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writing by the property owner: Provided further, That no 
part of this appropriation shall be used to pay more than 
one-half the cost of topographic mapping or water resources 
data collection and investigations carried on in cooperation 
with States and municipalities: Provided further, That of 
the amount appropriated under this heading, $5,237,000 
shall be for projects specified for Special Initiatives in the 
table titled ‘‘Interior and Environment Incorporation of 
Community Project Funding Items/Congressionally Di-
rected Spending Items’’ included for this division in the ex-
planatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act): Provided fur-
ther, That amounts in the preceding proviso may be trans-
ferred to the appropriate program, project, or activity 
under this heading and shall continue to only be available 
for the purposes and in such amounts as such funds were 
originally appropriated: Provided further, That of the 
amount appropriated under this heading, not to exceed 
$15,000 may be for official reception and representation ex-
penses. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
From within the amount appropriated for activities 
of the United States Geological Survey such sums as are 
necessary shall be available for contracting for the fur-
nishing of topographic maps and for the making of geo-
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physical or other specialized surveys when it is administra-
tively determined that such procedures are in the public in-
terest; construction and maintenance of necessary buildings 
and appurtenant facilities; acquisition of lands for gauging 
stations, observation wells, and seismic equipment; expenses 
of the United States National Committee for Geological 
Sciences; and payment of compensation and expenses of 
persons employed by the Survey duly appointed to represent 
the United States in the negotiation and administration 
of interstate compacts: Provided, That activities funded by 
appropriations herein made may be accomplished through 
the use of contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements (in-
cluding noncompetitive cooperative agreements with tribes) 
as defined in section 6302 of title 31, United States Code: 
Provided further, That the United States Geological Survey 
may enter into contracts or cooperative agreements directly 
with individuals or indirectly with institutions or non-
profit organizations, without regard to 41 U.S.C. 6101, for 
the temporary or intermittent services of students or recent 
graduates, who shall be considered employees for the pur-
pose of chapters 57 and 81 of title 5, United States Code, 
relating to compensation for travel and work injuries, and 
chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code, relating to tort 
claims, but shall not be considered to be Federal employees 
for any other purposes.
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BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT 
OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT 
For expenses necessary for granting and administering 
leases, easements, rights-of-way, and agreements for use for 
oil and gas, other minerals, energy, and marine-related 
purposes on the Outer Continental Shelf and approving op-
erations related thereto, as authorized by law; for environ-
mental studies, as authorized by law; for implementing 
other laws and to the extent provided by Presidential or 
Secretarial delegation; and for matching grants or coopera-
tive agreements, $211,162,000, of which $155,162,000 is to 
remain available until September 30, 2025, and of which 
$56,000,000 is to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That this total appropriation shall be reduced by 
amounts collected by the Secretary of the Interior and cred-
ited to this appropriation from additions to receipts result-
ing from increases to lease rental rates in effect on August 
5, 1993, and from cost recovery fees from activities con-
ducted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management pursu-
ant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, including 
studies, assessments, analysis, and miscellaneous adminis-
trative activities: Provided further, That the sum herein ap-
propriated shall be reduced as such collections are received 
during the fiscal year, so as to result in a final fiscal year 
2024 
appropriation 
estimated 
at 
not 
more 
than
471 
$155,162,000: Provided further, That not to exceed $3,000 
shall be available for reasonable expenses related to pro-
moting volunteer beach and marine cleanup activities: Pro-
vided further, That not to exceed $5,000 shall be available 
for official reception and representation expenses. 
BUREAU OF SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT 
OFFSHORE SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT 
For expenses necessary for the regulation of operations 
related to leases, easements, rights-of-way, and agreements 
for use for oil and gas, other minerals, energy, and marine- 
related purposes on the Outer Continental Shelf, as author-
ized by law; for enforcing and implementing laws and regu-
lations as authorized by law and to the extent provided by 
Presidential or Secretarial delegation; and for matching 
grants or cooperative agreements, $167,330,000, of which 
$136,450,000, including not to exceed $3,000 for official re-
ception and representation expenses, is to remain available 
until September 30, 2025, and of which $30,880,000 is to 
remain available until expended, including $2,880,000 for 
offshore decommissioning activities: Provided, That this 
total appropriation shall be reduced by amounts collected 
by the Secretary of the Interior and credited to this appro-
priation from additions to receipts resulting from increases 
to lease rental rates in effect on August 5, 1993, and from 
cost recovery fees from activities conducted by the Bureau
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of Safety and Environmental Enforcement pursuant to the 
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, including studies, as-
sessments, analysis, and miscellaneous administrative ac-
tivities: Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated 
shall be reduced as such collections are received during the 
fiscal year, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2024 appro-
priation estimated at not more than $139,330,000. 
For an additional amount, $38,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected 
by the Secretary and credited to this appropriation, which 
shall be derived from non-refundable inspection fees col-
lected in fiscal year 2024, as provided in this Act: Provided, 
That for fiscal year 2024, not less than 50 percent of the 
inspection fees expended by the Bureau of Safety and Envi-
ronmental Enforcement will be used to fund personnel and 
mission-related costs to expand capacity and expedite the 
orderly development, subject to environmental safeguards, 
of the Outer Continental Shelf pursuant to the Outer Conti-
nental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), including 
the review of applications for permits to drill. 
OIL SPILL RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 
1016; title IV, sections 4202 and 4303; title VII; and title 
VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990,
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$15,099,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-
ability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended. 
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND 
ENFORCEMENT 
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, 
Public Law 95–87, $116,186,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2025, of which $62,400,000 shall be available 
for State and tribal regulatory grants, and of which not 
to exceed $5,000 may be for official reception and represen-
tation expenses: Provided, That appropriations for the Of-
fice of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement may 
provide for the travel and per diem expenses of State and 
tribal personnel attending Office of Surface Mining Rec-
lamation and Enforcement sponsored training. 
In addition, for costs to review, administer, and en-
force permits issued by the Office pursuant to section 507 
of Public Law 95–87 (30 U.S.C. 1257), $40,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That fees assessed and 
collected by the Office pursuant to such section 507 shall 
be credited to this account as discretionary offsetting collec-
tions, to remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That the sum herein appropriated from the general fund 
shall be reduced as collections are received during the fiscal
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year, so as to result in a fiscal year 2024 appropriation 
estimated at not more than $116,186,000. 
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the Sur-
face Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, Public 
Law 95–87, $32,546,000, to be derived from receipts of the 
Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That pursuant to Public 
Law 97–365, the Department of the Interior is authorized 
to use up to 20 percent from the recovery of the delinquent 
debt owed to the United States Government to pay for con-
tracts to collect these debts: Provided further, That funds 
made available under title IV of Public Law 95–87 may 
be used for any required non-Federal share of the cost of 
projects funded by the Federal Government for the purpose 
of environmental restoration related to treatment or abate-
ment of acid mine drainage from abandoned mines: Pro-
vided further, That such projects must be consistent with 
the purposes and priorities of the Surface Mining Control 
and Reclamation Act: Provided further, That amounts pro-
vided under this heading may be used for the travel and 
per diem expenses of State and tribal personnel attending 
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 
sponsored training: Provided further, That of the amounts
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provided under this heading, not to exceed $5,000 shall be 
available for official reception and representation expenses. 
In addition, $130,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, for payments to States and federally recognized 
Indian tribes for reclamation of abandoned mine lands and 
other related activities in accordance with the terms and 
conditions described in the explanatory statement described 
in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this con-
solidated Act): Provided, That such additional amount shall 
be used for economic and community development in con-
junction with the priorities described in section 403(a) of 
the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 
(30 U.S.C. 1233(a)): Provided further, That of such addi-
tional amount, $86,000,000 shall be distributed in equal 
amounts to the three Appalachian States with the greatest 
amount of unfunded needs to meet the priorities described 
in paragraphs (1) and (2) of such section, $33,000,000 shall 
be distributed in equal amounts to the three Appalachian 
States with the subsequent greatest amount of unfunded 
needs to meet such priorities, and $11,000,000 shall be for 
grants to federally recognized Indian tribes, without regard 
to their status as certified or uncertified under the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 
1233(a)), for reclamation of abandoned mine lands and 
other related activities in accordance with the terms and
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conditions described in the explanatory statement described 
in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this con-
solidated Act) and shall be used for economic and commu-
nity development in conjunction with the priorities in sec-
tion 403(a) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation 
Act of 1977: Provided further, That such payments shall 
be made to States and federally recognized Indian tribes 
not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act: Provided further, That if payments have not been 
made by the date specified in the preceding proviso, the 
amount appropriated for salaries and expenses under the 
heading ‘‘Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and En-
forcement’’ shall be reduced by $100,000 per day until such 
payments have been made. 
INDIAN AFFAIRS 
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian pro-
grams, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act of 
November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13) and the Indian Self-De-
termination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), $1,898,550,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2025, except as otherwise provided 
herein; of which not to exceed $15,000 may be for official
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reception and representation expenses; of which not to ex-
ceed $78,494,000 shall be for welfare assistance payments: 
Provided, That in cases of designated Federal disasters, the 
Secretary of the Interior may exceed such cap for welfare 
payments from the amounts provided herein, to provide for 
disaster relief to Indian communities affected by the dis-
aster: Provided further, That federally recognized Indian 
tribes and tribal organizations of federally recognized In-
dian tribes may use their tribal priority allocations for 
unmet welfare assistance costs: Provided further, That not 
to exceed $69,995,000 shall remain available until expended 
for housing improvement, road maintenance, land acquisi-
tion, attorney fees, litigation support, land records improve-
ment, hearings and appeals, and the Navajo-Hopi Settle-
ment Program: Provided further, That of the amount ap-
propriated under this heading, $841,000 shall be for 
projects specified for Special Initiatives (CDS) in the table 
titled ‘‘Interior and Environment Incorporation of Commu-
nity Project Funding Items/Congressionally Directed 
Spending Items’’ included for this division in the explana-
tory statement described in section 4 (in the matter pre-
ceding division A of this consolidated Act): Provided fur-
ther, That any forestry funds allocated to a federally recog-
nized tribe which remain unobligated as of September 30, 
2025, may be transferred during fiscal year 2026 to an In-
478 
dian forest land assistance account established for the ben-
efit of the holder of the funds within the holder’s trust fund 
account: Provided further, That any such unobligated bal-
ances not so transferred shall expire on September 30, 2026: 
Provided further, That in order to enhance the safety of Bu-
reau field employees, the Bureau may use funds to purchase 
uniforms or other identifying articles of clothing for per-
sonnel: Provided further, That not to exceed $7,096,000 of 
funds made available under this heading may, as needed, 
be transferred to ‘‘Office of the Secretary—Departmental 
Operations’’ for trust, probate, and administrative func-
tions: Provided further, That the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
may accept transfers of funds from United States Customs 
and Border Protection to supplement any other funding 
available for reconstruction or repair of roads owned by the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs as identified on the National 
Tribal Transportation Facility Inventory, 23 U.S.C. 
202(b)(1). 
INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION 
For the acquisition of fractional interests to further 
land consolidation as authorized under the Indian Land 
Consolidation Act Amendments of 2000 (Public Law 106– 
462), and the American Indian Probate Reform Act of 2004 
(Public Law 108–374), $4,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That any provision of the Indian
479 
Land Consolidation Act Amendments of 2000 (Public Law 
106–462) that requires or otherwise relates to application 
of a lien shall not apply to the acquisitions funded herein. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS 
For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for 
contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian 
Education for fiscal year 2024, such sums as may be nec-
essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-
tember 30, 2025: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, no amounts made available under this 
heading shall be available for transfer to another budget ac-
count. 
PAYMENTS FOR TRIBAL LEASES 
For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for 
leases pursuant to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5324(l)) 
for fiscal year 2024, such sums as may be necessary, which 
shall be available for obligation through September 30, 
2025: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, no amounts made available under this heading shall 
be available for transfer to another budget account.
480 
CONSTRUCTION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, 
and other facilities, including architectural and engineering 
services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests in 
lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for con-
struction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pursuant 
to Public Law 87–483; $133,780,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That such amounts as may be 
available for the construction of the Navajo Indian Irriga-
tion Project may be transferred to the Bureau of Reclama-
tion: Provided further, That any funds provided for the 
Safety of Dams program pursuant to the Act of November 
2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), shall be made available on a nonre-
imbursable basis: Provided further, That this appropriation 
may be reimbursed from the Bureau of Trust Funds Admin-
istration appropriation for the appropriate share of con-
struction costs for space expansion needed in agency offices 
to meet trust reform implementation: Provided further, 
That of the funds made available under this heading, 
$10,000,000 shall be derived from the Indian Irrigation 
Fund established by section 3211 of the WIIN Act (Public 
Law 114–322; 130 Stat. 1749): Provided further, That 
amounts provided under this heading are made available
481 
for the modernization of Federal field communication capa-
bilities, in addition to amounts otherwise made available 
for such purpose. 
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
For payments and necessary administrative expenses 
for implementation of Indian land and water claim settle-
ments pursuant to Public Laws 99–264, and 101–618, and 
for implementation of other land and water rights settle-
ments, $976,000, to remain available until expended. 
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, 
$13,329,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, 
of which $2,125,000 is for administrative expenses, as au-
thorized by the Indian Financing Act of 1974: Provided, 
That such costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, 
shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budg-
et Act of 1974: Provided further, That these funds are avail-
able to subsidize total loan principal, any part of which 
is to be guaranteed or insured, not to exceed $185,707,188. 
BUREAU OF INDIAN EDUCATION 
OPERATION OF INDIAN EDUCATION PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian edu-
cation programs, as authorized by law, including the Sny-
der Act of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian
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Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 
(25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Education Amendments of 
1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001–2019), and the Tribally Controlled 
Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), $1,131,617,000 
to remain available until September 30, 2025, except as oth-
erwise provided herein: Provided, That federally recognized 
Indian tribes and tribal organizations of federally recog-
nized Indian tribes may use their tribal priority allocations 
for unmet welfare assistance costs: Provided further, That 
not to exceed $833,592,000 for school operations costs of Bu-
reau-funded schools and other education programs shall be-
come available on July 1, 2024, and shall remain available 
until September 30, 2025: Provided further, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, including but not lim-
ited to the Indian Self–Determination Act of 1975 (25 
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) and section 1128 of the Education 
Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2008), not to exceed 
$95,822,000 within and only from such amounts made 
available for school operations shall be available for admin-
istrative cost grants associated with grants approved prior 
to July 1, 2024: Provided further, That in order to enhance 
the safety of Bureau field employees, the Bureau may use 
funds to purchase uniforms or other identifying articles of 
clothing for personnel.
483 
EDUCATION CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of buildings, utilities, and other facilities necessary 
for the operation of Indian education programs, including 
architectural and engineering services by contract; acquisi-
tion of lands, and interests in lands; $234,725,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That in order to 
ensure timely completion of construction projects, the Sec-
retary of the Interior may assume control of a project and 
all funds related to the project, if, not later than 18 months 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, any Public Law 
100–297 (25 U.S.C. 2501, et seq.) grantee receiving funds 
appropriated in this Act or in any prior Act, has not com-
pleted the planning and design phase of the project and 
commenced construction. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of In-
dian Education may carry out the operation of Indian pro-
grams by direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agree-
ments, compacts, and grants, either directly or in coopera-
tion with States and other organizations. 
Notwithstanding Public Law 87–279 (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.
484 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau 
of Indian Education for central office oversight and Execu-
tive Direction and Administrative Services (except Execu-
tive Direction and Administrative Services funding for 
Tribal Priority Allocations, regional offices, and facilities 
operations and maintenance) shall be available for con-
tracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative agreements with the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau of Indian Edu-
cation under the provisions of the Indian Self-Determina-
tion 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 or 
the Bureau of Indian Education, this action shall not di-
minish the Federal Government’s trust responsibility to 
that tribe, or the government-to-government relationship be-
tween the United States and that tribe, or that tribe’s abil-
ity to access future appropriations. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Education, other than 
the amounts provided herein for assistance 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.
485 
No funds available to the Bureau of Indian Education 
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 
of Indian Education school system as of October 1, 1995, 
except that the Secretary of the Interior may waive this 
prohibition to support expansion of up to one additional 
grade when the Secretary determines such waiver is needed 
to support accomplishment of the mission of the Bureau of 
Indian Education, or more than one grade to expand the 
elementary grade structure for Bureau-funded schools with 
a K–2 grade structure on October 1, 1996. Appropriations 
made available in this or any prior Act for schools funded 
by the Bureau shall be available, in accordance with the 
Bureau’s funding formula, only to the schools in the Bureau 
school system as of September 1, 1996, and to any school 
or school program that was reinstated in fiscal year 2012. 
