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Union Calendar No. 426 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6091 
[Report No. 112–589] 
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 10, 2012 
Mr. SIMPSON, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following 
bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, 
environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2013, and for other purposes. 
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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, 2013, 
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 section 1010(a) of 
Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C. 3150(a)), $946,707,000, 
to remain available until expended; of which $3,000,000 
shall be available in fiscal year 2013 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 ad-
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vanced to the Foundation as a lump-sum grant without 
regard to when expenses are incurred. 
In addition, $32,500,000 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, 
$39,696,000 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 mining claim maintenance 
fees and location fees that are hereby authorized for fiscal 
year 2013 so as to result in a final appropriation esti-
mated at not more than $946,707,000, and $2,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, from communication 
site rental fees established by the Bureau for the cost of 
administering communication site activities. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 
206, and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1715, 
1716, 1748(d)), including administrative expenses and ac-
quisition of lands or waters, or interests therein, 
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$6,743,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund and to remain available 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; $110,025,000, 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 (43 U.S.C. 1181f). 
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. 1751), 
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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. 
315b, 315m) and the amount designated for range im-
provements from grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts 
from Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the Depart-
ment 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, (43 U.S.C 
1701 et seq.), and under section 28 of the Mineral Leasing 
Act (30 U.S.C. 185), to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That, notwithstanding any provision to the con-
trary 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, 
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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 improve, pro-
tect, or rehabilitate any public lands administered through 
the Bureau of Land Management which have been dam-
aged by the action of a resource developer, purchaser, per-
mittee, or any unauthorized person, without regard to 
whether all moneys collected from each such action are 
used on the exact lands damaged which led to the action: 
Provided further, That any such moneys that are in excess 
of amounts needed to repair damage to the exact land for 
which funds were collected may be used to repair other 
damaged public lands. 
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS 
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended 
under existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such 
amounts as may be contributed under section 307 of Pub-
lic Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1737), and such amounts as 
may be advanced for administrative costs, surveys, ap-
praisals, and costs of making conveyances of omitted lands 
under section 211(b) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1721(b)), to 
remain available until expended. 
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Land Management may carry out the 
operations funded under this Act by direct expenditure, 
contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and reimburs-
able agreements with public and private entities, including 
with States. Appropriations for the Bureau shall be avail-
able for purchase, erection, and dismantlement of tem-
porary structures, and alteration and maintenance of nec-
essary buildings and appurtenant facilities to which the 
United States has title; up to $100,000 for payments, at 
the discretion of the Secretary, for information or evidence 
concerning violations of laws administered by the Bureau; 
miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement ac-
tivities authorized or approved by the Secretary and to be 
accounted for solely on the Secretary’s certificate, not to 
exceed $10,000: Provided, That notwithstanding Public 
Law 90–620 (44 U.S.C. 501), the Bureau may, under co-
operative cost-sharing and partnership arrangements au-
thorized by law, procure printing services from cooperators 
in connection with jointly produced publications for which 
the cooperators share the cost of printing either in cash 
or in services, and the Bureau determines the cooperator 
is capable of meeting accepted quality standards: Provided 
further, That projects to be funded pursuant to a written 
commitment by a State government to provide an identi-
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fied amount of money in support of the project may be 
carried out by the Bureau on a reimbursable basis. Appro-
priations herein made shall not be available for the de-
struction of healthy, unadopted, wild horses and burros 
in the care of the Bureau or its contractors or for the 
sale of wild horses and burros that results in their destruc-
tion for processing into commercial products. 
UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service, as authorized by law, and for scientific 
and economic studies, general administration, and for the 
performance of other authorized functions related to such 
resources, $1,040,488,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2014, except as otherwise provided herein: Pro-
vided, That not to exceed $14,564,000 shall be used for 
implementing subsections (a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 
4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1533) (except for processing petitions, developing and 
issuing proposed and final regulations, and taking any 
other steps to implement actions described in subsection 
(c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or (c)(2)(B)(ii)), of which not to 
exceed $4,500,000 shall be used for any activity regarding 
the designation of critical habitat, pursuant to subsection 
(a)(3), excluding litigation support, for species listed pur-
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suant to subsection (a)(1) prior to October 1, 2011; of 
which not to exceed $1,123,000 shall be used for any ac-
tivity regarding petitions to list species that are indigenous 
to the United States pursuant to subsections (b)(3)(A) 
and (b)(3)(B); and, of which not to exceed $1,123,000 
shall be used for implementing subsections (a), (b), (c), 
and (e) of section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 
1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533) for species that are not indigenous 
to the United States. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvement, acquisition, or re-
moval of buildings and other facilities required in the con-
servation, management, investigation, protection, and uti-
lization of fish and wildlife resources, and the acquisition 
of lands and interests therein; $17,755,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l– 
4 et seq.), including administrative expenses, and for ac-
quisition of land or waters, or interest therein, in accord-
ance with statutory authority applicable to the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service, $15,047,000, to be de-
rived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and 
to remain available until expended, of which, notwith-
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standing section 7 of such Act (16 U.S.C. 460l–9), not 
more than $4,000,000 shall be for land conservation part-
nerships authorized by the Highlands Conservation Act 
(Public Law 108–421), including not to exceed $160,000 
for administrative expenses: Provided, That none of the 
funds appropriated for specific land acquisition projects 
may be used to pay for any administrative overhead, plan-
ning or other management costs. 
COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION 
FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out section 6 of the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), 
$14,129,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
$2,707,000 is to be derived from the Cooperative Endan-
gered Species Conservation Fund; and of which 
$11,422,000 is to be derived from the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund. 
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-
ber 17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $11,958,000. 
