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to the same extent as if they were contracting under the 
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. 
NATIONAL HERITAGE AREAS AND CORRIDORS 
SEC. 118. (a) Section 109(a) of the Quinebaug and 
Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Act of 
1994 (title I of Public Law 103–449), is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘$17,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$19,000,000’’. 
(b) Section 409(a) of the Steel Industry American Her-
itage Area Act of 1996 (title IV of division II of Public 
Law 104–333) is amended by striking ‘‘$20,000,000’’ and 
inserting ‘‘$22,000,000’’. 
(c) Section 608(a) of the South Carolina National Her-
itage Corridor Act of 1996 (title VI of division II of Public 
Law 104–333) is amended by striking ‘‘$17,000,000’’ and 
inserting ‘‘$19,000,000’’. 
(d) Subsection 157(h)(1) of the Wheeling National 
Heritage Area Act of 2000 (section 157 of Public Law 106– 
291) is amended by striking ‘‘$15,000,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$17,000,000’’. 
(e) Sections 411, 432, and 451 of title IV of the Con-
solidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 (Public Law 110– 
229), are each amended by striking ‘‘the date that is 15 
years after the date of’’ and all that follows through the 
end of each section and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2024.’’.
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(f) Section 512 of the National Aviation Heritage Area 
Act (title V of division J of Public Law 108–447), is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘2022’’ and inserting ‘‘2024’’. 
(g) Section 608 of the Oil Region National Heritage 
Area Act (title VI of Public Law 108–447) is amended by 
striking ‘‘2022’’ and inserting ‘‘2024’’. 
(h) Section 125(a) of Public Law 98–398, as amended 
by section 402 of Public Law 109–338 (120 Stat. 1853), 
is amended by striking ‘‘$10,000,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$12,000,000’’. 
(i) Section 125(a) of Public Law 98–398 is amended 
by striking ‘‘$10,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$12,000,000’’. 
APPRAISER PAY AUTHORITY 
SEC. 119. For fiscal year 2023, funds made available 
in this or any other Act or otherwise made available to the 
Department of the Interior for the Appraisal and Valuation 
Services Office may be used by the Secretary of the Interior 
to establish higher minimum rates of basic pay for employ-
ees of the Department of the Interior in the Appraiser (GS– 
1171) job series at grades 11 through 15 carrying out ap-
praisals of real property and appraisal reviews conducted 
in support of the Department’s realty programs at rates 
no greater than 15 percent above the minimum rates of 
basic pay normally scheduled, and such higher rates shall
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be consistent with subsections (e) through (h) of section 5305 
of title 5, United States Code. 
SAGE-GROUSE 
SEC. 120. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior to write or issue pursuant to section 4 of the Endan-
gered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533)— 
(1) a proposed rule for greater sage-grouse 
(Centrocercus urophasianus); 
(2) a proposed rule for the Columbia basin dis-
tinct population segment of greater sage-grouse. 
STATE CONSERVATION GRANTS 
SEC. 121. For expenses necessary to carry out section 
200305 of title 54, United States Code, the National Park 
Service may retain up to 7 percent of the State Conserva-
tion Grants program to provide to States, the District of 
Columbia, and insular areas, as matching grants to support 
state program administrative costs. 
LOWELL NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK 
SEC. 122. Section 103(a) of Public Law 95–290 (16 
U.S.C. 410cc–13(a); 92 Stat. 292) is amended by striking 
paragraph (1) and redesignating paragraph (2) as para-
graph (1).
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VISITOR EXPERIENCE IMPROVEMENT AUTHORITY 
SEC. 123. Section 101938 of title 54, United States 
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘7’’ and inserting ‘‘9’’. 
DELAWARE WATER GAP AUTHORITY 
SEC. 124. Section 4(b) of The Delaware Water Gap 
National Recreation Area Improvement Act, as amended by 
section 1 of Public Law 115–101, shall be applied by sub-
stituting ‘‘2023’’ for ‘‘2021’’.
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TITLE II 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
For science and technology, including research and de-
velopment activities, which shall include research and devel-
opment activities under the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980; nec-
essary expenses for personnel and related costs and travel 
expenses; procurement of laboratory equipment and sup-
plies; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; and 
other operating expenses in support of research and develop-
ment, $802,276,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2024: Provided, That of the funds included under this 
heading, $30,751,000 shall be for Research: National Prior-
ities as specified in the explanatory statement described in 
section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consoli-
dated Act), of which $13,251,000 shall be for projects speci-
fied for Science and Technology in the table titled ‘‘Interior 
and Environment Incorporation of Community Project 
Funding Items/Congressionally Directed Spending Items’’ 
included for this division in the explanatory statement de-
scribed in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of 
this consolidated Act).
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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; hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of 
aircraft; 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; administrative costs of the 
brownfields program under the Small Business Liability 
Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002; imple-
mentation of a coal combustion residual permit program 
under section 2301 of the Water and Waste Act of 2016; 
and not to exceed $9,000 for official reception and represen-
tation expenses, $3,286,330,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2024: Provided, That funds included under 
this heading may be used for environmental justice imple-
mentation and training grants, and associated program 
support costs: Provided further, That of the funds included 
under this heading— 
(1) $30,700,000 shall be for Environmental Pro-
tection: National Priorities as specified in the explan-
atory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act);
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(2) $681,726,000 shall be for Geographic Pro-
grams as specified in the explanatory statement de-
scribed in section 4 (in the matter preceding division 
A of this consolidated Act); and 
(3) $20,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, shall be for grants, including grants that may 
be awarded on a non-competitive basis, interagency 
agreements, and associated program support costs to 
establish and implement a program to assist Alaska 
Native Regional Corporations, Alaskan Native Village 
Corporations, federally-recognized tribes in Alaska, 
Alaska Native Non-Profit Organizations and Alaska 
Native Nonprofit Associations, and intertribal con-
sortia comprised of Alaskan tribal entities to address 
contamination on lands conveyed under or pursuant 
to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 
U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) that were or are contaminated at 
the time of conveyance and are on an inventory of 
such lands developed and maintained by the Environ-
mental Protection Agency: Provided, That grants 
awarded using funds made available in this para-
graph may be used by a recipient to supplement other 
funds provided by the Environmental Protection 
Agency through individual media or multi-media 
grants or cooperative agreements: Provided further,
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That of the amounts made available in this para-
graph, in addition to amounts otherwise available for 
such purposes, the Environmental Protection Agency 
may reserve up to $2,000,000 for salaries, expenses, 
and administration. 
In addition, $9,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, for necessary expenses of activities described in sec-
tion 26(b)(1) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 
U.S.C. 2625(b)(1)): Provided, That fees collected pursuant 
to that section of that Act and deposited in the ‘‘TSCA Serv-
ice Fee Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting receipts in fiscal 
year 2023 shall be retained and used for necessary salaries 
and expenses in this appropriation and shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided further, That the sum herein 
appropriated in this paragraph from the general fund for 
fiscal year 2023 shall be reduced by the amount of discre-
tionary offsetting receipts received during fiscal year 2023, 
so as to result in a final fiscal year 2023 appropriation 
from the general fund estimated at not more than $0: Pro-
vided further, That to the extent that amounts realized from 
such receipts exceed $9,000,000, those amount in excess of 
$9,000,000 shall be deposited in the ‘‘TSCA Service Fee 
Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting receipts in fiscal year 
2023, shall be retained and used for necessary salaries and 
expenses in this account, and shall remain available until
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expended: Provided further, That of the funds included in 
the first paragraph under this heading, the Chemical Risk 
Review and Reduction program project shall be allocated 
for this fiscal year, excluding the amount of any fees appro-
priated, not less than the amount of appropriations for that 
program project for fiscal year 2014. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General 
Act of 1978, $44,030,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2024. 
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, 
$48,752,000, to remain available until expended. 
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
of 1980 (CERCLA), including sections 111(c)(3), (c)(5), 
(c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and hire, maintenance, 
and operation of aircraft, $1,282,700,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, consisting of such sums as are available 
in the Trust Fund on September 30, 2022, and not other-
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wise appropriated from the Trust Fund, as authorized by 
section 517(a) of the Superfund Amendments and Reau-
thorization Act of 1986 (SARA) and up to $1,282,700,000 
as a payment from general revenues to the Hazardous Sub-
stance Superfund for purposes as authorized by section 
517(b) of SARA: Provided, That funds appropriated under 
this heading may be allocated to other Federal agencies in 
accordance with section 111(a) of CERCLA: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 
$11,800,000 shall be paid to the ‘‘Office of Inspector Gen-
eral’’ appropriation to remain available until September 
30, 2024, and $31,607,000 shall be paid to the ‘‘Science 
and Technology’’ appropriation to remain available until 
September 30, 2024. 
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TRUST FUND 
PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sub-
title I of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $93,205,000, to re-
main available until expended, of which $67,425,000 shall 
be for carrying out leaking underground storage tank clean-
up activities authorized by section 9003(h) of the Solid 
Waste Disposal Act; $25,780,000 shall be for carrying out 
the other provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act speci-
fied in section 9508(c) of the Internal Revenue Code: Pro-
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vided, That the Administrator is authorized to use appro-
priations made available under this heading to implement 
section 9013 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide fi-
nancial assistance to federally recognized Indian tribes for 
the development and implementation of programs to man-
age underground storage tanks. 
INLAND OIL SPILL PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environmental 
Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil Pollution 
Act of 1990, including hire, maintenance, and operation 
of aircraft, $22,072,000, 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 revolving 
funds and performance partnership grants, $4,480,428,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which— 
(1) $1,638,861,000 shall be for making capital-
ization grants for the Clean Water State Revolving 
Funds under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act; and of which $1,126,101,000 shall be for 
making capitalization grants for the Drinking Water 
State Revolving Funds under section 1452 of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act: Provided, That $863,108,642 of
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the funds made available for capitalization grants for 
the Clean Water State Revolving Funds and 
$609,255,899 of the funds made available for capital-
ization grants for the Drinking Water State Revolv-
ing Funds shall be for the construction of drinking 
water, wastewater, and storm water infrastructure 
and for water quality protection in accordance with 
the terms and conditions specified for such grants in 
the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in 
the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act) for projects specified for ‘‘STAG—Drinking 
Water SRF’’ and ‘‘STAG—Clean Water SRF’’ in the 
table titled ‘‘Interior and Environment Incorporation 
of Community Project Funding Items/Congressionally 
Directed Spending Items’’ included for this division 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 
(in the matter preceding division A of this consoli-
dated Act), and, for purposes of these grants, each 
grantee shall contribute not less than 20 percent of the 
cost of the project unless the grantee is approved for 
a waiver by the Agency: Provided further, That for 
fiscal year 2023, to the extent there are sufficient eli-
gible project applications and projects are consistent 
with State Intended Use Plans, not less than 10 per-
cent of the funds made available under this title to
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each State for Clean Water State Revolving Fund 
capitalization grants shall be used by the State for 
projects to address green infrastructure, water or en-
ergy efficiency improvements, or other environ-
mentally innovative activities: Provided further, That 
for fiscal year 2023, funds made available under this 
title to each State for Drinking Water State Revolv-
ing Fund capitalization grants may, at the discretion 
of each State, be used for projects to address green in-
frastructure, water or energy efficiency improvements, 
or other environmentally innovative activities: Pro-
vided further, That the Administrator is authorized to 
use up to $1,500,000 of funds made available for the 
Clean Water State Revolving Funds under this head-
ing under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1381) to conduct the Clean 
Watersheds Needs Survey: Provided further, That not-
withstanding section 603(d)(7) of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act, the limitation on the amounts 
in a State water pollution control revolving 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 2023 and prior 
years where such amounts represent costs of admin-
istering the fund to the extent that such amounts are
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or were deemed reasonable by the Administrator, ac-
counted for separately from other assets in the fund, 
and used for eligible purposes of the fund, including 
administration: Provided further, That for fiscal year 
2023, notwithstanding the provisions of subsections 
(g)(1), (h), and (l) of section 201 of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act, grants made under title II of 
such Act for American Samoa, Guam, the Common-
wealth of the Northern Marianas, the United States 
Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia may 
also be made for the purpose of providing assistance: 
(1) solely for facility plans, design activities, or 
plans, specifications, and estimates for any proposed 
project for the construction of treatment works; and 
(2) for the construction, repair, or replacement of pri-
vately owned treatment works serving one or more 
principal residences or small commercial establish-
ments: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2023, 
notwithstanding the provisions of such subsections 
(g)(1), (h), and (l) of section 201 and section 518(c) 
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, funds re-
served by the Administrator for grants under section 
518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
may also be used to provide assistance: (1) solely for 
facility plans, design activities, or plans, specifica-
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tions, and estimates for any proposed project for the 
construction of treatment works; and (2) for the con-
struction, repair, or replacement of privately owned 
treatment works serving one or more principal resi-
dences or small commercial establishments: Provided 
further, That for fiscal year 2023, notwithstanding 
any provision of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act and regulations issued pursuant thereof, up to a 
total of $2,000,000 of the funds reserved by the Ad-
ministrator for grants under section 518(c) of such 
Act may also be used for grants for training, tech-
nical assistance, and educational programs relating 
to the operation and management of the treatment 
works specified in section 518(c) of such Act: Provided 
further, That for fiscal year 2023, funds reserved 
under section 518(c) of such Act shall be available for 
grants only to Indian tribes, as defined in section 
518(h) of such Act and former Indian reservations in 
Oklahoma (as determined by the Secretary of the In-
terior) and Native Villages as defined in Public Law 
92–203: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2023, 
notwithstanding the limitation on amounts in section 
518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, up 
