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277, 106–113, 106–291, 107–63, 108–7, 108–108, 108–447, 109– 
54, 109–289, division B and Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 
2007 (division B of Public Law 109–289, as amended by Public 
Laws 110–5 and 110–28), and Public Law 110–161 for payments 
for contract support costs associated with self-determination or 
self-governance contracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding 
agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health 
Service as funded by such Acts, are the total amounts available 
for fiscal years 1994 through 2008 for such purposes, except that 
for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tribes and tribal organizations 
may use their tribal priority allocations for unmet contract support 
costs of ongoing contracts, grants, self-governance compacts, or 
annual funding agreements. 
SEC. 410. Prior to October 1, 2009, 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 without 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. 
SEC. 411. 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 
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. 
SEC. 412. In entering into agreements with foreign countries 
pursuant to the Wildfire Suppression Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
1856m) the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the 
Interior are authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements in which 
the individuals furnished under said agreements to provide wildfire 
services are considered, for purposes of tort liability, employees 
of the country receiving said services when the individuals are 
engaged in fire suppression: Provided, That the Secretary of Agri-
culture or the Secretary of the Interior shall not enter into any 
agreement under this provision unless the foreign country (either 
directly or through its fire organization) agrees to assume any 
and all liability for the acts or omissions of American firefighters 
engaged in firefighting in a foreign country: Provided further, That 
when an agreement is reached for furnishing fire fighting services, 
the only remedies for acts or omissions committed while fighting 
fires shall be those provided under the laws of the host country, 
and those remedies shall be the exclusive remedies for any claim 
arising out of fighting fires in a foreign country: Provided further, 
That neither the sending country nor any legal organization associ-
ated with the firefighter shall be subject to any legal action whatso-
ever pertaining to or arising out of the firefighter’s role in fire 
suppression.
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SEC. 413. In awarding a Federal contract with funds made 
available by this Act, notwithstanding Federal Government procure-
ment and contracting laws, the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
Secretary of the Interior (the ‘‘Secretaries’’) may, in evaluating 
bids and proposals, give consideration to local contractors who are 
from, and who provide employment and training for, dislocated 
and displaced workers in an economically disadvantaged rural 
community, including those historically timber-dependent areas 
that have been affected by reduced timber harvesting on Federal 
lands and other forest-dependent rural communities isolated from 
significant alternative employment opportunities: Provided, That 
notwithstanding Federal Government procurement and contracting 
laws the Secretaries may award contracts, grants or cooperative 
agreements to local non-profit entities, Youth Conservation Corps 
or related partnerships with State, local or non-profit youth groups, 
or small or micro-business or disadvantaged business: Provided 
further, That the contract, grant, or cooperative agreement is for 
forest hazardous fuels reduction, watershed or water quality moni-
toring or restoration, wildlife or fish population monitoring, or 
habitat restoration or management: Provided further, That the 
terms ‘‘rural community’’ and ‘‘economically disadvantaged’’ shall 
have the same meanings as in section 2374 of Public Law 101– 
624: Provided further, That the Secretaries shall develop guidance 
to implement this section: Provided further, That nothing in this 
section shall be construed as relieving the Secretaries of any duty 
under applicable procurement laws, except as provided in this sec-
tion. 
SEC. 414. None of the funds made available by this or any 
other Act may be used in fiscal year 2009 for competitive sourcing 
studies and any related activities involving Forest Service per-
sonnel. 
SEC. 415. 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. 
SEC. 416. None of the funds made available under this Act 
may be used to promulgate or implement the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency proposed regulations published in the Federal Register 
on January 3, 2007 (72 Fed. Reg. 69). 
SEC. 417. Section 337(a) of the Department of the Interior 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108– 
447; 118 Stat. 3012) is amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2006’’ 
and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2010’’. 
SEC. 418. Section 330 of Public Law 106–291 concerning Service 
First authorities (114 Stat. 996), as amended by section 428 of 
Public Law 109–54 (119 Stat. 555–556), is further amended by 
striking ‘‘2008’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘2011’’. 
SEC. 419. Section 422 of title IV of division F of Public Law 
110–161 is amended by inserting after ‘‘fiscal year 2007’’ the fol-
lowing: ‘‘and subsequent fiscal years through fiscal year 2014’’. 
SEC. 420. In addition to the amounts otherwise provided to 
the Environmental Protection Agency in this Act, $8,000,000, to
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remain available until expended, is provided to EPA to be trans-
ferred to the Department of the Navy for clean-up activities at 
the Treasure Island Naval Station—Hunters Point Annex. 
SEC. 421. The boundaries of the Tongass National Forest in 
the State of Alaska are modified to include the approximately 
1,043.38 acres of land acquired by the United States from the 
Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, which is more particularly 
described as lots 1-B and 1-C, Mt. Verstovia-Gavan Hill Subdivision 
of U.S. Survey No. 3858 and U.S. Survey No. 3849. 
SEC. 422. Title V of the Forest Service Realignment and 
Enhancement Act, 2005, Public Law 109–54, 119 Stat. 559–563; 
16 U.S.C. 580d note, is amended as follows: 
(1) In section 503, subsection (f) by striking ‘‘2008’’ and 
inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘2011’’ and; 
(2) In section 504— 
(A) in subsection (a)(3) by striking in whole, and 
inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘TERMS, CONDITIONS, AND RESERVA-
TIONS.—The conveyance of an administrative site under 
this title shall be subject to such terms, conditions, and 
reservations as the Secretary determines to be necessary 
to protect the public interest’’; 
(B) in subsection (d)(1) by striking ‘‘Subchapter I of 
chapter 5’’, and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘Chapter 5 of 
subtitle I’’; and 
(C) in subsection (d)(4)(B) by striking in whole, and 
inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘determine whether to include 
terms, conditions, and reservations under subsection (a)(3); 
and’’. 
Sec. 423. LAKE TAHOE BASIN HAZARDOUS FUEL REDUCTION 
PROJECTS. (a) Hereafter, subject to subsection (b), a proposal to 
authorize a hazardous fuel reduction project, not to exceed 5,000 
acres, including no more than 1,500 acres of mechanical thinning, 
on the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit may be categorically 
excluded from documentation in an environmental impact statement 
or an environmental assessment under the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) if the project: 
(1) is consistent with the Lake Tahoe Basin Multi-Jurisdic-
tional Fuel Reduction and Wildfire Prevention Strategy pub-
lished in December 2007 and any subsequent revisions to the 
Strategy; 
(2) is not conducted in any wilderness areas; and 
(3) does not involve any new permanent roads. 
(b) A proposal that is categorically excluded under this section 
shall be subject to— 
(1) the extraordinary circumstances procedures established 
by the Forest Service pursuant to section 1508.4 of title 40, 
Code of Federal Regulations; and 
(2) an opportunity for public input. 
SEC. 424. Not later than June 30, 2009, the Administrator 
of the Environmental Protection Agency shall reconsider, and con-
firm or reverse, the decision to deny the request of the State 
of California to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new motor 
vehicles. 
SEC. 425. TOXICS RELEASE INVENTORY REPORTING. Notwith-
standing any other provision of law—