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technology’’ appropriation to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2007. 
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sec-
tion 205 of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthoriza-
tion Act of 1986, and for construction, alteration, repair, 
rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed 
$85,000 per project, $73,027,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
OIL SPILL RESPONSE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environ-
mental Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil 
Pollution Act of 1990, $15,863,000, to be derived from 
the Oil Spill Liability trust fund, to remain available until 
expended. 
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) 
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolv-
ing
funds
and
performance
partnership
grants, 
$3,127,800,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $750,000,000 shall be for making capitalization 
grants for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under 
title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as 
amended (the ‘‘Act’’), of which up to $50,000,000 shall
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be available for loans, including interest free loans as au-
thorized by 33 U.S.C. 1383(d)(1)(A), to municipal, inter-
municipal, interstate, or State agencies or nonprofit enti-
ties for projects that provide treatment for or that mini-
mize sewage or stormwater discharges using one or more 
approaches which include, but are not limited to, decen-
tralized or distributed stormwater controls, decentralized 
wastewater treatment, low-impact development practices, 
conservation easements, stream buffers, or wetlands res-
toration; $850,000,000 shall be for capitalization grants 
for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds under sec-
tion 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended; 
$50,000,000 shall be for architectural, engineering, plan-
ning, design, construction and related activities in connec-
tion with the construction of high priority water and 
wastewater facilities in the area of the United States-Mex-
ico Border, after consultation with the appropriate border 
commission; $15,000,000 shall be for grants to the State 
of Alaska to address drinking water and waste infrastruc-
ture
needs
of
rural
and
Alaska
Native
Villages; 
$200,000,000 shall be for making grants for the construc-
tion of drinking water, wastewater and storm water infra-
structure and for water quality protection (‘‘special project 
grants’’) in accordance with the terms and conditions 
specified for such grants in the joint explanatory state-
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ment of the managers accompanying this Act, and, for 
purposes of these grants, each grantee shall contribute not 
less than 45 percent of the cost of the project unless the 
grantee
is
approved
for
a
waiver
by
the
Agency; 
$95,500,000 (increased by $2,000,000) shall be to carry 
out section 104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
(CERCLA), as amended, including grants, interagency 
agreements,
and
associated
program
support
costs; 
$4,000,000 shall be for a grant to Puerto Rico for drink-
ing
water
infrastructure
improvements
to
the 
Metropolitano community water system in San Juan; 
$10,000,000 for cost-shared grants for school bus retrofit 
and replacement projects that reduce diesel emissions: 
Provided, That $1,153,300,000 (reduced by $2,000,000) 
shall be for grants, including associated program support 
costs, to States, federally recognized tribes, interstate 
agencies, tribal consortia, and air pollution control agen-
cies for multi-media or single media pollution prevention, 
control and abatement and related activities, including ac-
tivities pursuant to the provisions set forth under this 
heading in Public Law 104–134, and for making grants 
under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for particulate 
matter monitoring and data collection activities of which 
and subject to terms and conditions specified by the Ad-
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ministrator,
of
which
$52,000,000
(reduced
by 
$2,000,000) shall be for carrying out section 128 of 
CERCLA, as amended, and $20,000,000 shall be for En-
vironmental Information Exchange Network grants, in-
cluding
associated
program
support
costs,
and 
$15,000,000 shall be for making competitive targeted wa-
tershed grants: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
section 603(d)(7) of the Act, the limitation on the 
amounts in a State water pollution control revolving fund 
that may be used by a State to administer the fund shall 
not apply to amounts included as principal in loans made 
by such fund in fiscal year 2006 and prior years where 
such amounts represent costs of administering the fund 
to the extent that such amounts are or were deemed rea-
sonable by the Administrator, accounted for separately 
from other assets in the fund, and used for eligible pur-
poses of the fund, including administration: Provided fur-
ther, That for fiscal year 2006, and notwithstanding sec-
tion 518(f) of the Act, the Administrator is authorized to 
use the amounts appropriated for any fiscal year under 
section 319 of that Act to make grants to Indian tribes 