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 
of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (16 
U.S.C. 4401 et seq.), $22,333,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
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NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Neotropical 
Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 6101 et 
seq.), $1,893,000, to remain available until expended. 
MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the African Ele-
phant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.), the 
Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 
4261 et seq.), the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act 
of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Great Ape Con-
servation Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), and the 
Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004 (16 U.S.C. 6601 
et seq.), $4,735,000, to remain available until expended. 
STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS 
For wildlife conservation grants to States and to the 
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United 
States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, 
American Samoa, and Indian tribes under the provisions 
of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742a et 
seq.) and the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (16 
U.S.C. 661 et seq.), for the development and implementa-
tion of programs for the benefit of wildlife and their habi-
tat, including species that are not hunted or fished, 
$30,662,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That of the amount provided herein, $2,134,000 is 
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for a competitive grant program for Indian tribes not sub-
ject to the remaining provisions of this appropriation: Pro-
vided further, That $2,866,000 is for a competitive grant 
program for States, territories, and other jurisdictions 
with approved plans, not subject to the remaining provi-
sions of this appropriation: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall, after deducting $5,000,000 and administra-
tive expenses, apportion the amount provided herein in the 
following manner: (1) to the District of Columbia and to 
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, each a sum equal to 
not more than one-half of 1 percent thereof; and (2) to 
Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Is-
lands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, each a sum equal to not more than one-fourth 
of 1 percent thereof: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall apportion the remaining amount in the following 
manner: (1) one-third of which is based on the ratio to 
which the land area of such State bears to the total land 
area of all such States; and (2) two-thirds of which is 
based on the ratio to which the population of such State 
bears to the total population of all such States: Provided 
further, That the amounts apportioned under this para-
graph shall be adjusted equitably so that no State shall 
be apportioned a sum which is less than 1 percent of the 
amount available for apportionment under this paragraph 
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for any fiscal year or more than 5 percent of such amount: 
Provided further, That the Federal share of planning 
grants shall not exceed 50 percent of the total costs of 
such projects and the Federal share of implementation 
grants shall not exceed 50 percent of the total costs of 
such projects: Provided further, That the non-Federal 
share of such projects may not be derived from Federal 
grant programs. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service may 
carry out the operations of Service programs by direct ex-
penditure, contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and 
reimbursable agreements with public and private entities. 
Appropriations and funds available to the United States 
Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for repair of 
damage to public roads within and adjacent to reservation 
areas caused by operations of the Service; options for the 
purchase of land at not to exceed $1 for each option; facili-
ties incident to such public recreational uses on conserva-
tion areas as are consistent with their primary purpose; 
and the maintenance and improvement of aquaria, build-
ings, and other facilities under the jurisdiction of the Serv-
ice and to which the United States has title, and which 
are used pursuant to law in connection with management, 
and investigation of fish and wildlife resources: Provided, 
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That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Service may, 
under cooperative cost sharing and partnership arrange-
ments authorized by law, procure printing services from 
cooperators in connection with jointly produced publica-
tions for which the cooperators share at least one-half the 
cost of printing either in cash or services and the Service 
determines the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted 
quality standards: Provided further, That the Service may 
accept donated aircraft as replacements for existing air-
craft. 
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 
OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM 
For expenses necessary for the management, oper-
ation, and maintenance of areas and facilities adminis-
tered by the National Park Service and for the general 
administration 
of 
the 
National 
Park 
Service, 
$2,229,409,000, of which $9,816,000 for planning and 
interagency coordination in support of Everglades restora-
tion and $71,040,000 for maintenance, repair, or rehabili-
tation projects for constructed assets shall remain avail-
able until September 30, 2014. 
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out recreation pro-
grams, natural programs, cultural programs, heritage 
partnership programs, environmental compliance and re-
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view, international park affairs, and grant administration, 
not otherwise provided for, $51,822,000. 
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary in carrying out the National 
Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470), $49,500,000, 
to be derived from the Historic Preservation Fund and 
to remain available until September 30, 2014. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvements, repair, or replace-
ment of physical facilities, including modifications author-
ized by section 104 of the Everglades National Park Pro-
tection and Expansion Act of 1989 (16 U.S.C. 410r-8), 
$131,173,000, to remain available until expended. 
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND 
(RESCISSION) 
The contract authority provided for fiscal year 2013 
by section 9 of the Land and Water Conservation Fund 
Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l–10a) is rescinded. 
LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l– 
4 et seq.), including administrative expenses, and for ac-
quisition of lands or waters, or interest therein, in accord-
ance with the statutory authority applicable to the Na-
tional Park Service, $13,294,000, to be derived from the 
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Land and Water Conservation Fund and to remain avail-
able until expended, of which $2,794,000 is for the State 
assistance program and of which $2,000,000 shall be for 
the American Battlefield Protection Program grants as 
authorized by section 7301 of the Omnibus Public Land 
Management Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–11). 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
In addition to other uses set forth in section 407(d) 
of Public Law 105–391, in fiscal year 2013 and there-
after, franchise fees credited to a sub-account shall be 
available for expenditure by the Secretary, without further 
appropriation, for use at any unit within the National 
Park System to extinguish or reduce liability for 
Possessory Interest or leasehold surrender interest. Such 
funds may only be used for this purpose to the extent that 
the benefitting unit anticipated franchise fee receipts over 
the term of the contract at that unit exceed the amount 
of funds used to extinguish or reduce liability. Franchise 
fees at the benefitting unit shall be credited to the sub- 
account of the originating unit over a period not to exceed 
the term of a single contract at the benefitting unit, in 
the amount of funds so expended to extinguish or reduce 
liability. 
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