to a total of 2 percent of the funds appropriated, or 
$30,000,000, whichever is greater, and notwith-
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standing the limitation on amounts in section 1452(i) 
of the Safe Drinking Water Act, up to a total of 2 
percent of the funds appropriated, or $20,000,000, 
whichever is greater, for State Revolving Funds under 
such Acts may be reserved by the Administrator for 
grants under section 518(c) and section 1452(i) of 
such Acts: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2023, 
notwithstanding the amounts specified in section 
205(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, up 
to 1.5 percent of the aggregate funds appropriated for 
the Clean Water State Revolving Fund program 
under the Act less any sums reserved under section 
518(c) of the Act, may be reserved by the Adminis-
trator for grants made under title II of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act for American Samoa, 
Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, 
and United States Virgin Islands: Provided further, 
That for fiscal year 2023, notwithstanding the limita-
tions on amounts specified in section 1452(j) of the 
Safe Drinking Water Act, up to 1.5 percent of the 
funds appropriated for the Drinking Water State Re-
volving Fund programs under the Safe Drinking 
Water Act may be reserved by the Administrator for 
grants made under section 1452(j) of the Safe Drink-
ing Water Act: Provided further, That 10 percent of
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the funds made available under this title to each State 
for Clean Water State Revolving Fund capitalization 
grants and 14 percent of the funds made available 
under this title to each State for Drinking Water 
State Revolving Fund capitalization grants shall be 
used by the State to provide additional subsidy to eli-
gible recipients in the form of forgiveness of principal, 
negative interest loans, or grants (or any combination 
of these), and shall be so used by the State only where 
such funds are provided as initial financing for an 
eligible recipient or to buy, refinance, or restructure 
the debt obligations of eligible recipients only where 
such debt was incurred on or after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, or where such debt was incurred 
prior to the date of enactment of this Act if the State, 
with concurrence from the Administrator, determines 
that such funds could be used to help address a threat 
to public health from heightened exposure to lead in 
drinking water or if a Federal or State emergency 
declaration has been issued due to a threat to public 
health from heightened exposure to lead in a munic-
ipal drinking water supply before the date of enact-
ment of this Act: Provided further, That in a State 
in which such an emergency declaration has been 
issued, the State may use more than 14 percent of the
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funds made available under this title to the State for 
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund capitalization 
grants to provide additional subsidy to eligible recipi-
ents: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
1452(o) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–12(o)), 
the 
Administrator 
shall 
reserve 
$12,000,000 of the amounts made available for fiscal 
year 2023 for making capitalization grants for the 
Drinking Water State Revolving Funds to pay the 
costs of monitoring for unregulated contaminants 
under section 1445(a)(2)(C) of such Act: Provided 
further, That of the unobligated balances available in 
the ‘‘State and Tribal Assistance Grants’’ account ap-
propriated prior to fiscal year 2012 for ‘‘special 
project grants’’ or ‘‘special needs infrastructure 
grants,’’ or for the administration, management, and 
oversight of such grants, $13,300,000 are permanently 
rescinded: Provided further, That no amounts may be 
rescinded from amounts that were designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a 
Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985; 
(2) $36,386,000 shall be for architectural, engi-
neering, planning, design, construction and related 
activities in connection with the construction of high
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priority water and wastewater facilities in the area 
of the United States-Mexico Border, after consultation 
with the appropriate border commission: Provided, 
That no funds provided by this appropriations Act to 
address the water, wastewater and other critical in-
frastructure 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 development or construction of 
any additional colonia areas, or the development 
within an existing colonia the construction of any 
new home, business, or other structure which lacks 
water, wastewater, or other necessary infrastructure; 
(3) $39,686,000 shall be for grants to the State 
of Alaska to address drinking water and wastewater 
infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska Native Vil-
lages: Provided, That of these funds: (A) the State of 
Alaska shall provide a match of 25 percent; (B) no 
more than 5 percent of the funds may be used for ad-
ministrative and overhead expenses; and (C) the State 
of Alaska shall make awards consistent with the 
Statewide priority list established in conjunction with 
the Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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 Pollu-
tion Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) or the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 et 
seq.) which shall allocate not less than 25 percent of 
the funds provided for projects in regional hub com-
munities; 
(4) $100,000,000 shall be to carry out section 
104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Re-
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
(CERCLA), including grants, interagency agree-
ments, and associated program support costs: Pro-
vided, That at least 10 percent shall be allocated for 
assistance in persistent poverty counties: Provided 
further, That for purposes of this section, the term 
‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ means any county that 
has had 20 percent or more of its population living 
in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by the 
1993 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, the 
2000 decennial census, and the most recent Small 
Area Income and Poverty Estimates, or any territory 
or possession of the United States; 
(5) $100,000,000 shall be for grants under title 
VII, subtitle G of the Energy Policy Act of 2005;
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(6) $69,927,000 shall be for targeted airshed 
grants in accordance with the terms and conditions 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 
(in the matter preceding division A of this consoli-
dated Act); 
(7) $30,158,000 shall be for grants under sub-
sections (a) through (j) of section 1459A of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–19a); 
(8) $30,500,000 shall be for grants under section 
1464(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–24(d)); 
(9) $25,011,000 shall be for grants under section 
1459B of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–19b); 
(10) $7,000,000 shall be for grants under section 
1459A(l) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–19a(l)); 
(11) $27,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 104(b)(8) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1254(b)(8)); 
(12) $50,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1301);
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(13) $6,000,000 shall be for grants under section 
4304(b) of the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 
2018 (Public Law 115–270); 
(14) $6,500,000 shall be for carrying out section 
302(a) of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (33 U.S.C. 
4283(a)), of which not more than 2 percent shall be 
for administrative costs to carry out such section: 
Provided, That notwithstanding section 302(a) of 
such Act, the Administrator may also provide grants 
pursuant to such authority to intertribal consortia 
consistent with the requirements in 40 CFR 
35.504(a), to former Indian reservations in Oklahoma 
(as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), and 
Alaska Native Villages as defined in Public Law 92– 
203; 
(15) $7,000,000 shall be for grants under section 
103(b)(3) of the Clean Air Act for wildfire smoke pre-
paredness grants in accordance with the terms and 
conditions in the explanatory statement described in 
section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this 
consolidated Act): Provided, That not more than 3 
percent shall be for administrative costs to carry out 
such section; 
(16) $16,973,000 shall be for State and Tribal 
Assistance Grants to be allocated in the amounts spec-
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ified for those projects and for the purposes delineated 
in the table titled ‘‘Interior and Environment Incor-
poration of Community Project Funding Items/Con-
gressionally Directed Spending Items’’ included for 
this division in the explanatory statement described 
in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of 
this consolidated Act) for remediation, construction, 
and related environmental management activities in 
accordance with the terms and conditions specified for 
such grants in the explanatory statement described in 
section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this 
consolidated Act); 
(17) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under section 
1459F of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–19g); 
(18) $4,000,000 shall be for carrying out section 
2001 of the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 
2018 (Public Law 115–270, 42 U.S.C. 300j–3c note): 
Provided, That the Administrator may award grants 
to and enter into contracts with tribes, intertribal 
consortia, public or private agencies, institutions, or-
ganizations, and individuals, without regard to sec-
tion 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and section 6101 of 
title 41, United States Code, and enter into inter-
agency agreements as appropriate;
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(19) $3,000,000 shall be for grants under section 
50217(b) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1302f(b); Public Law 117–58); 
(20) $4,000,000 shall be for grants under section 
124 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1276); and 
(21) $1,160,625,000 shall be for grants, includ-
ing associated program support costs, to States, feder-
ally recognized Tribes, interstate agencies, tribal con-
sortia, and air pollution control agencies for multi- 
media or single media pollution prevention, control 
and abatement, and related activities, including ac-
tivities 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 par-
ticulate matter monitoring and data collection activi-
ties subject to terms and conditions specified by the 
Administrator, and under section 2301 of the Water 
and Waste Act of 2016 to assist States in developing 
and implementing programs for control of coal com-
bustion residuals, of which: $47,195,000 shall be for 
carrying out section 128 of CERCLA; $10,836,000 
shall be for Environmental Information Exchange 
Network grants, including associated program sup-
port costs; $1,505,000 shall be for grants to States
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under section 2007(f)(2) of the Solid Waste Disposal 
Act, which shall be in addition to funds appropriated 
under the heading ‘‘Leaking Underground Storage 
Tank Trust Fund Program’’ to carry out the provi-
sions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act specified in sec-
tion 9508(c) of the Internal Revenue Code other than 
section 9003(h) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; 
$18,512,000 of the funds available for grants under 
section 106 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act shall be for State participation in national- and 
State-level statistical surveys of water resources and 
enhancements to State monitoring programs. 
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE AND INNOVATION 
PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of direct loans and for the cost of guaran-
teed loans, as authorized by the Water Infrastructure Fi-
nance and Innovation Act of 2014, $68,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That such costs, includ-
ing the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined 
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Pro-
vided further, That these funds are available to subsidize 
gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans, 
including capitalized interest, and total loan principal, in-
cluding capitalized interest, any part of which is to be 
guaranteed, not to exceed $12,500,000,000: Provided fur-
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ther, That of the funds made available under this heading, 
$5,000,000 shall be used solely for the cost of direct loans 
and for the cost of guaranteed loans for projects described 
in section 5026(9) of the Water Infrastructure Finance and 
Innovation Act of 2014 to State infrastructure financing 
authorities, as authorized by section 5033(e) of such Act: 
Provided further, That the use of direct loans or loan guar-
antee authority under this heading for direct loans or com-
mitments to guarantee loans for any project shall be in ac-
cordance with the criteria published in the Federal Register 
on June 30, 2020 (85 FR 39189) pursuant to the fourth 
proviso under the heading ‘‘Water Infrastructure Finance 
and Innovation Program Account’’ in division D of the 
Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public 
Law 116–94): Provided further, That none of the direct 
loans or loan guarantee authority made available under 
this heading shall be available for any project unless the 
Administrator and the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget have certified in advance in writing that the 
direct loan or loan guarantee, as applicable, and the project 
comply with the criteria referenced in the previous proviso: 
Provided further, That, for the purposes of carrying out the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Director of the Con-
gressional Budget Office may request, and the Adminis-
trator shall promptly provide, documentation and informa-
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tion relating to a project identified in a Letter of Interest 
submitted to the Administrator pursuant to a Notice of 
Funding Availability for applications for credit assistance 
under the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation 
Act Program, including with respect to a project that was 
initiated or completed before the date of enactment of this 
Act. 
In addition, fees authorized to be collected pursuant 
to sections 5029 and 5030 of the Water Infrastructure Fi-
nance 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 Inno-
vation Act of 2014, $7,640,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2024. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—ENVIRONMENTAL 
PROTECTION AGENCY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For fiscal year 2023, 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-
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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 awarded 
from funds designated for State financial assistance agree-
ments. 
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 (7 
U.S.C. 136w–8), to remain available until expended. 
Notwithstanding section 33(d)(2) of the Federal Insec-
ticide, 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 2023. 
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency is authorized to collect and obligate fees in accord-
ance with section 3024 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 
U.S.C. 6939g) for fiscal year 2023, to remain available 
until expended. 
The Administrator is authorized to transfer up to 
$368,000,000 of the funds appropriated for the Great Lakes 
Restoration Initiative under the heading ‘‘Environmental
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Programs and Management’’ to the head of any Federal de-
partment or agency, with the concurrence 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 de-
partment or agency to carry out these activities; and to 
make grants to governmental entities, nonprofit organiza-
tions, institutions, and individuals for planning, research, 
monitoring, outreach, and implementation in furtherance 
of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative 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 renova-
tion of facilities, provided that the cost does not exceed 
$300,000 per project. 
For fiscal year 2023, 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 sec-
tions 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act.
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The Administrator is authorized to use the amounts 
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Environmental Programs 
and Management’’ for fiscal year 2023 to provide grants 
to implement the Southeastern New England Watershed 
Restoration Program. 
Notwithstanding the limitations on amounts in section 
320(i)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 
not less than $2,500,000 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). 
For fiscal year 2023, the Office of Chemical Safety and 
Pollution Prevention and the Office of Water may, using 
funds appropriated under the headings ‘‘Environmental 
Programs and Management’’ and ‘‘Science and Tech-
nology’’, contract directly with individuals or indirectly 
with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without re-
gard to 41 U.S.C. 5, for the temporary or intermittent per-
sonal services of students or recent graduates, who shall be 
considered employees for the purposes of chapters 57 and 
81 of title 5, United States Code, relating to compensation 
for travel and work injuries, and chapter 171 of title 28, 
United States Code, relating to tort claims, but shall not 
be considered to be Federal employees for any other purpose: 
Provided, That amounts used for this purpose by the Office
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of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention and the Office 
of Water collectively may not exceed $2,000,000. 
