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United States Financial Assistance for the Northern Mar-
iana Islands approved by Public Law 104–134: Provided 
further, That of the amounts provided for technical assist-
ance, sufficient funds shall be made available for a grant 
to the Pacific Basin Development Council: Provided fur-
ther, That of the amounts provided for technical assist-
ance, sufficient funding shall be made available for a grant 
to the Close Up Foundation: Provided further, That the 
funds for the program of operations and maintenance im-
provement are appropriated to institutionalize routine op-
erations and maintenance improvement of capital infra-
structure with territorial participation 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 appropriation for disaster as-
sistance under this heading in this Act or previous appro-
priations Acts may be used as non-Federal 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). 
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 
For grants and necessary expenses, $5,362,000, to 
remain available until expended, as provided for in sec-
tions 221(a)(2), 221(b), and 233 of the Compact of Free 
Association for the Republic of Palau; and section 
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221(a)(2) of the Compacts of Free Association for the 
Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and 
the Federated States of Micronesia, as authorized by Pub-
lic Law 99–658 and Public Law 108–188. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for management of the De-
partment of the Interior, $118,303,000 (reduced by 
$3,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (reduced by 
$18,000,000) 
(reduced 
by 
$1,800,000); 
of 
which 
$7,915,000 for appraisal services and Take Pride in 
America activities is to be derived from the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund and shall remain available until 
expended; of which not to exceed $8,500 may be for offi-
cial reception and representation expenses; and of which 
up to $1,000,000 shall be available for workers compensa-
tion payments and unemployment compensation payments 
associated with the orderly closure of the United States 
Bureau of Mines: Provided, That none of the funds in this 
Act or previous appropriations Acts may be used to estab-
lish reserves in the Working Capital Fund account other 
than for accrued annual leave and depreciation of equip-
ment without prior approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations. 
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PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-
ber 20, 1976, as amended (31 U.S.C. 6901–6907), 
$228,000,000 (increased by $16,000,000), of which not 
to exceed $400,000 shall be available for administrative 
expenses: Provided, That no payment shall be made to oth-
erwise eligible units of local government if the computed 
amount of the payment is less than $100. 
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-
terior and any of its component offices and bureaus for 
the remedial action, including associated activities, of haz-
ardous waste substances, pollutants, or contaminants pur-
suant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
9601 et seq.), $9,923,000, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 
$56,755,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General, $39,688,000. 
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OFFICE OF SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS 
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by 
direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, 
compacts, and grants, $150,036,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which not to exceed $45,000,000 from 
this or any other Act, shall be available for historical ac-
counting: Provided, That funds for trust management im-
provements and litigation support may, as needed, be 
transferred to or merged with the Bureau of Indian Af-
fairs, ‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ account; the Office 
of the Solicitor, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account; and the 
Departmental Management, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ ac-
count: Provided further, That funds made available to 
Tribes and Tribal organizations through contracts or 
grants obligated during fiscal year 2007, as authorized by 
the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 
et seq.), shall remain available until expended by the con-
tractor or grantee: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, the statute of limita-
tions shall not commence to run on any claim, including 
any claim in litigation pending on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, concerning losses to or mismanagement 
of trust funds, until the affected tribe or individual Indian 
has been furnished with an accounting of such funds from 
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which the beneficiary can determine whether there has 
been a loss: 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 
18 months and has a balance of $15.00 or less: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall issue an annual account 
statement and maintain a record of any such accounts and 
shall permit the balance in each such account to be with-
drawn upon the express written request of the account 
holder: Provided further, That not to exceed $50,000 is 
available for the Secretary to make payments to correct 
administrative errors of either disbursements from or de-
posits to Individual Indian Money or Tribal accounts after 
September 30, 2002: Provided further, That erroneous 
payments that are recovered shall be credited to and re-
main available in this account for this purpose. 
INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION 
For consolidation of fractional interests in Indian 
lands and expenses associated with redetermining and re-
distributing escheated interests in allotted lands, and for 
necessary expenses to carry out the Indian Land Consoli-
dation Act of 1983, as amended, by direct expenditure or 
cooperative agreement, $34,006,000, to remain available 
until expended, and which may be transferred to the Bu-
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reau of Indian Affairs and Departmental Management ac-
counts: Provided, That funds provided under this heading 
may be expended pursuant to the authorities contained in 
the provisos under the heading, ‘‘Office of Special Trustee 
for American Indians, Indian Land Consolidation’’ of the 
Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 
(Public Law 106–291). 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND 
RESTORATION 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 
To conduct natural resource damage assessment and 
restoration activities by the Department of the Interior 
necessary to carry out the provisions of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 
Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1251 
et seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (Public Law 101– 
380) (33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), and Public Law 101–337, 
as amended (16 U.S.C. 19jj et seq.), $6,109,000, to re-
main available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from avail-
able resources within the Working Capital Fund, 15 air-
craft, 10 of which shall be for replacement and which may 
be obtained by donation, purchase or through available ex-
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cess 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: Provided further, That no programs 
funded with appropriated funds in the ‘‘Departmental 
Management’’, ‘‘Office of the Solicitor’’, and ‘‘Office of In-
spector General’’ may be augmented through the Working 
Capital Fund: Provided further, That the annual budget 
justification for Departmental Management shall describe 
estimated Working Capital Fund charges to bureaus and 
offices, including the methodology on which charges are 
based: Provided further, That departures from the Work-
ing Capital Fund estimates contained in the Departmental 
Management budget justification shall be presented to the 
Committees on Appropriations for approval: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary shall provide a semi-annual re-
port to the Committees on Appropriations on reimbursable 
support agreements between the Office of the Secretary 
and the National Business Center and the bureaus and 
offices of the Department, including the amounts billed 
pursuant to such agreements. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
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, for the emer-
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gency reconstruction, replacement, or repair of aircraft, 
buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment dam-
aged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoid-
able causes: Provided, That no funds shall be made avail-
able under this authority until funds specifically made 
available to the Department of the Interior for emer-
gencies shall have been exhausted: Provided further, That 
all funds used pursuant to this section must be replenished 
by a supplemental appropriation which must be requested 
as promptly as possible. 
SEC. 102. The Secretary may authorize the expendi-
ture or transfer of any no year appropriation in this title, 
in addition to the amounts included in the budget pro-
grams of the several agencies, for the suppression or emer-
gency prevention of wildland fires on or threatening lands 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior; 
for the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands 
under its jurisdiction; for emergency actions related to po-
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; 
for the prevention, suppression, and control of actual or 
potential grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks on 
lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, pursuant to 
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the authority in section 1773(b) of Public Law 99–198 
(99 Stat. 1658); 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 Min-
ing Reclamation 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 regu-
latory provisions of the Surface Mining Act: Provided, 
That appropriations made in this title for wildland fire 
operations shall be available for the payment of obligations 
incurred during the preceding fiscal year, and for reim-
bursement to other Federal agencies for destruction of ve-
hicles, aircraft, or other equipment in connection with 
their use for wildland fire operations, 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 the Secretary determines that funds 
appropriated for ‘‘wildland fire operations’’ shall be ex-
hausted within 30 days: Provided further, That all funds 
used pursuant to this section must be replenished by a 
supplemental appropriation, which must be requested as 
promptly as possible: Provided further, That such replen-
ishment funds shall be used to reimburse, on a pro rata 
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basis, accounts from which emergency funds were trans-
ferred. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations made to the Department 
of the Interior in this title shall be available for services 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, when authorized by the 
Secretary, in total amount not to exceed $500,000; hire, 
maintenance, and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; purchase of reprints; payment for tele-
phone service in private residences in the field, when au-
thorized under regulations approved by the Secretary; and 
the payment of dues, when authorized by the Secretary, 
for library membership in societies or associations which 
issue publications to members only or at a price to mem-
bers lower than to subscribers who are not members. 
SEC. 104. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior for the conduct 
of offshore oil preleasing, leasing and related activities 
placed under restriction in the President’s moratorium 
statement of June 12, 1998, in the areas of northern, cen-
tral, and southern California; the North Atlantic; Wash-
ington and Oregon; and the eastern Gulf of Mexico south 
of 26 degrees north latitude and east of 86 degrees west 
longitude. 
SEC. 105. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior to conduct off-
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shore oil preleasing, leasing and related activities in the 
eastern Gulf of Mexico planning area for any lands located 
outside Sale 181, as identified in the final Outer Conti-
nental Shelf 5-Year Oil and Gas Leasing Program, 1997– 
2002. 