pursuant to sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act: Pro-
vided further, That for fiscal year 2006, notwithstanding 
the limitation on amounts in section 518(c) of the Act, 
up to a total of 11⁄2 percent of the funds appropriated
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for State Revolving Funds under title VI of that Act may 
be reserved by the Administrator for grants under section 
518(c) of that Act: Provided further, That no funds pro-
vided by this legislation to address the water, wastewater 
and other critical infrastructure needs of the colonias in 
the United States along the United States-Mexico border 
shall be made available to a county or municipal govern-
ment unless that government has established an enforce-
able local ordinance, or other zoning rule, which prevents 
in that jurisdiction the development or construction of any 
additional colonia areas, or the development within an ex-
isting colonia the construction of any new home, business, 
or other structure which lacks water, wastewater, or other 
necessary infrastructure: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, such funds that were 
appropriated under this heading for special project grants 
in fiscal year 2000 or before and for which the Agency 
has not received an application and issued a grant by Sep-
tember 30, 2006, shall be made available to the Clean 
Water or Drinking Water Revolving Fund, as appropriate, 
for the State in which the special project grant recipient 
is located: Provided further, That excess funds remaining 
after completion of a special project grant shall be made 
available to the Clean Water or Drinking Water Revolving 
Fund, as appropriate, for the State in which the special
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project grant recipient is located: Provided further, That 
in the event that a special project is determined by the 
Agency to be ineligible for a grant, the funds for that 
project shall be made available to the Clean Water or 
Drinking Water Revolving Fund, as appropriate, for the 
State in which the special project grant recipient is lo-
cated: Provided further, That notwithstanding this or pre-
vious appropriations Acts, after consultation with the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and for 
the purposes of making technical corrections, the Adminis-
trator is authorized to award grants to entities under this 
heading for purposes other than those listed in the joint 
explanatory statements of the managers accompanying the 
Agency’s appropriations Acts for the construction of 
drinking water, waste water and storm water infrastruc-
ture, and for water quality protection. 
For an additional amount for the Clean Water State 
Revolving Fund, $100,000,000 shall be made available 
from the rescissions of multi-year and no-year funding, 
previously appropriated to the Environmental Protection 
Agency, the availability of which under the original appro-
priation accounts has not expired, and $100,000,000 in 
such funding is hereby rescinded: Provided, That such re-
scissions shall be taken solely from amounts associated 
with grants, contracts, and interagency agreements whose
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availability under the original period for obligation for 
such grant, contract, or interagency agreement has ex-
pired based on the April 2005 review by the Government 
Accountability Office. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
For fiscal year 2006, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 
6303(1) and 6305(1), the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, in carrying out the Agency’s 
function to implement directly Federal environmental pro-
grams required or authorized by law in the absence of an 
acceptable tribal program, may award cooperative agree-
ments to federally-recognized Indian Tribes or Intertribal 
consortia, if authorized by their member Tribes, to assist 
the Administrator in implementing Federal environmental 
programs for Indian Tribes required or authorized by law, 
except that no such cooperative agreements may be award-
ed from funds designated for State financial assistance 
agreements. 
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency is authorized to collect and obligate pesticide reg-
istration service fees in accordance with section 33 of the 
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (as 
added by subsection (f)(2) of the Pesticide Registration 
Improvement Act of 2003), as amended. 
Notwithstanding CERCLA 104(k)(4)(B)(i)(IV), ap-
propriated funds for fiscal year 2006 may be used to
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award grants or loans under section 104(k) of CERCLA 
to eligible entities that satisfy all of the elements set forth 
in CERCLA section 101(40) to qualify as a bona fide pro-
spective purchaser except that the date of acquisition of 
the property was prior to the date of enactment of the 
Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfield Revitaliza-
tion Act of 2001. 
For fiscal years 2006 through 2011, the Adminis-
trator may, after consultation with the Office of Personnel 
Management, make not to exceed five appointments in any 
fiscal year under the authority provided in 42 U.S.C. 209 
for the Office of Research and Development. 
