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of 1 percent of the funds provided under this heading may be 
used for official reception and representational expenses associated 
with hosting international visitors engaged in the planning and 
physical development of world capitals. 
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 
For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, as authorized 
by Public Law 106–292 (36 U.S.C. 2301–2310), $47,260,000, of 
which $515,000 for the Museum’s equipment replacement program, 
$1,900,000 for the museum’s repair and rehabilitation program 
and $1,264,000 for the museum’s exhibition design and production 
program shall remain available until expended. 
PRESIDIO TRUST 
PRESIDIO TRUST FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out title I of the Omnibus 
Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996, $17,450,000 
shall be available to the Presidio Trust, to remain available until 
expended. 
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER MEMORIAL COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including the costs of construction 
design, of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, 
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 401. The expenditure of any appropriation under this 
Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursu-
ant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where 
such expenditures are a matter of public record and available 
for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under 
existing law, or under existing Executive Order issued pursuant 
to existing law. 
SEC. 402. 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. 
SEC. 403. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year 
unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 404. None of the funds provided in this Act to any depart-
ment or agency shall be obligated or expended to provide a personal 
cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants to any officer or
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employee of such department or agency except as otherwise provided 
by law. 
SEC. 405. Estimated overhead charges, deductions, reserves 
or holdbacks from programs, projects, activities and subactivities 
to support government-wide, departmental, agency or bureau 
administrative functions or headquarters, regional or central oper-
ations shall be presented in annual budget justifications and subject 
to approval by the Committees on Appropriations. Changes to such 
estimates shall be presented to the Committees on Appropriations 
for approval. 
SEC. 406. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of 
the United States Government except pursuant to a transfer made 
by, or transfer provided in, this Act or any other Act. 
SEC. 407. None of the funds in this Act may be used to plan, 
prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classified as giant 
sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which are located on National 
Forest System or Bureau of Land Management lands in a manner 
different than such sales were conducted in fiscal year 2006. 
SEC. 408. (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.—The provisions of 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 Sec-
retary 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 and 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, 2009, 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 
of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate a report on actions taken by the Depart-
ment under the plan submitted pursuant to section 314(c) of the 
Department of the Interior 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 Bureau of Land Management to conduct a mineral examina-
tion of the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent applica-
tion 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. 
SEC. 409. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts 
appropriated to or otherwise designated in committee reports for 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service by 
Public Laws 103–138, 103–332, 104–134, 104–208, 105–83, 105–