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(2) No funds shall be available for obligation or 
expenditure through a reprogramming until 30 days 
after the receipt by the Committees of a notice of 
proposed reprogramming. 
(3) A reprogramming shall be considered ap-
proved 30 days after receipt if the Committees have 
posed no objection. However, agencies shall not im-
plement the reprogramming and shall extend the no-
tification period if specifically requested by either 
Committee. 
(d) EXCEPTIONS.— 
(1) With regard to the tribal priority allocations 
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, there is no restric-
tion on reprogrammings among these programs. 
However, 
the 
Bureau 
shall 
report 
on 
all 
reprogrammings made during a given fiscal year no 
later than 60 days after the end of the fiscal year. 
(2) With regard to the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency, State and Tribal Assistance Grants ac-
count, the Committees do not require reprogram-
ming requests associated with States and Tribal 
Partnership Grants. 
(3) With regard to funding for Park Manage-
ment subactivities within the National Park Service 
Operations of the National Park System account, re-
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programming guidelines apply at the activity level, 
not the more detailed level as shown in the Com-
mittee report. The National Park Service shall re-
port on actual spending at the more detailed level no 
later than 60 days after the end of the fiscal year 
and show its impact on the succeeding year budget 
at the more detailed level in the budget justification 
submitted to the Congress in the subsequent fiscal 
year for the purpose of updating the Committee sup-
port table. 
(e) ASSESSMENTS.— 
(1) No assessment shall be levied or collected 
unless such assessment and the basis therefor are 
presented to the Committees in the budget justifica-
tions and are subsequently approved by the Commit-
tees. The explanation for any assessment in the 
budget justification shall show the amount of the as-
sessment, the activities assessed, and the purpose of 
the funds. 
(2) Proposed changes to estimated assessments, 
as such estimates were presented in annual budget 
justifications, shall be submitted through the re-
programming process set out in this section and 
shall be subject to the same dollar and reporting cri-
teria as any other reprogramming. 
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(3) Each department, agency or bureau that 
utilizes assessments shall submit an annual report to 
the Committees which provides details on the use of 
all funds assessed from any other program, project, 
or activity. 
(4) In no case shall contingency funds or as-
sessments be used to finance agency actions dis-
approved or limited by the Congress. 
(f) LAND ACQUISITIONS, EASEMENTS, AND FOREST 
LEGACY.—Lands shall not be acquired for more than the 
approved appraised value (as addressed in section 301(3) 
of Public Law 91–646), unless such acquisitions are sub-
mitted to the Committees for approval in compliance with 
these procedures. 
(g) LAND EXCHANGES.—Land exchanges, wherein 
the estimated value of the Federal lands to be exchanged 
is greater than $1,000,000, shall not be consummated 
until the Committees have had a 30-day period in which 
to examine the proposed exchange. In addition, the Com-
mittees shall be provided advance notification of exchanges 
valued between $500,000 and $1,000,000. 
(h) BUDGET STRUCTURE.—The program, project, 
and activity structure for any agency appropriation ac-
count shall not be altered without advance approval of the 
Committees. 
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(i) OPERATING PLANS.—Not later than 60 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, each department or 
agency funded by this Act shall submit an operating plan 
to the Committees to establish the baseline for application 
of reprogramming for the current fiscal year. The oper-
ating plan shall include— 
(1) a table for each appropriation with a sepa-
rate column to display the President’s budget re-
quest, adjustments made by the Congress, enacted 
rescissions, if appropriate, and the fiscal year en-
acted level; 
(2) a delineation in the table for each appro-
priation by program, project, and activity for the re-
spective appropriation; and 
(3) an identification of items of special congres-
sional interest. 
PROJECT INFORMATION 
SEC. 424. (a) Not later than April 1, 2020, and each 
April 1 thereafter, the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate prioritized and detailed lists of federal land acqui-
sition projects, and Forest Legacy projects, which could 
be executed within the three fiscal years beginning with 
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the fiscal year after the date upon which the lists are sub-
mitted. 
(b) The federal land acquisition project lists required 
by subsection (a) shall include projects for the National 
Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bu-
reau of Land Management, and the U.S. Forest Service, 
including recreational public access projects as required 
by 54 U.S.C. 200306, and shall total for each agency no 
less than 150 percent of the amount enacted for that agen-
cy for the previous fiscal year. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2020’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 75 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 3052 
[Report No. 116–100] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Department of the 
Interior, environment, and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and 
for other purposes. 
JUNE 3, 2019 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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