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consultation with the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations. 
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, Seventy-sixth Congress), including services as au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in advance when au-
thorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for membership in 
library, museum, 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; pur-
chase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards, and uni-
forms, or allowances therefor, for other employees as author-
ized 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 re-
pair of buildings, approaches, and grounds; and purchase 
of services for restoration and repair of works of art for 
the National Gallery of Art by contracts made, without ad-
vertising, with individuals, firms, or organizations at such 
rates or prices and under such terms and conditions as the
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Gallery may deem proper, $101,794,000, of which not to 
exceed $3,239,000 for the special exhibition program shall 
remain available until expended. 
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS 
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, as authorized, $14,949,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That contracts awarded for environ-
mental 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: Provided 
further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
a single procurement for the Master Facilities Plan renova-
tion project at the National Gallery of Art may be issued 
which includes the full scope of the Work Area #3 project: 
Provided further, That the solicitation and the contract 
shall contain the clause ‘‘availability of funds’’ found at 
48 CFR 52.232.18. 
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, $18,909,000.
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CONSTRUCTION 
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, 
$19,800,000, 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, $9,438,000. 
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, as 
amended, $124,412,000 shall be available to the National 
Endowment for the Arts for the support of projects and pro-
ductions in the arts, through assistance to organizations 
and individuals pursuant to sections 5(c) and 5(g) of the 
Act, including $14,097,000 for support of arts education 
and public outreach activities through the Challenge Amer-
ica program, for program support, and for administering
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the functions of the Act, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That funds previously appropriated to the Na-
tional Endowment for the Arts ‘‘Matching Grants’’ account 
may be transferred to and merged with this account: Pro-
vided further, That funds appropriated herein shall be ex-
pended in accordance with sections 309 and 311 of Public 
Law 108–108. 
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, as 
amended, $126,049,000, shall be available to the National 
Endowment for the Humanities for support of activities in 
the humanities, pursuant to section 7(c) of the Act, and for 
administering the functions of the Act, to remain available 
until expended. 
MATCHING GRANTS 
To carry out the provisions of section 10(a)(2) of the 
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act 
of 1965, as amended, $14,906,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which $9,649,000 shall be available to the Na-
tional Endowment for the Humanities for the purposes of 
section 7(h): Provided, That this appropriation shall be 
available for obligation only in such amounts as may be 
equal to the total amounts of gifts, bequests, and devises of 
money, and other property accepted by the chairman or by
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grantees of the Endowment under the provisions of sub-
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 appropriated. 
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 this amount does not exceed 5 percent of the sums 
appropriated for grant-making purposes per year: Provided 
further, That such small grant actions are taken pursuant 
to the terms of an expressed and direct delegation of author-
ity from the National Council on the Arts to the Chair-
person.
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COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing 
a Commission of Fine Arts (40 U.S.C. 104), $1,951,000: 
Provided, 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. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 
99–190 (20 U.S.C. 956a), as amended, $7,500,000. 
ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on His-
toric Preservation (Public Law 89–665, as amended), 
$5,118,000: Provided, That none of these funds shall be 
available for compensation of level V of the Executive Sched-
ule or higher positions. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as authorized by the National 
Capital Planning Act of 1952 (40 U.S.C. 71–71i), includ-
ing services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $8,265,000: 
Provided, That one-quarter of 1 percent of the funds pro-
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vided under this heading may be used for official reception 
and representational expenses associated with hosting inter-
national visitors engaged in the planning and physical de-
velopment of world capitals. 
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), 
$43,786,000, of which $515,000 for the equipment replace-
ment program shall remain available until September 30, 
2009; and $1,900,000 for the museum’s repair and rehabili-
tation program and $1,264,000 for the museum’s exhibition 
design and production program shall remain available 
until expended. 
PRESIDIO TRUST 
PRESIDIO TRUST FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out title I of the Omni-
bus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996, 
$19,256,000 shall be available to the Presidio Trust, to re-
main available until expended. 
WHITE HOUSE COMMISSION ON THE NATIONAL MOMENT 
OF REMEMBRANCE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the White House Commission 
on the National Moment of Remembrance, $200,000.
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TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. The expenditure of any appropriation under 
this Act for any consulting service through procurement 
contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to 
those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of pub-
lic record and available for public inspection, except where 
otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing 
Executive Order issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 402. 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. 
SEC. 403. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 404. None of the funds provided in this Act to 
any department or agency shall be obligated or expended 
to provide a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal serv-
ants to any officer or employee of such department or agen-
cy except as otherwise provided by law.
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SEC. 405. Estimated overhead charges, deductions, re-
serves or holdbacks from programs, projects, activities and 
subactivities to support government-wide, departmental, 
agency or bureau administrative functions or headquarters, 
regional or central operations shall be presented in annual 
budget justifications and subject to approval by the Com-
mittees on Appropriations. Changes to such estimates shall 
be presented to the Committees on Appropriations for ap-
proval. 
