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are located on National Forest System or Bureau of Land 
Management 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 
process applications for a patent for any mining or mill 
site claim located under the general mining laws. 
(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, 2009, 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 of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 
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a report on actions taken by the Department under the 
plan submitted pursuant to section 314(c) of the Depart-
ment 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 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 
Management in the retention of third-party contractors. 
SEC. 409. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, amounts appropriated to or otherwise designated in 
committee reports for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and 
the Indian Health Service by Public Laws 103–138, 103– 
332, 104–134, 104–208, 105–83, 105–277, 106–113, 
106–291, 107–63, 108–7, 108–108, 108–447, 109–54, 
109–289, division B and Continuing Appropriations Reso-
lution, 2007 (division B of Public Law 109–289, as 
amended by Public Laws 110–5 and 110–28), and Public 
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Law 110–161 for payments for contract support costs as-
sociated with self-determination or self-governance con-
tracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding agreements 
with the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health 
Service as funded by such Acts, are the total amounts 
available for fiscal years 1994 through 2008 for such pur-
poses, except that for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tribes 
and tribal organizations may use their tribal priority allo-
cations for unmet contract support costs of ongoing con-
tracts, grants, self-governance compacts, or annual fund-
ing agreements. 
SEC. 410. Prior to October 1, 2009, the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall not be considered to be in violation 
of subparagraph 6(f)(5)(A) of the Forest 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 Na-
tional Forest System. Nothing in this section exempts the 
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-
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spect to such plan and a court of proper jurisdiction may 
order completion of the plan on an accelerated basis. 
SEC. 411. 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 Monu-
ment established 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 Presidential proclamation establishing such monu-
ment. 
SEC. 412. 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 
country receiving said services when the individuals are 
engaged in fire suppression: Provided, That the Secretary 
of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior shall not 
enter into any agreement under this provision unless the 
foreign country (either directly or through its fire organi-
zation) agrees to assume any and all liability for the acts 
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