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franchise fees (and other monetary consideration), or by ex-
change; and the Secretary is authorized to negotiate and 
enter into leases, subleases, concession contracts or other 
agreements for the use of such facilities on such terms and 
conditions as the Secretary may determine reasonable. 
SEC. 116. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
including 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., nonrenewable grazing per-
mits authorized in the Jarbidge Field Office, Bureau of 
Land Management since March 1, 1997 shall be renewed. 
The Animal Unit Months, authorized in any nonrenewable 
grazing permit from March 1, 1997 to present shall con-
tinue in effect under the renewed permit. Nothing in this 
section shall be deemed to extend the renewed permit beyond 
the standard 1-year term. The period of this provision will 
be until all of the grazing permits in the Jarbidge Field 
Office are renewed after the completion of the Record of De-
cision for the Jarbidge Resource Management Plan/Final 
Environmental Impact Statement. 
SEC. 117. OIL AND GAS LEASING INTERNET PILOT 
PROGRAM. Notwithstanding section 17(b)(1)(A) of the Min-
eral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C 226(b)(1)(A)), the Secretary of 
the Interior shall establish an oil and gas leasing Internet 
pilot program, under which the Secretary may conduct 
lease sales through methods other than oral bidding. To 
carry out the pilot program, the Secretary of the Interior
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may use not more than $250,000 of funds in the BLM Per-
mit Processing Improvement Fund described in section 
35(c)(2)(B) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 
191(c)(2)(B)). 
SEC. 118. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary of the Interior is directed to sell property 
within the Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge and 
the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge to the Washington 
State Department of Transportation. 
SEC. 119. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the Department of the Interior may be used, 
in relation to any proposal to store water for the purpose 
of export, for approval of any right-of-way or similar au-
thorization on the Mojave National Preserve or lands man-
aged by the Needles Field Office of the Bureau of Land Man-
agement, or for carrying out any activities associated with 
such right-of-way or similar approval. 
SEC. 120. Section 460ccc–4 of the Red Rock Canyon 
National Conservation Area Establishment Act authoriza-
tion (16 U.S.C. 460ccc) is amended— 
(1) in section (a)(1), by striking ‘‘with donated 
or appropriated funds’’; 
(2) by striking section (a)(2); 
(3) in section (a)(3), by striking ‘‘(3)’’ and re-
placing with ‘‘(2)’’;
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(4) in section (a)(4), by striking ‘‘(4)’’ and re-
placing with ‘‘(3)’’. 
SEC. 121. Title 43 U.S.C. 1473 is amended by insert-
ing at the end of that section before the period the following: 
‘‘, including, in fiscal year 2008 only, contributions of 
money and services to conduct work in support of the or-
derly exploration and development of Outer Continental 
Shelf resources, including but not limited to, preparation 
of environmental documents such as impact statements and 
assessments, studies, and related research’’. 
SEC. 122. Section 1077(c) of Public Law 109–364 is 
repealed. 
SEC. 123. Section 144 of division E of Public Law 
108–447, as amended, is amended in paragraph (b)(2) by 
striking ‘‘November 12, 2004’’ and inserting ‘‘May 4, 
2005.’’ 
SEC. 124. Section 105(f)(1)(B) of the Compact of Free 
Association 
Amendments 
Act 
of 
2003 
(48 
U.S.C. 
1921d(f)(1)(B)) is amended in clause (ix) by— 
(1) striking ‘‘Republic’’ both places it appears 
and inserting ‘‘government, institutions, and people’’; 
(2) striking ‘‘2007’’ and inserting ‘‘2009’’; and 
(3) striking ‘‘was’’ and inserting ‘‘were’’. 
SEC. 125. The Secretary of the Interior may enter into 
cooperative agreements with a State or political subdivision
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(including any agency thereof), or any not-for-profit orga-
nization if the agreement will: (1) serve a mutual interest 
of the parties to the agreement in carrying out the programs 
administered by the Department of the Interior; and (2) 
all parties will contribute resources to the accomplishment 
of these objectives. At the discretion of the Secretary, such 
agreements shall not be subject to a competitive process. 
SEC. 126. The Federal properties commonly referred 
to as the Barnes Ranch and Agency Lake Ranch (the prop-
erties) in Klamath County, Oregon, managed by the Bureau 
of Reclamation shall be transferred to the Upper Klamath 
National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) in accordance with the 
Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge 
Complex and the Bureau of Reclamation Klamath Basin 
Area Office and The Nature Conservancy dated March 2, 
2007, as expeditiously as possible and no later than Decem-
ber 2008: Provided, That these Federal properties and all 
Federal refuge lands within the adjusted boundary area for 
the Refuge, as approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice (Service) in June 2005 under the Land Protection Plan 
of 2005, shall be made a part of the Refuge and shall be 
managed by the Service as such: Provided further, That 
each year after the properties become part of the Refuge, 
those increments of water passively stored on the properties
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shall be applied and credited toward the requirements of 
any consultation or reconsultation over Klamath Project 
operations pursuant to section 7 of the Endangered Species 
Act, consistent with Federal law and State water law. 
SEC. 127. CORINTH UNIT OF SHILOH NATIONAL MILI-
TARY PARK BOUNDARY EXPANSION. The Corinth Battlefield 
Preservation Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 430f–6 et seq.) is 
amended— 
(1) in section 3(1) (16 U.S.C. 430f–7(1)), by 
striking ‘‘304/80,007, and dated October 1998’’ and 
inserting ‘‘304A/80009, and dated April 2007’’; 
(2) in section 4(b) (16 U.S.C. 430f–8(b)), by 
striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) approximately 950 acres, as generally de-
picted on the Map; and’’; 
(3) in section 5(a) (16 U.S.C. 430f–9(a)), by 
striking ‘‘as depicted on the Map’’ and inserting ‘‘de-
scribed in section 4(b)’’; 
(4) by striking section 7 (16 U.S.C. 430f–11); 
and 
(5) by redesignating section 8 (16 U.S.C. 430f– 
12) as section 7. 
SEC. 128. In section 5(8) of Public Law 107–226, 
strike ‘‘acquire’’ and all that follows and insert, ‘‘acquire 
the land or interests in land for the memorial by donation,
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purchase with donated or appropriated funds, exchange or 
condemnation with donated or appropriated funds; and’’. 
SEC. 129. CLARIFICATION OF CONCESSIONAIRE HIS-
TORIC RIGHTS. (a) In implementing section 1307 of Public 
Law 96–487 (96 Stat. 2479), the Secretary shall deem 
Denali National Park Wilderness Centers, Ltd., a corpora-
tion organized and existing under the laws of the State of 
Alaska, to be a person who, on or before January 1, 1979, 
was engaged in adequately providing the following scope 
and level of visitor services within what is currently Denali 
National Park and Preserve: 
(1) Guided interpretive hiking services in the 
Kantishna area new park additions (i.e. park area 
added in 1980 to former Mount McKinley National 
Park), not to exceed 14 guided interpretive hikes per 
week. 
(2) Gold panning outings in the Kantishna area 
new park additions, not to exceed 3 gold panning out-
ings per week. 
(3) Guided interpretive trips, including an aver-
age of four vehicle trips per day, not to exceed 28 
trips per week, into the Old Park (i.e. former Mount 
McKinley National Park).