided further, That funds 
from nonappropriated sources may be used as necessary for official 
reception and representation expenses: Provided further, That the 
Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts may approve 
grants of up to $10,000, if in the aggregate the amount of such 
grants does not exceed 5 percent of the sums appropriated for 
grantmaking purposes per year: Provided further, That such small 
grant actions are taken pursuant to the terms of an expressed 
and direct delegation of authority from the National Council on 
the Arts to the Chairperson. 
COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses of the Commission of Fine Arts under chapter 
91 of title 40, United States Code, $2,771,000: Provided, That the 
Commission is authorized to charge fees to cover the full costs 
of its publications, and such fees shall be credited to this account 
as an offsetting collection, to remain available until expended with-
out further appropriation: Provided further, That the Commission 
is authorized to accept gifts, including objects, papers, artwork, 
drawings and artifacts, that pertain to the history and design 
of the Nation’s Capital or the history and activities of the Commis-
sion of Fine Arts, for the purpose of artistic display, study, or 
education: Provided further, That one-tenth of one percent of the 
funds provided under this heading may be used for official reception 
and representation expenses. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 99–190 
(20 U.S.C. 956a), $2,750,000. 
ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on Historic 
Preservation (Public Law 89–665), $6,890,000.
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TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
RESTRICTION ON USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 401. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be available for any activity or the publication or distribution 
of literature that in any way tends to promote public support 
or opposition to any legislative proposal on which Congressional 
action is not complete other than to communicate to Members 
of Congress as described in 18 U.S.C. 1913. 
OBLIGATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 402. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year 
unless expressly so provided herein. 
DISCLOSURE OF ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
SEC. 403. The amount and basis of estimated overhead charges, 
deductions, reserves or holdbacks, including working capital fund 
and cost pool charges, from programs, projects, activities and sub-
activities to support government-wide, departmental, agency, or 
bureau administrative functions or headquarters, regional, or cen-
tral operations shall be presented in annual budget justifications 
and subject to approval by the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate. Changes to such 
estimates shall be presented to the Committees on Appropriations 
for approval. 
MINING APPLICATIONS 
SEC. 404. (a) LIMITATION OF FUNDS.—None of the funds appro-
priated or otherwise made available pursuant to this Act shall 
be obligated or expended to accept or process applications for a 
patent for any mining or mill site claim located under the general 
mining laws. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—Subsection (a) shall not apply if the Secretary 
of the Interior determines that, for the claim concerned (1) a patent 
application was filed with the Secretary on or before September 
30, 1994; and (2) all requirements established under sections 2325 
and 2326 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) for vein 
or lode claims, sections 2329, 2330, 2331, and 2333 of the Revised 
Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, and 37) for placer claims, and section 
2337 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 42) for mill site claims, 
as the case may be, were fully complied with by the applicant 
by that date. 
(c) REPORT.—On September 30, 2020, the Secretary of the 
Interior shall file with the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House 
and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 
a report on actions taken by the Department under the plan sub-
mitted pursuant to section 314(c) of the Department of the Interior
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and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 (Public Law 104– 
208). 
(d) MINERAL
EXAMINATIONS.—In order to process patent 
applications in a timely and responsible manner, upon the request 
of a patent applicant, the Secretary of the Interior shall allow 
the applicant to fund a qualified third-party contractor to be selected 
by the Director of the Bureau of Land Management to conduct 
a mineral examination of the mining claims or mill sites contained 
in a patent application as set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau 
of Land Management shall have the sole responsibility to choose 
and pay the third-party contractor in accordance with the standard 
procedures employed by the Bureau of Land Management in the 
retention of third-party contractors. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS, PRIOR YEAR LIMITATION 
SEC. 405. Sections 405 and 406 of division F of the Consolidated 
and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 (Public Law 113– 
235) shall continue in effect in fiscal year 2019. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS, FISCAL YEAR 2019 LIMITATION 
SEC. 406. Amounts provided by this Act for fiscal year 2019 
under the headings ‘‘Department of Health and Human Services, 
Indian Health Service, Contract Support Costs’’ and ‘‘Department 
of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian 
Education, Contract Support Costs’’ are the only amounts available 
for contract support costs arising out of self-determination or self- 
governance contracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding agree-
ments for fiscal year 2019 with the Bureau of Indian Affairs or 
the Indian Health Service: Provided, That such amounts provided 
by this Act are not available for payment of claims for contract 
support costs for prior years, or for repayments of payments for 
settlements or judgments awarding contract support costs for prior 
years. 
FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS 
SEC. 407. The Secretary of Agriculture shall not be considered 
to be in violation of subparagraph 6(f)(5)(A) of the Forest and 
Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 
1604(f)(5)(A)) solely because more than 15 years have passed with-
out revision of the plan for a unit of the National Forest System. 
