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Grants’’ shall be transferred to and merged with this ap-
propriation and shall remain available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations and funds available to the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for pur-
chase of not to exceed 179 passenger motor vehicles, of 
which 161 are for replacement only (including 44 for po-
lice-type use); repair of damage to public roads within and 
adjacent to reservation areas caused by operations of the 
Service; options for the purchase of land at not to exceed 
$1 for each option; facilities incident to such public rec-
reational uses on conservation areas as are consistent with 
their primary purpose; and the maintenance and improve-
ment of aquaria, buildings, and other facilities under the 
jurisdiction of the Service and to which the United States 
has title, and which are used pursuant to law in connection 
with management, and investigation of fish and wildlife 
resources: Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, 
the Service may, under cooperative cost sharing and part-
nership arrangements authorized by law, procure printing 
services from cooperators in connection with jointly pro-
duced publications for which the cooperators share at least 
one-half the cost of printing either in cash or services and 
the Service determines the cooperator is capable of meet-
ing accepted quality standards: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, the service may
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use up to $2,000,000 from funds provided for contracts 
for employment-related legal services: Provided further, 
That the Service may accept donated aircraft as replace-
ments for existing aircraft: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
the Interior may not spend any of the funds appropriated 
in this Act for the purchase of lands or interests in lands 
to be used in the establishment of any new unit of the 
National Wildlife Refuge System unless the purchase is 
approved in advance by the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations in compliance with the reprogramming 
procedures contained in House Report 108–330. 
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 
OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM 
For expenses necessary for the management, oper-
ation, and maintenance of areas and facilities adminis-
tered by the National Park Service (including special road 
maintenance service to trucking permittees on a reimburs-
able basis), and for the general administration of the Na-
tional 
Park 
Service, 
$1,686,067,000, 
of 
which 
$10,708,000 is for planning and interagency coordination 
in support of Everglades restoration and shall remain 
available until expended; of which $94,690,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2005, is for maintenance, 
repair or rehabilitation projects for constructed assets, op-
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eration of the National Park Service automated facility 
management software system, and comprehensive facility 
condition assessments; and of which $2,000,000 is for the 
Youth Conservation Corps for high priority projects: Pro-
vided, That the only funds in this account which may be 
made available to support United States Park Police are 
those funds approved for emergency law and order inci-
dents pursuant to established National Park Service pro-
cedures, those funds needed to maintain and repair United 
States Park Police administrative facilities, and those 
funds necessary to reimburse the United States Park Po-
lice account for the unbudgeted overtime and travel costs 
associated with special events for an amount not to exceed 
$10,000 per event subject to the review and concurrence 
of the Washington headquarters office. 
UNITED STATES PARK POLICE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the programs of 
the United States Park Police, $81,204,000. 
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out recreation pro-
grams, natural programs, cultural programs, heritage 
partnership programs, environmental compliance and re-
view, international park affairs, statutory or contractual 
aid for other activities, and grant administration, not oth-
erwise 
provided 
for, 
$53,877,000: 
Provided, 
That 
$700,000 from the Statutory and Contractual Aid Ac-
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count shall be provided to the City of Tacoma, Washington 
for the purpose of conducting a feasibility study for the 
Train to the Mountain project: Provided further, That 
none of the funds in this or previous Acts for the Rivers, 
Trails and Conservation Assistance Program may be used 
for cooperative agreements, contracts, or cash grants. 
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary in carrying out the Historic 
Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470), 
and the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management 
Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–333), $71,533,000, to be 
derived from the Historic Preservation Fund, to remain 
available until September 30, 2006, of which $30,000,000 
shall be for Save America’s Treasures for priority preser-
vation projects, of nationally significant sites, structures, 
and artifacts: Provided, That any individual Save Amer-
ica’s Treasures grant shall be matched by non-Federal 
funds: Provided further, That individual projects shall only 
be eligible for one grant, and all projects to be funded shall 
be approved by the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations and the Secretary of the Interior in consulta-
tion with the President’s Committee on the Arts and Hu-
manities prior to the commitment of grant funds: Provided 
further, That Save America’s Treasures funds allocated 
for Federal projects, following approval, shall be available 
by transfer to appropriate accounts of individual agencies.
