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agreements, compacts and grants, either directly or in cooperation 
with States and other organizations. 
Notwithstanding 25 U.S.C. 15, the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
may contract for services in support of the management, operation, 
and maintenance of the Power Division of the San Carlos Irrigation 
Project. 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (except the 
revolving fund for loans, the Indian loan guarantee and insurance 
fund, and the Indian Guaranteed Loan Program account) shall 
be available for expenses of exhibits, and purchase and replacement 
of passenger motor vehicles. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available 
to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office operations or 
pooled overhead general administration (except facilities operations 
and maintenance) shall be available for tribal contracts, grants, 
compacts, or cooperative agreements with the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs under the provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act 
or the Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–413). 
In the event any tribe returns appropriations made available 
by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for distribution to 
other tribes, this action shall not diminish the Federal Government’s 
trust responsibility to that tribe, or the government-to-government 
relationship between the United States and that tribe, or that 
tribe’s ability to access future appropriations. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available 
to the Bureau, other than the amounts provided herein for assist-
ance to public schools under 25 U.S.C. 452 et seq., shall be available 
to support the operation of any elementary or secondary school 
in the State of Alaska. 
Appropriations made available in this or any other Act for 
schools funded by the Bureau shall be available only to the schools 
in the Bureau school system as of September 1, 1996. No funds 
available to the Bureau shall be used to support expanded grades 
for any school or dormitory beyond the grade structure in place 
or approved by the Secretary of the Interior at each school in 
the Bureau school system as of October 1, 1995. Funds made 
available under this Act may not be used to establish a charter 
school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term is defined in section 
1146 of the Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2026)), 
except that a charter school that is in existence on the date of 
the enactment of this Act and that has operated at a Bureau-
funded school before September 1, 1999, may continue to operate 
during that period, but only if the charter school pays to the 
Bureau a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau for 
the use of the real and personal property (including buses and 
vans), the funds of the charter school are kept separate and apart 
from Bureau funds, and the Bureau does not assume any obligation 
for charter school programs of the State in which the school is 
located if the charter school loses such funding. Employees of 
Bureau-funded schools sharing a campus with a charter school 
and performing functions related to the charter school’s operation 
and employees of a charter school shall not be treated as Federal 
employees for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United States 
Code. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including section 
113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106–113, if a tribe 
or tribal organization in fiscal year 2003 or 2004 received indirect
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and administrative costs pursuant to a distribution formula based 
on section 5(f) of Public Law 101–301, the Secretary shall continue 
to distribute indirect and administrative cost funds to such tribe 
or tribal organization using the section 5(f) distribution formula. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
INSULAR AFFAIRS 
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories under the 
jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, $76,883,000, of which: 
(1) $69,502,000 shall be available until expended for technical 
assistance, including maintenance assistance, disaster assistance, 
insular management controls, coral reef initiative activities, and 
brown tree snake control and research; grants to the judiciary 
in American Samoa for compensation and expenses, as authorized 
by law (48 U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Government of American 
Samoa, in addition to current local revenues, for construction and 
support of governmental functions; grants to the Government of 
the Virgin Islands as authorized by law; grants to the Government 
of Guam, as authorized by law; and grants to the Government 
of the Northern Mariana Islands as authorized by law (Public 
Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $7,381,000 shall be available 
for salaries and expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs: Provided, 
That all financial transactions of the territorial and local govern-
ments herein provided for, including such transactions of all agen-
cies or instrumentalities established or used by such governments, 
may be audited by the Government Accountability Office, at its 
discretion, in accordance with chapter 35 of title 31, United States 
Code: Provided further, That Northern Mariana Islands Covenant 
grant funding shall be provided according to those terms of the 
Agreement of the Special Representatives on Future United States 
Financial Assistance for the Northern Mariana Islands approved 
by Public Law 104–134: Provided further, That of the amounts 
provided for technical assistance, sufficient funds shall be made 
available for a grant to the Pacific Basin Development Council: 
Provided further, That of the amounts provided for technical assist-
ance, sufficient funding shall be made available for a grant to 
the Close Up Foundation: Provided further, That the funds for 
the program of operations and maintenance improvement are appro-
priated to institutionalize routine operations and maintenance 
improvement of capital infrastructure with territorial participation 
and cost sharing to be determined by the Secretary based on the 
grantee’s commitment to timely maintenance of its capital assets: 
Provided further, That any appropriation for disaster assistance 
under this heading in this Act or previous appropriations Acts 
may be used as non-Federal matching funds for the purpose of 
hazard mitigation grants provided pursuant to section 404 of the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 5170c). 