SEC. 106. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior to conduct oil 
preleasing, leasing and related activities in the Mid-Atlan-
tic and South Atlantic planning areas. 
SEC. 107. Appropriations made in this Act under the 
headings Bureau of Indian Affairs and Office of Special 
Trustee for American Indians and any unobligated bal-
ances from prior appropriations Acts made under the 
same headings shall be available for expenditure or trans-
fer for Indian trust management and reform activities, ex-
cept that total funding for historical accounting activities 
shall not exceed amounts specifically designated in this 
Act for such purpose. 
SEC. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redis-
tribute 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 methodologies. No tribe shall receive a reduc-
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tion in Tribal Priority Allocation funds of more than 10 
percent in fiscal year 2007. Under circumstances of dual 
enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate dis-
tribution methodologies, the 10 percent limitation does not 
apply. 
SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, in conveying the Twin Cities Research Center under 
the authority provided by Public Law 104–134, as amend-
ed by Public Law 104–208, the Secretary may accept and 
retain land and other forms of reimbursement: Provided, 
That the Secretary may retain and use any such reim-
bursement until expended and without further appropria-
tion: (1) for the benefit of the National Wildlife Refuge 
System within the State of Minnesota; and (2) for all ac-
tivities authorized by Public Law 100–696; 16 U.S.C. 
460zz. 
SEC. 110. The Secretary of the Interior may use or 
contract for the use of helicopters or motor vehicles on 
the Sheldon and Hart National Wildlife Refuges for the 
purpose of capturing and transporting horses and burros. 
The provisions of subsection (a) of the Act of September 
8, 1959 (18 U.S.C. 47(a)) shall not be applicable to such 
use. Such use shall be in accordance with humane proce-
dures prescribed by the Secretary. 
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SEC. 111. Funds provided in this Act for Federal 
land acquisition by the National Park Service for Shen-
andoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District and 
Ice Age National Scenic Trail, and funds provided in divi-
sion E of Public Law 108–447 (118 Stat. 3050) for land 
acquisition at the Niobrara National Scenic River, may be 
used for a grant to a State, a local government, or any 
other land management entity for the acquisition of lands 
without regard to any restriction on the use of Federal 
land acquisition funds provided through the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 as amended. 
SEC. 112. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be obligated or expended by the National Park 
Service to enter into or implement a concession contract 
which permits or requires the removal of the underground 
lunchroom at the Carlsbad Caverns National Park. 
SEC. 113. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used: (1) to demolish the bridge between Jer-
sey City, New Jersey, and Ellis Island; or (2) to prevent 
pedestrian use of such bridge, when such pedestrian use 
is consistent with generally accepted safety standards. 
SEC. 114. None of the funds in this or any other Act 
can be used to compensate the Special Master and the 
Special Master-Monitor, and all variations thereto, ap-
pointed by the United States District Court for the Dis-
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trict of Columbia in the Cobell v. Norton litigation at an 
annual rate that exceeds 200 percent of the highest Senior 
Executive Service rate of pay for the Washington-Balti-
more locality pay area. 
SEC. 115. The Secretary of the Interior may use dis-
cretionary funds to pay private attorney fees and costs for 
employees and former employees of the Department of the 
Interior reasonably incurred in connection with Cobell v. 
Norton to the extent that such fees and costs are not paid 
by the Department of Justice or by private insurance. In 
no case shall the Secretary make payments under this sec-
tion that would result in payment of hourly fees in excess 
of the highest hourly rate approved by the District Court 
for the District of Columbia for counsel in Cobell v. Nor-
ton. 
SEC. 116. The United States Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice shall, in carrying out its responsibilities to protect 
threatened 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 financed 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 commercial and recreational fishers. 
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SEC. 117. (a) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in section 134 
of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2002 (115 Stat. 443) affects the deci-
sion of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th 
Circuit in Sac and Fox Nation v. Norton, 240 F.3d 1250 
(2001). 
(b) USE OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND.—Nothing in this 
section permits the conduct of gaming under the Indian 
Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) on land 
described in section 123 of the Department of the Interior 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (114 Stat. 
944), or land that is contiguous to that land, regardless 
of whether the land or contiguous land has been taken 
into trust by the Secretary of the Interior. 