TITLE III—RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-
search as authorized by law, $285,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of the funds pro-
vided, $62,100,000 is for the forest inventory and analysis 
program. 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-
tories, possessions, and others, and for forest health man-
agement, including treatments of pests, pathogens, and
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invasive or noxious plants and for restoring and rehabili-
tating forests damaged by pests or invasive plants, cooper-
ative forestry, and education and land conservation activi-
ties and conducting an international program as author-
ized, $254,875,000, to remain available until expended, as 
authorized by law of which $25,000,000 is to be derived 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund: Provided, 
That none of the funds provided under this heading for 
the acquisition of lands or interests in lands shall be avail-
able until the Forest Service notifies the House Committee 
on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Appro-
priations, in writing, of specific contractual and grant de-
tails including the non-Federal cost share: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds provided herein, $1,000,000 shall 
be provided to Custer County, Idaho, for economic devel-
opment in accordance with the Central Idaho Economic 
Development and Recreation Act, subject to authorization. 
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 
otherwise provided for, for management, protection, im-
provement, and utilization of the National Forest System, 
$1,423,920,000 (reduced by $7,000,000) (increased by 
$1,000,000), to remain available until expended, which 
shall include 50 percent of all moneys received during 
prior fiscal years as fees collected under the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended, in
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accordance with section 4 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 460l–
6a(i)): Provided, That unobligated balances under this 
heading available at the start of fiscal year 2006 shall be 
displayed by budget line item in the fiscal year 2007 budg-
et justification. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression 
activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency 
fire suppression on or adjacent to such lands or other 
lands under fire protection agreement, hazardous fuels re-
duction on or adjacent to such lands, and for emergency 
rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest System 
lands and water, $1,790,506,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That such funds including unobli-
gated balances under this heading, are available for repay-
ment of advances from other appropriations accounts pre-
viously transferred for such purposes: Provided further, 
That such funds shall be available to reimburse State and 
other cooperating entities for services provided in response 
to wildfire and other emergencies or disasters to the extent 
such reimbursements by the Forest Service for non-fire 
emergencies are fully repaid by the responsible emergency 
management agency: Provided further, That not less than 
50 percent of any unobligated balances remaining (exclu-
sive of amounts for hazardous fuels reduction) at the end
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of fiscal year 2005 shall be transferred, as repayment for 
past advances that have not been repaid, to the fund es-
tablished pursuant to section 3 of Public Law 71–319 (16 
U.S.C. 576 et seq.): Provided further, That, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, $8,000,000 of funds 
appropriated under this appropriation shall be used for 
Fire Science Research in support of the Joint Fire Science 
Program: Provided further, That all authorities for the use 
of funds, including the use of contracts, grants, and coop-
erative agreements, available to execute the Forest and 
Rangeland Research appropriation, are also available in 
the utilization of these funds for Fire Science Research: 
Provided further, That funds provided shall be available 
for emergency rehabilitation and restoration, hazardous 
fuels reduction activities in the urban-wildland interface, 
support to Federal emergency response, and wildfire sup-
pression activities of the Forest Service: Provided further, 
That of the funds provided, $286,000,000 is for hazardous 
fuels reduction activities, $9,281,000 is for rehabilitation 
and restoration, $21,719,000 is for research activities and 
to make competitive research grants pursuant to the For-
est and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 1641 et seq.), $41,000,000 is for 
State fire assistance, $8,000,000 is for volunteer fire as-
sistance, $15,000,000 is for forest health activities on
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Federal lands and $10,000,000 is for forest health activi-
ties on State and private lands: Provided further, That 
amounts in this paragraph may be transferred to the 
‘‘State and Private Forestry’’, ‘‘National Forest System’’, 
and ‘‘Forest and Rangeland Research’’ accounts to fund 
State fire assistance, volunteer fire assistance, forest 
health management, forest and rangeland research, vege-
tation and watershed management, heritage site rehabili-
tation, and wildlife and fish habitat management and res-
toration: Provided further, That transfers of any amounts 
in excess of those authorized in this paragraph, shall re-
quire approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations in compliance with reprogramming proce-
dures contained in the report accompanying this Act: Pro-
vided further, That funds provided under this heading for 
hazardous fuels treatments may be transferred to and 
made a part of the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account at 
the sole discretion of the Chief of the Forest Service thirty 
days after notifying the House and the Senate Committees 
on Appropriations: Provided further, That the costs of im-