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 
For grants and necessary expenses, $5,362,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, as provided for in sections 221(a)(2), 221(b), 
and 233 of the Compact of Free Association for the Republic of
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Palau; and section 221(a)(2) of the Compacts of Free Association 
for the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and 
the Federated States of Micronesia, as authorized by Public Law 
99–658 and Public Law 108–188. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for management of the Department 
of the Interior, $127,183,000; of which $7,441,000 is to be derived 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and shall remain 
available until expended; of which not to exceed $8,500 may be 
for official reception and representation expenses; and of which 
up to $1,000,000 shall be available for workers compensation pay-
ments and unemployment compensation payments associated with 
the orderly closure of the United States Bureau of Mines: Provided, 
That none of the funds in this Act or previous appropriations 
Acts may be used to establish reserves in the Working Capital 
Fund account other than for accrued annual leave and depreciation 
of equipment without prior approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations. 
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 20, 
1976, as amended (31 U.S.C. 6901–6907), $236,000,000, of which 
not to exceed $400,000 shall be available for administrative 
expenses: Provided, That no payment shall be made to otherwise 
eligible units of local government if the computed amount of the 
payment is less than $100. 
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the Interior and 
any of its component offices and bureaus for the remedial action, 
including associated activities, of hazardous waste substances, 
pollutants, or contaminants pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), $9,855,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That hereafter, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 
3302, sums recovered from or paid by a party in advance of or 
as reimbursement for remedial action or response activities con-
ducted by the Department pursuant to section 107 or 113(f) of 
such Act, shall be credited to this account, to be available until 
expended without further appropriation: Provided further, That 
hereafter such sums recovered from or paid by any party are not 
limited to monetary payments and may include stocks, bonds or 
other personal or real property, which may be retained, liquidated, 
or otherwise disposed of by the Secretary and which shall be cred-
ited to this account. 
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 
$55,440,000.
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General, 
$39,116,000. 
OFFICE OF SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS 
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by direct 
expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and 
grants, $191,593,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
not to exceed $58,000,000 from this or any other Act, shall be 
available for historical accounting: Provided, That funds for trust 
management improvements and litigation support may, as needed, 
be transferred to or merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ account; the Office of the Solicitor, 
‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account; and the Departmental Manage-
ment, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account: Provided further, That 
funds made available to Tribes and Tribal organizations through 
contracts or grants obligated during fiscal year 2006, as authorized 
by the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 et 
seq.), shall remain available until expended by the contractor or 
grantee: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the statute of limitations shall not commence to run 
on any claim, including any claim in litigation pending on the 
date of the enactment of this Act, concerning losses to or mis-
management of trust funds, until the affected tribe or individual 
Indian has been furnished with an accounting of such funds from 
which the beneficiary can determine whether there has been a 
loss: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, the Secretary shall not be required to provide a quarterly 
statement of performance for any Indian trust account that has 
not had activity for at least 18 months and has a balance of 
$1.00 or less: Provided further, That the Secretary shall issue 
an annual account statement and maintain a record of any such 
accounts and shall permit the balance in each such account to 
be withdrawn upon the express written request of the account 
holder: Provided further, That not to exceed $50,000 is available 
for the Secretary to make payments to correct administrative errors 
of either disbursements from or deposits to Individual Indian Money 
or Tribal accounts after September 30, 2002: Provided further, 
That erroneous payments that are recovered shall be credited to 
and remain available in this account for this purpose. 
INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION 
For consolidation of fractional interests in Indian lands and 
expenses 
associated 
with 
redetermining 
and 
redistributing 
escheated interests in allotted lands, and for necessary expenses 
to carry out the Indian Land Consolidation Act of 1983, as amended, 
by direct expenditure or cooperative agreement, $34,514,000, to 
remain available until expended, and which may be transferred 
to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Departmental Management 
accounts: Provided, That funds provided under this heading may 
be expended pursuant to the authorities contained in the provisos