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 Sec-
retary for Natural Resources and Environment, $1,000,000: 
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 SERVICE OPERATIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not other-
wise provided for, $1,152,744,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2026: Provided, That a portion of 
the funds made available under this heading shall be for 
the base salary and expenses of employees in the Chief’s Of-
fice, the Work Environment and Performance Office, the 
Business Operations Deputy Area, and the Chief Financial 
Officer’s Office to carry out administrative and general 
management support functions: Provided further, That
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funds provided under this heading shall be available for the 
costs of facility maintenance, repairs, and leases for build-
ings and sites where these administrative, general manage-
ment 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 in-
formation technology, including cyber security require-
ments: Provided further, That funds provided under this 
heading may be used for necessary expenses to carry out 
administrative and general management support functions 
of the Forest Service not otherwise provided for and nec-
essary for its operation. 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-
search as authorized by law, $307,273,000, to remain avail-
able through September 30, 2026: 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 the Forest and 
Rangeland Research appropriation, are also available in 
the utilization of these funds for Fire Science Research. 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-
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tories, possessions, and others, and for forest health manage-
ment, including for invasive plants, and conducting an 
international program and trade compliance activities as 
authorized, $337,758,000, to remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2026, as authorized by law, of which $30,167,000 
shall be for projects specified for Forest Resource Informa-
tion and Analysis in the table titled ‘‘Interior and Environ-
ment Incorporation of Community Project Funding Items/ 
Congressionally Directed Spending Items’’ included for this 
division in the explanatory statement described in section 
4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act). 
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not other-
wise provided for, for management, protection, improve-
ment, and utilization of the National Forest System, and 
for hazardous fuels management on or adjacent to such 
lands, $1,974,388,000, to remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2026: Provided, That of the funds provided, 
$32,000,000 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 pro-
viso, section 4003(d)(3)(A) of the Omnibus Public Land 
Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 7303(d)(3)(A)) shall
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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, $40,000,000 shall be for forest products: Provided 
further, That of the funds provided, $207,000,000 shall be 
for hazardous fuels management activities, of which not to 
exceed $20,000,000 may be used to make grants, using any 
authorities available to the Forest Service under the ‘‘State 
and Private Forestry’’ appropriation, for the purpose of 
creating incentives for increased use of biomass from Na-
tional Forest System lands: Provided further, That 
$20,000,000 may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture 
to enter into procurement contracts or cooperative agree-
ments or to issue grants for hazardous fuels management 
activities, and for training or monitoring 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 Com-
munity Forest Restoration Act, Public Law 106–393, title 
VI, shall be available for use on non-Federal lands in ac-
cordance with authorities made available to the Forest 
Service under the ‘‘State and Private Forestry’’ appropria-
tion: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 33 of
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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 Asso-
ciation or the direct permittee, as appropriate, in the fiscal 
year in which the credit is made and each fiscal year there-
after for use on the project for conservation practices ap-
proved by the Secretary: Provided further, That funds ap-
propriated to this account shall be available for the base 
salary and expenses of employees that carry out the func-
tions funded by the ‘‘Capital Improvement and Mainte-
nance’’ account, the ‘‘Range Betterment Fund’’ account, 
and the ‘‘Management of National Forest Lands for Subsist-
ence Uses’’ account. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not other-
wise provided for, $158,048,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2026, for construction, capital im-
provement, maintenance, and acquisition of buildings and 
other facilities and infrastructure; and for construction, re-
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construction, 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: Pro-
vided, That $6,000,000 shall be for activities authorized by 
16 U.S.C. 538(a): Provided further, That $5,048,000 shall 
be for projects specified for Construction Projects in the 
table titled ‘‘Interior and Environment Incorporation of 
Community Project Funding Items/Congressionally Di-
rected Spending Items’’ included for this division in the ex-
planatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act): Provided fur-
ther, That funds becoming available in fiscal year 2023 
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 pur-
pose unless the funds are appropriated. 
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, Cali-
fornia; and the Ozark-St. Francis and Ouachita National
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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 govern-
ments, public school districts, or other public school authori-
ties, and for authorized expenditures from funds deposited 
by non-Federal parties pursuant to Land Sale and Ex-
change Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 4, 1967 (16 
U.S.C. 484a), to remain available through September 30, 
2026, (16 U.S.C. 516–617a, 555a; Public Law 96–586; Pub-
lic Law 76–589, Public Law 76–591; and Public Law 78– 
310). 
RANGE BETTERMENT FUND 
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, protec-
tion, 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 September 30, 2026, of 
which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available for adminis-
trative expenses associated with on-the-ground range reha-
bilitation, protection, and improvements.
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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, 2026, 
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, 2026. 
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 emer-
gency rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest System 
lands and water, $945,956,000, 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
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unobligated funds appropriated in a previous fiscal year 
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 emergency re-
sponse: 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. 
WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
In addition to the amounts provided under the heading 
‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Service—Wildland 
Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppression operations, 
$2,210,000,000, to remain available until transferred, is ad-
ditional new budget authority as specified 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 section 1(g) of H. Res. 1151 (117th Congress), as en-
grossed in the House of Representatives on June 8, 2022:
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Provided, That such amounts may be transferred to and 
merged with amounts made available under the headings 
‘‘Department of the Interior—Department-Wide Pro-
grams—Wildland Fire Management’’ and ‘‘Department of 
Agriculture—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 Manage-
ment’’ 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 obli-
gated 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 oper-
ations funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Wildland 
Fire Management’’ in this and prior appropriations Acts 
to either the Department of Agriculture or the Department 
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.
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COMMUNICATIONS SITE ADMINISTRATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
Amounts collected in this fiscal year pursuant to sec-
tion 8705(f)(2) of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115–334), shall be deposited in the special ac-
count established by section 8705(f)(1) of such Act, shall be 
available to cover the costs described in subsection (c)(3) 
of such section of such Act, and shall remain available until 
expended: Provided, That such amounts shall be transferred 
to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FOREST SERVICE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current 
fiscal year shall be available for: (1) purchase of passenger 
motor vehicles; acquisition of passenger motor vehicles from 
excess sources, and hire of such vehicles; purchase, lease, op-
eration, maintenance, and acquisition of aircraft to main-
tain the operable fleet for use in Forest Service wildland 
fire programs and other Forest Service programs; notwith-
standing other provisions of law, existing aircraft being re-
placed may be sold, with proceeds derived or trade-in value 
used to offset the purchase price for the replacement air-
craft; (2) services pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2225, and not to 
exceed $100,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; (3) 
purchase, erection, and alteration of buildings and other
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public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); (4) acquisition of 
land, waters, and interests therein pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 
428a; (5) for expenses pursuant to the Volunteers in the Na-
tional Forest Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 558a, 558d, and 558a 
note); (6) the cost of uniforms as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902; and (7) for debt collection contracts in accord-
ance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c). 
Funds made available to the Forest Service in this Act 
may be transferred between accounts affected by the Forest 
Service budget restructure outlined in section 435 of divi-
sion D of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
2020 (Public Law 116–94): Provided, That any transfer of 
funds pursuant to this paragraph shall not increase or de-
crease the funds appropriated to any account in this fiscal 
year by more than ten percent: Provided further, That such 
transfer authority is in addition to any other transfer au-
thority provided by law. 
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest 
Service may be transferred to the Wildland Fire Manage-
ment appropriation for forest firefighting, emergency reha-
bilitation of burned-over or damaged lands or waters under 
its jurisdiction, and fire preparedness due to severe burning 
conditions upon the Secretary of Agriculture’s notification 
of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
that all fire suppression funds appropriated under the head-
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ing ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ will be obligated within 
30 days: Provided, That all funds used pursuant to this 
paragraph must be replenished by a supplemental appro-
priation which must be requested as promptly as possible. 
Not more than $50,000,000 of funds appropriated to 
the Forest Service shall be available for expenditure or 
transfer to the Department of the Interior for wildland fire 
management, hazardous fuels management, and State fire 
assistance when such transfers would facilitate and expedite 
wildland fire management programs and projects. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 
Forest Service may transfer unobligated balances of discre-
tionary funds appropriated to the Forest Service by this 
Act to or within the National Forest System Account, or 
reprogram funds to be used for the purposes of hazardous 
fuels management and urgent rehabilitation of burned-over 
National Forest System lands and water: Provided, That 
such transferred funds shall remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2026: Provided further, That none of the funds 
transferred pursuant to this paragraph shall be available 
for obligation without written notification to and the prior 
approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for assistance to or through the Agency for Inter-
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national Development in connection with forest and range-
land research, technical information, and assistance in for-
eign countries, and shall be available to support forestry 
and related natural resource activities outside the United 
States and its territories and possessions, including tech-
nical assistance, education and training, and cooperation 
with United States government, private sector, and inter-
national organizations: Provided, That the Forest Service, 
acting for the International Program, may sign direct fund-
ing agreements with foreign governments and institutions 
as well as other domestic agencies (including the U.S. Agen-
cy for International Development, the Department of State, 
and the Millennium Challenge Corporation), United States 
private sector firms, institutions and organizations to pro-
vide technical assistance and training programs on forestry 
and rangeland management: Provided further, That to 
maximize effectiveness of domestic and international re-
search and cooperation, the International Program may 
utilize all authorities related to forestry, research, and coop-
erative assistance regardless of program designations. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available to enter into a cooperative agreement with the 
Section 509(a)(3) Supporting Organization, ‘‘Forest Serv-
ice International Foundation’’ to assist the Foundation in 
meeting administrative, project, and other expenses, and
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may provide for the Foundation’s use of Forest Service per-
sonnel and facilities. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for expenditure or transfer to the Department of 
the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, for removal, 
preparation, and adoption of excess wild horses and burros 
from National Forest System lands, and for the perform-
ance of cadastral surveys to designate the boundaries of such 
lands. 
None of the funds made available to the Forest Service 
in this Act or any other Act with respect to any fiscal year 
shall be subject to transfer under the provisions of section 
702(b) of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 
1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257), section 442 of Public Law 106–224 
(7 U.S.C. 7772), or section 10417(b) of Public Law 107– 
171 (7 U.S.C. 8316(b)). 
Not more than $82,000,000 of funds available to the 
Forest Service shall be transferred to the Working Capital 
Fund of the Department of Agriculture and not more than 
$14,500,000 of funds available to the Forest Service shall 
be transferred to the Department of Agriculture for Depart-
ment Reimbursable Programs, commonly referred to as 
Greenbook charges: Provided, That nothing in this para-
graph shall prohibit or limit the use of reimbursable agree-
ments requested by the Forest Service in order to obtain
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information technology services, including telecommuni-
cations and system modifications or enhancements, from the 
Working Capital Fund of the Department of Agriculture. 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, up to 
$5,000,000 shall be available for priority projects within 
the scope of the approved budget, which shall be carried out 
by the Youth Conservation Corps and shall be carried out 
under the authority of the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 
(16 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.). 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $4,000 is 
available to the Chief of the Forest Service for official recep-
tion and representation expenses. 
Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public Law 
101–593, of the funds available to the Forest Service, up 
to $3,000,000 may be advanced in a lump sum to the Na-
tional Forest Foundation to aid conservation partnership 
projects in support of the Forest Service mission, without 
regard to when the Foundation incurs expenses, for projects 
on or benefitting National Forest System lands or related 
to Forest Service programs: Provided, That of the Federal 
funds made available to the Foundation, no more than 
$300,000 shall be available for administrative expenses: 
Provided further, That the Foundation shall obtain, by the 
end of the period of Federal financial assistance, private 
contributions to match funds made available by the Forest
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Service on at least a one-for-one basis: Provided further, 
That the Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a Fed-
eral or a non-Federal recipient for a project at the same 
rate that the recipient has obtained the non-Federal match-
ing funds. 
Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98–244, up 
to $3,000,000 of the funds available to the Forest Service 
may be advanced to the National Fish and Wildlife Foun-
dation in a lump sum to aid cost-share conservation 
projects, without regard to when expenses are incurred, on 
or benefitting National Forest System lands or related to 
Forest Service programs: Provided, That such funds shall 
be matched on at least a one-for-one basis by the Founda-
tion or its sub-recipients: Provided further, That the Foun-
dation may transfer Federal funds to a Federal or non- 
Federal recipient for a project at the same rate that the 
recipient has obtained the non-Federal matching funds. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service under the 
National Forest System heading shall be available for the 
Secretary of Agriculture to enter into cooperative agree-
ments with other Federal agencies, tribes, States, local gov-
ernments, private and nonprofit entities, and educational 
institutions to support the work of forest or grassland 
collaboratives on activities benefitting Federal lands and 
adjacent non-Federal lands, including for technical assist-
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ance, administrative functions or costs, and other capacity 
support needs identified by the Forest Service. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for interactions with and providing technical as-
sistance to rural communities and natural resource-based 
businesses for sustainable rural development purposes. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for payments to counties within the Columbia 
River Gorge National Scenic Area, pursuant to section 
14(c)(1) and (2), and section 16(a)(2) of Public Law 99– 
663. 
Any funds appropriated to the Forest Service may be 
used to meet the non-Federal share requirement in section 
502(c) of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 
3056(c)(2)). 
The Forest Service shall not assess funds for the pur-
pose of performing fire, administrative, and other facilities 
maintenance and decommissioning. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of any 
appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service, not 
to exceed $500,000 may be used to reimburse the Office of 
the General Counsel (OGC), Department of Agriculture, for 
travel and related expenses incurred as a result of OGC as-
sistance or participation requested by the Forest Service at 
meetings, training sessions, management reviews, land pur-
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chase negotiations, and similar matters unrelated to civil 
litigation: Provided, That future budget justifications for 
both the Forest Service and the Department of Agriculture 
should clearly display the sums previously transferred and 
the sums requested for transfer. 