plementing any cooperative agreement between the Fed-
eral Government and any non-Federal entity may be 
shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected parties: Pro-
vided further, That in addition to funds provided for State 
Fire Assistance programs, and subject to all authorities
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available to the Forest Service under the State and Pri-
vate Forestry Appropriations, up to $15,000,000 may be 
used on adjacent non-Federal lands for the purpose of pro-
tecting communities when hazard reduction activities are 
planned on national forest lands that have the potential 
to place such communities at risk: Provided further, That 
the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agri-
culture may authorize the transfer of funds appropriated 
for wildland fire management, in an aggregate amount not 
to exceed $9,000,000, between the Departments when 
such transfers would facilitate and expedite jointly funded 
wildland fire management programs and projects: Pro-
vided further, That funds designated for wildfire suppres-
sion, shall be assessed for indirect costs, in a manner con-
sistent with such assessments against other agency pro-
grams. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 
otherwise provided for, $468,260,000, to remain available 
until expended for construction, reconstruction, mainte-
nance and acquisition of buildings and other facilities, and 
for construction, reconstruction, repair, decommissioning, 
and maintenance of forest roads and trails by the Forest 
Service as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 532–538 and 23 
U.S.C. 101 and 205: Provided, That up to $15,000,000 
of the funds provided herein for road maintenance shall
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be available for the decommissioning of roads, including 
unauthorized roads not part of the transportation system, 
which are no longer needed: Provided further, That no 
funds shall be expended to decommission any system road 
until notice and an opportunity for public comment has 
been provided on each decommissioning project. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 
of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, 
as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including ad-
ministrative expenses, and for acquisition of land or wa-
ters, or interest therein, in accordance with statutory au-
thority applicable to the Forest Service, $15,000,000, to 
be derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund 
and to remain available until expended. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL 
ACTS 
For acquisition of lands within the exterior bound-
aries of the Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, 
Utah; the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada; and the An-
geles, San Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland National 
Forests, California, as authorized by law, $1,069,000, to 
be derived from forest receipts. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES 
For acquisition of lands, such sums, to be derived 
from funds deposited by State, county, or municipal gov-
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ernments, public school districts, or other public school au-
thorities, and for authorized expenditures from funds de-
posited by non-Federal parties pursuant to Land Sale and 
Exchange Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 4, 1967, 
as amended (16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available until 
expended. 
RANGE BETTERMENT FUND 
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, pro-
tection, and improvement, 50 percent of all moneys re-
ceived during the prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing do-
mestic livestock on lands in National Forests in the 16 
Western States, pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of Public 
Law 94–579, as amended, to remain available until ex-
pended, of which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available 
for administrative expenses associated with on-the-ground 
range rehabilitation, protection, and improvements. 
GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND 
RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), 
$64,000, to remain available until expended, to be derived 
from the fund established pursuant to the above Act. 
MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR 
SUBSISTENCE USES 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service to man-
age Federal lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under 
title VIII of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conserva-
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tion Act (Public Law 96–487), $5,467,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, FOREST SERVICE 
Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current 
fiscal year shall be available for: (1) purchase of passenger 
motor vehicles; acquisition of passenger motor vehicles 
from excess sources, and hire of such vehicles; purchase, 
lease, operation, maintenance, and acquisition of aircraft 
from excess sources to maintain the operable fleet for use 
in Forest Service wildland fire programs and other Forest 
Service programs; notwithstanding other provisions of law, 
existing aircraft being replaced may be sold, with proceeds 
derived or trade-in value used to offset the purchase price 
for the replacement aircraft; (2) services pursuant to 7 
U.S.C. 2225, and not to exceed $100,000 for employment 
under 5 U.S.C. 3109; (3) purchase, erection, and alter-
ation of buildings and other public improvements (7 
U.S.C. 2250); (4) acquisition of land, waters, and inter-
ests therein pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 428a; (5) for expenses 
pursuant to the Volunteers in the National Forest Act of 
1972 (16 U.S.C. 558a, 558d, and 558a note); (6) the cost 
of uniforms as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; and 
(7) for debt collection contracts in accordance with 31 
U.S.C. 3718(c). 