SEC. 118. No funds appropriated for the Department 
of the Interior by this Act or any other Act shall be used 
to study or implement any plan to drain Lake Powell or 
to reduce the water level of the lake below the range of 
water levels required for the operation of the Glen Canyon 
Dam. 
SEC. 119. Notwithstanding the limitation in subpara-
graph (2)(B) of section 18(a) of the Indian Gaming Regu-
latory Act (25 U.S.C. 2717(a)), in fiscal year 2008, the 
total amount of all fees imposed by the National Indian 
Gaming Commission shall not exceed $13,000,000. 
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SEC. 120. Notwithstanding any implementation of 
the Department of the Interior’s trust reorganization or 
reengineering plans, or the implementation of the ‘‘To Be’’ 
Model, funds appropriated for fiscal year 2007 shall be 
available to the tribes within the California Tribal Trust 
Reform Consortium and to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa 
Indian Community, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai 
Tribes of the Flathead Reservation and the Chippewa Cree 
Tribe of the Rocky Boys Reservation through the same 
methodology as funds were distributed in fiscal year 2003. 
This Demonstration Project shall continue to operate sep-
arate and apart from the Department of the Interior’s 
trust reform and reorganization and the Department shall 
not impose its trust management infrastructure upon or 
alter the existing trust resource management systems of 
the above referenced tribes having a self-governance com-
pact and operating in accordance with the Tribal Self-Gov-
ernance Program set forth in 25 U.S.C. 458aa–458hh. 
The California Trust Reform Consortium and any other 
participating tribe agree to carry out their responsibilities 
under the same written and implemented fiduciary stand-
ards as those being carried by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior. The Consortium shall demonstrate to the satisfaction 
of the Secretary that they have the capability to do so. 
The Department shall provide funds to the tribes in an 
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amount equal to that required by 25 U.S.C. 458cc(g)(3), 
including funds specifically or functionally related to the 
provision of trust services to the tribes or their members. 
SEC. 121. Notwithstanding any provision of law, in-
cluding 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., nonrenewable grazing per-
mits authorized in the Jarbidge Field Office, Bureau of 
Land Management within the past 9 years, shall be re-
newed. The Animal Unit Months authorized in any non-
renewable grazing permit between March 1, 1997, and 
February 28, 2005, shall continue in effect under the re-
newed permit. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to 
extend the renewed permit beyond the standard 1-year 
term. 
SEC. 122. 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 Liberty Islands, and of other program and 
administrative activities, by donation or with appropriated 
funds, including franchise fees (and other monetary con-
sideration), or by exchange; and the Secretary is author-
ized to negotiate and enter into leases, subleases, conces-
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sion contracts or other agreements for the use of such fa-
cilities on such terms and conditions as the Secretary may 
determine reasonable. 
SEC. 123. Upon the request of the permittee for the 
Clark Mountain Allotment lands adjacent to the Mojave 
National Preserve, the Secretary shall also issue a special 
use permit for that portion of the grazing allotment lo-
cated within the Preserve. The special use permit shall be 
issued with the same terms and conditions as the most 
recently-issued permit for that allotment and the Sec-
retary shall consider the permit to be one transferred in 
accordance with section 325 of Public Law 108–108. 
SEC. 124. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the National Park Service final winter use rules pub-
lished in Part VII of the Federal Register for November 
10, 2004, 69 Fed. Reg. 65348 et seq., shall be in force 
and effect for the winter use season of 2006–2007 that 
commences on or about December 15, 2006. 
SEC. 125. None of the funds in this or any other Act 
may be used to set up Centers of Excellence and Partner-
ship Skills Bank training without prior approval of the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
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TITLE II—ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 
AGENCY 
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
For science and technology, including research and 
development activities, which shall include research and 
development activities under the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 
1980, as amended; necessary expenses for personnel and 
related costs and travel expenses, including uniforms, or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901– 
5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at 
rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equiv-
alent to the maximum rate payable for senior level posi-
tions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; procurement of laboratory 
equipment and supplies; other operating expenses in sup-
port of research and development; construction, alteration, 
repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to 
exceed $85,000 per project, $808,044,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2008. 