An eligible individual who is employed in any project 
funded under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 
(42 U.S.C. 3056 et seq.) and administered by the Forest 
Service shall be considered to be a Federal employee for pur-
poses of chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available to pay, from a single account, the base salary and 
expenses of employees who carry out functions funded by 
other accounts for Enterprise Program, Geospatial Tech-
nology and Applications Center, remnant Natural Resource 
Manager, Job Corps, and National Technology and Devel-
opment Program. 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
SERVICES 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of August 
5, 1954 (68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determination and 
Education Assistance Act, the Indian Health Care Improve-
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ment Act, and titles II and III of the Public Health Service 
Act 
with 
respect 
to 
the 
Indian 
Health 
Service, 
$4,919,670,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2024, except as otherwise provided herein; and, in addition, 
$4,627,968,000, which shall become available on October 1, 
2023, and remain available through September 30, 2025, 
except as otherwise provided herein; together with payments 
received during each fiscal year pursuant to sections 231(b) 
and 233 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 238(b) 
and 238b), for services furnished by the Indian Health 
Service: Provided, That funds made available to tribes and 
tribal organizations through contracts, grant agreements, or 
any other agreements or compacts authorized by the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 
(25 U.S.C. 450), shall be deemed to be obligated at the time 
of the grant or contract award and thereafter shall remain 
available to the tribe or tribal organization without fiscal 
year limitation: Provided further, That $2,500,000 shall be 
available for each of fiscal years 2023 and 2024 for grants 
or contracts with public or private institutions to provide 
alcohol or drug treatment services to Indians, including al-
cohol detoxification services: Provided further, That of the 
total amount of funds provided, $1,993,510,000 shall re-
main available until expended for Purchased/Referred Care, 
of which $996,755,000 shall be from funds that become
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available on October 1, 2023: Provided further, That of the 
total amount specified in the preceding proviso for Pur-
chased/Referred Care, $108,000,000 shall be for the Indian 
Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund of which $54,000,000 
shall be from funds that become available on October 1, 
2023: Provided further, That for each of fiscal years 2023 
and 2024, up to $51,000,000 shall remain available until 
expended for implementation of the loan repayment pro-
gram under section 108 of the Indian Health Care Improve-
ment Act: Provided further, That of the total amount of 
funds provided, $116,000,000, including $58,000,000 from 
funds that become available on October 1, 2023, shall be 
for costs related to or resulting from accreditation emer-
gencies, including supplementing activities funded under 
the heading ‘‘Indian Health Facilities’’, of which up to 
$4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 and 2024 may be 
used to supplement amounts otherwise available for Pur-
chased/Referred Care: Provided further, That the amounts 
collected by the Federal Government as authorized by sec-
tions 104 and 108 of the Indian Health Care Improvement 
Act (25 U.S.C. 1613a and 1616a) during the preceding fis-
cal year for breach of contracts shall be deposited in the 
Fund authorized by section 108A of that Act (25 U.S.C. 
1616a–1) and shall remain available until expended and, 
notwithstanding section 108A(c) of that Act (25 U.S.C.
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1616a–1(c)), funds shall be available to make new awards 
under the loan repayment and scholarship programs under 
sections 104 and 108 of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1613a and 
1616a): Provided further, That the amounts made available 
within this account for the Substance Abuse and Suicide 
Prevention Program, for Opioid Prevention, Treatment and 
Recovery Services, for the Domestic Violence Prevention 
Program, for the Zero Suicide Initiative, for the housing 
subsidy authority for civilian employees, for Aftercare Pilot 
Programs at Youth Regional Treatment Centers, for trans-
formation and modernization costs of the Indian Health 
Service Electronic Health Record system, for national qual-
ity and oversight activities, to improve collections from 
public and private insurance at Indian Health Service and 
tribally operated facilities, for an initiative to treat or re-
duce the transmission of HIV and HCV, for a maternal 
health initiative, for the Telebehaviorial Health Center of 
Excellence, for Alzheimer’s grants, for Village Built Clinics, 
for a produce prescription pilot, and for accreditation emer-
gencies shall be allocated at the discretion of the Director 
of the Indian Health Service and shall remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That funds provided in 
this Act may be used for annual contracts and grants that 
fall within 2 fiscal years, provided the total obligation is 
recorded in the year the funds are appropriated: Provided
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further, That the amounts collected by the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services under the authority of title 
IV of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 
1613) shall remain available until expended for the purpose 
of achieving compliance with the applicable conditions and 
requirements of titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security 
Act, except for those related to the planning, design, or con-
struction of new facilities: Provided further, That funding 
contained herein for scholarship programs under the Indian 
Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall re-
main available until expended: Provided further, That 
amounts received by tribes and tribal organizations under 
title IV of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act shall 
be reported and accounted for and available to the receiving 
tribes and tribal organizations until expended: Provided 
further, That the Bureau of Indian Affairs may collect from 
the Indian Health Service, and from tribes and tribal orga-
nizations operating health facilities pursuant to Public 
Law 93–638, such individually identifiable health informa-
tion relating to disabled children as may be necessary for 
the purpose of carrying out its functions under the Individ-
uals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et 
seq.): Provided further, That none of the funds provided that 
become available on October 1, 2023, may be used for imple-
mentation of the Electronic Health Record System or the
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Indian Health Care Improvement Fund: Provided further, 
That of the funds provided, $74,138,000 is for the Indian 
Health Care Improvement Fund and may be used, as need-
ed, to carry out activities typically funded under the Indian 
Health Facilities account: Provided further, That none of 
the funds appropriated by this Act, or any other Act, to 
the Indian Health Service for the Electronic Health Record 
system shall be available for obligation or expenditure for 
the selection or implementation of a new Information Tech-
nology infrastructure system, unless the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
are consulted 90 days in advance of such obligation. 
Of the unobligated balances under the heading ‘‘Indian 
Health Services’’ from amounts made available in title III 
of division G of Public Law 117–103 for the fiscal year 
2022 costs of staffing and operating new facilities, 
$29,388,000 are hereby rescinded. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS 
For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for 
contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with 
the Indian Health Service for fiscal year 2023, such sums 
as may be necessary: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 
this heading shall be available for transfer to another budget
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account: Provided further, That amounts obligated but not 
expended by a tribe or tribal organization for contract sup-
port costs for such agreements for the current fiscal year 
shall be applied to contract support costs due for such agree-
ments for subsequent fiscal years. 
PAYMENTS FOR TRIBAL LEASES 
For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for 
leases pursuant to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5324(l)) 
for fiscal year 2023, such sums as may be necessary, which 
shall be available for obligation through September 30, 
2024: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, no amounts made available under this heading shall 
be available for transfer to another budget account. 
INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, maintenance, demolition, im-
provement, and equipment of health and related auxiliary 
facilities, including quarters for personnel; preparation of 
plans, specifications, and drawings; acquisition of sites, 
purchase and erection of modular buildings, and purchases 
of trailers; and for provision of domestic and community 
sanitation facilities for Indians, as authorized by section 
7 of the Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2004a), the In-
dian Self-Determination Act, and the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Act, and for expenses necessary to carry out
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such Acts and titles II and III of the Public Health Service 
Act with respect to environmental health and facilities sup-
port activities of the Indian Health Service, $958,553,000, 
to remain available until expended; and, in addition, 
$501,490,000, which shall become available on October 1, 
2023, and remain available until expended: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appro-
priated for the planning, design, construction, renovation, 
or expansion of health facilities for the benefit of an Indian 
tribe or tribes may be used to purchase land on which such 
facilities will be located: Provided further, That not to ex-
ceed $500,000 may be used for each of fiscal years 2023 
and 2024 by the Indian Health Service to purchase 
TRANSAM equipment from the Department of Defense for 
distribution to the Indian Health Service and tribal facili-
ties: Provided further, That none of the funds provided that 
become available on October 1, 2023, may be used for 
Health Care Facilities Construction or for Sanitation Fa-
cilities Construction: Provided further, That of the amount 
appropriated under this heading for fiscal year 2023 for 
Sanitation Facilities Construction, $15,192,000 shall be for 
projects specified for Sanitation Facilities Construction 
(CDS) in the table titled ‘‘Interior and Environment Incor-
poration of Community Project Funding Items/Congres-
sionally Directed Spending Items’’ included for this divi-
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sion in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in 
the matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act): 
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated to 
the Indian Health Service may be used for sanitation facili-
ties construction for new homes funded with grants by the 
housing programs of the United States Department of 
Housing and Urban Development. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
Appropriations provided in this Act to the Indian 
Health Service shall be available for services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109 at rates not to exceed the per diem rate 
equivalent to the maximum rate payable for senior-level po-
sitions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles and aircraft; purchase of medical equipment; purchase 
of reprints; purchase, renovation, and erection of modular 
buildings and renovation of existing facilities; payments for 
telephone service in private residences in the field, when au-
thorized under regulations approved by the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services; uniforms, or allowances there-
for as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; and for expenses 
of attendance at meetings that relate to the functions or ac-
tivities of the Indian Health Service: Provided, That in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the Indian Health Care Im-
provement Act, non-Indian patients may be extended health 
care at all tribally administered or Indian Health Service
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facilities, subject to charges, and the proceeds along with 
funds recovered under the Federal Medical Care Recovery 
Act (42 U.S.C. 2651–2653) shall be credited to the account 
of the facility providing the service and shall be available 
without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other law or regulation, funds transferred 
from the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
to the Indian Health Service shall be administered under 
Public Law 86–121, the Indian Sanitation Facilities Act 
and Public Law 93–638: Provided further, That funds ap-
propriated to the Indian Health Service in this Act, except 
those used for administrative and program direction pur-
poses, shall not be subject to limitations directed at cur-
tailing Federal travel and transportation: Provided further, 
That none of the funds made available to the Indian Health 
Service in this Act shall be used for any assessments or 
charges by the Department of Health and Human Services 
unless identified in the budget justification and provided 
in this Act, or approved by the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations through the reprogramming process: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, funds previously or herein made available to a tribe 
or tribal organization through a contract, grant, or agree-
ment authorized by title I or title V of the Indian Self- 
Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25
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U.S.C. 450 et seq.), may be deobligated and reobligated to 
a self-determination contract under title I, or a self-govern-
ance agreement under title V of such Act and thereafter 
shall remain available to the tribe or tribal organization 
without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, That none 
of the funds made available to the Indian Health Service 
in this Act shall be used to implement the final rule pub-
lished in the Federal Register on September 16, 1987, by 
the Department of Health and Human Services, relating 
to the eligibility for the health care services of the Indian 
Health Service until the Indian Health Service has sub-
mitted a budget request reflecting the increased costs associ-
ated with the proposed final rule, and such request has been 
included in an appropriations Act and enacted into law: 
Provided further, That with respect to functions transferred 
by the Indian Health Service to tribes or tribal organiza-
tions, the Indian Health Service is authorized to provide 
goods and services to those entities on a reimbursable basis, 
including payments in advance with subsequent adjust-
ment, and the reimbursements received therefrom, along 
with the funds received from those entities pursuant to the 
Indian Self-Determination Act, may be credited to the same 
or subsequent appropriation account from which the funds 
were originally derived, with such amounts to remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That reimburse-
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ments for training, technical assistance, or services pro-
vided by the Indian Health Service will contain total costs, 
including direct, administrative, and overhead costs associ-
ated with the provision of goods, services, or technical as-
sistance: Provided further, That the Indian Health Service 
may provide to civilian medical personnel serving in hos-
pitals operated by the Indian Health Service housing allow-
ances equivalent to those that would be provided to members 
of the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public 
Health Service serving in similar positions at such hos-
pitals: Provided further, That the appropriation structure 
for the Indian Health Service may not be altered without 
advance notification to the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 
SCIENCES 
For necessary expenses for the National Institute of 
Environmental Health Sciences in carrying out activities 
set forth in section 311(a) of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
(42 U.S.C. 9660(a)) and section 126(g) of the Superfund 
Amendments 
and 
Reauthorization 
Act 
of 
1986, 
$83,035,000.
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AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY 
TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH 
For necessary expenses for the Agency for Toxic Sub-
stances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in carrying out ac-
tivities set forth in sections 104(i) and 111(c)(4) of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, 
and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and section 3019 of 
the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $85,020,000: Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, in lieu of per-
forming a health assessment under section 104(i)(6) of 
CERCLA, the Administrator of ATSDR may conduct other 
appropriate health studies, evaluations, or activities, in-
cluding, without limitation, biomedical testing, clinical 
evaluations, medical monitoring, and referral to accredited 
healthcare providers: Provided further, That in performing 
any such health assessment or health study, evaluation, or 
activity, the Administrator of ATSDR shall not be bound 
by the deadlines in section 104(i)(6)(A) of CERCLA: Pro-
vided further, That none of the funds appropriated under 
this heading shall be available for ATSDR to issue in excess 
of 40 toxicological profiles pursuant to section 104(i) of 
CERCLA during fiscal year 2023, and existing profiles 
may be updated as necessary.
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OTHER RELATED AGENCIES 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF 
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 
For necessary expenses to continue functions assigned 
to the Council on Environmental Quality and Office of En-
vironmental Quality pursuant to the National Environ-
mental Policy Act of 1969, the Environmental Quality Im-
provement Act of 1970, and Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 
1977, and not to exceed $750 for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses, $4,676,000: Provided, That notwith-
standing section 202 of the National Environmental Policy 
Act of 1970, the Council shall consist of one member, ap-
pointed by the President, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate, serving as chairman and exercising all 
powers, functions, and duties of the Council. 
CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pur-
suant to section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, including 
hire of passenger vehicles, uniforms or allowances therefor, 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, and for services au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates for individuals not 
to exceed the per diem equivalent to the maximum rate pay-
able for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376,
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$14,400,000: Provided, That the Chemical Safety and Haz-
ard Investigation Board (Board) shall have not more than 
three career Senior Executive Service positions: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the individual appointed to the position of Inspector Gen-
eral of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shall, 
by virtue of such appointment, also hold the position of In-
spector General of the Board: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, the Inspector Gen-
eral of the Board shall utilize personnel of the Office of In-
spector General of EPA in performing the duties of the In-
spector General of the Board, and shall not appoint any 
individuals to positions within the Board. 
OFFICE OF NAVAJO AND HOPI INDIAN RELOCATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and 
Hopi Indian Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93– 
531, $3,060,000, to remain available until expended, which 
shall be derived from unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations available under this heading: Provided, 
That funds provided in this or any other appropriations 
Act are to be used to relocate eligible individuals and groups 
including evictees from District 6, Hopi-partitioned lands 
residents, those in significantly substandard housing, and 
all others certified as eligible and not included in the pre-
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ceding categories: Provided further, That none of the funds 
contained in this or any other Act may be used by the Office 
of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation to evict any single 
Navajo or Navajo family who, as of November 30, 1985, 
was physically domiciled on the lands partitioned to the 
Hopi Tribe unless a new or replacement home is provided 
for such household: Provided further, That no relocatee will 
be provided with more than one new or replacement home: 
Provided further, That the Office shall relocate any certified 
eligible relocatees who have selected and received an ap-
proved homesite on the Navajo reservation or selected a re-
placement residence off the Navajo reservation or on the 
land acquired pursuant to section 11 of Public Law 93– 
531 (88 Stat. 1716). 
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE 
CULTURE AND ARTS DEVELOPMENT 
PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE 
For payment to the Institute of American Indian and 
Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, as authorized 
by part A of title XV of Public Law 99–498 (20 U.S.C. 
4411 et seq.), $13,482,000, which shall become available on 
July 1, 2023, and shall remain available until September 
30, 2024.
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institution, 
as authorized by law, including research in the fields of art, 
science, and history; development, preservation, and docu-
mentation of the National Collections; presentation of pub-
lic exhibits and performances; collection, preparation, dis-
semination, and exchange of information and publications; 
conduct of education, training, and museum assistance pro-
grams; maintenance, alteration, operation, lease agreements 
of no more than 30 years, and protection of buildings, fa-
cilities, and approaches; not to exceed $100,000 for services 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and purchase, rental, re-
pair, and cleaning of uniforms for employees, $892,855,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2024, except as oth-
erwise provided herein; of which not to exceed $26,974,000 
for the instrumentation program, collections acquisition, 
exhibition reinstallation, Smithsonian American Women’s 
History Museum, National Museum of the American 
Latino, and the repatriation of skeletal remains program 
shall remain available until expended; and including such 
funds as may be necessary to support American overseas 
research centers: Provided, That funds appropriated herein 
are available for advance payments to independent contrac-
tors performing research services or participating in official
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Smithsonian presentations: Provided further, That the 
Smithsonian Institution may expend Federal appropria-
tions designated in this Act for lease or rent payments, as 
rent payable to the Smithsonian Institution, and such rent 
payments may be deposited into the general trust funds of 
the Institution to be available as trust funds for expenses 
associated with the purchase of a portion of the building 
at 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, to the ex-
tent that federally supported activities will be housed there: 
Provided further, That the use of such amounts in the gen-
eral trust funds of the Institution for such purpose shall 
not be construed as Federal debt service for, a Federal guar-
antee of, a transfer of risk to, or an obligation of the Federal 
Government: Provided further, That no appropriated funds 
may be used directly to service debt which is incurred to 
finance the costs of acquiring a portion of the building at 
600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, or of plan-
ning, designing, and constructing improvements to such 
building: Provided further, That any agreement entered 
into by the Smithsonian Institution for the sale of its own-
ership interest, or any portion thereof, in such building so 
acquired may not take effect until the expiration of a 30 
day period which begins on the date on which the Secretary 
of the Smithsonian submits to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and Senate, the
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Committees on House Administration and Transportation 
and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, and the 
Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate a 
report, as outlined in the explanatory statement described 
in section 4 of the Further Consolidated Appropriations 
Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94; 133 Stat. 2536) on the in-
tended sale. 
FACILITIES CAPITAL 
For necessary expenses of repair, revitalization, and 
alteration of facilities owned or occupied by the Smithso-
nian Institution, by contract or otherwise, as authorized by 
section 2 of the Act of August 22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623), and 
for 
construction, 
including 
necessary 
personnel, 
$251,645,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
not to exceed $10,000 shall be for services as authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109. 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For the upkeep and operations of the National Gallery 
of Art, the protection and care of the works of art therein, 
and administrative expenses incident thereto, as authorized 
by the Act of March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), as amended 
by the public resolution of April 13, 1939 (Public Resolu-
tion 9, 76th Congress), including services as authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in advance when authorized by
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the treasurer of the Gallery for membership in library, mu-
seum, and art associations or societies whose publications 
or services are available to members only, or to members 
at a price lower than to the general public; purchase, re-
pair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards, and uniforms, 
or allowances therefor, for other employees as authorized by 
law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); purchase or rental of devices and 
services for protecting buildings and contents thereof, and 
maintenance, alteration, improvement, and repair of build-
ings, approaches, and grounds; and purchase of services for 
restoration and repair of works of art for the National Gal-
lery of Art by contracts made, without advertising, with 
individuals, firms, or organizations at such rates or prices 
and under such terms and conditions as the Gallery may 
deem proper, $170,240,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2024, of which not to exceed $3,875,000 for the 
special exhibition program shall remain available until ex-
pended. 
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of repair, restoration, and ren-
ovation of buildings, grounds and facilities owned or occu-
pied by the National Gallery of Art, by contract or other-
wise, for operating lease agreements of no more than 10 
years, that address space needs created by the ongoing ren-
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ovations in the Master Facilities Plan, as authorized, 
$39,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That of this amount, $27,208,000 shall be available for de-
sign and construction of an off-site art storage facility in 
partnership with the Smithsonian Institution and may be 
transferred to the Smithsonian Institution for such pur-
poses: Provided further, That contracts awarded for envi-
ronmental systems, protection systems, and exterior repair 
or renovation of buildings of the National Gallery of Art 
may be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded 
on the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price. 
JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 
For necessary expenses for the operation, maintenance, 
and security of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Per-
forming Arts, $27,640,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember, 30, 2024. 
CAPITAL REPAIR AND RESTORATION 
For necessary expenses for capital repair and restora-
tion of the existing features of the building and site of the 
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 
$17,740,000, to remain available until expended.
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WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR 
SCHOLARS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions 
of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 
1356) including hire of passenger vehicles and services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $15,000,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2024. 
NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE 
HUMANITIES 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foun-
dation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 
$207,000,000 shall be available to the National Endowment 
for the Arts for the support of projects and productions in 
the arts, including arts education and public outreach ac-
tivities, through assistance to organizations and individuals 
pursuant to section 5 of the Act, for program support, and 
for administering the functions of the Act, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foun-
dation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965,
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$207,000,000 to remain available until expended, of which 
$188,250,000 shall be available for support of activities in 
the humanities, pursuant to section 7(c) of the Act and for 
administering the functions of the Act; and $18,750,000 
shall be available to carry out the matching grants program 
pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Act, including 
$15,750,000 for the purposes of section 7(h): Provided, That 
appropriations for carrying out section 10(a)(2) shall be 
available for obligation only in such amounts as may be 
equal to the total amounts of gifts, bequests, devises of 
money, and other property accepted by the chairman or by 
grantees of the National Endowment for the Humanities 
under 
the 
provisions 
of 
sections 
11(a)(2)(B) 
and 
11(a)(3)(B) during the current and preceding fiscal years 
for which equal amounts have not previously been appro-
priated. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
None of the funds appropriated to the National Foun-
dation on the Arts and the Humanities may be used to 
process any grant or contract documents which do not in-
clude the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided, That none of 
the funds appropriated to the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities may be used for official reception 
and representation expenses: Provided further, That funds 
from nonappropriated sources may be used as necessary for
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official reception and representation expenses: Provided fur-
ther, That the Chairperson of the National Endowment for 
the Arts may approve grants of up to $10,000, if in the 
aggregate the amount of such grants does not exceed 5 per-
cent of the sums appropriated for grantmaking purposes per 
year: Provided further, That such small grant actions are 
taken pursuant to the terms of an expressed and direct dele-
gation of authority from the National Council on the Arts 
to the Chairperson. 
COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses of the Commission of Fine Arts under 
chapter 91 of title 40, United States Code, $3,661,000: Pro-
vided, That the Commission is authorized to charge fees to 
cover the full costs of its publications, and such fees shall 
be credited to this account as an offsetting collection, to re-
main available until expended without further appropria-
tion: Provided further, That the Commission is authorized 
to accept gifts, including objects, papers, artwork, drawings 
and artifacts, that pertain to the history and design of the 
Nation’s Capital or the history and activities of the Com-
mission of Fine Arts, for the purpose of artistic display, 
study, or education: Provided further, That one-tenth of one 
percent of the funds provided under this heading may be 
used for official reception and representation expenses.
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NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 
99–190 (20 U.S.C. 956a), $5,000,000: Provided, That the 
item relating to ‘‘National Capital Arts and Cultural Af-
fairs’’ in the Department of the Interior and Related Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 1986, as enacted into law by sec-
tion 101(d) of Public Law 99–190 (20 U.S.C. 956a), shall 
be applied in fiscal year 2023 in the second paragraph by 
inserting ‘‘, calendar year 2020 excluded’’ before the first 
period: Provided further, That in determining an eligible 
organization’s annual income for calendar years 2021, 
2022, and 2023, funds or grants received by the eligible or-
ganization from any supplemental appropriations Act re-
lated to coronavirus or any other law providing appropria-
tions for the purpose of preventing, preparing for, or re-
sponding to coronavirus shall be counted as part of the eli-
gible organization’s annual income. 
ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on His-
toric Preservation (Public Law 89–665), $8,585,000. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Capital Plan-
ning Commission under chapter 87 of title 40, United
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States Code, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $8,750,000: Provided, That one-quarter of 1 percent 
of the funds provided under this heading may be used for 
official reception and representational expenses associated 
with hosting international visitors engaged in the planning 
and physical development of world capitals. 
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 
For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, as 
authorized by Public Law 106–292 (36 U.S.C. 2301–2310), 
$65,231,000, of which $1,000,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2025, for the Museum’s equipment re-
placement program; and of which $4,000,000 for the Muse-
um’s repair and rehabilitation program and $1,264,000 for 
the Museum’s outreach initiatives program shall remain 
available until expended. 
PRESIDIO TRUST 
The Presidio Trust is authorized to issue obligations 
to the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to section 
104(d)(3) of the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Manage-
ment Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–333), in an amount 
not to exceed $90,000,000: Provided, That such section is 
amended by striking ‘‘$150,000,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$250,000,000’’.
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WORLD WAR I CENTENNIAL COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
Notwithstanding section 9 of the World War I Centen-
nial Commission Act, as authorized by the World War I 
Centennial Commission Act (Public Law 112–272) and the 
Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 
113–291), for necessary expenses of the World War I Cen-
tennial Commission, $1,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2024: Provided, That in addition to the au-
thority provided by section 6(g) of such Act, the World War 
I Commission may accept money, in-kind personnel serv-
ices, contractual support, or any appropriate support from 
any executive branch agency for activities of the Commis-
sion. 
UNITED STATES SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For 
necessary 
expenses 
of 
the 
United 
States 
Semiquincentennial Commission to plan and coordinate ob-
servances and activities associated with the 250th anniver-
sary of the founding of the United States, as authorized by 
Public Law 116–282, the technical amendments to Public 
Law 114–196, $15,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2024.
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ALYCE SPOTTED BEAR AND WALTER SOBOLEFF 
COMMISSION ON NATIVE CHILDREN 
For necessary expenses of the Alyce Spotted Bear and 
Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children (referred 
to in this paragraph as the ‘‘Commission’’), $550,000 to 
remain available until September 30, 2024: Provided, That 
in addition to the authority provided by section 3(g)(5) and 
3(h) of Public Law 114–244, the Commission may hereafter 
accept in-kind personnel services, contractual support, or 
any appropriate support from any executive branch agency 
for activities of the Commission.
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TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
RESTRICTION ON USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 401. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available for any activity or the publica-
tion or distribution of literature that in any way tends to 
promote public support or opposition to any legislative pro-
posal on which Congressional action is not complete other 
than to communicate to Members of Congress as described 
in 18 U.S.C. 1913. 
OBLIGATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 402. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
DISCLOSURE OF ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
SEC. 403. The amount and basis of estimated overhead 
charges, deductions, reserves, or holdbacks, including work-
ing capital fund charges, from programs, projects, activities 
and subactivities to support government-wide, depart-
mental, agency, or bureau administrative functions or 
headquarters, regional, or central operations shall be pre-
sented in annual budget justifications and subject to ap-
proval by the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate. Changes to such esti-
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mates shall be presented to the Committees on Appropria-
tions for approval. 