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 1141 of the Education Amend-
ments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2021)), 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 Bu-
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reau 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 per-
forming 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 in fiscal year 2003 or 2004 a grantee received indi-
rect 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 adminis-
trative cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) dis-
tribution formula. 
Funds available under this Act may not be used to 
establish satellite locations of schools in the Bureau school 
system as of September 1, 1996, except that the Secretary 
may waive this prohibition in order for an Indian tribe 
to provide language and cultural immersion educational
487 
programs for non-public schools located within the jurisdic-
tional area of the tribal government which exclusively serve 
tribal members, do not include grades beyond those cur-
rently served at the existing Bureau-funded school, provide 
an educational environment with educator presence and 
academic facilities comparable to the Bureau-funded school, 
comply with all applicable Tribal, Federal, or State health 
and safety standards, and the Americans with Disabilities 
Act, and demonstrate the benefits of establishing operations 
at a satellite location in lieu of incurring extraordinary 
costs, such as for transportation or other impacts to stu-
dents such as those caused by busing students extended dis-
tances: Provided, That no funds available under this Act 
may be used to fund operations, maintenance, rehabilita-
tion, construction, or other facilities-related costs for such 
assets that are not owned by the Bureau: Provided further, 
That the term ‘‘satellite school’’ means a school location 
physically separated from the existing Bureau school by 
more than 50 miles but that forms part of the existing 
school in all other respects. 
Funds made available for Tribal Priority Allocations 
within Operation of Indian Programs and Operation of In-
dian Education Programs may be used to execute requested 
adjustments in tribal priority allocations initiated by an 
Indian tribe.
488 
BUREAU OF TRUST FUNDS ADMINISTRATION 
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by di-
rect expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, com-
pacts, and grants, $100,009,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which not to exceed $17,152,000 from this or 
any other Act, may be available for settlement support: Pro-
vided, 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’’ and Bureau of Indian Education, ‘‘Op-
eration of Indian Education Programs’’ accounts; the Office 
of the Solicitor, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account; and the 
Office of the Secretary, ‘‘Departmental Operations’’ ac-
count: Provided further, That funds made available through 
contracts or grants obligated during fiscal year 2024, as 
authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 
(25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall remain available until ex-
pended by the contractor or grantee: 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 15 months and has a balance of $15 
or less: Provided further, That the Secretary shall issue an
489 
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 
$100,000 is available for the Secretary to make payments 
to correct administrative errors of either disbursements 
from or deposits to Individual Indian Money or Tribal ac-
counts after September 30, 2002: Provided further, That er-
roneous payments that are recovered shall be credited to and 
remain available in this account for this purpose: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall not be required to reconcile 
Special Deposit Accounts with a balance of less than $500 
unless the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration receives 
proof of ownership from a Special Deposit Accounts claim-
ant: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 102 of 
the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act 
of 1994 (Public Law 103–412) or any other provision of 
law, the Secretary may aggregate the trust accounts of indi-
viduals whose whereabouts are unknown for a continuous 
period of at least 5 years and shall not be required to gen-
erate periodic statements of performance for the individual 
accounts: Provided further, That with respect to the pre-
ceding proviso, the Secretary shall continue to maintain 
sufficient records to determine the balance of the individual 
accounts, including any accrued interest and income, and
490 
such funds shall remain available to the individual account 
holders. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for management of the Depart-
ment of the Interior and for grants and cooperative agree-
ments, as authorized by law, $147,418,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2025; of which not to exceed 
$15,000 may be for official reception and representation ex-
penses; of which up to $1,000,000 shall be available for 
workers compensation payments and unemployment com-
pensation payments associated with the orderly closure of 
the United States Bureau of Mines; and of which 
$14,295,000 for Indian land, mineral, and resource valu-
ation activities shall remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That funds for Indian land, mineral, and resource 
valuation activities may, as needed, be transferred to and 
merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs ‘‘Operation of 
Indian Programs’’ and Bureau of Indian Education ‘‘Oper-
ation of Indian Education Programs’’ accounts and the Bu-
reau of Trust Funds Administration ‘‘Federal Trust Pro-
grams’’ account: Provided further, That funds made avail-
able through contracts or grants obligated during fiscal year
491 
2024, as authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act 
of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall remain available 
until expended by the contractor or grantee: Provided fur-
ther, That funds provided under this heading in this Act 
may be transferred to and merged with ‘‘United States Fish 
and Wildlife Service—Resource Management’’ only to im-
plement the functional transfer of the Office of Subsistence 
Management to the Office of the Secretary and maintain 
uninterrupted execution of ongoing subsistence management 
activities. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
For fiscal year 2024, up to $400,000 of the payments 
authorized by chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, 
may be retained for administrative expenses of the Pay-
ments in Lieu of Taxes Program: Provided, That the 
amounts provided under this Act specifically for the Pay-
ments in Lieu of Taxes program are the only amounts 
available for payments authorized under chapter 69 of title 
31, United States Code: Provided further, That in the event 
the sums appropriated for any fiscal year for payments 
pursuant to this chapter are insufficient to make the full 
payments authorized by that chapter to all units of local 
government, then the payment to each local government 
shall be made proportionally: Provided further, That the 
Secretary may make adjustments to payment to individual
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units of local government to correct for prior overpayments 
or underpayments: Provided further, That no payment shall 
be made pursuant to that chapter to otherwise eligible units 
of local government if the computed amount of the payment 
is less than $100. 
INSULAR AFFAIRS 
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior and 
other jurisdictions identified in section 104(e) of Public 
Law 108–188, $120,107,000, of which: (1) $109,890,000 
shall remain available until expended for territorial assist-
ance, including general technical assistance, maintenance 
assistance, disaster assistance, coral reef initiative and nat-
ural resources 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 construc-
tion 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 Is-
lands, as authorized by law (Public Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 
272); and (2) $10,217,000 shall be available until Sep-
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tember 30, 2025, for salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Insular Affairs: Provided, That all financial transactions 
of the territorial and local governments herein provided for, 
including such transactions of all agencies or instrumental-
ities established or used by such governments, may be au-
dited by the Government Accountability Office, at its discre-
tion, in accordance with chapter 35 of title 31, United 
States Code: Provided further, That Northern Mariana Is-
lands Covenant grant funding shall be provided according 
to those terms of the Agreement of the Special Representa-
tives on Future United States Financial Assistance for the 
Northern Mariana Islands approved by Public Law 104– 
134: Provided further, That the funds for the program of 
operations and maintenance improvement are appropriated 
to institutionalize routine operations and maintenance im-
provement of capital infrastructure with territorial partici-
pation 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 appropria-
tion for disaster assistance under this heading in this Act 
or previous appropriations Acts may be used as non–Fed-
eral 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).
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COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 
For grants and necessary expenses, $3,463,000, to re-
main available until expended, as provided for in sections 
221(a)(2) and 233 of the Compact of Free Association for 
the Republic of Palau; and section 221(a)(2) of the Com-
pacts of Free Association for the Government of the Repub-
lic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Mi-
cronesia, as authorized by Public Law 99–658 and Public 
Law 108–188. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
At the request of the Governor of Guam, the Secretary 
may transfer discretionary funds or mandatory funds pro-
vided under section 104(e) of Public Law 108–188 and Pub-
lic Law 104–134, that are allocated for Guam, to the Sec-
retary of Agriculture for the subsidy cost of direct or guar-
anteed loans, plus not to exceed three percent of the amount 
of the subsidy transferred for the cost of loan administra-
tion, for the purposes authorized by the Rural Electrifica-
tion Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act for construction and re-
pair projects in Guam, and such funds shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That such costs, including 
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in sec-
tion 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided
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further, That such loans or loan guarantees may be made 
without regard to the population of the area, credit else-
where requirements, and restrictions on the types of eligible 
entities under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and 
section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural De-
velopment Act: Provided further, That any funds trans-
ferred to the Secretary of Agriculture shall be in addition 
to funds otherwise made available to make or guarantee 
loans under such authorities. 
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 
$97,950,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral, $67,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2025. 
DEPARTMENT-WIDE PROGRAMS 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, fire sup-
pression operations, fire science and research, emergency re-
habilitation, fuels management activities, and rural fire as-
sistance by the Department of the Interior, $1,113,471,000,
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to remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 
$10,000,000 shall be for the renovation or construction of 
fire facilities: Provided, That such funds are also available 
for repayment of advances to other appropriation accounts 
from which funds were previously transferred for such pur-
poses: Provided further, That of the funds provided 
$214,450,000 is for fuels management activities: Provided 
further, That of the funds provided $10,000,000 is for 
burned area rehabilitation: Provided further, That persons 
hired pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsist-
ence and lodging without cost from funds available from 
this appropriation: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
42 U.S.C. 1856d, sums received by a bureau or office of 
the Department of the Interior for fire protection rendered 
pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1856 et seq., protection of United 
States property, may be credited to the appropriation from 
which funds were expended to provide that protection, and 
are available without fiscal year limitation: Provided fur-
ther, That using the amounts designated under this title 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into 
procurement contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, 
for fuels management activities, and for training and moni-
toring associated with such fuels management activities on 
Federal land, or on adjacent non-Federal land for activities 
that benefit resources on Federal land: Provided further,
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That the costs of implementing any cooperative agreement 
between the Federal Government and any non-Federal enti-
ty may be shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected 
parties: Provided further, That notwithstanding require-
ments of the Competition in Contracting Act, the Secretary, 
for purposes of fuels management activities, may obtain 
maximum practicable competition among: (1) local private, 
nonprofit, or cooperative entities; (2) Youth Conservation 
Corps crews, Public Lands Corps (Public Law 109–154), 
or related partnerships with State, local, or nonprofit youth 
groups; (3) small or micro-businesses; or (4) other entities 
that will hire or train locally a significant percentage, de-
fined as 50 percent or more, of the project workforce to com-
plete such contracts: Provided further, That in imple-
menting this section, the Secretary shall develop written 
guidance to field units to ensure accountability and con-
sistent application of the authorities provided herein: Pro-
vided further, That funds appropriated under this heading 
may be used to reimburse the United States Fish and Wild-
life Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service for 
the costs of carrying out their responsibilities under the En-
dangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to 
consult and conference, as required by section 7 of such Act, 
in connection with wildland fire management activities: 
Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior may
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use wildland fire appropriations to enter into leases of real 
property with local governments, at or below fair market 
value, to construct capitalized improvements for fire facili-
ties on such leased properties, including but not limited to 
fire guard stations, retardant stations, and other initial at-
tack and fire support facilities, and to make advance pay-
ments for any such lease or for construction activity associ-
ated with the lease: Provided further, That the Secretary 
of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may author-
ize the transfer of funds appropriated for wildland fire 
management, in an aggregate amount not to exceed 
$50,000,000 between the Departments when such transfers 
would facilitate and expedite wildland fire management 
programs and projects: Provided further, That funds pro-
vided for wildfire suppression shall be available for support 
of Federal emergency response actions: Provided further, 
That funds appropriated under this heading shall be avail-
able for assistance to or through the Department of State 
in connection with forest and rangeland research, technical 
information, and assistance in foreign countries, and, with 
the concurrence of the Secretary of State, shall be available 
to support forestry, wildland fire management, and related 
natural resource activities outside the United States and 
its territories and possessions, including technical assist-
ance, education and training, and cooperation with United
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States and international organizations: Provided further, 
That funds made available under this heading in this Act 
and unobligated balances made available under this head-
ing in prior Acts, other than amounts designated by the 
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant 
to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, shall 
be available, in addition to any other funds made available 
for such purpose, to continue uninterrupted the Federal 
wildland firefighter base salary increases provided under 
section 40803(d)(4)(B) of Public Law 117–58: Provided 
further, That of the funds provided under this heading, 
$383,657,000 shall be available for wildfire suppression op-
erations, and is provided to meet the terms of section 
251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
In addition to the amounts provided under the heading 
‘‘Department of the Interior—Department-Wide Pro-
grams—Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppres-
sion operations, $350,000,000, to remain available until 
transferred, is additional new budget authority as specified 
for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided, That
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such amounts may be transferred to and merged with 
amounts made available under the headings ‘‘Department 
of Agriculture—Forest Service—Wildland Fire Manage-
ment’’ and ‘‘Department of the Interior—Department-Wide 
Programs—Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire sup-
pression operations in the fiscal year in which such 
amounts are transferred: Provided further, That amounts 
may be transferred to the ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ ac-
counts in the Department of Agriculture or the Department 
of the Interior only upon the notification of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations that all wildfire sup-
pression operations funds appropriated under that heading 
in this and prior appropriations Acts to the agency to 
which the funds will be transferred will be obligated within 
30 days: Provided further, That the transfer authority pro-
vided under this heading is in addition to any other trans-
fer authority provided by law: Provided further, That, in 
determining whether all wildfire suppression operations 
funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire 
Management’’ in this and prior appropriations Acts to ei-
ther the Department of Agriculture or the Department of 
the Interior will be obligated within 30 days pursuant to 
the preceding proviso, any funds transferred or permitted 
to be transferred pursuant to any other transfer authority 
provided by law shall be excluded.
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CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the Inte-
rior and any of its component offices and bureaus for the 
response action, including associated activities, performed 
pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), 
$9,661,000, to remain available until expended. 
ENERGY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROGRAM 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the Inte-
rior to inventory, assess, decommission, reclaim, respond to 
hazardous substance releases, remediate lands pursuant to 
section 40704 of Public Law 117–58 (30 U.S.C. 1245), and 
carry out the purposes of section 349 of the Energy Policy 
Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15907), as amended, $4,800,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That such 
amount shall be in addition to amounts otherwise available 
for such purposes: Provided further, That amounts appro-
priated under this heading are available for program man-
agement and oversight of these activities: Provided further, 
That the Secretary may transfer the funds provided under 
this heading in this Act to any other account in the Depart-
ment to carry out such purposes, and may expend such 
funds directly, or through grants: Provided further, That 
these amounts are not available to fulfill Comprehensive
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Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
(42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) obligations agreed to in settlement 
or imposed by a court, whether for payment of funds or 
for work to be performed. 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND 
RESTORATION 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 
To conduct natural resource damage assessment, res-
toration activities, and onshore oil spill preparedness by the 
Department of the Interior necessary to carry out the provi-
sions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com-
pensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et 
seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), 
and 54 U.S.C. 100721 et seq., $7,715,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
For the operation and maintenance of a departmental 
financial and business management system, data manage-
ment, information technology improvements of general ben-
efit to the Department, cybersecurity, and the consolidation 
of facilities and operations throughout the Department, 
$107,710,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act or 
any other Act may be used to establish reserves in the Work-
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ing Capital Fund account other than for accrued annual 
leave and depreciation of equipment without prior approval 
of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary of the Interior may assess reasonable charges to 
State, local, and tribal government employees for training 
services provided by the National Indian Program Train-
ing Center, other than training related to Public Law 93– 
638: Provided further, That the Secretary may lease or oth-
erwise provide space and related facilities, equipment, or 
professional services of the National Indian Program 
Training Center to State, local and tribal government em-
ployees or persons or organizations engaged in cultural, 
educational, or recreational activities (as defined in section 
3306(a) of title 40, United States Code) at the prevailing 
rate for similar space, facilities, equipment, or services in 
the vicinity of the National Indian Program Training Cen-
ter: Provided further, That all funds received pursuant to 
the two preceding provisos shall be credited to this account, 
shall be available until expended, and shall be used by the 
Secretary for necessary expenses of the National Indian 
Program Training Center: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary may enter into grants and cooperative agreements 
to support the Office of Natural Resource Revenue’s collec-
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tion and disbursement of royalties, fees, and other mineral 
revenue proceeds, as authorized by law. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from avail-
able resources within the Working Capital Fund, aircraft 
which may be obtained by donation, purchase, or through 
available excess surplus property: Provided, That existing 
aircraft being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived 
or trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the 
replacement aircraft. 
OFFICE OF NATURAL RESOURCES REVENUE 
For necessary expenses for management of the collec-
tion and disbursement of royalties, fees, and other mineral 
revenue proceeds, and for grants and cooperative agree-
ments, as authorized by law, $167,937,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2025; of which $69,751,000 shall 
remain available until expended for the purpose of mineral 
revenue management activities: Provided, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, $15,000 shall be avail-
able for refunds of overpayments in connection with certain 
Indian leases in which the Secretary of the Interior con-
curred with the claimed refund due, to pay amounts owed 
to Indian allottees or tribes, or to correct prior unrecover-
able erroneous payments.
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GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY—INTRA-BUREAU 
SEC. 101. Appropriations made in this title shall be 
available for expenditure or transfer (within each bureau 
or office), with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, 
for the emergency reconstruction, replacement, or repair of 
aircraft, buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment 
damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other un-
avoidable causes: Provided, That no funds shall be made 
available under this authority until funds specifically made 
available to the Department of the Interior for emergencies 
shall have been exhausted: Provided further, That all funds 
used pursuant to this section must be replenished by a sup-
plemental appropriation, which must be requested as 
promptly as possible. 
EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY—DEPARTMENT-WIDE 
SEC. 102. The Secretary of the Interior may authorize 
the expenditure or transfer of any no year appropriation 
in this title, in addition to the amounts included in the 
budget programs of the several agencies, for the suppression 
or emergency prevention of wildland fires on or threatening 
lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Inte-
rior; for the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands 
under its jurisdiction; for emergency actions related to po-
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tential or actual earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or 
other unavoidable causes; for contingency planning subse-
quent to actual oil spills; for response and natural resource 
damage assessment activities related to actual oil spills or 
releases of hazardous substances into the environment; for 
the prevention, suppression, and control of actual or poten-
tial grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks on lands 
under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, pursuant to the au-
thority in section 417(b) of Public Law 106–224 (7 U.S.C. 
7717(b)); for emergency reclamation projects under section 
410 of Public Law 95–87; and shall transfer, from any no 
year funds available to the Office of Surface Mining Rec-
lamation and Enforcement, such funds as may be necessary 
to permit assumption of regulatory authority in the event 
a primacy State is not carrying out the regulatory provi-
sions of the Surface Mining Act: Provided, That appropria-
tions made in this title for wildland fire operations shall 
be available for the payment of obligations incurred during 
the preceding fiscal year, and for reimbursement to other 
Federal agencies for destruction of vehicles, aircraft, or 
other equipment in connection with their use for wildland 
fire operations, with such reimbursement to be credited to 
appropriations currently available at the time of receipt 
thereof: Provided further, That for wildland fire operations, 
no funds shall be made available under this authority until
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the Secretary determines that funds appropriated for 
‘‘wildland fire suppression’’ shall be exhausted within 30 
days: Provided further, That all funds used pursuant to this 
section must be replenished by a supplemental appropria-
tion, which must be requested as promptly as possible: Pro-
vided further, That such replenishment funds shall be used 
to reimburse, on a pro rata basis, accounts from which 
emergency funds were transferred. 
AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 103. Appropriations made to the Department of 
the Interior in this title shall be available for services as 
authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, 
when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, in total 
amount not to exceed $500,000; purchase and replacement 
of motor vehicles, including specially equipped law enforce-
ment vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; purchase of reprints; pay-
ment for telephone service in private residences in the field, 
when authorized under regulations approved by the Sec-
retary; and the payment of dues, when authorized by the 
Secretary, for library membership in societies or associa-
tions which issue publications to members only or at a price 
to members lower than to subscribers who are not members.
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AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS, INDIAN TRUST MANAGEMENT 
SEC. 104. Appropriations made in this Act under the 
headings Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian 
Education, and Bureau of Trust Funds Administration 
and any unobligated balances from prior appropriations 
Acts made under the same headings shall be available for 
expenditure or transfer for Indian trust management and 
reform activities. Total funding for settlement support ac-
tivities shall not exceed amounts specifically designated in 
this Act for such purpose. The Secretary shall notify the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations within 
60 days of the expenditure or transfer of any funds under 
this section, including the amount expended or transferred 
and how the funds will be used. 
REDISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS, BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
SEC. 105. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redistribute 
any Tribal Priority Allocation funds, including tribal base 
funds, to alleviate tribal funding inequities by transferring 
funds to address identified, unmet needs, dual enrollment, 
overlapping service areas or inaccurate distribution meth-
odologies. No tribe shall receive a reduction in Tribal Pri-
ority Allocation funds of more than 10 percent in fiscal 
year 2024. Under circumstances of dual enrollment, over-
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lapping service areas or inaccurate distribution methodolo-
gies, the 10 percent limitation does not apply. 
ELLIS, GOVERNORS, AND LIBERTY ISLANDS 
SEC. 106. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire lands, 
waters, or interests therein, including the use of all or part 
of any pier, dock, or landing within the State of New York 
and the State of New Jersey, for the purpose of operating 
and maintaining facilities in the support of transportation 
and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, Governors, and Lib-
erty Islands, and of other program and administrative ac-
tivities, by donation or with appropriated funds, including 
franchise fees (and other monetary consideration), or by ex-
change; and the Secretary is authorized to negotiate and 
enter into leases, subleases, concession contracts, or other 
agreements for the use of such facilities on such terms and 
conditions as the Secretary may determine reasonable. 
OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF INSPECTION FEES 
SEC. 107. (a) In fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of the 
Interior shall collect a nonrefundable inspection fee, which 
shall be deposited in the ‘‘Offshore Safety and Environ-
mental Enforcement’’ account, from the designated operator 
for facilities subject to inspection under 43 U.S.C. 1348(c). 
(b) Annual fees shall be collected for facilities that are 
above the waterline, excluding drilling rigs, and are in
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place at the start of the fiscal year. Fees for fiscal year 2024 
shall be— 
(1) $10,500 for facilities with no wells, but with 
processing equipment or gathering lines; 
(2) $17,000 for facilities with 1 to 10 wells, with 
any combination of active or inactive wells; and 
(3) $31,500 for facilities with more than 10 
wells, with any combination of active or inactive 
wells. 
(c) Fees for drilling rigs shall be assessed for all inspec-
tions completed in fiscal year 2024. Fees for fiscal year 
2024 shall be— 
(1) $30,500 per inspection for rigs operating in 
water depths of 500 feet or more; and 
(2) $16,700 per inspection for rigs operating in 
water depths of less than 500 feet. 
(d) Fees for inspection of well operations conducted via 
non-rig units as outlined in title 30 CFR 250 subparts D, 
E, F, and Q shall be assessed for all inspections completed 
in fiscal year 2024. Fees for fiscal year 2024 shall be— 
(1) $13,260 per inspection for non-rig units op-
erating in water depths of 2,500 feet or more; 
(2) $11,530 per inspection for non-rig units op-
erating in water depths between 500 and 2,499 feet; 
and
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(3) $4,470 per inspection for non-rig units oper-
ating in water depths of less than 500 feet. 
(e) The Secretary shall bill designated operators under 
subsection (b) quarterly, with payment required within 30 
days of billing. The Secretary shall bill designated operators 
under subsection (c) within 30 days of the end of the month 
in which the inspection occurred, with payment required 
within 30 days of billing. The Secretary shall bill des-
ignated operators under subsection (d) with payment re-
quired by the end of the following quarter. 
CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS FOR WILD HORSE AND 
BURRO HOLDING FACILITIES 
SEC. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into multiyear 
cooperative agreements with nonprofit organizations and 
other appropriate entities, and may enter into multiyear 
contracts in accordance with the provisions of section 3903 
of title 41, United States Code (except that the 5-year term 
restriction in subsection (a) shall not apply), for the long- 
term care and maintenance of excess wild free roaming 
horses and burros by such organizations or entities on pri-
vate land. Such cooperative agreements and contracts may 
not exceed 10 years, subject to renewal at the discretion of 
the Secretary.
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MASS MARKING OF SALMONIDS 
SEC. 109. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service 
shall, in carrying out its responsibilities to protect threat-
ened and endangered species of salmon, implement a system 
of mass marking of salmonid stocks, intended for harvest, 
that are released from federally operated or federally fi-
nanced hatcheries including but not limited to fish releases 
of coho, chinook, and steelhead species. Marked fish must 
have a visible mark that can be readily identified by com-
mercial and recreational fishers. 
CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS WITH INDIAN AFFAIRS 
SEC. 110. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
during fiscal year 2024, in carrying out work involving co-
operation with State, local, and tribal governments or any 
political subdivision thereof, Indian Affairs may record ob-
ligations against accounts receivable from any such entities, 
except that total obligations at the end of the fiscal year 
shall not exceed total budgetary resources available at the 
end of the fiscal year. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR EXPERIENCED SERVICES 
PROGRAM 
SEC. 111. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law relating to Federal grants and cooperative agreements, 
the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make grants 
to, or enter into cooperative agreements with, private non-
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profit organizations designated by the Secretary of Labor 
under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 to utilize 
the talents of older Americans in programs authorized by 
other provisions of law administered by the Secretary and 
consistent with such provisions of law. 
(b) Prior to awarding any grant or agreement under 
subsection (a), the Secretary shall ensure that the agreement 
would not— 
(1) result in the displacement of individuals cur-
rently employed by the Department, including partial 
displacement through reduction of non-overtime 
hours, wages, or employment benefits; 
(2) result in the use of an individual under the 
Department of the Interior Experienced Services Pro-
gram for a job or function in a case in which a Fed-
eral employee is in a layoff status from the same or 
substantially equivalent job within the Department; 
or 
(3) affect existing contracts for services. 
OBLIGATION OF FUNDS 
SEC. 112. Amounts appropriated by this Act to the De-
partment of the Interior shall be available for obligation 
and expenditure not later than 60 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act.
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SEPARATION OF ACCOUNTS 
SEC. 113. The Secretary of the Interior, in order to 
implement an orderly transition to separate accounts of the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian Edu-
cation, may transfer funds among and between the successor 
offices and bureaus affected by the reorganization only in 
conformance with the reprogramming guidelines described 
in this Act. 
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES (PILT) 
SEC. 114. Section 6906 of title 31, United States Code, 
shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’ for ‘‘fis-
cal year 2019’’. 
DISCLOSURE OF DEPARTURE OR ALTERNATE PROCEDURE 
APPROVAL 
SEC. 115. (a) Subject to subsection (b), in any case 
in which the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforce-
ment or the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management pre-
scribes or approves any departure or use of alternate proce-
dure or equipment, in regards to a plan or permit, under 
30 CFR 585.103; 30 CFR 550.141; 30 CFR 550.142; 30 
CFR 250.141; or 30 CFR 250.142, the head of such bureau 
shall post a description of such departure or alternate pro-
cedure or equipment use approval on such bureau’s publicly 
available website not more than 15 business days after such 
issuance.
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(b) The head of each bureau may exclude confidential 
business information. 
LONG BRIDGE PROJECT 
SEC. 116. (a) AUTHORIZATION OF CONVEYANCE.—On 
request by the State of Virginia or the District of Columbia 
for the purpose of the construction of rail and other infra-
structure relating to the Long Bridge Project, the Secretary 
of the Interior may convey to the State or the District of 
Columbia, as applicable, all right, title, and interest of the 
United States in and to any portion of the approximately 
4.4 acres of National Park Service land depicted as ‘‘Per-
manent Impact to NPS Land’’ on the Map dated May 15, 
2020, that is identified by the State or the District of Co-
lumbia. 
(b) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—Such conveyance of the 
National Park Service land under subsection (a) shall be 
subject to any terms and conditions that the Secretary may 
require. If such conveyed land is no longer being used for 
the purposes specified in this section, the lands or interests 
therein shall revert to the National Park Service after they 
have been restored or remediated to the satisfaction of the 
Secretary. 
(c) CORRECTIONS.—The Secretary and the State or the 
District of Columbia, as applicable, by mutual agreement, 
may—
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(1) make minor boundary adjustments to the Na-
tional Park Service land to be conveyed to the State 
or the District of Columbia under subsection (a); and 
(2) correct any minor errors in the Map referred 
to in subsection (a). 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 
(1) LONG BRIDGE PROJECT.—The term ‘‘Long 
Bridge Project’’ means the rail project, as identified 
by the Federal Railroad Administration, from 
Rosslyn (RO) Interlocking in Arlington, Virginia, to 
L’Enfant (LE) Interlocking in Washington, DC, 
which includes a bicycle and pedestrian bridge. 
(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Di-
rector of the National Park Service. 
(3) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the State 
of Virginia. 
INTERAGENCY MOTOR POOL 
SEC. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
or Federal regulation, federally recognized Indian tribes or 
authorized tribal organizations that receive Tribally-Con-
trolled School Grants pursuant to Public Law 100–297 may 
obtain interagency motor vehicles and related services for 
performance of any activities carried out under such grants
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to the same extent as if they were contracting under the 
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. 
APPRAISER PAY AUTHORITY 
SEC. 118. For fiscal year 2024, funds made available 
in this or any other Act or otherwise made available to the 
Department of the Interior for the Appraisal and Valuation 
Services Office may be used by the Secretary of the Interior 
to establish higher minimum rates of basic pay for employ-
ees of the Department of the Interior in the Appraiser (GS– 
1171) job series at grades 11 through 15 carrying out ap-
praisals of real property and appraisal reviews conducted 
in support of the Department’s realty programs at rates 
no greater than 15 percent above the minimum rates of 
basic pay normally scheduled, and such higher rates shall 
be consistent with subsections (e) through (h) of section 5305 
of title 5, United States Code. 
SAGE-GROUSE 
SEC. 119. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior to write or issue pursuant to section 4 of the Endan-
gered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533)— 
(1) a proposed rule for greater sage-grouse 
(Centrocercus urophasianus); 
(2) a proposed rule for the Columbia basin dis-
tinct population segment of greater sage-grouse.
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STATE CONSERVATION GRANTS 
SEC. 120. For expenses necessary to carry out section 
200305 of title 54, United States Code, the National Park 
Service may retain up to 7 percent of the State Conserva-
tion Grants program to provide to States, the District of 
Columbia, and insular areas, as matching grants to support 
state program administrative costs. 
RETENTION OF CONCESSION FRANCHISE FEES 
SEC. 121. Section 101917(c) of title 54, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(3) REDUCTION.—The Secretary may reduce 
the percentage allocation otherwise applicable under 
paragraph (2) to a unit or area of the National Park 
Service for a fiscal year if the Secretary determines 
that the revenues collected at the unit or area exceed 
the reasonable needs of the unit or area for which ex-
penditures may be made for that fiscal year. In no 
event may a percentage allocation be reduced below 
60 percent.’’. 
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND DEPOSITS 
SEC. 122. Section 303102 of title 54, United States 
Code, shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’ 
for ‘‘fiscal year 2023’’.
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DECOMMISSIONING ACCOUNT 
SEC. 123. The matter under the amended heading 
‘‘Royalty and Offshore Minerals Management’’ for the Min-
erals Management Service in Public Law 101–512 (104 
Stat. 1926, as amended) (43 U.S.C. 1338a) is further 
amended by striking the fifth and sixth provisos in their 
entirety and inserting the following: ‘‘Provided further, 
That notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, United 
States Code, any moneys hereafter received as a result of 
the forfeiture of a bond or other security by an Outer Conti-
nental Shelf permittee, lessee, or right-of-way holder that 
does not fulfill the requirements of its permit, lease, or 
right-of-way or does not comply with the regulations of the 
Secretary, or as a bankruptcy distribution or settlement as-
sociated with such failure or noncompliance, shall be cred-
ited to a separate account established in the Treasury for 
decommissioning activities and shall be available to the Bu-
reau of Ocean Energy Management without further appro-
priation or fiscal year limitation to cover the cost to the 
United States of any improvement, protection, rehabilita-
tion, or decommissioning work rendered necessary by the 
action or inaction that led to the forfeiture or bankruptcy 
distribution or settlement, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided further, That amounts deposited into the 
decommissioning account may be allocated to the Bureau
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of Safety and Environmental Enforcement for such costs: 
Provided further, That any moneys received for such costs 
currently held in the Ocean Energy Management account 
shall be transferred to the decommissioning account: Pro-
vided further, That any portion of the moneys so credited 
shall be returned to the bankruptcy estate, permittee, lessee, 
or right-of-way holder to the extent that the money is in 
excess of the amount expended in performing the work ne-
cessitated by the action or inaction which led to their re-
ceipt or, if the bond or security was forfeited for failure 
to pay the civil penalty, in excess of the civil penalty im-
posed.’’. 
NONRECURRING EXPENSES FUND 
SEC. 124. There is hereby established in the Treasury 
of the United States a fund to be known as the ‘‘Department 
of the Interior Nonrecurring Expenses Fund’’ (the Fund): 
Provided, That unobligated balances of expired discre-
tionary funds appropriated for this or any succeeding fiscal 
year from the General Fund of the Treasury to the Depart-
ment of the Interior by this or any other Act may be trans-
ferred (not later than the end of the fifth fiscal year after 
the last fiscal year for which such funds are available for 
the purposes for which appropriated) into the Fund: Pro-
vided further, That amounts deposited in the Fund shall 
be available until expended, and in addition to such other
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funds as may be available for such purposes, for informa-
tion and business technology system modernization and fa-
cilities infrastructure improvements and associated admin-
istrative expenses, including nonrecurring maintenance, 
necessary for the operation of the Department or its bu-
reaus, subject to approval by the Office of Management and 
Budget: Provided further, That amounts in the Fund may 
not be obligated without written notification to and the 
prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate in conformance 
with the reprogramming guidelines described in this Act. 
EBEY’S LANDING NATIONAL HISTORIC RESERVE 
SEC. 125. Section 508(f) of Public Law 95–625 (92 
stat. 3509) is amended by striking ‘‘not to exceed 
$5,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$18,000,000’’. 