SEC. 406. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government except pur-
suant to a transfer made by, or transfer provided in, this 
Act or any other Act. 
SEC. 407. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to plan, prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classified 
as giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which are lo-
cated on National Forest System or Bureau of Land Man-
agement lands in a manner different than such sales were 
conducted in fiscal year 2006. 
SEC. 408. (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.
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(b) EXCEPTIONS.—The provisions of 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 Secretary on or before September 30, 1994; 
and (2) all requirements established under sections 2325 
and 2326 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) 
for vein or lode claims and 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, 2007, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall file with the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations and the Committee on Resources 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on En-
ergy and Natural Resources of the Senate a report on ac-
tions taken by the Department under the plan submitted 
pursuant to 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 Bureau of Land Man-
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agement to conduct a mineral examination of the mining 
claims or mill sites contained in a patent application as 
set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau of Land Manage-
ment 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 Management 
in the retention of third-party contractors. 
SEC. 409. In addition to amounts otherwise provided 
in this Act, $2,800,000 is provided to undertake the activi-
ties authorized in section 3511 of Public Law 102–575, as 
amended, the Three Affiliated Tribes and Standing Rock 
Sioux Tribe Equitable Compensation Act. 
SEC. 410. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be expended or obligated to complete and issue 
the 5-year program under the Forest and Rangeland Re-
newable Resources Planning Act. 
SEC. 411. Amounts deposited during fiscal year 2006 
in the roads and trails fund provided for in the 14th para-
graph under the heading ‘‘FOREST SERVICE’’ of the Act 
of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 843; 16 U.S.C. 501), shall be 
used by the Secretary of Agriculture, without regard to the 
State in which the amounts were derived, to repair or re-
construct roads, bridges, and trails on National Forest Sys-
tem lands or to carry out and administer projects to im-
prove forest health conditions, which may include the repair
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or reconstruction of roads, bridges, and trails on National 
Forest System lands in the wildland-community interface 
where there is an abnormally high risk of fire. The projects 
shall emphasize reducing risks to human safety and public 
health and property and enhancing ecological functions, 
long-term forest productivity, and biological integrity. The 
projects may be completed in a subsequent fiscal year. 
Funds shall not be expended under this section to replace 
funds which would otherwise appropriately be expended 
from the timber salvage sale fund. Nothing in this section 
shall be construed to exempt any project from any environ-
mental law. 
SEC. 412. Other than in emergency situations, none 
of the funds in this Act may be used to operate telephone 
answering machines during core business hours unless such 
answering machines include an option that enables callers 
to reach promptly an individual on-duty with the agency 
being contacted. 
SEC. 413. Prior to October 1, 2007, the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall not be considered to be in violation of sub-
paragraph 6(f)(5)(A) of the Forest and Rangeland Renew-
able 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 Na-
tional Forest System. Nothing in this section exempts the
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Secretary from any other requirement of the Forest and 
Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act (16 U.S.C. 
1600 et seq.) or any other law: Provided, That if the Sec-
retary 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 re-
spect to such plan and a court of proper jurisdiction may 
order completion of the plan on an accelerated basis. 
SEC. 414. No timber sale in Region 10 shall be adver-
tised if the indicated rate is deficit when appraised using 
a residual value approach that assigns domestic Alaska val-
ues for western redcedar. Program accomplishments shall 
be based on volume sold. Should Region 10 sell, in the cur-
rent fiscal year, the annual average portion of the decadal 
allowable sale quantity called for in the current Tongass 
Land Management Plan in sales which are not deficit when 
appraised using a residual value approach that assigns do-
mestic Alaska values for western redcedar, all of the western 
redcedar timber from those sales which is surplus to the 
needs of domestic processors in Alaska, shall be made avail-
able to domestic processors in the contiguous 48 United 
States at prevailing domestic prices. Should Region 10 sell, 
in the current fiscal year, less than the annual average por-
tion of the decadal allowable sale quantity called for in the 
Tongass Land Management Plan in sales which are not def-
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icit when appraised using a residual value approach that 
assigns domestic Alaska values for western redcedar, the vol-
ume of western redcedar timber available to domestic proc-
essors at prevailing domestic prices in the contiguous 48 
United States shall be that volume: (1) which is surplus 
to the needs of domestic processors in Alaska; and (2) is 
that percent of the surplus western redcedar volume deter-
mined by calculating the ratio of the total timber volume 
which has been sold on the Tongass to the annual average 
portion of the decadal allowable sale quantity called for in 
the current Tongass Land Management Plan. The percent-
age shall be calculated by Region 10 on a rolling basis as 
each sale is sold (for purposes of this amendment, a ‘‘rolling 
basis’’ shall mean that the determination of how much west-
ern redcedar is eligible for sale to various markets shall be 
made at the time each sale is awarded). Western redcedar 
shall be deemed ‘‘surplus to the needs of domestic processors 
in Alaska’’ when the timber sale holder has presented to 
the Forest Service documentation of the inability to sell 
western redcedar logs from a given sale to domestic Alaska 
processors at a price equal to or greater than the log selling 
value stated in the contract. All additional western redcedar 
volume not sold to Alaska or contiguous 48 United States 
domestic processors may be exported to foreign markets at 
the election of the timber sale holder. All Alaska yellow
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cedar may be sold at prevailing export prices at the election 
of the timber sale holder. 