MINING APPLICATIONS 
SEC. 404. (a) LIMITATION OF FUNDS.—None of the 
funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant 
to this Act shall be obligated or expended to accept or proc-
ess applications for a patent for any mining or mill site 
claim located under the general mining laws. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—Subsection (a) shall not apply if 
the Secretary of the Interior determines that, for the claim 
concerned: (1) a patent application was filed with the Sec-
retary on or before September 30, 1994; and (2) all require-
ments established under sections 2325 and 2326 of the Re-
vised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) for vein or lode 
claims, sections 2329, 2330, 2331, and 2333 of the Revised 
Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, and 37) for placer claims, and 
section 2337 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 42) for mill 
site claims, as the case may be, were fully complied with 
by the applicant by that date. 
(c) REPORT.—On September 30, 2024, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall file with the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations and the Committee on Natural 
Resources of the House and the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources of the Senate a report on actions taken 
by the Department under the plan submitted pursuant to
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section 314(c) of the Department of the Interior and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 (Public Law 104–208). 
(d) MINERAL EXAMINATIONS.—In order to process 
patent applications in a timely and responsible manner, 
upon the request of a patent applicant, the Secretary of the 
Interior shall allow the applicant to fund a qualified third- 
party contractor to be selected by the Director of the Bureau 
of Land Management to conduct a mineral examination of 
the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent appli-
cation as set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau of Land 
Management shall have the sole responsibility to choose and 
pay the third-party contractor in accordance with the 
standard procedures employed by the Bureau of Land Man-
agement in the retention of third-party contractors. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS, PRIOR YEAR LIMITATION 
SEC. 405. Sections 405 and 406 of division F of the 
Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
2015 (Public Law 113–235) shall continue in effect in fiscal 
year 2023. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS, FISCAL YEAR 2023 LIMITATION 
SEC. 406. Amounts provided by this Act for fiscal year 
2023 under the headings ‘‘Department of Health and 
Human Services, Indian Health Service, Contract Support 
Costs’’ and ‘‘Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education, Contract Support
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Costs’’ are the only amounts available for contract support 
costs arising out of self-determination or self-governance 
contracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding agreements 
for fiscal year 2023 with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bu-
reau of Indian Education, and the Indian Health Service: 
Provided, That such amounts provided by this Act are not 
available for payment of claims for contract support costs 
for prior years, or for repayments of payments for settle-
ments or judgments awarding contract support costs for 
prior years. 
FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS 
SEC. 407. The Secretary of Agriculture shall not be 
considered to be in violation of section 6(f)(5)(A) of the For-
est and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 
1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604(f)(5)(A)) solely because more than 15 
years have passed without revision of the plan for a unit 
of the National Forest System. Nothing in this section ex-
empts the Secretary from any other requirement of the For-
est and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act (16 
U.S.C. 1600 et seq.) or any other law: Provided, That if 
the Secretary is not acting expeditiously and in good faith, 
within the funding available, to revise a plan for a unit 
of the National Forest System, this section shall be void 
with respect to such plan and a court of proper jurisdiction 
may order completion of the plan on an accelerated basis.
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PROHIBITION WITHIN NATIONAL MONUMENTS 
SEC. 408. No funds provided in this Act may be ex-
pended to conduct preleasing, leasing and related activities 
under either the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) 
or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 
et seq.) within the boundaries of a National Monument es-
tablished pursuant to the Act of June 8, 1906 (16 U.S.C. 
431 et seq.) as such boundary existed on January 20, 2001, 
except where such activities are allowed under the Presi-
dential proclamation establishing such monument. 
LIMITATION ON TAKINGS 
SEC. 409. Unless otherwise provided herein, no funds 
appropriated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or in-
terests in lands may be expended for the filing of declara-
tions of taking or complaints in condemnation without the 
approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations: Provided, That this provision shall not apply to 
funds appropriated to implement the Everglades National 
Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, or to funds 
appropriated for Federal assistance to the State of Florida 
to acquire lands for Everglades restoration purposes. 
PROHIBITION ON NO-BID CONTRACTS 
SEC. 410. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act to executive branch agencies may 
be used to enter into any Federal contract unless such con-
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tract is entered into in accordance with the requirements 
of Chapter 33 of title 41, United States Code, or Chapter 
137 of title 10, United States Code, and the Federal Acqui-
sition Regulation, unless— 
(1) Federal law specifically authorizes a contract 
to be entered into without regard for these require-
ments, including formula grants for States, or feder-
ally recognized Indian tribes; 
(2) such contract is authorized by the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act 
(Public Law 93–638, 25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.) or by any 
other Federal laws that specifically authorize a con-
tract within an Indian tribe as defined in section 
4(e) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(e)); or 
(3) such contract was awarded prior to the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
POSTING OF REPORTS 
SEC. 411. (a) Any agency receiving funds made avail-
able in this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), 
post on the public website of that agency any report re-
quired to be submitted by the Congress in this or any other 
Act, upon the determination by the head of the agency that 
it shall serve the national interest. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if—
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(1) the public posting of the report compromises 
national security; or 
(2) the report contains proprietary information. 
(c) The head of the agency posting such report shall 
do so only after such report has been made available to the 
requesting Committee or Committees of Congress for no less 
than 45 days. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS GRANT GUIDELINES 
SEC. 412. Of the funds provided to the National En-
dowment for the Arts— 
(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant to 
an individual if such grant is awarded to such indi-
vidual for a literature fellowship, National Heritage 
Fellowship, or American Jazz Masters Fellowship. 
(2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures to 
ensure that no funding provided through a grant, ex-
cept a grant made to a State or local arts agency, or 
regional group, may be used to make a grant to any 
other organization or individual to conduct activity 
independent of the direct grant recipient. Nothing in 
this subsection shall prohibit payments made in ex-
change for goods and services. 
(3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support 
to a group, unless the application is specific to the
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contents of the season, including identified programs 
or projects. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS PROGRAM 
PRIORITIES 
SEC. 413. (a) In providing services or awarding finan-
cial assistance under the National Foundation on the Arts 
and the Humanities Act of 1965 from funds appropriated 
under this Act, the Chairperson of the National Endowment 
for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given to providing 
services or awarding financial assistance for projects, pro-
ductions, workshops, or programs that serve underserved 
populations. 
(b) In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘underserved population’’ means a 
population of individuals, including urban minori-
ties, who have historically been outside the purview of 
arts and humanities programs due to factors such as 
a high incidence of income below the poverty line or 
to geographic isolation. 
(2) The term ‘‘poverty line’’ means the poverty 
line (as defined by the Office of Management and 
Budget, and revised annually in accordance with sec-
tion 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant 
Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2))) applicable to a family of the 
size involved.
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(c) In providing services and awarding financial as-
sistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and 
Humanities Act of 1965 with funds appropriated by this 
Act, the Chairperson of the National Endowment for the 
Arts shall ensure that priority is given to providing services 
or awarding financial assistance for projects, productions, 
workshops, or programs that will encourage public knowl-
edge, education, understanding, and appreciation of the 
arts. 
(d) With funds appropriated by this Act to carry out 
section 5 of the National Foundation on the Arts and Hu-
manities Act of 1965— 
(1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant cat-
egory for projects, productions, workshops, or pro-
grams that are of national impact or availability or 
are able to tour several States; 
(2) the Chairperson shall not make grants ex-
ceeding 15 percent, in the aggregate, of such funds to 
any single State, excluding grants made under the 
authority of paragraph (1); 
(3) the Chairperson shall report to the Congress 
annually and by State, on grants awarded by the 
Chairperson in each grant category under section 5 of 
such Act; and
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(4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of 
grants to improve and support community-based 
music performance and education. 
STATUS OF BALANCES OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 414. The Department of the Interior, the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the 
Indian Health Service shall provide the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives and Senate 
quarterly reports on the status of balances of appropriations 
including all uncommitted, committed, and unobligated 
funds in each program and activity within 60 days of en-
actment of this Act. 
EXTENSION OF GRAZING PERMITS 
SEC. 415. The terms and conditions of section 325 of 
Public Law 108–108 (117 Stat. 1307), regarding grazing 
permits issued by the Forest Service on any lands not sub-
ject to administration under section 402 of the Federal 
Lands Policy and Management Act (43 U.S.C. 1752), shall 
remain in effect for fiscal year 2023. 
FUNDING PROHIBITION 
SEC. 416. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer net-
work unless such network is designed to block access to por-
nography websites.
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(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-
nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities. 
HUMANE TRANSFER AND TREATMENT OF ANIMALS 
SEC. 417. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to land ad-
ministered by the Bureau of Land Management, or the Sec-
retary of Agriculture, with respect to land administered by 
the Forest Service (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Sec-
retary concerned’’), may transfer excess wild horses and 
burros that have been removed from land administered by 
the Secretary concerned to other Federal, State, and local 
government agencies for use as work animals. 
(b) The Secretary concerned may make a transfer 
under subsection (a) immediately on the request of a Fed-
eral, State, or local government agency. 
(c) An excess wild horse or burro transferred under 
subsection (a) shall lose status as a wild free-roaming horse 
or burro (as defined in section 2 of Public Law 92–195 
(commonly known as the ‘‘Wild Free-Roaming Horses and 
Burros Act’’) (16 U.S.C. 1332)). 
(d) A Federal, State, or local government agency re-
ceiving an excess wild horse or burro pursuant to subsection 
(a) shall not—
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(1) destroy the horse or burro in a manner that 
results in the destruction of the horse or burro into a 
commercial product; 
(2) sell or otherwise transfer the horse or burro 
in a manner that results in the destruction of the 
horse or burro for processing into a commercial prod-
uct; or 
(3) euthanize the horse or burro, except on the 
recommendation of a licensed veterinarian in a case 
of severe injury, illness, or advanced age. 
(e) Amounts appropriated by this Act shall not be 
available for— 
(1) the destruction of any healthy, unadopted, 
and wild horse or burro under the jurisdiction of the 
Secretary concerned (including a contractor); or 
(2) the sale of a wild horse or burro that results 
in the destruction of the wild horse or burro for proc-
essing into a commercial product. 
FOREST SERVICE FACILITY REALIGNMENT AND 
ENHANCEMENT AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 
SEC. 418. Section 503(f) of Public Law 109–54 (16 
U.S.C. 580d note) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 2023’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2019’’.
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USE OF AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL 
SEC. 419. (a)(1) None of the funds made available by 
a State water pollution control revolving fund as authorized 
by section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–12) shall be used for a project for the construction, 
alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public water system 
or treatment works unless all of the iron and steel products 
used in the project are produced in the United States. 
(2) In this section, the term ‘‘iron and steel’’ products 
means the following products made primarily of iron or 
steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers 
and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, pipe 
clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, reinforced 
precast concrete, and construction materials. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or cat-
egory of cases in which the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency (in this section referred to as the 
‘‘Administrator’’) finds that— 
(1) applying subsection (a) would be inconsistent 
with the public interest; 
(2) iron and steel products are not produced in 
the United States in sufficient and reasonably avail-
able quantities and of a satisfactory quality; or
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(3) inclusion of iron and steel products produced 
in the United States will increase the cost of the over-
all project by more than 25 percent. 
(c) If the Administrator receives a request for a waiver 
under this section, the Administrator shall make available 
to the public on an informal basis a copy of the request 
and information available to the Administrator concerning 
the request, and shall allow for informal public input on 
the request for at least 15 days prior to making a finding 
based on the request. The Administrator shall make the re-
quest and accompanying information available by elec-
tronic means, including on the official public Internet Web 
site of the Environmental Protection Agency. 
(d) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent with United States obligations under international 
agreements. 
(e) The Administrator may retain up to 0.25 percent 
of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Clean and 
Drinking Water State Revolving Funds for carrying out the 
provisions described in subsection (a)(1) for management 
and oversight of the requirements of this section.
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LOCAL COOPERATOR TRAINING AGREEMENTS AND TRANS-
FERS
OF
EXCESS
EQUIPMENT
AND
SUPPLIES
FOR 
WILDFIRES 
SEC. 420. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized 
to enter into grants and cooperative agreements with volun-
teer fire departments, rural fire departments, rangeland fire 
protection associations, and similar organizations to pro-
vide for wildland fire training and equipment, including 
supplies and communication devices. Notwithstanding sec-
tion 121(c) of title 40, United States Code, or section 521 
of title 40, United States Code, the Secretary is further au-
thorized to transfer title to excess Department of the Interior 
firefighting equipment no longer needed to carry out the 
functions of the Department’s wildland fire management 
program to such organizations. 
RECREATION FEES 
SEC. 421. Section 810 of the Federal Lands Recreation 
Enhancement Act (16 U.S.C. 6809) shall be applied by sub-
stituting ‘‘October 1, 2024’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2019’’. 
REPROGRAMMING GUIDELINES 
SEC. 422. None of the funds made available in this 
Act, in this and prior fiscal years, may be reprogrammed 
without the advance approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the re-
programming procedures contained in the explanatory
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statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding 
division A of this consolidated Act). 
LOCAL CONTRACTORS 
SEC. 423. Section 412 of division E of Public Law 
112–74 shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2023’’ 
for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’. 