INTERIOR AUTHORITY FOR OPERATING EFFICIENCIES 
SEC. 126. (a) In fiscal years 2024 and 2025, the Sec-
retary of the Interior may authorize and execute agreements 
to achieve operating efficiencies among and between two or 
more component bureaus and offices through the following 
activities: 
(1) co-locating in offices and facilities leased or 
owned by any such component and sharing related 
utilities and equipment;
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(2) detailing or assigning staff on a non-reim-
bursable basis for up to 5 business days; and 
(3) sharing staff and equipment necessary to 
meet mission requirements. 
(b) The authority provided by subsection (a) is to sup-
port areas of mission alignment between and among compo-
nent bureaus and offices or where geographic proximity al-
lows for efficiencies. 
(c) Bureaus and offices entering into agreements au-
thorized under subsections (a)(1) and (a)(3) shall bear costs 
for such agreements in a manner that reflects their approxi-
mate benefit and share of total costs, which may or may 
not include indirect costs. 
(d) In furtherance of the requirement in subsection (c), 
the Secretary of the Interior may make transfers of funds 
in advance or on a reimbursable basis.
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TITLE II 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
For science and technology, including research and de-
velopment activities, which shall include research and devel-
opment activities under the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980; nec-
essary expenses for personnel and related costs and travel 
expenses; procurement of laboratory equipment and sup-
plies; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; and 
other operating expenses in support of research and develop-
ment, $758,103,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2025: Provided, That of the funds included under this 
heading, $19,530,000 shall be for Research: National Prior-
ities as specified in the explanatory statement described in 
section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consoli-
dated Act), of which $2,030,000 shall be for projects speci-
fied for Science and Technology in the table titled ‘‘Interior 
and Environment Incorporation of Community Project 
Funding Items/Congressionally Directed Spending Items’’ 
included for this division in the explanatory statement de-
scribed in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of 
this consolidated Act).
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT 
For environmental programs and management, in-
cluding necessary expenses not otherwise provided for, for 
personnel and related costs and travel expenses; hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of 
aircraft; purchase of reprints; library memberships in soci-
eties or associations which issue publications to members 
only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers 
who are not members; administrative costs of the 
brownfields program under the Small Business Liability 
Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002; imple-
mentation of a coal combustion residual permit program 
under section 2301 of the Water and Waste Act of 2016; 
and not to exceed $40,000 for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses, $3,178,028,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2025: Provided further, That of the 
funds included under this heading— 
(1) $30,700,000 shall be for Environmental Pro-
tection: National Priorities as specified in the explan-
atory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act); 
(2) $681,726,000 shall be for Geographic Pro-
grams as specified in the explanatory statement de-
scribed in section 4 (in the matter preceding division 
A of this consolidated Act); and
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(3) $20,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, shall be for grants, including grants that may 
be awarded on a non-competitive basis, interagency 
agreements, and associated program support costs to 
establish and implement a program to assist Alaska 
Native Regional Corporations, Alaskan Native Village 
Corporations, federally-recognized tribes in Alaska, 
Alaska Native Non-Profit Organizations and Alaska 
Native Nonprofit Associations, and intertribal con-
sortia comprised of Alaskan tribal entities to address 
contamination on lands conveyed under or pursuant 
to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 
U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) that were or are contaminated at 
the time of conveyance and are on an inventory of 
such lands developed and maintained by the Environ-
mental Protection Agency: Provided, That grants 
awarded using funds made available in this para-
graph may be used by a recipient to supplement other 
funds provided by the Environmental Protection 
Agency through individual media or multi-media 
grants or cooperative agreements: Provided further, 
That of the amounts made available in this para-
graph, in addition to amounts otherwise available for 
such purposes, the Environmental Protection Agency 
may reserve up to $2,000,000 for salaries, expenses,
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and administration of the program and for grants re-
lated to such program that address contamination on 
lands conveyed under or pursuant to the Alaska Na-
tive Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) 
that were or are contaminated at the time of convey-
ance and are on the EPA inventory of such lands. 
In addition, $9,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, for necessary expenses of activities described in sec-
tion 26(b)(1) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 
U.S.C. 2625(b)(1)): Provided, That fees collected pursuant 
to that section of that Act and deposited in the ‘‘TSCA Serv-
ice Fee Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting receipts in fiscal 
year 2024 shall be retained and used for necessary salaries 
and expenses in this appropriation and shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided further, That the sum herein 
appropriated in this paragraph from the general fund for 
fiscal year 2024 shall be reduced by the amount of discre-
tionary offsetting receipts received during fiscal year 2024, 
so as to result in a final fiscal year 2024 appropriation 
from the general fund estimated at not more than $0: Pro-
vided further, That to the extent that amounts realized from 
such receipts exceed $9,000,000, those amounts in excess of 
$9,000,000 shall be deposited in the ‘‘TSCA Service Fee 
Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting receipts in fiscal year 
2024, shall be retained and used for necessary salaries and
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expenses in this account, and shall remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That of the funds included in 
the first paragraph under this heading, the Chemical Risk 
Review and Reduction program project shall be allocated 
for this fiscal year, excluding the amount of any fees appro-
priated, not less than the amount of appropriations for that 
program project for fiscal year 2014. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General 
Act of 1978, $43,250,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2025: Provided, That the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral shall be subject to the terms, conditions, and require-
ments specified under this heading in Senate Report 118– 
83. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, 
or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency, 
$40,676,000, to remain available until expended. 
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
of 1980 (CERCLA), including sections 111(c)(3), (c)(5),
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(c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and hire, maintenance, 
and operation of aircraft, $537,700,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, consisting of such sums as are available 
in the Trust Fund on September 30, 2023, and not other-
wise appropriated from the Trust Fund, as authorized by 
section 517(a) of the Superfund Amendments and Reau-
thorization Act of 1986 (SARA) and up to $537,700,000 
as a payment from general revenues to the Hazardous Sub-
stance Superfund for purposes as authorized by section 
517(b) of SARA: Provided, That funds appropriated under 
this heading may be allocated to other Federal agencies in 
accordance with section 111(a) of CERCLA: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 
$11,328,000 shall be paid to the ‘‘Office of Inspector Gen-
eral’’ appropriation to remain available until September 
30, 2025, and $30,343,000 shall be paid to the ‘‘Science 
and Technology’’ appropriation to remain available until 
September 30, 2025. 
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TRUST FUND 
PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sub-
title I of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $89,214,000, to re-
main available until expended, of which $64,723,000 shall 
be for carrying out leaking underground storage tank clean-
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up activities authorized by section 9003(h) of the Solid 
Waste Disposal Act; and $24,491,000 shall be for carrying 
out the other provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act 
specified in section 9508(c) of the Internal Revenue Code: 
Provided, That the Administrator is authorized to use ap-
propriations made available under this heading to imple-
ment section 9013 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act to pro-
vide financial assistance to federally recognized Indian 
tribes for the development and implementation of programs 
to manage underground storage tanks. 
INLAND OIL SPILL PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environmental 
Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil Pollution 
Act of 1990, including hire, maintenance, and operation 
of aircraft, $20,711,000, to be derived from the Oil Spill 
Liability trust fund, to remain available until expended. 
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolving 
funds and performance partnership grants, $4,418,938,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which— 
(1) $1,638,861,000 shall be for making capital-
ization grants for the Clean Water State Revolving 
Funds under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution
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Control Act; and of which $1,126,101,000 shall be for 
making capitalization grants for the Drinking Water 
State Revolving Funds under section 1452 of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act: Provided, That $787,652,267 of 
the funds made available for capitalization grants for 
the Clean Water State Revolving Funds and 
$631,659,905 of the funds made available for capital-
ization grants for the Drinking Water State Revolv-
ing Funds shall be for the construction of drinking 
water, wastewater, and storm water infrastructure 
and for water quality protection in accordance with 
the terms and conditions specified for such grants in 
the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in 
the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act) for projects specified for ‘‘STAG—Drinking 
Water State Revolving Fund’’ and ‘‘STAG—Clean 
Water State Revolving Fund’’ in the table titled ‘‘In-
terior and Environment Incorporation of Community 
Project 
Funding 
Items/Congressionally 
Directed 
Spending Items’’ included for this division in the ex-
planatory statement described in section 4 (in the 
matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act), 
and, for purposes of these grants, each grantee shall 
contribute not less than 20 percent of the cost of the 
project unless the grantee is approved for a waiver by
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the Agency: Provided further, That $13,300,000 of the 
funds appropriated under this heading for capitaliza-
tion grants for the Clean Water State Revolving 
Funds and for capitalization grants for the Drinking 
Water State Revolving Funds, in addition to amounts 
otherwise available for such purposes, may be used by 
the Administrator for salaries, expenses, and admin-
istration for Community Project Funding Items/Con-
gressionally Directed Spending Items: Provided fur-
ther, That the amounts in the preceding proviso 
under this heading shall not be available for obliga-
tion until the report, as specified under this heading 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 
(in the matter preceding division A of this consoli-
dated Act) is received by the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024, to 
the extent there are sufficient eligible project applica-
tions and projects are consistent with State Intended 
Use Plans, not less than 10 percent of the funds made 
available under this title to each State for Clean 
Water State Revolving Fund capitalization grants 
shall be used by the State for projects to address green 
infrastructure, water or energy efficiency improve-
ments, or other environmentally innovative activities:
532 
Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024, funds 
made available under this title to each State for 
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund capitalization 
grants may, at the discretion of each State, be used 
for projects to address green infrastructure, water or 
energy efficiency improvements, or other environ-
mentally innovative activities: Provided further, That 
the Administrator is authorized to use up to 
$1,500,000 of funds made available for the Clean 
Water State Revolving Funds under this heading 
under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1381) to conduct the Clean Watersheds 
Needs Survey: Provided further, That notwith-
standing section 603(d)(7) of the Federal Water Pol-
lution Control 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 2024 and prior 
years where such amounts represent costs of admin-
istering the fund to the extent that such amounts are 
or were deemed reasonable by the Administrator, ac-
counted for separately from other assets in the fund, 
and used for eligible purposes of the fund, including 
administration: Provided further, That for fiscal year
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2024, notwithstanding the provisions of subsections 
(g)(1), (h), and (l) of section 201 of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act, grants made under title II of 
such Act for American Samoa, Guam, the Common-
wealth of the Northern Marianas, the United States 
Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia may 
also be made for the purpose of providing assistance: 
(1) solely for facility plans, design activities, or 
plans, specifications, and estimates for any proposed 
project for the construction of treatment works; and 
(2) for the construction, repair, or replacement of pri-
vately owned treatment works serving one or more 
principal residences or small commercial establish-
ments: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024, 
notwithstanding the provisions of such subsections 
(g)(1), (h), and (l) of section 201 and section 518(c) 
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, funds re-
served by the Administrator for grants under section 
518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
may also be used to provide assistance: (1) solely for 
facility plans, design activities, or plans, specifica-
tions, and estimates for any proposed project for the 
construction of treatment works; and (2) for the con-
struction, repair, or replacement of privately owned 
treatment works serving one or more principal resi-
534 
dences or small commercial establishments: Provided 
further, That for fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding 
any provision of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act and regulations issued pursuant thereof, up to a 
total of $2,000,000 of the funds reserved by the Ad-
ministrator for grants under section 518(c) of such 
Act may also be used for grants for training, tech-
nical assistance, and educational programs relating 
to the operation and management of the treatment 
works specified in section 518(c) of such Act: Provided 
further, That for fiscal year 2024, funds reserved 
under section 518(c) of such Act shall be available for 
grants only to Indian tribes, as defined in section 
518(h) of such Act and former Indian reservations in 
Oklahoma (as determined by the Secretary of the In-
terior) and Native Villages as defined in Public Law 
92–203: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024, 
notwithstanding the limitation on amounts in section 
518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, up 
to a total of 2 percent of the funds appropriated, or 
$30,000,000, whichever is greater, and notwith-
standing the limitation on amounts in section 1452(i) 
of the Safe Drinking Water Act, up to a total of 2 
percent of the funds appropriated, or $20,000,000, 
whichever is greater, for State Revolving Funds under
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such Acts may be reserved by the Administrator for 
grants under section 518(c) and section 1452(i) of 
such Acts: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024, 
notwithstanding the amounts specified in section 
205(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, up 
to 1.5 percent of the aggregate funds appropriated for 
the Clean Water State Revolving Fund program 
under the Act less any sums reserved under section 
518(c) of the Act, may be reserved by the Adminis-
trator for grants made under title II of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act for American Samoa, 
Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, 
and United States Virgin Islands: Provided further, 
That for fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding the limita-
tions on amounts specified in section 1452(j) of the 
Safe Drinking Water Act, up to 1.5 percent of the 
funds appropriated for the Drinking Water State Re-
volving Fund programs under the Safe Drinking 
Water Act may be reserved by the Administrator for 
grants made under section 1452(j) of the Safe Drink-
ing Water Act: Provided further, That 10 percent of 
the funds made available under this title to each State 
for Clean Water State Revolving Fund capitalization 
grants and 14 percent of the funds made available 
under this title to each State for Drinking Water
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State Revolving Fund capitalization grants shall be 
used by the State to provide additional subsidy to eli-
gible recipients in the form of forgiveness of principal, 
negative interest loans, or grants (or any combination 
of these), and shall be so used by the State only where 
such funds are provided as initial financing for an 
eligible recipient or to buy, refinance, or restructure 
the debt obligations of eligible recipients only where 
such debt was incurred on or after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, or where such debt was incurred 
prior to the date of enactment of this Act if the State, 
with concurrence from the Administrator, determines 
that such funds could be used to help address a threat 
to public health from heightened exposure to lead in 
drinking water or if a Federal or State emergency 
declaration has been issued due to a threat to public 
health from heightened exposure to lead in a munic-
ipal drinking water supply before the date of enact-
ment of this Act: Provided further, That in a State 
in which such an emergency declaration has been 
issued, the State may use more than 14 percent of the 
funds made available under this title to the State for 
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund capitalization 
grants to provide additional subsidy to eligible recipi-
ents: Provided further, That notwithstanding section
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1452(o) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–12(o)), the Administrator shall reserve up to 
$12,000,000 of the amounts made available for fiscal 
year 2024 for making capitalization grants for the 
Drinking Water State Revolving Funds to pay the 
costs of monitoring for unregulated contaminants 
under section 1445(a)(2)(C) of such Act: Provided 
further, That of the unobligated balances available in 
the ‘‘State and Tribal Assistance Grants’’ account ap-
propriated prior to fiscal year 2012 for ‘‘special 
project grants’’ or ‘‘special needs infrastructure 
grants,’’ or for the administration, management, and 
oversight of such grants, $1,500,000 are permanently 
rescinded: Provided further, That no amounts may be 
rescinded from amounts that were designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a 
concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: 
Provided further, That the funds made available 
under this heading for Community Project Funding/ 
Congressionally Directed Spending grants in this or 
prior appropriations Acts are not subject to compli-
ance with Federal procurement requirements for com-
petition and methods of procurement applicable to 
Federal financial assistance, if a Community Project
538 
Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending recipient 
has procured services or products through contracts 
entered into prior to the date of enactment of this leg-
islation that complied with state and/or local laws 
governing competition; 
(2) $35,000,000 shall be for architectural, engi-
neering, planning, design, construction and related 
activities in connection with the construction of high 
priority water and wastewater facilities in the area 
of the United States-Mexico Border, after consultation 
with the appropriate border commission: Provided, 
That no funds provided by this appropriations Act to 
address the water, wastewater and other critical in-
frastructure needs of the colonias in the United States 
along the United States-Mexico border shall be made 
available to a county or municipal government unless 
that government has established an enforceable 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 existing colonia the construction of any 
new home, business, or other structure which lacks 
water, wastewater, or other necessary infrastructure; 
(3) $39,000,000 shall be for grants to the State 
of Alaska to address drinking water and wastewater
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infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska Native Vil-
lages: Provided, That of these funds: (A) the State of 
Alaska shall provide a match of 25 percent; (B) no 
more than 5 percent of the funds may be used for ad-
ministrative and overhead expenses; and (C) the State 
of Alaska shall make awards consistent with the 
Statewide priority list established in conjunction with 
the Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture 
for all water, sewer, waste disposal, and similar 
projects carried out by the State of Alaska that are 
funded under section 221 of the Federal Water Pollu-
tion Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) or the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 et 
seq.) which shall allocate not less than 25 percent of 
the funds provided for projects in regional hub com-
munities; 
(4) $98,000,000 shall be to carry out section 
104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Re-
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
(CERCLA), including grants, interagency agree-
ments, and associated program support costs: Pro-
vided, That at least 10 percent shall be allocated for 
assistance in persistent poverty counties: Provided 
further, That for purposes of this section, the term 
‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ means any county that
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has had 20 percent or more of its population living 
in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by the 
1993 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, the 
2000 decennial census, and the most recent Small 
Area Income and Poverty Estimates, or any territory 
or possession of the United States; 
(5) $90,000,000 shall be for grants under title 
VII, subtitle G of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; 
(6) $67,800,000 shall be for targeted airshed 
grants in accordance with the terms and conditions 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 
(in the matter preceding division A of this consoli-
dated Act); 
(7) $28,500,000 shall be for grants under sub-
sections (a) through (j) of section 1459A of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–19a): Provided, 
That for fiscal year 2024, funds provided under sub-
sections (a) through (j) of such section of such Act 
may be used— 
(A) by a State to provide assistance to ben-
efit one or more owners of drinking water wells 
that are not public water systems or connected to 
a public water system for necessary and appro-
priate activities related to a contaminant pursu-
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ant to subsection (j) of such section of such Act; 
and 
(B) to support a community described in 
subsection (c)(2) of such section of such Act; 
(8) $28,000,000 shall be for grants under section 
1464(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–24(d)); 
(9) $22,000,000 shall be for grants under section 
1459B of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–19b); 
(10) $6,500,000 shall be for grants under section 
1459A(l) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–19a(l)); 
(11) $25,500,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 104(b)(8) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1254(b)(8)); 
(12) $41,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1301); 
(13) $5,400,000 shall be for grants under section 
4304(b) of the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 
2018 (Public Law 115–270); 
(14) $5,000,000 shall be for carrying out section 
302(a) of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (33 U.S.C. 