None of the funds made available under this Act shall 
be obligated or expended to abolish any region, to move
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or close any regional office for National Forest System 
administration of the Forest Service, Department of Agri-
culture without the consent of the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations. 
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest 
Service may be transferred to the Wildland Fire Manage-
ment appropriation for forest firefighting, emergency re-
habilitation of burned-over or damaged lands or waters 
under its jurisdiction, and fire preparedness due to severe 
burning conditions upon notification of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations and if and only if 
all previously appropriated emergency contingent funds 
under the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ have 
been released by the President and apportioned and all 
wildfire suppression funds under the heading ‘‘Wildland 
Fire Management’’ are obligated. 
The first transfer of funds into the Wildland Fire 
Management account shall include unobligated funds, if 
available, from the Land Acquisition account and the For-
est Legacy program within the State and Private Forestry 
account. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for assistance to or through the Agency for Inter-
national Development and the Foreign Agricultural Serv-
ice in connection with forest and rangeland research, tech-
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nical information, and assistance in foreign countries, and 
shall be available to support forestry and related natural 
resource activities outside the United States and its terri-
tories and possessions, including technical assistance, edu-
cation and training, and cooperation with United States 
and international organizations. 
None of the funds made available to the Forest Serv-
ice under this Act shall be subject to transfer under the 
provisions of section 702(b) of the Department of Agri-
culture Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257) or 7 U.S.C. 
147b, however in fiscal year 2006 the Forest Service may 
transfer funds to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account 
from other agency accounts to enable the agency’s law en-
forcement program to pay full operating costs including 
overhead. 
None of the funds available to the Forest Service may 
be reprogrammed without the advance approval of the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in ac-
cordance with the reprogramming procedures contained in 
the report accompanying this Act. 
Not more than $72,646,000 of the funds available to 
the Forest Service shall be transferred to the Working 
Capital Fund of the Department of Agriculture. 
Funds available to the Forest Service shall be avail-
able to conduct a program of not less than $2,000,000
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for high priority projects within the scope of the approved 
budget which shall be carried out by the Youth Conserva-
tion Corps. 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $4,000 
is available to the Chief of the Forest Service for official 
reception and representation expenses. 
Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public 
Law 101–593, of the funds available to the Forest Service, 
$3,000,000 may be advanced in a lump sum to the Na-
tional Forest Foundation to aid conservation partnership 
projects in support of the Forest Service mission, without 
regard to when the Foundation incurs expenses, for ad-
ministrative expenses or projects on or benefitting Na-
tional Forest System lands or related to Forest Service 
programs: Provided, That of the Federal funds made 
available to the Foundation, no more than $250,000 shall 
be available for administrative expenses: Provided further, 
That the Foundation shall obtain, by the end of the period 
of Federal financial assistance, private contributions to 
match on at least one-for-one basis funds made available 
by the Forest Service: Provided further, That the Founda-
tion may transfer Federal funds to a non-Federal recipient 
for a project at the same rate that the recipient has ob-
tained the non-Federal matching funds: Provided further, 
That authorized investments of Federal funds held by the
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Foundation may be made only in interest-bearing obliga-
tions of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as 
to both principal and interest by the United States. 
Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98–244, 
$2,650,000 of the funds available to the Forest Service 
shall be advanced to the National Fish and Wildlife Foun-
dation in a lump sum to aid cost-share conservation 
projects, without regard to when expenses are incurred, 
on or benefitting National Forest System lands or related 
to Forest Service programs: Provided, That such funds 
shall be matched on at least a one-for-one basis by the 
Foundation or its subrecipients. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for interactions with and providing technical as-
sistance to rural communities for sustainable rural devel-
opment purposes. 
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest 
Service may be used for necessary expenses in the event 
of law enforcement emergencies as necessary to protect 
natural resources and public or employee safety: Provided, 
That such amounts shall not exceed $500,000. 
An eligible individual who is employed in any project 
funded under title V of the Older American Act of 1965 
(42 U.S.C. 3056 et seq.) and administered by the Forest
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Service shall be considered to be a Federal employee for 
purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code. 
