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shall be available for the costs of facility maintenance, repairs, 
and leases for buildings and sites where these administrative, gen-
eral management and other Forest Service support functions take 
place; the costs of all utility and telecommunication expenses of 
the Forest Service, as well as business services; and, for information 
technology, including cybersecurity requirements: Provided further, 
That funds provided under this heading may be used for necessary 
expenses to carry out administrative and general management sup-
port functions of the Forest Service not otherwise provided for 
and necessary for its operation. 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland research as 
authorized by law, $308,697,000, to remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2029: Provided, That of the funds provided, $32,197,000 
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 
amounts made available under this heading, are also available 
in the utilization of funds for Fire Science Research. 
STATE, PRIVATE, AND TRIBAL FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and providing tech-
nical and financial assistance to States, territories, possessions, 
tribes, and others, and for forest health management, including 
for invasive plants, and conducting an international program and 
trade compliance activities as authorized, $310,594,000, to remain 
available through September 30, 2029, as authorized by law, of 
which $18,094,000 shall be for projects specified for Forest Resource 
Information and Analysis in the table titled ‘‘Interior and Environ-
ment Incorporation of Community Project Funding Items/Congres-
sionally Directed Spending Items’’ included for this division in the 
explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter pre-
ceding division A of this consolidated Act). 
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, $1,857,843,000, to remain avail-
able through September 30, 2029: Provided, That of the funds 
provided, $31,000,000 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 for the 
funds provided in the preceding proviso, section 4003(d)(3)(A) of 
the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 
7303(d)(3)(A)) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘20’’ for ‘‘10’’ and 
section 4003(d)(3)(B) of the Omnibus Public Land Management 
Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 7303(d)(3)(B)) shall be applied by substituting 
‘‘4’’ for ‘‘2’’: Provided further, That of the funds provided, $39,000,000 
shall be for forest products: Provided further, That of the funds 
provided, $176,850,000 shall be for hazardous fuels management 
activities, of which not to exceed $30,000,000 may be used to make 
grants, using any authorities available to the Forest Service under 
the ‘‘State, Private, and Tribal Forestry’’ appropriation, for the
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purpose of creating incentives for increased use of biomass from 
National Forest System lands: Provided further, That $20,000,000 
may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into procure-
ment contracts or cooperative agreements or to issue grants for 
hazardous fuels management activities, and for training or moni-
toring associated with such hazardous 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 available to implement the Community Forest 
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, Private, and Tribal 
Forestry’’ appropriation: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
section 33 of the Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 
1012), the Secretary of Agriculture, 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: Provided further, That funds appro-
priated to this account shall be available for the base salary and 
expenses of employees that carry out the functions funded by the 
‘‘Capital Improvement and Maintenance’’ account, the ‘‘Range 
Betterment Fund’’ account, and the ‘‘Management of National 
Forest Lands for Subsistence Uses’’ account. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, $153,250,000, to remain available through September 
30, 2029, for construction, capital improvement, maintenance, and 
acquisition of buildings and other facilities and infrastructure; for 
construction, reconstruction, and decommissioning of roads that 
are no longer needed, including unauthorized roads that are not 
part of the transportation system; and for 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 $6,000,000 
shall be for activities authorized by 16 U.S.C. 538(a): Provided 
further, That $20,850,000 shall be for projects specified for Construc-
tion Projects in the table titled ‘‘Interior and Environment Incorpo-
ration of Community Project Funding Items/Congressionally 
Directed Spending Items’’ included for this division in the explana-
tory statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding 
division A of this consolidated Act): Provided further, That funds 
becoming available in fiscal year 2026 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.
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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, $664,000, 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, 2029, (16 U.S.C. 516–617a, 555a; Public Law 96–586; Public 
Law 76–589, Public Law 76–591; and Public Law 78–310). 
RANGE BETTERMENT FUND 
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, protection, and 
improvement, 50 percent of all moneys received during the prior 
fiscal year, as fees for grazing domestic livestock on lands in 
National Forests in the 16 Western States, pursuant to section 
401(b)(1) of Public Law 94–579, to remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2029, of which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available 
for administrative expenses associated with on-the-ground range 
rehabilitation, protection, and improvements. 
GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND RANGELAND 
RESEARCH 
For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), $45,000, to 
remain available through September 30, 2029, to be derived from 
the fund established pursuant to the above Act. 
MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR SUBSISTENCE USES 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service to manage Federal 
lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under title VIII of the Alaska 
National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3111 et seq.), 
$1,099,000, to remain available through September 30, 2029. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression activities 
on National Forest System lands, for emergency wildland fire 
suppression on or adjacent to such lands or other lands under 
fire protection agreement, and for emergency rehabilitation of 
burned-over 
National 
Forest 
System 
lands 
and 
water, 
$2,426,111,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
such funds, including unobligated balances under this heading, 
are available for repayment of advances from other appropriations 
accounts previously transferred for such purposes: Provided further, 
That any unobligated funds appropriated in a previous fiscal year
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for hazardous fuels management may be transferred to the 
‘‘National Forest System’’ account: Provided further, That such 
funds shall be available to reimburse State and other cooperating 
entities for services provided in response to wildfire and other 
emergencies or disasters to the extent such reimbursements by 
the Forest Service for non-fire emergencies are fully repaid by 
the responsible emergency management agency: Provided further, 
That funds provided shall be available for support to Federal emer-
gency response: Provided further, That the costs of implementing 
any cooperative agreement between the Federal Government and 
any non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutually agreed on 
by the affected parties: Provided further, That of the funds provided 
under this heading, $1,011,000,000 shall be available for wildfire 
suppression operations, and is provided to meet the terms of section 
4004(b)(5)(B) of S. Con. Res. 14 (117th Congress), the concurrent 
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2022, and to legislation 
establishing fiscal year 2026 budget enforcement in the House 
of Representatives. 
WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
In addition to the amounts provided under the heading ‘‘Depart-
ment of Agriculture—Forest Service—Wildland Fire Management’’ 
for wildfire suppression operations, $2,480,000,000, to remain avail-
able until transferred, is additional new budget authority as speci-
fied for purposes of section 4004(b)(5) of S. Con. Res. 14 (117th 
Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 
2022, and to legislation establishing fiscal year 2026 budget enforce-
ment in the House of Representatives: Provided, That such amounts 
may be transferred to and merged with amounts made available 
under the headings ‘‘Department of the Interior—Department-Wide 
Programs—Wildland Fire Management’’ and ‘‘Department of Agri-
culture—Forest Service—Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire 
suppression operations in the fiscal year in which such amounts 
are transferred: Provided further, That amounts may be transferred 
to the ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ accounts in the Department 
of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture only upon the 
notification of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
that all wildfire suppression operations funds appropriated under 
that heading in this and prior appropriations Acts to the agency 
to which the funds will be transferred will be obligated within 
30 days: Provided further, That the transfer authority provided 
under this heading is in addition to any other transfer authority 
provided by law: Provided further, That, in determining whether 
all wildfire suppression operations funds appropriated under the 
heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ in this and prior appropria-
tions Acts to either the Department of Agriculture or the Depart-
ment of the Interior will be obligated within 30 days pursuant 
to the preceding proviso, any funds transferred or permitted to 
be transferred pursuant to any other transfer authority provided 
by law shall be excluded.