SHASTA-TRINITY MARINA FEE AUTHORITY AUTHORIZATION 
EXTENSION 
SEC. 424. Section 422 of division F of Public Law 
110–161 (121 Stat 1844), as amended, shall be applied by 
substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2023’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’. 
INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 
SEC. 425. Section 426 of division G of Public Law 
113–76 (16 U.S.C. 565a–1 note) shall be applied by sub-
stituting ‘‘September 30, 2023’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2019’’. 
PUERTO RICO SCHOOLING AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 
SEC. 426. The authority provided by the 19th unnum-
bered paragraph under heading ‘‘Administrative Provi-
sions, Forest Service’’ in title III of Public Law 109–54, 
as amended, shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 
2023’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’. 
FOREST BOTANICAL PRODUCTS FEE COLLECTION 
AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 
SEC. 427. Section 339 of the Department of the Inte-
rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as en-
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acted into law by Public Law 106–113; 16 U.S.C. 528 
note), as amended by section 335(6) of Public Law 108– 
108 and section 432 of Public Law 113–76, shall be applied 
by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2023’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’. 
CHACO CANYON 
SEC. 428. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to accept a nomination for oil and gas 
leasing under 43 CFR 3120.3 et seq., or to offer for oil and 
gas leasing, any Federal lands within the withdrawal area 
identified on the map of the Chaco Culture National Histor-
ical Park prepared by the Bureau of Land Management 
and dated April 2, 2019, prior to the completion of the cul-
tural resources investigation identified in the explanatory 
statement described in section 4 in the matter preceding di-
vision A of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 
(Public Law 116–260). 
TRIBAL LEASES 
SEC. 429. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, in the case of any lease under section 105(l) of the 
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act 
(25 U.S.C. 5324(l)), the initial lease term shall commence 
no earlier than the date of receipt of the lease proposal. 
(b) The Secretaries of the Interior and Health and 
Human Services shall, jointly or separately, during fiscal 
year 2023 consult with tribes and tribal organizations
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through public solicitation and other means regarding the 
requirements for leases under section 105(l) of the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 
U.S.C. 5324(l)) on how to implement a consistent and 
transparent process for the payment of such leases. 
FOREST ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND 
SEC. 430. The authority provided under the heading 
‘‘Forest Ecosystem Health and Recovery Fund’’ in title I 
of Public Law 111–88, as amended by section 117 of divi-
sion F of Public Law 113–235, shall be applied by sub-
stituting ‘‘fiscal year 2023’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2020’’ each 
place it appears. 
ALLOCATION OF PROJECTS, NATIONAL PARKS AND PUBLIC 
LAND
LEGACY
RESTORATION
FUND
AND
LAND
AND 
WATER CONSERVATION FUND 
SEC. 431. (a)(1) Within 45 days of enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall allocate amounts 
made available from the National Parks and Public Land 
Legacy Restoration Fund for fiscal year 2023 pursuant to 
subsection (c) of section 200402 of title 54, United States 
Code, and as provided in subsection (e) of such section of 
such title, to the agencies of the Department of the Interior 
and the Department of Agriculture specified, in the 
amounts specified, for the stations and unit names speci-
fied, and for the projects and activities specified in the table
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titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: National Parks and Public 
Land Legacy Restoration Fund Fiscal Year 2023’’ in the 
explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act). 
(2) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, as 
appropriate, shall allocate amounts made available for ex-
penditure from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for 
fiscal year 2023 pursuant to subsection (a) of section 
200303 of title 54, United States Code, to the agencies and 
accounts specified, in the amounts specified, and for the 
projects and activities specified in the table titled ‘‘Alloca-
tion of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal 
Year 2023’’ in the explanatory statement described in sec-
tion 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consoli-
dated Act). 
(b) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (c) of 
this section, neither the President nor his designee may allo-
cate any amounts that are made available for any fiscal 
year under subsection (c) of section 200402 of title 54, 
United States Code, or subsection (a) of section 200303 of 
title 54, United States Code, other than in amounts and 
for projects and activities that are allocated by subsections 
(a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section: Provided, That in any fis-
cal year, the matter preceding this proviso shall not apply
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to the allocation of amounts for continuing administration 
of programs allocated funds from the National Parks and 
Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund or the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund, which may be allocated only in 
amounts that are no more than the allocation for such pur-
poses in subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section. 
(c) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture may reallocate amounts from each agency’s 
‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line in the table titled ‘‘Allocation of 
Funds: National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora-
tion Fund Fiscal Year 2023’’ to any project funded by the 
National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund 
within the same agency, from any fiscal year, that experi-
enced a funding deficiency due to unforeseen cost overruns, 
in accordance with the following requirements: 
(1) ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ amounts may only be 
reallocated if there is a risk to project completion re-
sulting from unforeseen cost overruns; 
(2) ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ amounts may only be 
reallocated for cost of adjustments and changes within 
the original scope of effort for projects funded by the 
National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration 
Fund; and 
(3) The Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary 
of Agriculture must provide written notification to
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the Committees on Appropriations 30 days before tak-
ing any actions authorized by this subsection if the 
amount reallocated from the ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line 
for a project is projected to be 10 percent or greater 
than the following, as applicable: 
(A) The amount allocated to that project in 
the table titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: National 
Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration 
Fund Fiscal Year 2023’’ in the explanatory 
statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act); or 
(B) The initial estimate in the most recent 
report submitted, prior to enactment of this Act, 
to the Committees on Appropriations pursuant 
to section 431(e) of division G of the Consoli-
dated Appropriations Act, 2022 (Public Law 
117–103). 
(d)(1) Concurrent with the annual budget submission 
of the President for fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each submit 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate project data sheets for the 
projects in the ‘‘Submission of Annual List of Projects to 
Congress’’ required by section 200402(h) of title 54, United 
States Code: Provided, That the ‘‘Submission of Annual
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List of Projects to Congress’’ must include a ‘‘Contingency 
Fund’’ line for each agency within the allocations defined 
in subsection (e) of section 200402 of title 54, United States 
Code: Provided further, That in the event amounts allocated 
by this Act or any prior Act for the National Parks and 
Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund are no longer needed 
to complete a specified project, such amounts may be reallo-
cated in such submission to that agency’s ‘‘Contingency 
Fund’’ line: Provided further, That any proposals to change 
the scope of or terminate a previously approved project 
must be clearly identified in such submission. 
(2)(A) Concurrent with the annual budget submission 
of the President for fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each submit 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate a list of supplementary alloca-
tions for Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy 
Projects at the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the 
U.S. Forest Service that are in addition to the ‘‘Submission 
of Cost Estimates’’ required by section 200303(c)(1) of title 
54, United States Code, that are prioritized and detailed 
by account, program, and project, and that total no less 
than half the full amount allocated to each account for that 
land management Agency under the allocations submitted
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under section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code: 
Provided, That in the event amounts allocated by this Act 
or any prior Act pursuant to subsection (a) of section 
200303 of title 54, United States Code are no longer needed 
because a project has been completed or can no longer be 
executed, such amounts must be clearly identified if pro-
posed for reallocation in the annual budget submission. 
(B) The Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy 
projects in the ‘‘Submission of Cost Estimates’’ required by 
section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, and 
on the list of supplementary allocations required by sub-
paragraph (A) shall be comprised only of projects for which 
a willing seller has been identified and for which an ap-
praisal or market research has been initiated. 
(C) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of 
the President for fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of the Inte-
rior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each submit to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate project data sheets in the same 
format and containing the same level of detailed informa-
tion that is found on such sheets in the Budget Justifica-
tions annually submitted by the Department of the Interior 
with the President’s Budget for the projects in the ‘‘Submis-
sion of Cost Estimates’’ required by section 200303(c)(1) 
of title 54, United States Code, and in the same format and
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containing the same level of detailed information that is 
found on such sheets submitted to the Committees pursuant 
to section 427 of division D of the Further Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94) for the list 
of supplementary allocations required by subparagraph (A). 
(e) The Department of the Interior and the Depart-
ment of Agriculture shall provide the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and Senate quar-
terly reports on the status of balances of projects and activi-
ties funded by the National Parks and Public Land Legacy 
Restoration Fund for amounts allocated pursuant to sub-
section (a)(1) of this section and the status of balances of 
projects and activities funded by the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund for amounts allocated pursuant to sub-
section (a)(2) of this section, including all uncommitted, 
committed, and unobligated funds, and, for amounts allo-
cated pursuant to subsection (a)(1) of this section, National 
Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund amounts 
reallocated pursuant to subsection (c) of this section. 
POLICIES RELATING TO BIOMASS ENERGY 
SEC. 432. To support the key role that forests in the 
United States can play in addressing the energy needs of 
the United States, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary 
of Agriculture, and the Administrator of the Environmental
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Protection Agency shall, consistent with their missions, 
jointly— 
(1) ensure that Federal policy relating to forest 
bioenergy— 
(A) is consistent across all Federal depart-
ments and agencies; and 
(B) recognizes the full benefits of the use of 
forest biomass for energy, conservation, and re-
sponsible forest management; and 
(2) establish clear and simple policies for the use 
of forest biomass as an energy solution, including 
policies that— 
(A) reflect the carbon neutrality of forest 
bioenergy and recognize biomass as a renewable 
energy source, provided the use of forest biomass 
for energy production does not cause conversion 
of forests to non-forest use; 
(B) encourage private investment through-
out the forest biomass supply chain, including 
in— 
(i) working forests; 
(ii) harvesting operations; 
(iii) forest improvement operations; 
(iv) forest bioenergy production; 
(v) wood products manufacturing; or
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(vi) paper manufacturing; 
(C) encourage forest management to im-
prove forest health; and 
(D) recognize State initiatives to produce 
and use forest biomass. 
SMALL REMOTE INCINERATORS 
SEC. 433. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to implement or enforce the regulation 
issued on March 21, 2011 at 40 CFR part 60 subparts 
CCCC and DDDD with respect to units in the State of Alas-
ka that are defined as ‘‘small, remote incinerator’’ units 
in those regulations and, until a subsequent regulation is 
issued, the Administrator shall implement the law and reg-
ulations in effect prior to such date. 
TIMBER SALE REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 434. No timber sale in Alaska’s Region 10 shall 
be advertised if the indicated rate is deficit (defined as the 
value of the timber is not sufficient to cover all logging and 
stumpage costs and provide a normal profit and risk allow-
ance under the Forest Service’s appraisal process) when ap-
praised using a residual value appraisal. The western red 
cedar timber from those sales which is surplus to the needs 
of the domestic processors in Alaska, shall be made available 
to domestic processors in the contiguous 48 United States 
at prevailing domestic prices. All additional western red
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cedar volume not sold to Alaska or contiguous 48 United 
States domestic processors may be exported to foreign mar-
kets at the election of the timber sale holder. All Alaska yel-
low cedar may be sold at prevailing export prices at the 
election of the timber sale holder. 
TRANSFER
AUTHORITY
TO
FEDERAL
HIGHWAY
ADMINIS-
TRATION
FOR
THE
NATIONAL
PARKS
AND
PUBLIC 
LAND LEGACY RESTORATION FUND 
SEC. 435. Funds made available or allocated in this 
Act to the Department of the Interior or the Department 
of Agriculture that are subject to the allocations and limita-
tions in 54 U.S.C. 200402(e) and prohibitions in 54 U.S.C. 
200402(f) may be further allocated or reallocated to the Fed-
eral Highway Administration for transportation projects of 
the covered agencies defined in 54 U.S.C. 200401(2). 
PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 436. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
none of the funds made available in this Act or any other 
Act may be used to promulgate or implement any regula-
tion requiring the issuance of permits under title V of the 
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7661 et seq.) for carbon dioxide, 
nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions resulting 
from biological processes associated with livestock produc-
tion.
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GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING RESTRICTIONS 
SEC. 437. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
none of the funds made available in this or any other Act 
may be used to implement any provision in a rule, if that 
provision requires mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas 
emissions from manure management systems. 
FUNDING PROHIBITION 
SEC. 438. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to regulate the lead content 
of ammunition, ammunition components, or fishing tackle 
under the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2601 
et seq.) or any other law. 
ROAD CONSTRUCTION 
SEC. 439. Section 8206(a)(4)(B)(i) of the Agricultural 
Act of 2014 (16 U.S.C. 2113a(a)(4)(B)(i)) is amended by 
inserting ‘‘or Bureau of Land Management managed’’ after 
‘‘National Forest System’’. 
FIREFIGHTER PAY CAP 
SEC. 440. Section 1701 of division B of the Extending 
Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance 
Act (5 U.S.C. 5547 note), as amended by Public Law 117– 
103, is further amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking the last sen-
tence and inserting ‘‘Any Services during a given cal-
endar year that generate payments payable in the
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subsequent calendar year shall be disregarded in ap-
plying this subsection’’; and 
(2) in subsections (a), (b), and (c) by inserting 
‘‘or 2023’’ after ‘‘or 2022’’ each place it appears. 
FOREST SERVICE INTEREST BEARING ACCOUNT 
SEC. 441. (a) INVESTMENT AUTHORITY.—Any monies 
covered into the Treasury under section 7 of the Act of June 
20, 1958 (Public Law 85–464; 16 U.S.C. 579c), including 
all monies that were previously collected by the United 
States in a forfeiture, judgment, compromise, or settlement, 
shall be invested by the Secretary of the Treasury in interest 
bearing obligations of the United States to the extent the 
amounts are not, in the judgment of the Secretary of the 
Treasury, required to meet current withdrawals. 