4282(a)), of which not more than 2 percent shall be
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for administrative costs to carry out such section: 
Provided, That notwithstanding section 302(a) of 
such Act, the Administrator may also provide grants 
pursuant to such authority to intertribal consortia 
consistent with the requirements in 40 CFR 
35.504(a), to former Indian reservations in Oklahoma 
(as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), and 
Alaska Native Villages as defined in Public Law 92– 
203; 
(15) $7,000,000 shall be for grants under section 
103(b)(3) of the Clean Air Act for wildfire smoke pre-
paredness grants in accordance with the terms and 
conditions in the explanatory statement described in 
section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this 
consolidated Act): Provided, That not more than 3 
percent shall be for administrative costs to carry out 
such section; 
(16) $38,693,000 shall be for State and Tribal 
Assistance Grants to be allocated in the amounts spec-
ified for those projects and for the purposes delineated 
in the table titled ‘‘Interior and Environment Incor-
poration of Community Project Funding Items/Con-
gressionally Directed Spending Items’’ included for 
this division in the explanatory statement described 
in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of
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this consolidated Act) for remediation, construction, 
and related environmental management activities in 
accordance with the terms and conditions specified for 
such grants in the explanatory statement described in 
section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this 
consolidated Act); 
(17) $2,250,000 shall be for grants under section 
1459F of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–19g); 
(18) $4,000,000 shall be for carrying out section 
2001 of the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 
2018 (Public Law 115–270, 42 U.S.C. 300j–3c note): 
Provided, That the Administrator may award grants 
to and enter into contracts with tribes, intertribal 
consortia, public or private agencies, institutions, or-
ganizations, and individuals, without regard to sec-
tion 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and section 6101 of 
title 41, United States Code, and enter into inter-
agency agreements as appropriate; 
(19) $2,000,000 shall be for grants under section 
50217(b) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1302f(b); Public Law 117–58); 
(20) $3,500,000 shall be for grants under section 
124 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1276); and
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(21) $1,106,333,000 shall be for grants, includ-
ing associated program support costs, to States, feder-
ally recognized tribes, interstate agencies, tribal con-
sortia, and air pollution control agencies 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 par-
ticulate matter monitoring and data collection activi-
ties subject to terms and conditions specified by the 
Administrator, and under section 2301 of the Water 
and Waste Act of 2016 to assist States in developing 
and implementing programs for control of coal com-
bustion residuals, of which: $46,250,000 shall be for 
carrying out section 128 of CERCLA; $9,500,000 
shall be for Environmental Information Exchange 
Network grants, including associated program sup-
port costs; $1,475,000 shall be for grants to States 
under section 2007(f)(2) of the Solid Waste Disposal 
Act, which shall be in addition to funds appropriated 
under the heading ‘‘Leaking Underground Storage 
Tank Trust Fund Program’’ to carry out the provi-
sions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act specified in sec-
tion 9508(c) of the Internal Revenue Code other than
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section 9003(h) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; 
$18,512,000 of the funds available for grants under 
section 106 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act shall be for State participation in national- and 
State-level statistical surveys of water resources and 
enhancements to State monitoring programs. 
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE AND INNOVATION 
PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of direct loans and for the cost of guaran-
teed loans, as authorized by the Water Infrastructure Fi-
nance and Innovation Act of 2014, $64,634,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That such costs, includ-
ing the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined 
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Pro-
vided further, That these funds are available to subsidize 
gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans, 
including capitalized interest, and total loan principal, in-
cluding capitalized interest, any part of which is to be 
guaranteed, not to exceed $12,500,000,000: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds made available under this heading, 
$5,000,000 shall be used solely for the cost of direct loans 
and for the cost of guaranteed loans for projects described 
in section 5026(9) of the Water Infrastructure Finance and 
Innovation Act of 2014 to State infrastructure financing 
authorities, as authorized by section 5033(e) of such Act:
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Provided further, That the use of direct loans or loan guar-
antee authority under this heading for direct loans or com-
mitments to guarantee loans for any project shall be in ac-
cordance with the criteria published in the Federal Register 
on June 30, 2020 (85 FR 39189) pursuant to the fourth 
proviso under the heading ‘‘Water Infrastructure Finance 
and Innovation Program Account’’ in division D of the 
Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public 
Law 116–94): Provided further, That none of the direct 
loans or loan guarantee authority made available under 
this heading shall be available for any project unless the 
Administrator and the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget have certified in advance in writing that the 
direct loan or loan guarantee, as applicable, and the project 
comply with the criteria referenced in the previous proviso: 
Provided further, That, for the purposes of carrying out the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Director of the Con-
gressional Budget Office may request, and the Adminis-
trator shall promptly provide, documentation and informa-
tion relating to a project identified in a Letter of Interest 
submitted to the Administrator pursuant to a Notice of 
Funding Availability for applications for credit assistance 
under the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation 
Act Program, including with respect to a project that was
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initiated or completed before the date of enactment of this 
Act. 
In addition, fees authorized to be collected pursuant 
to sections 5029 and 5030 of the Water Infrastructure Fi-
nance and Innovation Act of 2014 shall be deposited in this 
account, to remain available until expended. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, notwithstanding 
section 5033 of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Inno-
vation Act of 2014, $7,640,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2025. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—ENVIRONMENTAL 
PROTECTION AGENCY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For fiscal year 2024, 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 awarded
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from funds designated for State financial assistance agree-
ments. 
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 (7 
U.S.C. 136w–8), to remain available until expended. 
Notwithstanding section 33(d)(2) of the Federal Insec-
ticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 U.S.C. 
136w–8(d)(2)), the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency may assess fees under section 33 of 
FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136w–8) for fiscal year 2024. 
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency is authorized to collect and obligate fees in accord-
ance with section 3024 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 
U.S.C. 6939g) for fiscal year 2024, to remain available 
until expended. 
The Administrator is authorized to transfer up to 
$368,000,000 of the funds appropriated for the Great Lakes 
Restoration Initiative under the heading ‘‘Environmental 
Programs and Management’’ to the head of any Federal de-
partment or agency, with the concurrence of such head, to 
carry out activities that would support the Great Lakes 
Restoration Initiative and Great Lakes Water Quality 
Agreement programs, projects, or activities; to enter into
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an interagency agreement with the head of such Federal de-
partment or agency to carry out these activities; and to 
make grants to governmental entities, nonprofit organiza-
tions, institutions, and individuals for planning, research, 
monitoring, outreach, and implementation in furtherance 
of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and the Great 
Lakes Water Quality Agreement. 
The Science and Technology, Environmental Programs 
and Management, Office of Inspector General, Hazardous 
Substance Superfund, and Leaking Underground Storage 
Tank Trust Fund Program Accounts, are available for the 
construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renova-
tion of facilities, provided that the cost does not exceed 
$300,000 per project. 
For fiscal year 2024, and notwithstanding section 
518(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1377(f)), the Administrator is authorized to use the 
amounts appropriated for any fiscal year under section 319 
of the Act to make grants to Indian tribes pursuant to sec-
tions 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act. 
The Administrator is authorized to use the amounts 
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Environmental Programs 
and Management’’ for fiscal year 2024 to provide grants 
to implement the Southeast New England Watershed Res-
toration Program.
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Notwithstanding the limitations on amounts in section 
320(i)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 
not less than $2,500,000 of the funds made available under 
this title for the National Estuary Program shall be for 
making competitive awards described in section 320(g)(4). 
For fiscal year 2024, the Office of Chemical Safety and 
Pollution Prevention and the Office of Water may, using 
funds appropriated under the headings ‘‘Environmental 
Programs and Management’’ and ‘‘Science and Tech-
nology’’, contract directly with individuals or indirectly 
with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without re-
gard to 41 U.S.C. 5, for the temporary or intermittent per-
sonal services of students or recent graduates, who shall be 
considered employees for the purposes of chapters 57 and 
81 of title 5, United States Code, relating to compensation 
for travel and work injuries, and chapter 171 of title 28, 
United States Code, relating to tort claims, but shall not 
be considered to be Federal employees for any other purpose: 
Provided, That amounts used for this purpose by the Office 
of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention and the Office 
of Water collectively may not exceed $2,000,000. 
The Environmental Protection agency shall provide 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and Senate with copies of any available De-
partment of Treasury quarterly certification of trust fund
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receipts collected from section 13601 of Public Law 117– 
169 and section 80201 of Public Law 117–58, an annual 
operating plan for such receipts showing amounts allocated 
by program area and program project, and quarterly re-
ports for such receipts of obligated balances by program 
area and program project.
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TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR NATURAL 
RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Natural Resources and Environment, $1,000,000: 
Provided, That funds made available by this Act to any 
agency in the Natural Resources and Environment mission 
area for salaries and expenses are available to fund up to 
one administrative support staff for the office. 
FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST SERVICE OPERATIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not other-
wise provided for, $1,150,000,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2027: Provided, That a portion of 
the funds made available under this heading shall be for 
the base salary and expenses of employees in the Chief’s Of-
fice, the Work Environment and Performance Office, the 
Business Operations Deputy Area, and the Chief Financial 
Officer’s Office to carry out administrative and general 
management support functions: Provided further, That 
funds provided under this heading shall be available for the 
costs of facility maintenance, repairs, and leases for build-
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ings and sites where these administrative, general manage-
ment and other Forest Service support functions take place; 
the costs of all utility and telecommunication expenses of 
the Forest Service, as well as business services; and, for in-
formation technology, including cybersecurity requirements: 
Provided further, That funds provided under this heading 
may be used for necessary expenses to carry out administra-
tive and general management support functions of the For-
est Service not otherwise provided for and necessary for its 
operation. 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-
search as authorized by law, $300,000,000, to remain avail-
able through September 30, 2027: Provided, That of the 
funds provided, $31,500,000 is for the forest inventory and 
analysis program: Provided further, That all authorities for 
the use of funds, including the use of contracts, grants, and 
cooperative agreements, available to execute the Forest and 
Rangeland Research appropriation, are also available in 
the utilization of these funds for Fire Science Research. 
STATE, PRIVATE, AND TRIBAL FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-
tories, possessions, tribes, and others, and for forest health 
management, including for invasive plants, and conducting
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an international program and trade compliance activities 
as authorized, $303,306,000, to remain available through 
September 30, 2027, as authorized by law, of which 
$19,806,000 shall be for projects specified for Forest Re-
source Information and Analysis in the table titled ‘‘Inte-
rior and Environment Incorporation of Community Project 
Funding Items/Congressionally Directed Spending Items’’ 
included for this division in the explanatory statement de-
scribed in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of 
this consolidated Act). 
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not other-
wise provided for, for management, protection, improve-
ment, and utilization of the National Forest System, and 
for hazardous fuels management on or adjacent to such 
lands, $1,863,557,000, to remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2027: Provided, That of the funds provided, 
$31,000,000 shall be deposited in the Collaborative Forest 
Landscape Restoration Fund for ecological restoration 
treatments as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 7303(f): Provided 
further, That for the funds provided in the preceding pro-
viso, section 4003(d)(3)(A) of the Omnibus Public Land 
Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 7303(d)(3)(A)) shall 
be applied by substituting ‘‘20’’ for ‘‘10’’ and section 
4003(d)(3)(B) of the Omnibus Public Land Management
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Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 7303(d)(3)(B)) shall be applied by 
substituting ‘‘4’’ for ‘‘2’’: Provided further, That of the funds 
provided, $39,000,000 shall be for forest products: Provided 
further, That of the funds provided, $175,450,000 shall be 
for hazardous fuels management activities, of which not to 
exceed $30,000,000 may be used to make grants, using any 
authorities available to the Forest Service under the ‘‘State, 
Private, and Tribal Forestry’’ appropriation, for the pur-
pose of creating incentives for increased use of biomass from 
National Forest System lands: Provided further, That 
$20,000,000 may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture 
to enter into procurement contracts or cooperative agree-
ments or to issue grants for hazardous fuels management 
activities, and for training or monitoring associated with 
such hazardous fuels management activities on Federal 
land, or on non-Federal land if the Secretary determines 
such activities benefit resources on Federal land: Provided 
further, That funds made available to implement the Com-
munity Forest Restoration Act, Public Law 106–393, title 
VI, shall be available for use on non-Federal lands in ac-
cordance with authorities made available to the Forest 
Service under the ‘‘State, Private, and Tribal Forestry’’ ap-
propriation: Provided further, That notwithstanding sec-
tion 33 of the Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 
1012), the Secretary of Agriculture, in calculating a fee for
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grazing on a National Grassland, may provide a credit of 
up to 50 percent of the calculated fee to a Grazing Associa-
tion or direct permittee for a conservation practice ap-
proved by the Secretary in advance of the fiscal year in 
which the cost of the conservation practice is incurred, and 
that the amount credited shall remain available to the Graz-
ing Association or the direct permittee, as appropriate, in 
the fiscal year in which the credit is made and each fiscal 
year thereafter for use on the project for conservation prac-
tices approved by the Secretary: Provided further, That 
funds appropriated to this account shall be available for 
the base salary and expenses of employees that carry out 
the functions funded by the ‘‘Capital Improvement and 
Maintenance’’ account, the ‘‘Range Betterment Fund’’ ac-
count, and the ‘‘Management of National Forest Lands for 
Subsistence Uses’’ account. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not other-
wise provided for, $156,130,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2027, for construction, capital im-
provement, maintenance, and acquisition of buildings and 
other facilities and infrastructure; for construction, recon-
struction, and decommissioning of roads that are no longer 
needed, including unauthorized roads that are not part of
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the transportation system; and for 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 $6,000,000 shall be for activities authorized by 16 
U.S.C. 538(a): Provided further, That $5,130,000 shall be 
for projects specified for Construction Projects in the table 
titled ‘‘Interior and Environment Incorporation of Commu-
nity Project Funding Items/Congressionally Directed 
Spending Items’’ included for this division in the explana-
tory statement described in section 4 (in the matter pre-
ceding division A of this consolidated Act): Provided fur-
ther, That funds becoming available in fiscal year 2024 
under the Act of March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501) shall be 
transferred to the General Fund of the Treasury and shall 
not be available for transfer or obligation for any other pur-
pose unless the funds are appropriated. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL 
ACTS 
For acquisition of lands within the exterior boundaries 
of the Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, Utah; 
the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada; and the Angeles, San 
Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland National Forests, Cali-
fornia; and the Ozark-St. Francis and Ouachita National 
Forests, Arkansas; as authorized by law, $664,000, to be 
derived from forest receipts.
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ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES 
For acquisition of lands, such sums, to be derived from 
funds deposited by State, county, or municipal govern-
ments, public school districts, or other public school authori-
ties, and for authorized expenditures from funds deposited 
by non-Federal parties pursuant to Land Sale and Ex-
change Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 4, 1967 (16 
U.S.C. 484a), to remain available through September 30, 
2027, (16 U.S.C. 516–617a, 555a; Public Law 96–586; Pub-
lic Law 76–589, Public Law 76–591; and Public Law 78– 
310). 
RANGE BETTERMENT FUND 
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, protec-
tion, and improvement, 50 percent of all moneys received 
during the prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing domestic 
livestock on lands in National Forests in the 16 Western 
States, pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of Public Law 94– 
579, to remain available through September 30, 2027, of 
which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available for adminis-
trative expenses associated with on-the-ground range reha-
bilitation, protection, and improvements. 
GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND 
RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), 
$45,000, to remain available through September 30, 2027,
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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 manage 
Federal lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under title VIII 
of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 
U.S.C. 3111 et seq.), $1,099,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2027. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression 
activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency 
wildland fire suppression on or adjacent to such lands or 
other lands under fire protection agreement, and for emer-
gency rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest System 
lands and water, $2,312,654,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That such funds, including unobligated 
balances under this heading, are available for repayment 
of advances from other appropriations accounts previously 
transferred for such purposes: Provided further, That any 
unobligated funds appropriated in a previous fiscal year 
for hazardous fuels management may be transferred to the 
‘‘National Forest System’’ account: Provided further, That 
such funds shall be available to reimburse State and other
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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 funds provided 
shall be available for support to Federal emergency re-
sponse: Provided further, That the costs of implementing 
any cooperative agreement between the Federal Government 
and any non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutually 
agreed on by the affected parties: Provided further, That 
funds made available under this heading in this Act and 
unobligated balances made available under this heading in 
prior Acts, other than amounts designated by the Congress 
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to a con-
current resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, shall be avail-
able, in addition to any other funds made available for such 
purpose, to continue uninterrupted the Federal wildland 
firefighter base salary increases provided under section 
40803(d)(4)(B) of Public Law 117–58: Provided further, 
That 
of 
the 
funds 
provided 
under 
this 
heading, 
$1,011,000,000 shall be available for wildfire suppression 
operations, and is provided to meet the terms of section 
251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
In addition to the amounts provided under the heading 
‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Service—Wildland 
Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppression operations, 
$2,300,000,000, to remain available until transferred, is ad-
ditional new budget authority as specified for purposes of 
section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided, That such 
amounts may be transferred to and merged with amounts 
made available under the headings ‘‘Department of the Inte-
rior—Department-Wide Programs—Wildland Fire Man-
agement’’ and ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Serv-
ice—Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppression 
operations in the fiscal year in which such amounts are 
transferred: Provided further, That amounts may be trans-
ferred to the ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ accounts in the 
Department of the Interior or the Department of Agri-
culture only upon the notification of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations that all wildfire suppression 
operations funds appropriated under that heading in this 
and prior appropriations Acts to the agency to which the 
funds will be transferred will be obligated within 30 days: 
Provided further, That the transfer authority provided 
under this heading is in addition to any other transfer au-
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thority provided by law: Provided further, That, in deter-
mining whether all wildfire suppression operations funds 
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Manage-
ment’’ in this and prior appropriations Acts to either the 
Department of Agriculture or the Department of the Inte-
rior will be obligated within 30 days pursuant to the pre-
ceding proviso, any funds transferred or permitted to be 
transferred pursuant to any other transfer authority pro-
vided by law shall be excluded. 
COMMUNICATIONS SITE ADMINISTRATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
Amounts collected in this fiscal year pursuant to sec-
tion 8705(f)(2) of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115–334), shall be deposited in the special ac-
count established by section 8705(f)(1) of such Act, shall be 
available to cover the costs described in subsection (c)(3) 
of such section of such Act, and shall remain available until 
expended: Provided, That such amounts shall be transferred 
to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FOREST SERVICE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
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, op-
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eration, maintenance, and acquisition of aircraft to main-
tain the operable fleet for use in Forest Service wildland 
fire programs and other Forest Service programs; notwith-
standing other provisions of law, existing aircraft being re-
placed may be sold, with proceeds derived or trade-in value 
used to offset the purchase price for the replacement air-
craft; (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 alteration of buildings and other 
public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); (4) acquisition of 
land, waters, and interests therein pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 
428a; (5) for expenses pursuant to the Volunteers in the Na-
tional 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 accord-
ance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c). 
Funds made available to the Forest Service in this Act 
may be transferred between accounts affected by the Forest 
Service budget restructure outlined in section 435 of divi-
sion D of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
2020 (Public Law 116–94): Provided, That any transfer of 
funds pursuant to this paragraph shall not increase or de-
crease the funds appropriated to any account in this fiscal 
year by more than ten percent: Provided further, That such
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transfer authority is in addition to any other transfer au-
thority provided by law. 
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest 
Service may be transferred to the Wildland Fire Manage-
ment appropriation for forest firefighting, emergency reha-
bilitation of burned-over or damaged lands or waters under 
its jurisdiction, and fire preparedness due to severe burning 
conditions upon the Secretary of Agriculture’s notification 
of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
that all fire suppression funds appropriated under the head-
ing ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ will be obligated within 
30 days: Provided, That all funds used pursuant to this 
paragraph must be replenished by a supplemental appro-
priation which must be requested as promptly as possible. 
Not more than $50,000,000 of funds appropriated to 
the Forest Service shall be available for expenditure or 
transfer to the Department of the Interior for wildland fire 
management, hazardous fuels management, and State fire 
assistance when such transfers would facilitate and expedite 
wildland fire management programs and projects. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 
Forest Service may transfer unobligated balances of discre-
tionary funds appropriated to the Forest Service by this 
Act to or within the National Forest System Account, or 
reprogram funds to be used for the purposes of hazardous
565 
fuels management and urgent rehabilitation of burned-over 
National Forest System lands and water: Provided, That 
such transferred funds shall remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2027: Provided further, That none of the funds 
transferred pursuant to this paragraph shall be available 
for obligation without written notification to and the prior 
approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for assistance to or through the Agency for Inter-
national Development in connection with forest and range-
land research, technical information, and assistance in for-
eign countries, and shall be available to support forestry 
and related natural resource activities outside the United 
States and its territories and possessions, including tech-
nical assistance, education and training, and cooperation 
with United States government, private sector, and inter-
national organizations: Provided, That the Forest Service, 
acting for the International Program, may sign direct fund-
ing agreements with foreign governments and institutions 
as well as other domestic agencies (including the U.S. Agen-
cy for International Development, the Department of State, 
and the Millennium Challenge Corporation), United States 
private sector firms, institutions and organizations to pro-
vide technical assistance and training programs on forestry
566 
and rangeland management: Provided further, That to 
maximize effectiveness of domestic and international re-
search and cooperation, the International Program may 
utilize all authorities related to forestry, research, and coop-
erative assistance regardless of program designations. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available to enter into a cooperative agreement with the sec-
tion 509(a)(3) Supporting Organization, ‘‘Forest Service 
International Foundation’’ to assist the Foundation in 
meeting administrative, project, and other expenses, and 
may provide for the Foundation’s use of Forest Service per-
sonnel and facilities. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for expenditure or transfer to the Department of 
the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, for removal, 
preparation, and adoption of excess wild horses and burros 
from National Forest System lands, and for the perform-
ance of cadastral surveys to designate the boundaries of such 
lands. 
None of the funds made available to the Forest Service 
in this Act or any other Act with respect to any fiscal year 
shall be subject to transfer under the provisions of section 
702(b) of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 
1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257), section 442 of Public Law 106–224
567 
(7 U.S.C. 7772), or section 10417(b) of Public Law 107– 
171 (7 U.S.C. 8316(b)). 
Not more than $82,000,000 of funds available to the 
Forest Service shall be transferred to the Working Capital 
Fund of the Department of Agriculture and not more than 
$14,500,000 of funds available to the Forest Service shall 
be transferred to the Department of Agriculture for Depart-
ment Reimbursable Programs, commonly referred to as 
Greenbook charges: Provided, That nothing in this para-
graph shall prohibit or limit the use of reimbursable agree-
ments requested by the Forest Service in order to obtain 
information technology services, including telecommuni-
cations and system modifications or enhancements, from the 
Working Capital Fund of the Department of Agriculture. 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, up to 
$5,000,000 shall be available for priority projects within 
the scope of the approved budget, which shall be carried out 
by the Youth Conservation Corps and shall be carried out 
under the authority of the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 
(16 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.). 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $4,000 is 
available to the Chief of the Forest Service for official recep-
tion and representation expenses. 
Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public Law 
101–593, of the funds available to the Forest Service, up
568 
to $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 projects 
on or benefitting National Forest System lands or related 
to Forest Service programs: Provided, That of the Federal 
funds made available to the Foundation, no more than 
$300,000 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 funds made available by the Forest 
Service on at least a one-for-one basis: Provided further, 
That the Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a Fed-
eral or a non-Federal recipient for a project at the same 
rate that the recipient has obtained the non-Federal match-
ing funds. 
Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98–244, up 
to $3,000,000 of the funds available to the Forest Service 
may 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 Founda-
tion or its sub-recipients: Provided further, That the Foun-
569 
dation may transfer Federal funds to a Federal or non- 
Federal recipient for a project at the same rate that the 
recipient has obtained the non-Federal matching funds. 
Any amounts made available to the Forest Service in 
this fiscal year, including available collections, may be used 
by the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief 
of the Forest Service, to enter into Federal financial assist-
ance grants and cooperative agreements to support forest 
or grassland collaboratives in the accomplishment of activi-
ties benefitting both the public and the National Forest Sys-
tem, Federal lands and adjacent non-Federal lands. Eligible 
activities are those that will improve or enhance Federal 
investments, resources, or lands, including for collaborative 
and collaboration-based activities, including but not limited 
to facilitation, planning, and implementing projects, tech-
nical assistance, administrative functions, operational sup-
port, participant costs, and other capacity support needs, 
as identified by the Forest Service. Eligible recipients are 
Indian tribal entities (defined at 25 U.S.C. 5304(e)), state 
government, local governments, private and nonprofit enti-
ties, for-profit organizations, and educational institutions. 
The Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of 
the Forest Service, may enter into such cooperative agree-
ments notwithstanding chapter 63 of title 31 when the Sec-
retary determines that the public interest will be benefited
570 
and that there exists a mutual interest other than monetary 
considerations. Transactions subject to Title 2 of the Code 
of Federal Regulations shall be publicly advertised and re-
quire competition when required by such Title 2. For those 
transactions not subject to Title 2 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations, the agency may require public advertising and 
competition when deemed appropriate. The term ‘‘forest 
and grassland collaboratives’’ means groups of individuals 
or entities with diverse interests participating in a coopera-
tive process to share knowledge, ideas, and resources about 
the protection, restoration, or enhancement of natural and 
other resources on Federal and adjacent non-Federal lands, 
the improvement or maintenance of public access to Federal 
lands, or the reduction of risk to such lands caused by nat-
ural disasters. 
The 19th unnumbered paragraph under the heading 
‘‘Administrative Provisions, Forest Service’’ in title III of 
Public Law 109–54, as amended, shall be further amended 
by striking ‘‘For each fiscal year through 2009’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘For this fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter’’ 
and adding at the end the following new sentence: ‘‘Congress 
hereby ratifies and approves payments by the Forest Service 
made in accordance with this paragraph to agency employ-
ees stationed in Puerto Rico after August 2, 2005.’’.
571 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for interactions with and providing technical as-
sistance to rural communities and natural resource-based 
businesses for sustainable rural development purposes. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for payments to counties within the Columbia 
River Gorge National Scenic Area, pursuant to section 
14(c)(1) and (2), and section 16(a)(2) of Public Law 99– 
663. 
Any funds appropriated to the Forest Service may be 
used to meet the non-Federal share requirement in section 
502(c) of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 
3056(c)(2)). 
The Forest Service shall not assess funds for the pur-
pose of performing fire, administrative, and other facilities 
maintenance and decommissioning. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of any 
appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service, not 
to exceed $500,000 may be used to reimburse the Office of 
the General Counsel (OGC), Department of Agriculture, for 
travel and related expenses incurred as a result of OGC as-
sistance or participation requested by the Forest Service at 
meetings, training sessions, management reviews, land pur-
chase negotiations, and similar matters unrelated to civil 
litigation: Provided, That future budget justifications for
572 
both the Forest Service and the Department of Agriculture 
should clearly display the sums previously transferred and 
the sums requested for transfer. 
An eligible individual who is employed in any project 
funded under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 
(42 U.S.C. 3056 et seq.) and administered by the Forest 
Service shall be considered to be a Federal employee for pur-
poses of chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code. 
The Forest Service may employ or contract with an 
individual who is enrolled in a training program at a long-
standing Civilian Conservation Center (as defined in sec-
tion 147(d) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 
Act (29 U.S.C. 3197(d))) at regular rates of pay for nec-
essary hours of work on National Forest System lands. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available to pay, from a single account, the base salary and 
expenses of employees who carry out functions funded by 
other accounts for Enterprise Program, Geospatial Tech-
nology and Applications Center, remnant Natural Resource 
Manager, Job Corps, and National Technology and Devel-
opment Program.
573 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
SERVICES 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of August 
5, 1954 (68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determination and 
Education Assistance Act, the Indian Health Care Improve-
ment Act, and titles II and III of the Public Health Service 
Act with respect to the Indian Health Service, $56,061,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2025, except as oth-
erwise provided herein, which shall be in addition to funds 
previously appropriated under this heading that became 
available on October 1, 2023; in addition, $264,702,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2025, for the Elec-
tronic Health Record System and the Indian Healthcare 
Improvement Fund, of which $74,138,000 is for the Indian 
Health Care Improvement Fund and may be used, as need-
ed, to carry out activities typically funded under the Indian 
Health Facilities account; and, in addition, $4,684,029,000, 
which shall become available on October 1, 2024, and re-
main available through September 30, 2026, except as oth-
erwise provided herein; together with payments received 
during the fiscal year pursuant to sections 231(b) and 233 
of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 238(b) and 
238b), for services furnished by the Indian Health Service:
574 
Provided, That funds made available to tribes and tribal 
organizations through contracts, grant agreements, or any 
other agreements or compacts authorized by the Indian Self- 
Determination and Education 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: Provided further, That from the amounts 
that become available on October 1, 2024, $2,500,000 shall 
be available for grants or contracts with public or private 
institutions to provide alcohol or drug treatment services 
to Indians, including alcohol detoxification services: Pro-
vided further, That from the amounts that become available 
on October 1, 2024, $996,755,000 shall remain available 
until expended for Purchased/Referred Care: Provided fur-
ther, That of the total amount specified in the preceding 
proviso for Purchased/Referred Care, $54,000,000 shall be 
for the Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund: Pro-
vided further, That from the amounts that become available 
on October 1, 2024, up to $51,000,000 shall remain avail-
able until expended for implementation of the loan repay-
ment program under section 108 of the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Act: Provided further, That from the amounts 
that become available on October 1, 2024, $58,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, shall be for costs related
575 
to or resulting from accreditation emergencies, including 
supplementing activities funded under the heading ‘‘Indian 
Health Facilities’’, of which up to $4,000,000 may be used 
to supplement amounts otherwise available for Purchased/ 
Referred Care: Provided further, That the amounts collected 
by the Federal Government as authorized by sections 104 
and 108 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 
U.S.C. 1613a and 1616a) during the preceding fiscal year 
for breach of contracts shall be deposited in the Fund au-
thorized by section 108A of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a–1) 
and shall remain available until expended and, notwith-
standing section 108A(c) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a– 
1(c)), funds shall be available to make new awards under 
the loan repayment and scholarship programs under sec-
tions 104 and 108 of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1613a and 1616a): 
Provided further, That the amounts made available within 
this account for the Substance Abuse and Suicide Preven-
tion Program, for Opioid Prevention, Treatment and Re-
covery Services, for the Domestic Violence Prevention Pro-
gram, for the Zero Suicide Initiative, for the housing sub-
sidy authority for civilian employees, for Aftercare Pilot 
Programs at Youth Regional Treatment Centers, for trans-
formation and modernization costs of the Indian Health 
Service Electronic Health Record system, for national qual-
ity and oversight activities, to improve collections from
576 
public and private insurance at Indian Health Service and 
tribally operated facilities, for an initiative to treat or re-
duce the transmission of HIV and HCV, for a maternal 
health initiative, for the Telebehaviorial Health Center of 
Excellence, for Alzheimer’s activities, for Village Built Clin-
ics, for a produce prescription pilot, and for accreditation 
emergencies shall be allocated at the discretion of the Direc-
tor of the Indian Health Service and shall remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That funds provided in 
this Act may be used for annual contracts and grants that 
fall within 2 fiscal years, provided the total obligation is 
recorded in the year the funds are appropriated: Provided 
further, That the amounts collected by the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services under the authority of title 
IV of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 
1613) 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, except for those related to the planning, design, or con-
struction of new facilities: Provided further, That funding 
contained herein for scholarship programs under the Indian 
Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall re-
main available until expended: Provided further, That 
amounts received by tribes and tribal organizations under 
title IV of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act shall
577 
be reported and accounted for and available to the receiving 
tribes and tribal organizations until expended: Provided 
further, That the Bureau of Indian Affairs may collect from 
the Indian Health Service, and from tribes and tribal orga-
nizations operating health facilities pursuant to Public 
Law 93–638, such individually identifiable health informa-
tion relating to disabled children as may be necessary for 
the purpose of carrying out its functions under the Individ-
uals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et 
seq.): Provided further, That none of the funds provided that 
become available on October 1, 2024, may be used for imple-
mentation of the Electronic Health Record System or the 
Indian Health Care Improvement Fund: Provided further, 
That none of the funds appropriated by this Act, or any 
other Act, to the Indian Health Service for the Electronic 
Health Record system shall be available for obligation or 
expenditure for the selection or implementation of a new 
Information Technology infrastructure system, unless the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate are consulted 90 days in advance of 
such obligation. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS 
For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for 
contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with
578 
the Indian Health Service for fiscal year 2024, such sums 
as may be necessary: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 
this heading shall be available for transfer to another budget 
account: Provided further, That amounts obligated but not 
expended by a tribe or tribal organization for contract sup-
port costs for such agreements for the current fiscal year 
shall be applied to contract support costs due for such agree-
ments for subsequent fiscal years. 
