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WATER INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE AND INNOVATION PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
For the cost of direct loans and for the cost of guaranteed 
loans, as authorized by the Water Infrastructure Finance and 
Innovation Act of 2014, $5,000,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That these funds are available 
to subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of direct 
loans, including capitalized interest, and total loan principal, 
including capitalized interest, any part of which is to be guaranteed, 
not to exceed $610,000,000. 
In addition, fees authorized to be collected pursuant to sections 
5029 and 5030 of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation 
Act of 2014 shall be deposited in this account, to remain available 
until expended. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the direct 
and guaranteed loan programs, notwithstanding section 5033 of 
the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014, 
$5,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2020. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 
AGENCY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS AND RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For fiscal year 2019, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 6303(1) and 
6305(1), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, 
in carrying out the Agency’s function to implement directly Federal 
environmental programs required or authorized by law in the 
absence of an acceptable tribal program, may award cooperative 
agreements to federally recognized Indian tribes or Intertribal con-
sortia, if authorized by their member tribes, to assist the Adminis-
trator in implementing Federal environmental programs for Indian 
tribes required or authorized by law, except that no such cooperative 
agreements may be awarded from funds designated for State finan-
cial assistance agreements. 
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is 
authorized to collect and obligate pesticide registration service fees 
in accordance with section 33 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 
and Rodenticide Act, as amended by Public Law 112–177, the 
Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2012. 
Notwithstanding section 33(d)(2) of the Federal Insecticide, 
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 U.S.C. 136w–8(d)(2)), 
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may 
assess fees under section 33 of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136w–8) for fiscal 
year 2019. 
The Administrator is authorized to transfer up to $300,000,000 
of the funds appropriated for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative 
under the heading ‘‘Environmental Programs and Management’’ 
to the head of any Federal department or agency, with the concur-
rence of such head, to carry out activities that would support 
the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and Great Lakes Water 
Quality Agreement programs, projects, or activities; to enter into 
an interagency agreement with the head of such Federal department 
or agency to carry out these activities; and to make grants to 
governmental entities, nonprofit organizations, institutions, and
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individuals for planning, research, monitoring, outreach, and 
implementation in furtherance of the Great Lakes Restoration Ini-
tiative and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. 
The Science and Technology, Environmental Programs and 
Management, Office of Inspector General, Hazardous Substance 
Superfund, and Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund 
Program Accounts, are available for the construction, alteration, 
repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, provided that 
the cost does not exceed $150,000 per project. 
For fiscal year 2019, and notwithstanding section 518(f) of 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1377(f)), the 
Administrator is authorized to use the amounts appropriated for 
any fiscal year under section 319 of the Act to make grants to 
Indian tribes pursuant to sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act. 
The Administrator is authorized to use the amounts appro-
priated under the heading ‘‘Environmental Programs and Manage-
ment’’ for fiscal year 2019 to provide grants to implement the 
Southeastern New England Watershed Restoration Program. 
Of the unobligated balances available for the ‘‘State and Tribal 
Assistance Grants’’ account, $139,078,000 are hereby permanently 
rescinded: Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded from 
amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget 
or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985 or from amounts that were made available by subsection 
(a) of section 196 of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2017 (divi-
sion C of Public Law 114–223), as amended by the Further Con-
tinuing and Security Assistance Appropriations Act, 2017 (Public 
Law 114–254). 
Notwithstanding the limitations on amounts in section 
320(i)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, not less 
than $1,000,000 of the funds made available under this title for 
the National Estuary Program shall be for making competitive 
awards described in section 320(g)(4). 
TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR NATURAL RESOURCES AND 
ENVIRONMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary 
for Natural Resources and Environment, $875,000: Provided, That 
funds made available by this Act to any agency in the Natural 
Resources and Environment mission area for salaries and expenses 
are available to fund up to one administrative support staff for 
the office. 
FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland research as 
authorized by law, $300,000,000, to remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2022: Provided, That of the funds provided, $77,000,000
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is for the forest inventory and analysis program: Provided further, 
That all authorities for the use of funds, including the use of 
contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements, available to execute 
the Forest and Rangeland Research appropriation, are also available 
in the utilization of these funds for Fire Science Research. 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and providing tech-
nical and financial assistance to States, territories, possessions, 
and others, and for forest health management, and conducting 
an international program as authorized, $336,990,000, to remain 
available through September 30, 2022, as authorized by law; of 
which $63,990,000 is to be derived from the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund to be used for the Forest Legacy Program, to remain 
available until expended. 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts made available for 
the Forest Legacy Program and derived from the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund, $1,503,000 is hereby permanently rescinded 
from projects with cost savings or failed or partially failed projects 
that had funds returned: Provided, That no amounts may be 
rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolu-
tion on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985. 
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, for management, protection, improvement, and utiliza-
tion of the National Forest System, and for hazardous fuels manage-
ment on or adjacent to such lands, $1,938,000,000, to remain avail-
able through September 30, 2022: Provided, That of the funds 
provided, $40,000,000 shall be deposited in the Collaborative Forest 
Landscape Restoration Fund for ecological restoration treatments 
as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 7303(f): Provided further, That of the 
funds provided, $368,000,000 shall be for forest products: Provided 
further, That of the funds provided, $435,000,000 shall be for haz-
ardous fuels management activities, of which not to exceed 
$15,000,000 may be used to make grants, using any authorities 
available to the Forest Service under the ‘‘State and Private For-
estry’’ appropriation, for the purpose of creating incentives for 
increased use of biomass from National Forest System lands: Pro-
vided further, That $20,000,000 may be used by the Secretary 
of Agriculture to enter into procurement contracts or cooperative 
agreements or to issue grants for hazardous fuels management 
activities, and for training or monitoring associated with such haz-
ardous fuels management activities on Federal land, or on non- 
Federal land if the Secretary determines such activities benefit 
resources on Federal land: Provided further, That funds made avail-
able to implement the Community Forestry Restoration Act, Public 
Law 106–393, title VI, shall be available for use on non-Federal 
lands in accordance with authorities made available to the Forest 
Service under the ‘‘State and Private Forestry’’ appropriations: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding section 33 of the Bankhead
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Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1012), the Secretary of Agri-
culture, in calculating a fee for grazing on a National Grassland, 
may provide a credit of up to 50 percent of the calculated fee 
to a Grazing Association or direct permittee for a conservation 
practice approved by the Secretary in advance of the fiscal year 
in which the cost of the conservation practice is incurred. And, 
that the amount credited shall remain available to the Grazing 
Association or the direct permittee, as appropriate, in the fiscal 
year in which the credit is made and each fiscal year thereafter 
for use on the project for conservation practices approved by the 
Secretary. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, $446,000,000, to remain available through September 
30, 2022, for construction, capital improvement, maintenance and 
acquisition of buildings and other facilities and infrastructure; and 
for construction, reconstruction, decommissioning of roads that are 
no longer needed, including unauthorized roads that are not part 
of the transportation system, and maintenance of forest roads and 
trails by the Forest Service as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 532–538 
and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205: Provided, That funds becoming available 
in fiscal year 2019 under the Act of March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 
501) shall be transferred to the General Fund of the Treasury 
and shall not be available for transfer or obligation for any other 
purpose unless the funds are appropriated. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of chapter 
2003 of title 54, United States Code, including administrative 
expenses, and for acquisition of land or waters, or interest therein, 
in accordance with statutory authority applicable to the Forest 
Service, $72,564,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund and to remain available until expended. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL ACTS 
For acquisition of lands within the exterior boundaries of the 
Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, Utah; the Toiyabe 
National Forest, Nevada; and the Angeles, San Bernardino, Sequoia, 
and Cleveland National Forests, California; and the Ozark-St. 
Francis and Ouachita National Forests, Arkansas; as authorized 
by law, $700,000, to be derived from forest receipts. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES 
For acquisition of lands, such sums, to be derived from funds 
deposited by State, county, or municipal governments, public school 
districts, or other public school authorities, and for authorized 
expenditures from funds deposited by non-Federal parties pursuant 
to Land Sale and Exchange Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 
4, 1967 (16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available through September 
30, 2022, (16 U.S.C. 516–617a, 555a; Public Law 96–586; Public 
Law 76–589, 76–591; and Public Law 78–310).