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, including 
uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
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3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per 
diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable for sen-
ior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of air-
craft; 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; construction, alteration, repair, re-
habilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed 
$85,000 per project; and not to exceed $9,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses, $2,336,442,000 
(increased by $1,800,000), to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2008, including administrative costs of the 
brownfields program under the Small Business Liability 
Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 
General Act of 1978, as amended, and for construction, 
alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facili-
ties, not to exceed $85,000 per project, $35,100,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2008: Provided, 
That in fiscal year 2007 and thereafter, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, the Inspector General shall not 
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serve as the Inspector General for the Chemical Safety 
and Hazard Investigation Board. 
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, 
$39,816,000, to remain available until expended. 
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehen-
sive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil-
ity Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including sec-
tions 111(c)(3), (c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 
9611), and for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilita-
tion, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed $85,000 
per project; $1,256,855,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, consisting of such sums as are available in the 
Trust Fund on September 30, 2006, as authorized by sec-
tion 517(a) of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthor-
ization Act of 1986 (SARA) and up to $1,256,855,000 
as a payment from general revenues to the Hazardous 
Substance Superfund for purposes as authorized by sec-
tion 517(b) of SARA, as amended: Provided, That funds 
appropriated under this heading may be allocated to other 
Federal agencies in accordance with section 111(a) of 
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CERCLA: Provided further, That of the funds appro-
priated under this heading, $13,316,000 shall be trans-
ferred to the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ appropriation 
to remain available until September 30, 2008, and 
$30,011,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Science and 
Technology’’ appropriation to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2008. 
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sec-
tion 205 of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthoriza-
tion Act of 1986, and for construction, alteration, repair, 
rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed 
$85,000 per project, $72,759,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
OIL SPILL RESPONSE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environ-
mental Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil 
Pollution Act of 1990, $16,506,000, 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 revolv-
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ing 
funds 
and 
performance 
partnership 
grants, 
$3,009,348,000 to remain available until expended, of 
which $687,555,000 shall be for making capitalization 
grants for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under 
title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as 
amended (the ‘‘Act’’); of which up to $50,000,000 shall 
be available for loans, including interest free loans as au-
thorized by 33 U.S.C. 1383(d)(1)(A), to municipal, inter- 
municipal, interstate, or State agencies or nonprofit enti-
ties for projects that provide treatment for or that mini-
mize sewage or stormwater discharges using one or more 
approaches which include, but are not limited to, decen-
tralized or distributed stormwater controls, decentralized 
wastewater treatment, low-impact development practices, 
conservation easements, stream buffers, or wetlands res-
toration; $841,500,000 shall be for capitalization grants 
for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds under sec-
tion 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended; 
$24,750,000 shall be for architectural, engineering, plan-
ning, design, construction and related activities in connec-
tion with the construction of high priority water and 
wastewater facilities in the area of the United States-Mex-
ico border, after consultation with the appropriate border 
commission; $14,850,000 shall be for grants to the State 
of Alaska to address drinking water and waste infrastruc-
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ture needs of rural and Alaska Native Villages: Provided, 
That, of these funds: (1) the State of Alaska shall provide 
a match of 25 percent; (2) no more than 5 percent of the 
funds may be used for administrative and overhead ex-
penses; and (3) the State of Alaska shall make awards 
consistent with the State-wide priority list established in 
2004 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 Pollution Control 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) or the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) which shall allo-
cate not less than 25 percent of the funds provided for 
projects in regional hub communities; $200,000,000 shall 
be for making special project grants for the construction 
of drinking water, wastewater and storm water infrastruc-
ture and for water quality protection in accordance with 
the terms and conditions specified for such grants in the 
joint explanatory statement of the managers accom-
panying this Act, and, for purposes of these grants, each 
grantee shall contribute not less than 45 percent of the 
cost of the project unless the grantee is approved for a 
waiver by the Agency; $89,119,000 shall be to carry out 
section 104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Re-
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
(CERCLA), as amended, including grants, interagency 
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agreements, and associated program support costs; 
$28,000,000 shall be for the national grant and loan pro-
gram authorized by section 792 of the Energy Policy Act 