PAYMENTS FOR TRIBAL LEASES 
For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for 
leases pursuant to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5324(l)) 
for fiscal year 2024, such sums as may be necessary, which 
shall be available for obligation through September 30, 
2025: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, no amounts made available under this heading shall 
be available for transfer to another budget account. 
INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, maintenance, demolition, im-
provement, and equipment of health and related auxiliary 
facilities, including quarters for personnel; preparation of 
plans, specifications, and drawings; acquisition of sites, 
purchase and erection of modular buildings, and purchases 
of trailers; and for provision of domestic and community
579 
sanitation facilities for Indians, as authorized by section 
7 of the Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2004a), the In-
dian Self-Determination Act, and the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Act, and for expenses necessary to carry out 
such Acts and titles II and III of the Public Health Service 
Act with respect to environmental health and facilities sup-
port activities of the Indian Health Service, $5,364,000, to 
remain available until expended, which shall be in addition 
to funds previously appropriated under this heading that 
became available on October 1, 2023; in addition, 
$306,329,000, to remain available until expended, for Sani-
tation Facilities Construction and Health Care Facilities 
Construction; and, in addition, $506,854,000, which shall 
become available on October 1, 2024, and remain available 
until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, funds appropriated for the planning, de-
sign, construction, renovation, or expansion of health facili-
ties for the benefit of an Indian tribe or tribes may be used 
to purchase land on which such facilities will be located: 
Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000 may be used 
for fiscal year 2025 by the Indian Health Service to pur-
chase TRANSAM equipment from the Department of De-
fense for distribution to the Indian Health Service and trib-
al facilities: Provided further, That none of the funds pro-
vided that become available on October 1, 2024, may be used
580 
for Health Care Facilities Construction or for Sanitation 
Facilities Construction: Provided further, That of the 
amount appropriated under this heading for fiscal year 
2024 for Sanitation Facilities Construction, $17,023,000 
shall be for projects specified for Sanitation Facilities Con-
struction (CDS) in the table titled ‘‘Interior and Environ-
ment Incorporation of Community Project Funding Items/ 
Congressionally Directed Spending Items’’ included for this 
division in the explanatory statement described in section 
4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act): Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated 
to the Indian Health Service may be used for sanitation 
facilities construction for new homes funded with grants by 
the housing programs of the United States Department of 
Housing and Urban Development. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
Appropriations provided in this Act to the Indian 
Health Service shall be available for services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109 at rates not to exceed the per diem rate 
equivalent to the maximum rate payable for senior-level po-
sitions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles and aircraft; purchase of medical equipment; purchase 
of reprints; purchase, renovation, and erection of modular 
buildings and renovation of existing facilities; payments for 
telephone service in private residences in the field, when au-
581 
thorized under regulations approved by the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services; uniforms, or allowances there-
for as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; and for expenses 
of attendance at meetings that relate to the functions or ac-
tivities of the Indian Health Service: Provided, That in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the Indian Health Care Im-
provement Act, non-Indian patients may be extended health 
care at all tribally administered or Indian Health Service 
facilities, subject to charges, and the proceeds along with 
funds recovered under the Federal Medical Care Recovery 
Act (42 U.S.C. 2651–2653) shall be credited to the account 
of the facility providing the service and shall be available 
without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other law or regulation, funds transferred 
from the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
to the Indian Health Service shall be administered under 
Public Law 86–121, the Indian Sanitation Facilities Act 
and Public Law 93–638: Provided further, That funds ap-
propriated to the Indian Health Service in this Act, except 
those used for administrative and program direction pur-
poses, shall not be subject to limitations directed at cur-
tailing Federal travel and transportation: Provided further, 
That none of the funds made available to the Indian Health 
Service in this Act shall be used for any assessments or 
charges by the Department of Health and Human Services
582 
unless such assessments or charges are identified in the 
budget justification and provided in this Act, or approved 
by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
through the reprogramming process: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds pre-
viously or herein made available to a tribe or tribal organi-
zation through a contract, grant, or agreement authorized 
by title I or title V of the Indian Self-Determination and 
Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), 
may be deobligated and reobligated to a self-determination 
contract under title I, or a self-governance agreement under 
title V of such Act and thereafter shall remain available 
to the tribe or tribal organization without fiscal year limi-
tation: Provided further, That none of the funds made avail-
able to the Indian Health Service in this Act shall be used 
to implement the final rule published in the Federal Reg-
ister on September 16, 1987, by the Department of Health 
and Human Services, relating to the eligibility for the 
health care services of the Indian Health Service until the 
Indian Health Service has submitted a budget request re-
flecting the increased costs associated with the proposed 
final rule, and such request has been included in an appro-
priations Act and enacted into law: Provided further, That 
with respect to functions transferred by the Indian Health 
Service to tribes or tribal organizations, the Indian Health
583 
Service is authorized to provide goods and services to those 
entities on a reimbursable basis, including payments in ad-
vance with subsequent adjustment, and the reimbursements 
received therefrom, along with the funds received from those 
entities pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination Act, 
may be credited to the same or subsequent appropriation 
account from which the funds were originally derived, with 
such amounts to remain available until expended: Provided 
further, That reimbursements for training, technical assist-
ance, or services provided by the Indian Health Service will 
contain total costs, including direct, administrative, and 
overhead costs associated with the provision of goods, serv-
ices, or technical assistance: Provided further, That the In-
dian Health Service may provide to civilian medical per-
sonnel serving in hospitals operated by the Indian Health 
Service housing allowances equivalent to those that would 
be provided to members of the Commissioned Corps of the 
United States Public Health Service serving in similar po-
sitions at such hospitals: Provided further, That the appro-
priation structure for the Indian Health Service may not 
be altered without advance notification to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations.
584 
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 
SCIENCES 
For necessary expenses for the National Institute of 
Environmental Health Sciences in carrying out activities 
set forth in section 311(a) of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
(42 U.S.C. 9660(a)) and section 126(g) of the Superfund 
Amendments 
and 
Reauthorization 
Act 
of 
1986, 
$79,714,000. 
AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY 
TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH 
For necessary expenses for the Agency for Toxic Sub-
stances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in carrying out ac-
tivities set forth in sections 104(i) and 111(c)(4) of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, 
and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and section 3019 of 
the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $81,619,000: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, in lieu of per-
forming a health assessment under section 104(i)(6) of 
CERCLA, the Administrator of ATSDR may conduct other 
appropriate health studies, evaluations, or activities, in-
cluding, without limitation, biomedical testing, clinical 
evaluations, medical monitoring, and referral to accredited 
healthcare providers: Provided further, That in performing
585 
any such health assessment or health study, evaluation, or 
activity, the Administrator of ATSDR shall not be bound 
by the deadlines in section 104(i)(6)(A) of CERCLA: Pro-
vided further, That none of the funds appropriated under 
this heading shall be available for ATSDR to issue in excess 
of 40 toxicological profiles pursuant to section 104(i) of 
CERCLA during fiscal year 2024, and existing profiles 
may be updated as necessary. 
OTHER RELATED AGENCIES 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF 
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 
For necessary expenses to continue functions assigned 
to the Council on Environmental Quality and Office of En-
vironmental Quality pursuant to the National Environ-
mental Policy Act of 1969, the Environmental Quality Im-
provement Act of 1970, and Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 
1977, and not to exceed $750 for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses, $4,629,000: Provided, That notwith-
standing section 202 of the National Environmental Policy 
Act of 1970, the Council shall consist of one member, ap-
pointed by the President, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate, serving as chairman and exercising all 
powers, functions, and duties of the Council.
586 
CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pur-
suant to section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, including 
hire of passenger vehicles, uniforms or allowances therefor, 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, and for services au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates for individuals not 
to exceed the per diem equivalent to the maximum rate pay-
able for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376, 
$14,400,000: Provided, That the Chemical Safety and Haz-
ard Investigation Board (Board) shall have not more than 
three career Senior Executive Service positions: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the individual appointed to the position of Inspector Gen-
eral of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shall, 
by virtue of such appointment, also hold the position of In-
spector General of the Board: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, the Inspector Gen-
eral of the Board shall utilize personnel of the Office of In-
spector General of EPA in performing the duties of the In-
spector General of the Board, and shall not appoint any 
individuals to positions within the Board.
587 
OFFICE OF NAVAJO AND HOPI INDIAN RELOCATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and 
Hopi Indian Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93– 
531, $5,024,000, to remain available until expended, which 
shall be derived from unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations available under this heading: Provided, 
That funds provided in this or any other appropriations 
Act are to be used to relocate eligible individuals and groups 
including evictees from District 6, Hopi-partitioned lands 
residents, those in significantly substandard housing, and 
all others certified as eligible and not included in the pre-
ceding categories: Provided further, That none of the funds 
contained in this or any other Act may be used by the Office 
of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation to evict any single 
Navajo or Navajo family who, as of November 30, 1985, 
was physically domiciled on the lands partitioned to the 
Hopi Tribe unless a new or replacement home is provided 
for such household: Provided further, That no relocatee will 
be provided with more than one new or replacement home: 
Provided further, That the Office shall relocate any certified 
eligible relocatees who have selected and received an ap-
proved homesite on the Navajo reservation or selected a re-
placement residence off the Navajo reservation or on the
588 
land acquired pursuant to section 11 of Public Law 93– 
531 (88 Stat. 1716). 
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE 
CULTURE AND ARTS DEVELOPMENT 
PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE 
For payment to the Institute of American Indian and 
Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, as authorized 
by part A of title XV of Public Law 99–498 (20 U.S.C. 
4411 et seq.), $13,482,000, which shall become available on 
July 1, 2024, and shall remain available until September 
30, 2025. 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institution, 
as authorized by law, including research in the fields of art, 
science, and history; development, preservation, and docu-
mentation of the National Collections; presentation of pub-
lic exhibits and performances; collection, preparation, dis-
semination, and exchange of information and publications; 
conduct of education, training, and museum assistance pro-
grams; maintenance, alteration, operation, lease agreements 
of no more than 30 years, and protection of buildings, fa-
cilities, and approaches; not to exceed $100,000 for services 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and purchase, rental, re-
pair, and cleaning of uniforms for employees, $892,855,000,
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to remain available until September 30, 2025, except as oth-
erwise provided herein; of which not to exceed $28,000,000 
for the instrumentation program, collections acquisition, 
exhibition reinstallation, Smithsonian American Women’s 
History Museum, National Museum of the American 
Latino, and the repatriation of skeletal remains program 
shall remain available until expended; and including such 
funds as may be necessary to support American overseas 
research centers: Provided, That funds appropriated herein 
are available for advance payments to independent contrac-
tors performing research services or participating in official 
Smithsonian presentations: Provided further, That the 
Smithsonian Institution may expend Federal appropria-
tions designated in this Act for lease or rent payments, as 
rent payable to the Smithsonian Institution, and such rent 
payments may be deposited into the general trust funds of 
the Institution to be available as trust funds for expenses 
associated with the purchase of a portion of the building 
at 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, to the ex-
tent that federally supported activities will be housed there: 
Provided further, That the use of such amounts in the gen-
eral trust funds of the Institution for such purpose shall 
not be construed as Federal debt service for, a Federal guar-
antee of, a transfer of risk to, or an obligation of the Federal 
Government: Provided further, That no appropriated funds
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may be used directly to service debt which is incurred to 
finance the costs of acquiring a portion of the building at 
600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, or of plan-
ning, designing, and constructing improvements to such 
building: Provided further, That any agreement entered 
into by the Smithsonian Institution for the sale of its own-
ership interest, or any portion thereof, in such building so 
acquired may not take effect until the expiration of a 30 
day period which begins on the date on which the Secretary 
of the Smithsonian submits to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and Senate, the 
Committees on House Administration and Transportation 
and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, and the 
Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate a 
report, as outlined in the explanatory statement described 
in section 4 of the Further Consolidated Appropriations 
Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94; 133 Stat. 2536) on the in-
tended sale. 
FACILITIES CAPITAL 
For necessary expenses of repair, revitalization, and 
alteration of facilities owned or occupied by the Smithso-
nian Institution, by contract or otherwise, as authorized by 
section 2 of the Act of August 22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623), and 
for 
construction, 
including 
necessary 
personnel, 
$197,645,000, to remain available until expended, of which
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not to exceed $10,000 shall be for services as authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109. 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For the upkeep and operations of the National Gallery 
of Art, the protection and care of the works of art therein, 
and administrative expenses incident thereto, as authorized 
by the Act of March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), as amended 
by the public resolution of April 13, 1939 (Public Resolu-
tion 9, 76th Congress), including services as authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in advance when authorized by 
the treasurer of the Gallery for membership in library, mu-
seum, and art associations or societies whose publications 
or services are available to members only, or to members 
at a price lower than to the general public; purchase, re-
pair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards, and uniforms, 
or allowances therefor, for other employees as authorized by 
law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); purchase or rental of devices and 
services for protecting buildings and contents thereof, and 
maintenance, alteration, improvement, and repair of build-
ings, approaches, and grounds; and purchase of services for 
restoration and repair of works of art for the National Gal-
lery of Art by contracts made, without advertising, with 
individuals, firms, or organizations at such rates or prices 
and under such terms and conditions as the Gallery may
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deem proper, $174,760,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2025, of which not to exceed $3,875,000 for the 
special exhibition program shall remain available until ex-
pended. 
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of repair, restoration, and ren-
ovation of buildings, grounds and facilities owned or occu-
pied by the National Gallery of Art, by contract or other-
wise, for operating lease agreements of no more than 10 
years, that address space needs created by the ongoing ren-
ovations in the Master Facilities Plan, as authorized, 
$34,480,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That of this amount, $24,574,000 shall be available for de-
sign and construction of an off-site art storage facility in 
partnership with the Smithsonian Institution and may be 
transferred to the Smithsonian Institution for such pur-
poses: Provided further, That contracts awarded for envi-
ronmental systems, protection systems, and exterior repair 
or renovation of buildings of the National Gallery of Art 
may be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded 
on the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price.
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JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 
For necessary expenses for the operation, maintenance, 
and security of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Per-
forming Arts, including rent of temporary office space in 
the District of Columbia during renovations of such Center, 
$32,293,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025. 
CAPITAL REPAIR AND RESTORATION 
For necessary expenses for capital repair and restora-
tion of the existing features of the building and site of the 
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 
$12,633,000, to remain available until expended. 
WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR 
SCHOLARS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions 
of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 
1356) including hire of passenger vehicles and services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $15,000,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2025.
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NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE 
HUMANITIES 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foun-
dation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 
$207,000,000 shall be available to the National Endowment 
for the Arts for the support of projects and productions in 
the arts, including arts education and public outreach ac-
tivities, through assistance to organizations and individuals 
pursuant to section 5 of the Act, for program support, and 
for administering the functions of the Act, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foun-
dation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 
$207,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
$192,000,000 shall be available for support of activities in 
the humanities, pursuant to section 7(c) of the Act and for 
administering the functions of the Act; and $15,000,000 
shall be available to carry out the matching grants program 
pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Act, including 
$13,000,000 for the purposes of section 7(h): Provided, That 
appropriations for carrying out section 10(a)(2) shall be
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available for obligation only in such amounts as may be 
equal to the total amounts of gifts, bequests, devises of 
money, and other property accepted by the chairman or by 
grantees of the National Endowment for the Humanities 
under 
the 
provisions 
of 
sections 
11(a)(2)(B) 
and 
11(a)(3)(B) during the current and preceding fiscal years 
for which equal amounts have not previously been appro-
priated. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
None of the funds appropriated to the National Foun-
dation on the Arts and the Humanities may be used to 
process any grant or contract documents which do not in-
clude the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided, That none of 
the funds appropriated to the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities may be used for official reception 
and representation expenses: Provided further, That funds 
from nonappropriated sources may be used as necessary for 
official reception and representation expenses: Provided fur-
ther, That the Chairperson of the National Endowment for 
the Arts may approve grants of up to $10,000, if in the 
aggregate the amount of such grants does not exceed 5 per-
cent of the sums appropriated for grantmaking purposes per 
year: Provided further, That such small grant actions are 
taken pursuant to the terms of an expressed and direct dele-
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gation of authority from the National Council on the Arts 
to the Chairperson. 
COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses of the Commission of Fine Arts under 
chapter 91 of title 40, United States Code, $3,661,000: Pro-
vided, That the Commission is authorized to charge fees to 
cover the full costs of its publications, and such fees shall 
be credited to this account as an offsetting collection, to re-
main available until expended without further appropria-
tion: Provided further, That the Commission is authorized 
to accept gifts, including objects, papers, artwork, drawings 
and artifacts, that pertain to the history and design of the 
Nation’s Capital or the history and activities of the Com-
mission of Fine Arts, for the purpose of artistic display, 
study, or education: Provided further, That one-tenth of one 
percent of the funds provided under this heading may be 
used for official reception and representation expenses. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 
99–190 (20 U.S.C. 956a), $5,000,000: Provided, That the 
item relating to ‘‘National Capital Arts and Cultural Af-
fairs’’ in the Department of the Interior and Related Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 1986, as enacted into law by sec-
tion 101(d) of Public Law 99–190 (20 U.S.C. 956a), shall
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be applied in fiscal year 2024 in the second paragraph by 
inserting ‘‘, calendar year 2020 excluded’’ before the first 
period: Provided further, That in determining an eligible 
organization’s annual income for calendar years 2021, 
2022, and 2023, funds or grants received by the eligible or-
ganization from any supplemental appropriations made 
available in 2020 and 2021 in connection with the public 
health emergency declared by the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services on January 31, 2020 (including renewals 
thereof) shall be counted as part of the eligible organiza-
tion’s annual income. 
ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on His-
toric Preservation (Public Law 89–665), $8,585,000. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Capital Plan-
ning Commission under chapter 87 of title 40, United 
States Code, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $8,750,000: Provided, That one-quarter 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.
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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), 
$65,231,000, of which $1,000,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2026, for the Museum’s equipment re-
placement program; and of which $4,000,000 for the Muse-
um’s repair and rehabilitation program and $1,264,000 for 
the Museum’s outreach initiatives program shall remain 
available until expended. 
PRESIDIO TRUST 
The Presidio Trust is authorized to issue obligations 
to the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to section 
104(d)(3) of the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Manage-
ment Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–333), in an amount 
not to exceed $90,000,000. 
UNITED STATES SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For 
necessary 
expenses 
of 
the 
United 
States 
Semiquincentennial Commission to plan and coordinate ob-
servances and activities associated with the 250th anniver-
sary of the founding of the United States, as authorized by 
Public Law 116–282, the technical amendments to Public 
Law 114–196, $15,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2025.
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TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS AND RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) 
RESTRICTION ON USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 401. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available for any activity or the publica-
tion or distribution of literature that in any way tends to 
promote public support or opposition to any legislative pro-
posal on which Congressional action is not complete other 
than to communicate to Members of Congress as described 
in 18 U.S.C. 1913. 
OBLIGATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 402. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
DISCLOSURE OF ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
SEC. 403. The amount and basis of estimated overhead 
charges, deductions, reserves, or holdbacks, including work-
ing capital fund charges, from programs, projects, activities 
and subactivities to support government-wide, depart-
mental, agency, or bureau administrative functions or 
headquarters, regional, or central operations shall be pre-
sented in annual budget justifications and subject to ap-
proval by the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate. Changes to such esti-
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mates shall be presented to the Committees on Appropria-
tions for approval. 
MINING APPLICATIONS 
SEC. 404. (a) LIMITATION OF FUNDS.—None of the 
funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant 
to this Act shall be obligated or expended to accept or proc-
ess applications for a patent for any mining or mill site 
claim located under the general mining laws. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—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 require-
ments established under sections 2325 and 2326 of the Re-
vised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) for vein or lode 
claims, 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, 2025, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall file with the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations and the Committee on Natural 
Resources of the House and the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources of the Senate a report on actions taken 
by the Department under the plan submitted pursuant to
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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 Director of the Bureau 
of Land Management to conduct a mineral examination of 
the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent appli-
cation 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 Man-
agement in the retention of third-party contractors. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS, PRIOR YEAR LIMITATION 
SEC. 405. Sections 405 and 406 of division F of the 
Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
2015 (Public Law 113–235) shall continue in effect in fiscal 
year 2024. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS, FISCAL YEAR 2024 LIMITATION 
SEC. 406. Amounts provided by this Act for fiscal year 
2024 under the headings ‘‘Department of Health and 
Human Services, Indian Health Service, Contract Support 
Costs’’ and ‘‘Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education, Contract Support
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Costs’’ are the only amounts available for contract support 
costs arising out of self-determination or self-governance 
contracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding agreements 
for fiscal year 2024 with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bu-
reau of Indian Education, and the Indian Health Service: 
Provided, That such amounts provided by this Act are not 
available for payment of claims for contract support costs 
for prior years, or for repayments of payments for settle-
ments or judgments awarding contract support costs for 
prior years. 
FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS 
SEC. 407. The Secretary of Agriculture shall not be 
considered to be in violation of section 6(f)(5)(A) of the For-
est 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 ex-
empts the Secretary from any other requirement of the For-
est 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.
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PROHIBITION WITHIN NATIONAL MONUMENTS 
SEC. 408. No funds provided in this Act may be ex-
pended 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 es-
tablished 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 Presi-
dential proclamation establishing such monument. 
LIMITATION ON TAKINGS 
SEC. 409. Unless otherwise provided herein, no funds 
appropriated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or in-
terests in lands may be expended for the filing of declara-
tions of taking or complaints in condemnation without the 
approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations: 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. 
PROHIBITION ON NO-BID CONTRACTS 
SEC. 410. 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 con-
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tract 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 Acqui-
sition Regulation, unless— 
(1) Federal law specifically authorizes a contract 
to be entered into without regard for these require-
ments, including formula grants for States, or feder-
ally recognized Indian tribes; 
(2) such contract is authorized by the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act 
(Public Law 93–638, 25 U.S.C. 5301 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. 5304(e)); or 
(3) such contract was awarded prior to the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
POSTING OF REPORTS 
SEC. 411. (a) Any agency receiving funds made avail-
able in this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), 
post on the public website of that agency any report re-
quired 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—
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(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. 412. Of the funds provided to the National En-
dowment for the Arts— 
(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant to 
an individual if such grant is awarded to such indi-
vidual for a literature fellowship, National Heritage 
Fellowship, or American Jazz Masters Fellowship. 
(2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures to 
ensure that no funding provided through a grant, ex-
cept 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 ex-
change for goods and services. 
(3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support 
to a group, unless the application is specific to the
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contents of the season, including identified programs 
or projects. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS PROGRAM 
PRIORITIES 
SEC. 413. (a) In providing services or awarding finan-
cial assistance under the National Foundation on the Arts 
and the Humanities 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, pro-
ductions, workshops, or programs that serve underserved 
populations. 
(b) In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘underserved population’’ means a 
population of individuals, including urban minori-
ties, 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 sec-
tion 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant 
Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2))) applicable to a family of the 
size involved.
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(c) In providing services and awarding financial as-
sistance 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 knowl-
edge, 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 Hu-
manities Act of 1965— 
(1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant cat-
egory for projects, productions, workshops, or pro-
grams that are of national impact or availability or 
are able to tour several States; 
(2) the Chairperson shall not make grants ex-
ceeding 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. 
STATUS OF BALANCES OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 414. The Department of the Interior, the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the 
Indian Health Service shall provide the Committees on Ap-
propriations 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 within 60 days of en-
actment of this Act. 
EXTENSION OF GRAZING PERMITS 
SEC. 415. The terms and conditions of section 325 of 
Public Law 108–108 (117 Stat. 1307), regarding grazing 
permits issued by the Forest Service on any lands not sub-
ject to administration under section 402 of the Federal 
Lands Policy and Management Act (43 U.S.C. 1752), shall 
remain in effect for fiscal year 2024. 
FUNDING PROHIBITION 
SEC. 416. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer net-
work unless such network is designed to block access to por-
nography websites.
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(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-
nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities. 
HUMANE TRANSFER AND TREATMENT OF ANIMALS 
SEC. 417. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to land ad-
ministered by the Bureau of Land Management, or the Sec-
retary of Agriculture, with respect to land administered by 
the Forest Service (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Sec-
retary concerned’’), may transfer excess wild horses and 
burros that have been removed from land administered by 
the Secretary concerned to other Federal, State, and local 
government agencies for use as work animals. 
(b) The Secretary concerned may make a transfer 
under subsection (a) immediately on the request of a Fed-
eral, State, or local government agency. 
(c) An excess wild horse or burro transferred under 
subsection (a) shall lose status as a wild free-roaming horse 
or burro (as defined in section 2 of Public Law 92–195 
(commonly known as the ‘‘Wild Free-Roaming Horses and 
Burros Act’’) (16 U.S.C. 1332)). 
(d) A Federal, State, or local government agency re-
ceiving an excess wild horse or burro pursuant to subsection 
(a) shall not—
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(1) destroy the horse or burro in a manner that 
results in the destruction of the horse or burro into a 
commercial product; 
(2) sell or otherwise transfer the horse or burro 
in a manner that results in the destruction of the 
horse or burro for processing into a commercial prod-
uct; or 
(3) euthanize the horse or burro, except on the 
recommendation of a licensed veterinarian in a case 
of severe injury, illness, or advanced age. 
(e) Amounts appropriated by this Act shall not be 
available for— 
(1) the destruction of any healthy, unadopted, 
and wild horse or burro under the jurisdiction of the 
Secretary concerned (including a contractor); or 
(2) the sale of a wild horse or burro that results 
in the destruction of the wild horse or burro for proc-
essing into a commercial product. 
FOREST SERVICE FACILITY REALIGNMENT AND 
ENHANCEMENT AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 
SEC. 418. Section 503(f) of Public Law 109–54 (16 
U.S.C. 580d note) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 2024’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2019’’.
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USE OF AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL 
SEC. 419. (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 construction materials. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or cat-
egory of cases in which the Administrator of the Environ-
mental 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 avail-
able quantities and of a satisfactory quality; or
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(3) inclusion of iron and steel products produced 
in the United States will increase the cost of the over-
all 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 to making a finding 
based on the request. The Administrator shall make the re-
quest and accompanying information available by elec-
tronic means, including on the official public Internet Web 
site of the Environmental Protection Agency. 
(d) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent with United States obligations under international 
agreements. 
(e) The Administrator may retain up to 0.25 percent 
of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Clean and 
Drinking Water State Revolving Funds for carrying out the 
provisions described in subsection (a)(1) for management 
and oversight of the requirements of this section.
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LOCAL COOPERATOR TRAINING AGREEMENTS AND TRANS-
FERS
OF
EXCESS
EQUIPMENT
AND
SUPPLIES
FOR 
WILDFIRES 
SEC. 420. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized 
to enter into grants and cooperative agreements with volun-
teer fire departments, rural fire departments, rangeland fire 
protection associations, and similar organizations to pro-
vide for wildland fire training and equipment, including 
supplies and communication devices. Notwithstanding sec-
tion 121(c) of title 40, United States Code, or section 521 
of title 40, United States Code, the Secretary is further au-
thorized to transfer title to excess Department of the Interior 
firefighting equipment no longer needed to carry out the 
functions of the Department’s wildland fire management 
program to such organizations. 
RECREATION FEES 
SEC. 421. Section 810 of the Federal Lands Recreation 
Enhancement Act (16 U.S.C. 6809) shall be applied by sub-
stituting ‘‘October 1, 2025’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2019’’. 
REPROGRAMMING GUIDELINES 
SEC. 422. None of the funds made available in this 
Act, in this and prior fiscal years, may be reprogrammed 
without the advance approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the re-
programming procedures contained in the explanatory
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statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding 
division A of this consolidated Act). 
LOCAL CONTRACTORS 
SEC. 423. Section 412 of division E of Public Law 
112–74 shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’ 
for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’. 
SHASTA-TRINITY MARINA FEE AUTHORITY AUTHORIZATION 
EXTENSION 
SEC. 424. Section 422 of division F of Public Law 
110–161 (121 Stat 1844), as amended, shall be applied by 
substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’. 
INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 
SEC. 425. Section 426 of division G of Public Law 
113–76 (16 U.S.C. 565a–1 note) shall be applied by sub-
stituting ‘‘September 30, 2024’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2019’’. 
FOREST BOTANICAL PRODUCTS FEE COLLECTION 
AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 
SEC. 426. Section 339 of the Department of the Inte-
rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as en-
acted into law by Public Law 106–113; 16 U.S.C. 528 
note), as amended by section 335(6) of Public Law 108– 
108 and section 432 of Public Law 113–76, shall be applied 
by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’.
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CHACO CANYON 
SEC. 427. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to accept a nomination for oil and gas 
leasing under 43 CFR 3120.3 et seq., or to offer for oil and 
gas leasing, any Federal lands within the withdrawal area 
identified on the map of the Chaco Culture National Histor-
ical Park prepared by the Bureau of Land Management 
and dated April 2, 2019, prior to the completion of the cul-
tural resources investigation identified in the explanatory 
statement described in section 4 in the matter preceding di-
vision A of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 
(Public Law 116–260). 
TRIBAL LEASES 
SEC. 428. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, in the case of any lease under section 105(l) of the 
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act 
(25 U.S.C. 5324(l)), the initial lease term shall commence 
no earlier than the date of receipt of the lease proposal. 
(b) The Secretaries of the Interior and Health and 
Human Services shall, jointly or separately, during fiscal 
year 2024 consult with tribes and tribal organizations 
through public solicitation and other means regarding the 
requirements for leases under section 105(l) of the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25
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U.S.C. 5324(l)) on how to implement a consistent and 
transparent process for the payment of such leases. 
FOREST ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND 
SEC. 429. The authority provided under the heading 
‘‘Forest Ecosystem Health and Recovery Fund’’ in title I 
of Public Law 111–88, as amended by section 117 of divi-
sion F of Public Law 113–235, shall be applied by sub-
stituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2020’’ each 
place it appears. 
ALLOCATION OF PROJECTS, NATIONAL PARKS AND PUBLIC 
LAND
LEGACY
RESTORATION
FUND
AND
LAND
AND 
WATER CONSERVATION FUND 
SEC. 430. (a)(1) Within 45 days of enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall allocate amounts 
made available from the National Parks and Public Land 
Legacy Restoration Fund for fiscal year 2024 pursuant to 
subsection (c) of section 200402 of title 54, United States 
Code, and as provided in subsection (e) of such section of 
such title, to the agencies of the Department of the Interior 
and the Department of Agriculture specified, in the 
amounts specified, for the stations and unit names speci-
fied, and for the projects and activities specified in the table 
titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: National Parks and Public 
Land Legacy Restoration Fund Fiscal Year 2024’’ in the
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explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act). 
(2) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, as 
appropriate, shall allocate amounts made available for ex-
penditure from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for 
fiscal year 2024 pursuant to subsection (a) of section 
200303 of title 54, United States Code, to the agencies and 
accounts specified, in the amounts specified, and for the 
projects and activities specified in the table titled ‘‘Alloca-
tion of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal 
Year 2024’’ in the explanatory statement described in sec-
tion 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consoli-
dated Act). 
(b) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (c) of 
this section, neither the President nor his designee may allo-
cate any amounts that are made available for any fiscal 
year under subsection (c) of section 200402 of title 54, 
United States Code, or subsection (a) of section 200303 of 
title 54, United States Code, other than in amounts and 
for projects and activities that are allocated by subsections 
(a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section: Provided, That in any fis-
cal year, the matter preceding this proviso shall not apply 
to the allocation of amounts for continuing administration 
of programs allocated funds from the National Parks and
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Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund or the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund, which may be allocated only in 
amounts that are no more than the allocation for such pur-
poses in subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section. 
(c) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture may reallocate amounts from each agency’s 
‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line in the table titled ‘‘Allocation of 
Funds: National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora-
tion Fund Fiscal Year 2024’’ to any project funded by the 
National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund 
within the same agency, from any fiscal year, that experi-
enced a funding deficiency due to unforeseen cost overruns, 
in accordance with the following requirements: 
(1) ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ amounts may only be 
reallocated if there is a risk to project completion re-
sulting from unforeseen cost overruns; 
(2) ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ amounts may only be 
reallocated for cost of adjustments and changes within 
the original scope of effort for projects funded by the 
National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration 
Fund; and 
(3) The Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary 
of Agriculture must provide written notification to 
the Committees on Appropriations 30 days before tak-
ing any actions authorized by this subsection if the