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Calendar No. 98 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2996 
[Report No. 111–38] 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 6, 2009 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations 
JULY 7, 2009 
Reported by Mrs. FEINSTEIN, with an amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, 
environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
Department of the Interior, environment, and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, 
and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES 
For necessary expenses for protection, use, improve-
ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classi-
fication, acquisition of easements and other interests in 
lands, and performance of other functions, including main-
tenance of facilities, as authorized by law, in the manage-
ment of lands and their resources under the jurisdiction 
of the Bureau of Land Management, including the general 
administration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral 
potential of public lands pursuant to Public Law 96–487 
(16 U.S.C. 3150(a)), $950,496,000, to remain available 
until expended; and of which $3,000,000 shall be available 
in fiscal year 2010 subject to a match by at least an equal 
amount by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for 
cost-shared projects supporting conservation of Bureau 
lands; and such funds shall be advanced to the Foundation 
as a lump sum grant without regard to when expenses are 
incurred. 
In addition, $45,500,000 is for the processing of ap-
plications for permit to drill and related use authoriza-
tions, to remain available until expended, to be reduced 
by amounts collected by the Bureau and credited to this 
appropriation that shall be derived from $6,500 per new
application for permit to drill that the Bureau shall collect 
upon submission of each new application, and in addition, 
$36,696,000 is for Mining Law Administration program 
operations, including the cost of administering the mining 
claim fee program; to remain available until expended, to 
be reduced by amounts collected by the Bureau and cred-
ited to this appropriation from annual mining claim fees 
so as to result in a final appropriation estimated at not 
more than $950,496,000, and $2,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, from communication site rental 
fees established by the Bureau for the cost of admin-
istering communication site activities. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction of buildings, recreation facilities, 
roads, trails, and appurtenant facilities, $6,590,000, to re-
main available until expended. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 
206, and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579, including admin-
istrative expenses and acquisition of lands or waters, or 
interests therein, $26,529,000, to be derived from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund and to remain avail-
able until expended.
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS 
For expenses necessary for management, protection, 
and development of resources and for construction, oper-
ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and 
other improvements on the revested Oregon and California 
Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Or-
egon and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and 
on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or in-
terests therein, including existing connecting roads on or 
adjacent to such grant lands; $111,557,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That 25 percent of the 
aggregate of all receipts during the current fiscal year 
from the revested Oregon and California Railroad grant 
lands is hereby made a charge against the Oregon and 
California land-grant fund and shall be transferred to the 
General Fund in the Treasury in accordance with the sec-
ond paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of 
August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 876). 
FOREST ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND 
(REVOLVING FUND, SPECIAL ACCOUNT) 
In addition to the purposes authorized in Public Law 
102–381, funds made available in the Forest Ecosystem 
Health and Recovery Fund can be used through fiscal year 
2015 for the purpose of planning, preparing, imple-
menting and monitoring salvage timber sales and forest
ecosystem health and recovery activities, such as release 
from competing vegetation and density control treatments. 
The Federal share of receipts (defined as the portion of 
salvage timber receipts not paid to the counties under 43 
U.S.C. 1181f and 43 U.S.C. 1181f–1 et seq., and Public 
Law 106–393) derived from treatments funded by this ac-
count shall be deposited through fiscal year 2015 into the 
Forest Ecosystem Health and Recovery Fund. 
RANGE IMPROVEMENTS 
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of 
lands and interests therein, and improvement of Federal 
rangelands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land 
Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), 
notwithstanding any other Act, sums equal to 50 percent 
of all moneys received during the prior fiscal year under 
sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 
315 et seq.) and the amount designated for range improve-
ments from grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts from 
Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the Department of 
the
Interior
pursuant
to
law,
but
not
less
than 
$10,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall be available for 
administrative expenses.
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES 
For administrative expenses and other costs related 
to processing application documents and other authoriza-
tions for use and disposal of public lands and resources, 
for costs of providing copies of official public land docu-
ments, for monitoring construction, operation, and termi-
nation of facilities in conjunction with use authorizations, 
and for rehabilitation of damaged property, such amounts 
as may be collected under Public Law 94–579, as amend-
ed, and Public Law 93–153, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That, notwithstanding any provision to 
the contrary of section 305(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43 
U.S.C. 1735(a)), any moneys that have been or will be 
received pursuant to that section, whether as a result of 
forfeiture, compromise, or settlement, if not appropriate 
for refund pursuant to section 305(c) of that Act (43 
U.S.C. 1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended 
under the authority of this Act by the Secretary to im-
prove, protect, or rehabilitate any public lands adminis-
tered through the Bureau of Land Management which 
have been damaged by the action of a resource developer, 
purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized person, without 
regard to whether all moneys collected from each such ac-
tion are used on the exact lands damaged which led to 
the action: Provided further, That any such moneys that