Nothing in this section exempts the Secretary from any other 
requirement of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources 
Planning Act (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.) or any other law: Provided, 
That if the Secretary is not acting expeditiously and in good faith, 
within the funding available, to revise a plan for a unit of the 
National Forest System, this section shall be void with respect 
to such plan and a court of proper jurisdiction may order completion 
of the plan on an accelerated basis. 
PROHIBITION WITHIN NATIONAL MONUMENTS 
SEC. 408. No funds provided in this Act may be expended 
to conduct preleasing, leasing and related activities under either 
the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) or the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) within the
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boundaries of a National Monument established pursuant to the 
Act of June 8, 1906 (16 U.S.C. 431 et seq.) as such boundary 
existed on January 20, 2001, except where such activities are 
allowed under the Presidential proclamation establishing such 
monument. 
LIMITATION ON TAKINGS 
SEC. 409. Unless otherwise provided herein, no funds appro-
priated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or interests in 
lands may be expended for the filing of declarations of taking 
or complaints in condemnation without the approval of the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That this 
provision shall not apply to funds appropriated to implement the 
Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, 
or to funds appropriated for Federal assistance to the State of 
Florida to acquire lands for Everglades restoration purposes. 
TIMBER SALE REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 410. No timber sale in Alaska’s Region 10 shall be adver-
tised if the indicated rate is deficit (defined as the value of the 
timber is not sufficient to cover all logging and stumpage costs 
and provide a normal profit and risk allowance under the Forest 
Service’s appraisal process) when appraised using a residual value 
appraisal. The western red cedar timber from those sales which 
is surplus to the needs of the domestic processors in Alaska, shall 
be made available to domestic processors in the contiguous 48 
United States at prevailing domestic prices. All additional western 
red cedar volume not sold to Alaska or contiguous 48 United States 
domestic processors may be exported to foreign markets at the 
election of the timber sale holder. All Alaska yellow cedar may 
be sold at prevailing export prices at the election of the timber 
sale holder. 
PROHIBITION ON NO-BID CONTRACTS 
SEC. 411. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act to executive branch agencies may be used 
to enter into any Federal contract unless such contract is entered 
into in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 33 of title 
41, United States Code, or Chapter 137 of title 10, United States 
Code, and the Federal Acquisition Regulation, unless— 
(1) Federal law specifically authorizes a contract to be 
entered into without regard for these requirements, including 
formula grants for States, or federally recognized Indian tribes; 
(2) such contract is authorized by the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act (Public Law 93–638, 
25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.) or by any other Federal laws that 
specifically authorize a contract within an Indian tribe as 
defined in section 4(e) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(e)); or 
(3) such contract was awarded prior to the date of enact-
ment of this Act. 
POSTING OF REPORTS 
SEC. 412. (a) Any agency receiving funds made available in 
this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), post on the public
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website of that agency any report required to be submitted by 
the Congress in this or any other Act, upon the determination 
by the head of the agency that it shall serve the national interest. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if— 
(1) the public posting of the report compromises national 
security; or 
(2) the report contains proprietary information. 
(c) The head of the agency posting such report shall do so 
only after such report has been made available to the requesting 
Committee or Committees of Congress for no less than 45 days. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS GRANT GUIDELINES 
SEC. 413. Of the funds provided to the National Endowment 
for the Arts— 
(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant to an indi-
vidual if such grant is awarded to such individual for a lit-
erature fellowship, National Heritage Fellowship, or American 
Jazz Masters Fellowship. 
(2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures to ensure 
that no funding provided through a grant, except a grant made 
to a State or local arts agency, or regional group, may be 
used to make a grant to any other organization or individual 
to conduct activity independent of the direct grant recipient. 
Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit payments made in 
exchange for goods and services. 
(3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support to a group, 
unless the application is specific to the contents of the season, 
including identified programs or projects. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS PROGRAM PRIORITIES 
SEC. 414. (a) In providing services or awarding financial assist-
ance under the National Foundation on the Arts and the Human-
ities Act of 1965 from funds appropriated under this Act, the 
Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts shall ensure 
that priority is given to providing services or awarding financial 
assistance for projects, productions, workshops, or programs that 
serve underserved populations. 
(b) In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘underserved population’’ means a population 
of individuals, including urban minorities, who have historically 
been outside the purview of arts and humanities programs 
due to factors such as a high incidence of income below the 
poverty line or to geographic isolation. 
(2) The term ‘‘poverty line’’ means the poverty line (as 
defined by the Office of Management and Budget, and revised 
annually in accordance with section 673(2) of the Community 
Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2))) applicable to 
a family of the size involved. 
(c) In providing services and awarding financial assistance 
under the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act 
of 1965 with funds appropriated by this Act, the Chairperson of 
the National Endowment for the Arts shall ensure that priority 
is given to providing services or awarding financial assistance for 
projects, productions, workshops, or programs that will encourage 
public knowledge, education, understanding, and appreciation of 
the arts.