SEC. 415. 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. 
SEC. 416. In entering into agreements with foreign 
countries pursuant to the Wildfire Suppression Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1856m) the Secretary of Agriculture and 
the Secretary of the Interior are authorized to enter into 
reciprocal agreements in which the individuals furnished 
under said agreements to provide wildfire services are con-
sidered, for purposes of tort liability, employees of the coun-
try receiving said services when the individuals are engaged 
in fire suppression: Provided, That the Secretary of Agri-
culture or the Secretary of the Interior shall not enter into 
any agreement under this provision unless the foreign coun-
try (either directly or through its fire organization) agrees 
to assume any and all liability for the acts or omissions 
of American firefighters engaged in firefighting in a foreign
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country: Provided further, That when an agreement is 
reached for furnishing fire fighting services, the only rem-
edies for acts or omissions committed while fighting fires 
shall be those provided under the laws of the host country, 
and those remedies shall be the exclusive remedies for any 
claim arising out of fighting fires in a foreign country: Pro-
vided further, That neither the sending country nor any 
legal organization associated with the firefighter shall be 
subject to any legal action whatsoever pertaining to or aris-
ing out of the firefighter’s role in fire suppression. 
SEC. 417. In awarding a Federal contract with funds 
made available by this Act, notwithstanding Federal Gov-
ernment procurement and contracting laws, the Secretary 
of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior (the ‘‘Secre-
taries’’) may, in evaluating bids and proposals, give consid-
eration to local contractors who are from, and who provide 
employment and training for, dislocated and displaced 
workers in an economically disadvantaged rural commu-
nity, including those historically timber-dependent areas 
that have been affected by reduced timber harvesting on 
Federal lands and other forest-dependent rural communities 
isolated from significant alternative employment opportu-
nities: Provided, That notwithstanding Federal Government 
procurement and contracting laws the Secretaries may 
award contracts, grants or cooperative agreements to local
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non-profit entities, Youth Conservation Corps or related 
partnerships with State, local or non-profit youth groups, 
or small or micro-business or disadvantaged business: Pro-
vided further, That the contract, grant, or cooperative agree-
ment is for forest hazardous fuels reduction, watershed or 
water quality monitoring or restoration, wildlife or fish 
population monitoring, or habitat restoration or manage-
ment: Provided further, That the terms ‘‘rural community’’ 
and ‘‘economically disadvantaged’’ shall have the same 
meanings as in section 2374 of Public Law 101–624: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretaries shall develop guidance 
to implement this section: Provided further, That nothing 
in this section shall be construed as relieving the Secretaries 
of any duty under applicable procurement laws, except as 
provided in this section. 
SEC. 418. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law and hereinafter, after September 30, 2006, the Indian 
Health Service may not disburse funds for the provision 
of health care services pursuant to Public Law 93–638 (25 
U.S.C. 450 et seq.) to any Alaska Native village or Alaska 
Native village corporation that is located within the area 
served by an Alaska Native regional health entity. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to pro-
hibit the disbursal of funds to any Alaska Native village 
or Alaska Native village corporation under any contract or
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compact entered into prior to May 1, 2006, or to prohibit 
the renewal of any such agreement. 
(c) For the purpose of this section, Eastern Aleutian 
Tribes, Inc. shall be treated as an Alaska Native regional 
health entity to which funds may be disbursed under this 
section. 
SEC. 419. No funds appropriated in this Act for the 
acquisition of lands or interests in lands may be expended 
for the filing of declarations of taking or complaints in con-
demnation without the approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That this provi-
sion 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 res-
toration purposes. 
SEC. 420. (a) LIMITATION ON COMPETITIVE SOURCING 
STUDIES.— 
(1) Of the funds made available by this or any 
other Act to the Department of the Interior for fiscal 
year 2007, not more than $3,450,000 may be used by 
the Secretary of the Interior to initiate or continue 
competitive sourcing studies in fiscal year 2007 for 
programs, projects, and activities for which funds are 
appropriated by this Act until such time as the Sec-