of 2005 for the National Clean Diesel Initiative; and 
$1,122,584,000 shall be for grants, including associated 
program support costs, to States, federally-recognized 
tribes, interstate agencies, tribal consortia, and air pollu-
tion control agencies for multi-media or single media pol-
lution prevention, control and abatement and related ac-
tivities, including activities 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 
particulate matter monitoring and data collection activi-
ties subject to terms and conditions specified by the Ad-
ministrator, of which $49,495,000 shall be for carrying 
out section 128 of CERCLA, as amended, $14,850,000 
shall be for Environmental Information Exchange Net-
work grants, including associated program support costs, 
not less than $18,500,000 of the funds available for grants 
under section 106 of the Act shall be for the water quality 
monitoring initiative that meet EPA standards for statis-
tically representative monitoring programs, $17,567,000 
to make grants to States under section 2007(f)(2) of the 
Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, and to federally- 
recognized tribes under Public Law 105–276, and to pro-
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vide financial assistance to States and federally-recognized 
tribes for the purposes authorized by Title XV, Subtitle 
B of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, with the exception 
of leaking underground storage tank cleanup activities 
that are authorized by section 205 of Superfund Amend-
ments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, and $15,930,000 
shall be for making competitive targeted watershed grants: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) 
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the limitation 
on the amounts in a State water pollution control revolv-
ing 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 2007 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, accounted 
for separately from other assets in the fund, and used for 
eligible purposes of the fund, including administration: 
Provided further, That for fiscal year 2007, and notwith-
standing section 518(f) of the Act, the Administrator is 
authorized to use the amounts appropriated for any fiscal 
year under section 319 of that Act to make grants to fed-
erally-recognized Indian tribes pursuant to sections 319(h) 
and 518(e) of that Act: Provided further, That for fiscal 
year 2007, notwithstanding the limitation on amounts in 
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section 518(c) of the Act, up to a total of 11⁄2 percent 
of the funds appropriated for State Revolving Funds 
under title VI of that Act may be reserved by the Adminis-
trator for grants under section 518(c) of that Act: Pro-
vided further, That no funds provided by this Act to ad-
dress the water, wastewater and other critical infrastruc-
ture 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 devel-
opment or construction of any additional colonia areas, or 
the development within an existing colonia the construc-
tion of any new home, business, or other structure which 
lacks water, wastewater, or other necessary infrastructure: 
Provided further, That of the funds made available under 
this heading in Division I of Public Law 108–447, 
$500,000 is for Monticello, AR water and wastewater in-
frastructure improvements and $500,000 is for Pine 
Bluff, AR water and wastewater infrastructure improve-
ments: Provided further, That funds that were appro-
priated under this heading for special project grants in 
fiscal year 2001 or earlier that have not been obligated 
on an approved grant by September 1, 2007, are re-
scinded. 
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
For fiscal year 2007, 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 award-
ed from funds designated for State financial assistance 
agreements. 
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 (as 
added by subsection (f)(2) of the Pesticide Registration 
Improvement Act of 2003), as amended. 
None of the funds provided in this Act may be used, 
directly or through grants, to pay or to provide reimburse-
ment for payment of the salary of a consultant (whether 
retained by the Federal Government or a grantee) at more 
than the daily equivalent of the rate paid for level IV of 
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the Executive Schedule, unless specifically authorized by 
law. 
None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to promulgate in final form, issue, implement, or 
enforce the Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxics Re-
lease Inventory Burden Reduction Proposed Rule pub-
lished in the Federal Register on October 4, 2005 (Volume 
70, Number 191) at pages 57822 and following or the 
Toxics Release Inventory 2006 Burden Reduction Pro-
posed Rule published in the Federal Register on October 
4, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 191) at pages 57871 
through 57872. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 
AGENCY 
SEC. 201. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of, or to delay the imple-
mentation of, Executive Order No. 12898 of February 11, 
1994 (59 Fed. Reg. 7629; relating to Federal actions to 
address environmental justice in minority populations and 
low-income populations). 
SEC. 202. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used in contravention of 15 U.S.C. 2682(c)(3) 
or to delay the implementation of that section. 
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TITLE III—RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-
search as authorized by law, $280,318,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of the funds pro-
vided, $62,329,000 is for the forest inventory and analysis 
program. 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-
tories, possessions, and others, and for forest health man-
agement, including treatments of pests, pathogens, and 
invasive or noxious plants and for restoring and rehabili-
tating forests damaged by pests or invasive plants, cooper-
ative forestry, and education and land conservation activi-
ties and conducting an international program as author-
ized, $228,608,000, to remain available until expended, as 
authorized by law of which $9,280,000 is to be derived 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund: Provided, 
That none of the funds provided under this heading for 
the acquisition of lands or interests in lands shall be avail-
able until the Forest Service notifies the House Committee 
on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Appro-
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