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CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvements, repair or replace-
ment of physical facilities, including the modifications au-
thorized by section 104 of the Everglades National Park 
Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, $297,628,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That none of 
the funds available to the National Park Service may be 
used to plan, design, or construct any partnership project 
with a total value in excess of $5,000,000, without ad-
vance, written approval of the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, the National Park 
Service may not accept donations or services associated 
with the planning, design, or construction of such new fa-
cilities without advance written approval of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, 
That these restrictions do not apply to the Flight 93 Me-
morial: 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: Provided fur-
ther, That funds appropriated in this Act and in any prior 
Acts for the purpose of implementing the Modified Water
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Deliveries to Everglades National Park Project shall be 
available for expenditure unless the joint report of the Sec-
retary of the Interior, the Secretary of the Army, the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and 
the Attorney General which shall be filed within 90 days 
of enactment of this Act and by September 30 each year 
thereafter until December 31, 2006, to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations, the House Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the House 
Committee on Resources and the Senate Committee on 
Environment and Public Works, indicates that the water 
entering A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge 
and Everglades National Park does not meet applicable 
State water quality standards and numeric criteria adopt-
ed for phosphorus throughout A.R.M. Loxahatchee Na-
tional Wildlife Refuge and Everglades National Park, as 
well as water quality requirements set forth in the Consent 
Decree entered in United States v. South Florida Water 
Management District, and that the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations respond in writing dis-
approving the further expenditure of funds. 
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND 
(RESCISSION) 
The contract authority provided for fiscal year 2005 
by 16 U.S.C. 460l–10a is rescinded.
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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 
the National Park Service, $107,500,000, to be derived 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and to re-
main available until expended, of which $91,500,000 is for 
the State assistance program including $1,500,000 to ad-
minister this program: Provided, That none of the funds 
provided for the State assistance program may be used 
to establish a contingency fund. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations for the National Park Service shall be 
available for the purchase of not to exceed 249 passenger 
motor vehicles, of which 202 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
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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 appro-
priations available to the National Park Service may be 
used to maintain the following areas in Washington, Dis-
trict 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.
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in fiscal 
year 2005, with respect to the administration of the Na-
tional Park Service park pass program by the National 
Park Foundation, the Secretary may pay to the Founda-
tion administrative funds expected to be received in that 
fiscal year before the revenues are collected, so long as 
total payments in the administrative account do not exceed 
total revenue collected and deposited in that account by 
the end of the fiscal year. 
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 and/or misapply rel-
evant contractual requirements, and their underlying legal 
authority, the Secretary may seek the de novo review of 
the value determination by the United States Court of 
Federal Claims, and that court may make an order affirm-
ing, vacating, modifying or correcting the determination. 
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
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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-
latory Commission licensees; administer the minerals ex-
ploration program (30 U.S.C. 641); and publish and dis-
seminate data relative to the foregoing activities; and to 
conduct inquiries into the economic conditions affecting 
mining and materials processing industries (30 U.S.C. 3, 
21a, and 1603; 50 U.S.C. 98g(1)) and related purposes 
as authorized by law and to publish and disseminate data;
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the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain 
available until expended; of which up to $10,000,000, to 
be derived from the Federal Expenses Share of the Fund, 
shall be for supplemental grants to States for the reclama-
tion of abandoned sites with acid mine rock drainage from 
coal mines, and for associated activities, through the Ap-
palachian Clean Streams Initiative: Provided, That grants 
to minimum program States will be $1,500,000 per State 
in fiscal year 2005: Provided further, That pursuant to 
Public Law 97–365, the Department of the Interior is au-
thorized to use up to 20 percent from the recovery of the 
delinquent debt owed to the United States Government to 
pay for contracts to collect these debts: Provided further, 
That funds made available under title IV of Public Law 
95–87 may be used for any required non-Federal share 
of the cost of projects funded by the Federal Government 
for the purpose of environmental restoration related to 
treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage from aban-
doned mines: Provided further, That such projects must 
be consistent with the purposes and priorities of the Sur-
face Mining Control and Reclamation Act: Provided fur-
ther, That the State of Maryland may set aside the greater 
of $1,000,000 or 10 percent of the total of the grants 
made available to the State under title IV of the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, as amended