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TIMBER SALE REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 411. 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. 412. 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; 
or 
(2) such contract is authorized by the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education and 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. 413. (a) Any agency receiving funds made available in 
this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), post on the public 
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. 414. Of the funds provided to the National Endowment 
for the Arts—
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(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 and/or projects. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS PROGRAM PRIORITIES 
SEC. 415. (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. 
(d) With funds appropriated by this Act to carry out section 
5 of the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act 
of 1965— 
(1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant category for 
projects, productions, workshops, or programs that are of 
national impact or availability or are able to tour several States; 
(2) the Chairperson shall not make grants exceeding 15 
percent, in the aggregate, of such funds to any single State, 
excluding grants made under the authority of paragraph (1); 
(3) the Chairperson shall report to the Congress annually 
and by State, on grants awarded by the Chairperson in each 
grant category under section 5 of such Act; and
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(4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of grants to 
improve and support community-based music performance and 
education. 
ARTS INDEMNITY LIMITATIONS 
SEC. 416. Section 5 of the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act 
(20 U.S.C. 974) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) 
by 
striking 
‘‘$10,000,000,000’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘$15,000,000,000’’; and 
(B) 
by 
striking 
‘‘$5,000,000,000’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘$7,500,000,000’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c)— 
(A) 
by 
striking 
‘‘$1,200,000,000’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘$1,800,000,000’’; and 
(B) 
by 
striking 
‘‘$750,000,000’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘$1,000,000,000’’. 
STATUS OF BALANCES OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 417. The Department of the Interior, the Environmental 
Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the Indian Health 
Service shall provide the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and Senate quarterly reports on the status 
of balances of appropriations including all uncommitted, committed, 
and unobligated funds in each program and activity. 
REPORT ON USE OF CLIMATE CHANGE FUNDS 
SEC. 418. Not later than 120 days after the date on which 
the President’s fiscal year 2016 budget request is submitted to 
the Congress, the President shall submit a comprehensive report 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate describing in detail all Federal agency funding, 
domestic and international, for climate change programs, projects, 
and activities in fiscal years 2014 and 2015, including an accounting 
of funding by agency with each agency identifying climate change 
programs, projects, and activities and associated costs by line item 
as presented in the President’s Budget Appendix, and including 
citations and linkages where practicable to each strategic plan 
that is driving funding within each climate change program, project, 
and activity listed in the report. 
PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 419. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds made available in this Act or any other Act may 
be used to promulgate or implement any regulation requiring the 
issuance of permits under title V of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7661 et seq.) for carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or 
methane emissions resulting from biological processes associated 
with livestock production. 
GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING RESTRICTIONS 
SEC. 420. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds made available in this or any other Act may be
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used to implement any provision in a rule, if that provision requires 
mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure 
management systems. 
AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD PROTECTION PROGRAM GRANTS 
SEC. 421. Section 7301(c) of Public Law 111–11 (16 U.S.C. 
469k–1(c)) is amended by striking ‘‘2014’’ and inserting ‘‘2021’’. 
RECREATION FEE 
SEC. 422. Section 810 of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhance-
ment Act (16 U.S.C. 6809) is amended by striking ‘‘10 years after 
December 8, 2004’’ and inserting ‘‘on September 30, 2016’’. 
MODIFICATION OF AUTHORITIES 
SEC. 423. (a) Section 8162(m)(3) of the Department of Defense 
Appropriations Act, 2000 (40 U.S.C. 8903 note; Public Law 106– 
79) is amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2014’’ and inserting 
‘‘September 30, 2015’’. 
(b) For fiscal year 2015, the authority provided by the provisos 
under the heading ‘‘Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission— 
Capital Construction’’ in division E of Public Law 112–74 shall 
not be in effect. 
USE OF AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL 
SEC. 424. (a)(1) None of the funds made available by a State 
water pollution control revolving fund as authorized by section 
1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12) shall 
be used for a project for the construction, alteration, maintenance, 
or repair of a public water system or treatment works unless 
all of the iron and steel products used in the project are produced 
in the United States. 
(2) In this section, the term ‘‘iron and steel products’’ means 
the following products made primarily of iron or steel: lined or 
unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers and other municipal 
castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, pipe clamps and restraints, 
valves, structural steel, reinforced precast concrete, and construc-
tion materials. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or category 
of cases in which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Administrator’’) finds 
that— 
(1) applying subsection (a) would be inconsistent with the 
public interest; 
(2) iron and steel products are not produced in the United 
States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and 
of a satisfactory quality; or 
(3) inclusion of iron and steel products produced in the 
United States will increase the cost of the overall project by 
more than 25 percent. 
(c) If the Administrator receives a request for a waiver under 
this section, the Administrator shall make available to the public 
on an informal basis a copy of the request and information available 
to the Administrator concerning the request, and shall allow for 
informal public input on the request for at least 15 days prior