Any funds appropriated to the Forest Service may 
be used to meet the non-Federal share requirement in sec-
tion 502(c) of the Older American Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 
3056(c)(2)). 
For each fiscal year through 2009, funds available 
to the Forest Service in this Act may be used for the pur-
pose of expenses associated with primary and secondary 
schooling for dependents of agency personnel stationed in 
Puerto Rico prior to the date of enactment of this Act, 
who are subject to transfer and reassignment to other lo-
cations in the United States, at a cost not in excess of 
those authorized for the Department of Defense for the 
same area, when it is determined by the Chief of the For-
est Service that public schools available in the locality are 
unable to provide adequately for the education of such de-
pendents. 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
SERVICES 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of Au-
gust 5, 1954 (68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determina-
tion Act, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, and
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titles II and III of the Public Health Service Act with re-
spect to the Indian Health Service, $2,732,298,000, to-
gether with payments received during the fiscal year pur-
suant to 42 U.S.C. 238(b) for services furnished by the 
Indian Health Service: Provided, That funds made avail-
able to tribes and tribal organizations through contracts, 
grant agreements, or any other agreements or compacts 
authorized by the Indian Self-Determination and Edu-
cation Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450), shall be 
deemed to be obligated at the time of the grant or contract 
award and thereafter shall remain available to the tribe 
or tribal organization without fiscal year limitation: Pro-
vided further, That up to $18,000,000 shall remain avail-
able until expended, for the Indian Catastrophic Health 
Emergency Fund: Provided further, That $507,021,000 
for contract medical care shall remain available for obliga-
tion until September 30, 2007: Provided further, That of 
the funds provided, up to $27,000,000, to remain available 
until expended, shall be used to carry out the loan repay-
ment program under section 108 of the Indian Health 
Care Improvement Act: Provided further, That funds pro-
vided in this Act may be used for one-year contracts and 
grants which are to be performed in two fiscal years, so 
long as the total obligation is recorded in the year for 
which the funds are appropriated: Provided further, That
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the amounts collected by the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services under the authority of title IV of the In-
dian Health Care Improvement Act shall remain available 
until expended for the purpose of achieving compliance 
with the applicable conditions and requirements of titles 
XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act (exclusive of 
planning, design, or construction of new facilities): Pro-
vided further, That funding contained herein, and in any 
earlier appropriations Acts for scholarship programs 
under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 
U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available until expended: Pro-
vided further, That amounts received by tribes and tribal 
organizations under title IV of the Indian Health Care Im-
provement Act shall be reported and accounted for and 
available to the receiving tribes and tribal organizations 
until expended: Provided further, That, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, of the amounts provided herein, 
not to exceed $268,683,000 shall be for payments to tribes 
and tribal organizations for contract or grant support 
costs associated with contracts, grants, self-governance 
compacts or annual funding agreements between the In-
dian Health Service and a tribe or tribal organization pur-
suant to the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as 
amended, prior to or during fiscal year 2006, of which 
not to exceed $5,000,000 may be used for contract sup-
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port costs associated with new or expanded self-determina-
tion contracts, grants, self-governance compacts or annual 
funding agreements: Provided further, That funds avail-
able for the Indian Health Care Improvement Fund may 
be used, as needed, to carry out activities typically funded 
under the Indian Health Facilities account: Provided fur-
ther, That of the amounts provided to the Indian Health 
Service, $15,000,000 is provided for alcohol control, en-
forcement, prevention, treatment, sobriety and wellness, 
and education in Alaska: Provided further, That none of 
the funds may be used for tribal courts or tribal ordinance 
programs or any program that is not directly related to 
alcohol control, enforcement, prevention, treatment, or so-
briety: Provided further, That no more than 15 percent 
may be used by any entity receiving funding for adminis-
trative overhead including indirect costs: Provided further, 
That the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall collect from the 
Indian Health Service and tribes and tribal organizations 
operating health facilities pursuant to Public Law 93–638 
such individually identifiable health information relating 
to disabled children as may be necessary for the purpose 
of carrying out its functions under the Individuals With 
Disability Education Act, 20 U.S.C. 1400, et seq. 
INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, maintenance, improvement, 
and equipment of health and related auxiliary facilities,