(b) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Any interest earned 
under subsection (a) shall be available in the same manner 
as the monies covered into the Treasury under section 7 
of the Act of June 20, 1958 (Public Law 85–464; 16 U.S.C. 
579c) to cover the costs to the United States specified in 
section 7 of that Act. 
(c) USE OF FUNDS.—Any portion of the monies re-
ceived or earned under subsection (a) in excess of the 
amount expended in performing the work necessitated by 
the action which led to their receipt may be used to cover
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the other work specified in section 7 of the Act of June 20, 
1958 (Public Law 85–464; 16 U.S.C. 579c). 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall apply with 
respect to fiscal year 2023 and each succeeding fiscal year. 
TECHNICAL CORRECTION 
SEC. 442. In the table entitled ‘‘Interior and Environ-
ment Incorporation of Community Project Funding Items/ 
Congressionally Directed Spending Items’’ in the explana-
tory statement described in section 4 in the matter pre-
ceding division A of Public Law 117–103 and in the table 
under the heading ‘‘Disclosure of Earmarks and Congres-
sionally Directed Spending Items’’ in such explanatory 
statement, the project relating to ‘‘City of Metlakatla for 
Solid Waste Multi Use Portable Shredder’’ is deemed to be 
amended by striking ‘‘City of Metlakatla for Solid Waste 
Multi Use Portable Shredder’’ and inserting ‘‘Metlakatla 
Indian Community for Solid Waste Multi Use Portable 
Shredder’’. 
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND 
SEC. 443. (a) Section 613 of title VI of division J of 
Public Law 117–58 is repealed. 
(b) For this fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, 
such sums as are available in the Hazardous Substance 
Superfund established under section 9507 of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 at the end of the preceding fiscal year
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from taxes received in the Treasury under subsection (b)(1) 
of such section shall be available, without further appro-
priation, to remain available until expended, to be used to 
carry out the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601 
et seq.): Provided, That the amount provided by this sub-
section is designated by the Congress as being for an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to section 4001(a)(1) of S. Con. 
Res. 14 (117th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the 
budget for fiscal year 2022, and section 1(e) of H. Res. 1151 
(117th Congress), as engrossed in the House of Representa-
tives on June 8, 2022. 
(c) Expenditures made pursuant to section 613 of title 
VI of division J of Public Law 117–58 shall be charged 
to the appropriation in subsection (b). 
GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL RECREATION AREA 
SEC. 444. Section 3 of Public Law 92–592 (16 U.S.C. 
460cc–2) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(j) AUTHORITY TO GRANT EASEMENTS AND RIGHTS- 
OF-WAY PERMIT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Interior 
may grant, to any State or local government, an ease-
ment or right-of-way permit over Federal lands with-
in Golden Gate National Recreation Area for oper-
ation and maintenance of projects for control and
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prevention of flooding and shoreline erosion and asso-
ciated structures for continued public access. 
‘‘(2) 
CHARGES
AND
REIMBURSEMENTS
OF 
COSTS.—The Secretary may grant such an easement 
or right-of-way permit without charge for the value of 
the use so conveyed, except for reimbursement of costs 
incurred by the United States for processing the ap-
plication therefore and managing such use. Amounts 
received as such reimbursement shall be credited to 
the relevant appropriation account.’’. 
ALASKA NATIVE REGIONAL HEALTH ENTITIES 
AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 
SEC. 445. Section 424(a) of title IV of division G of 
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 
113–76) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘October 1, 2023’’ 
for ‘‘December 24, 2022’’. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the 
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 2023’’.
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DIVISION H—DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, 
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND 
EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES 
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2023 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION 
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES 
For necessary expenses of the Workforce Innovation 
and Opportunity Act (referred to in this Act as ‘‘WIOA’’) 
and the National Apprenticeship Act, $4,140,911,000, plus 
reimbursements, shall be available. Of the amounts pro-
vided: 
(1) for grants to States for adult employment 
and training activities, youth activities, and dis-
located worker employment and training activities, 
$2,929,332,000 as follows: 
(A) $885,649,000 for adult employment and 
training activities, of which $173,649,000 shall 
be available for the period July 1, 2023 through 
June 30, 2024, and of which $712,000,000 shall 
be available for the period October 1, 2023 
through June 30, 2024;
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(B) $948,130,000 for youth activities, which 
shall be available for the period April 1, 2023 
through June 30, 2024; and 
(C) $1,095,553,000 for dislocated worker 
employment and training activities, of which 
$235,553,000 shall be available for the period 
July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024, and of 
which $860,000,000 shall be available for the pe-
riod October 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024: 
Provided, That the funds available for allotment to 
outlying areas to carry out subtitle B of title I of the 
WIOA shall not be subject to the requirements of sec-
tion 127(b)(1)(B)(ii) of such Act: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding the requirements of WIOA, out-
lying areas may submit a single application for a 
consolidated grant that awards funds that would oth-
erwise be available to such areas to carry out the ac-
tivities described in subtitle B of title I of the WIOA: 
Provided further, That such application shall be sub-
mitted to the Secretary of Labor (referred to in this 
title as ‘‘Secretary’’), at such time, in such manner, 
and containing such information as the Secretary 
may require: Provided further, That outlying areas 
awarded a consolidated grant described in the pre-
ceding provisos may use the funds for any of the pro-
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grams and activities authorized under such subtitle B 
of title I of the WIOA subject to approval of the appli-
cation and such reporting requirements issued by the 
Secretary; and 
(2) for national programs, $1,211,579,000 as fol-
lows: 
(A) $325,859,000 for the dislocated workers 
assistance 
national 
reserve, 
of 
which 
$125,859,000 shall be available for the period 
July 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024, and 
of which $200,000,000 shall be available for the 
period October 1, 2023 through September 30, 
2024: Provided, That funds provided to carry 
out section 132(a)(2)(A) of the WIOA may be 
used to provide assistance to a State for state-
wide or local use in order to address cases where 
there have been worker dislocations across mul-
tiple sectors or across multiple local areas and 
such workers remain dislocated; coordinate the 
State workforce development plan with emerging 
economic development needs; and train such eli-
gible dislocated workers: Provided further, That 
funds provided to carry out sections 168(b) and 
169(c) of the WIOA may be used for technical as-
sistance and demonstration projects, respectively,
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that provide assistance to new entrants in the 
workforce and incumbent workers: Provided fur-
ther, That notwithstanding section 168(b) of the 
WIOA, of the funds provided under this subpara-
graph, the Secretary may reserve not more than 
10 percent of such funds to provide technical as-
sistance and carry out additional activities re-
lated to the transition to the WIOA: Provided 
further, That of the funds provided under this 
subparagraph, $115,000,000 shall be for training 
and 
employment 
assistance 
under 
sections 
168(b), 169(c) (notwithstanding the 10 percent 
limitation in such section) and 170 of the WIOA 
as follows: 
(i) $50,000,000 shall be for workers in 
the Appalachian region, as defined by 40 
U.S.C. 14102(a)(1), workers in the Lower 
Mississippi, as defined in section 4(2) of the 
Delta Development Act (Public Law 100– 
460, 102 Stat. 2246; 7 U.S.C. 2009aa(2)), 
and workers in the region served by the 
Northern Border Regional Commission, as 
defined by 40 U.S.C. 15733; and 
(ii) $65,000,000 shall be for the pur-
pose of developing, offering, or improving
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educational or career training programs at 
community colleges, defined as public insti-
tutions of higher education, as described in 
section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act 
of 1965 and at which the associate’s degree 
is primarily the highest degree awarded, 
with other eligible institutions of higher 
education, as defined in section 101(a) of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965, eligible 
to participate through consortia, with com-
munity colleges as the lead grantee: Pro-
vided, That the Secretary shall follow the 
requirements for the program in House Re-
port 116–62: Provided further, That any 
grant funds used for apprenticeships shall 
be used to support only apprenticeship pro-
grams registered under the National Ap-
prenticeship Act and as referred to in sec-
tion 3(7)(B) of the WIOA; 
(B) $60,000,000 for Native American pro-
grams under section 166 of the WIOA, which 
shall be available for the period July 1, 2023 
through June 30, 2024; 
(C) $97,396,000 for migrant and seasonal 
farmworker programs under section 167 of the
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WIOA, including $90,134,000 for formula grants 
(of which not less than 70 percent shall be for 
employment and training services), $6,591,000 
for migrant and seasonal housing (of which not 
less than 70 percent shall be for permanent hous-
ing), and $671,000 for other discretionary pur-
poses, which shall be available for the period 
April 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024: Provided, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law 
or related regulation, the Department of Labor 
shall take no action limiting the number or pro-
portion of eligible participants receiving related 
assistance services or discouraging grantees from 
providing such services: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding the definition of ‘‘eligible sea-
sonal farmworker’’ in section 167(i)(3)(A) of the 
WIOA relating to an individual being ‘‘low-in-
come’’, an individual is eligible for migrant and 
seasonal farmworker programs under section 167 
of the WIOA under that definition if, in addi-
tion to meeting the requirements of clauses (i) 
and (ii) of section 167(i)(3)(A), such individual 
is a member of a family with a total family in-
come equal to or less than 150 percent of the pov-
erty line;
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(D) $105,000,000 for YouthBuild activities 
as described in section 171 of the WIOA, which 
shall be available for the period April 1, 2023 
through June 30, 2024; 
(E) $115,000,000 for ex-offender activities, 
under the authority of section 169 of the WIOA, 
which shall be available for the period April 1, 
2023 through June 30, 2024: Provided, That of 
this amount, $30,000,000 shall be for competitive 
grants to national and regional intermediaries 
for activities that prepare for employment young 
adults with criminal legal histories, young 
adults who have been justice system-involved, or 
young adults who have dropped out of school or 
other educational programs, with a priority for 
projects serving high-crime, high-poverty areas; 
(F) $6,000,000 for the Workforce Data 
Quality Initiative, under the authority of section 
169 of the WIOA, which shall be available for the 
period July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024; 
(G) $285,000,000 to expand opportunities 
through apprenticeships only registered under 
the National Apprenticeship Act and as referred 
to in section 3(7)(B) of the WIOA, to be avail-
able to the Secretary to carry out activities
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through grants, cooperative agreements, contracts 
and other arrangements, with States and other 
appropriate entities, including equity inter-
mediaries and business and labor industry part-
ner intermediaries, which shall be available for 
the period July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024; 
and 
(H) $217,324,000 for carrying out Dem-
onstration and Pilot projects under section 
169(c) of the WIOA, which shall be available for 
the period April 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024, 
in addition to funds available for such activities 
under subparagraph (A) for the projects, and in 
the amounts, specified in the table titled ‘‘Com-
munity Project Funding/Congressionally Di-
rected Spending’’ included for this division in 
the explanatory statement described in section 4 
(in the matter preceding division A of this con-
solidated Act): Provided, That such funds may be 
used for projects that are related to the employ-
ment and training needs of dislocated workers, 
other adults, or youth: Provided further, That the 
10 percent funding limitation under such section 
of the WIOA shall not apply to such funds: Pro-
vided further, That section 169(b)(6)(C) of the
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WIOA shall not apply to such funds: Provided 
further, That sections 102 and 107 of this Act 
shall not apply to such funds. 
JOB CORPS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
To carry out subtitle C of title I of the WIOA, includ-
ing Federal administrative expenses, the purchase and hire 
of passenger motor vehicles, the construction, alteration, 
and repairs of buildings and other facilities, and the pur-
chase of real property for training centers as authorized by 
the WIOA, $1,760,155,000, plus reimbursements, as follows: 
(1) $1,603,325,000 for Job Corps Operations, 
which shall be available for the period July 1, 2023 
through June 30, 2024; 
(2) $123,000,000 for construction, rehabilitation 
and acquisition of Job Corps Centers, which shall be 
available for the period July 1, 2023 through June 
30, 2026, and which may include the acquisition, 
maintenance, and repair of major items of equip-
ment: Provided, That the Secretary may transfer up 
to 15 percent of such funds to meet the operational 
needs of such centers or to achieve administrative effi-
ciencies: Provided further, That any funds transferred 
pursuant to the preceding proviso shall not be avail-
able for obligation after June 30, 2023: Provided fur-
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ther, That the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate are notified 
at least 15 days in advance of any transfer; and 
(3) $33,830,000 for necessary expenses of Job 
Corps, which shall be available for obligation for the 
period October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023: 
Provided, That no funds from any other appropriation 
shall be used to provide meal services at or for Job Corps 
Centers. 
COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT FOR OLDER AMERICANS 
To carry out title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 
(referred to in this Act as ‘‘OAA’’), $405,000,000, which 
shall be available for the period April 1, 2023 through June 
30, 2024, and may be recaptured and reobligated in accord-
ance with section 517(c) of the OAA. 
FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND ALLOWANCES 
For payments during fiscal year 2023 of trade adjust-
ment benefit payments and allowances under part I of sub-
chapter B of chapter 2 of title II of the Trade Act of 1974, 
and section 246 of that Act; and for training, employment 
and case management services, allowances for job search 
and relocation, and related State administrative expenses 
under part II of subchapter B of chapter 2 of title II of 
the Trade Act of 1974, and including benefit payments, al-
lowances, training, employment and case management serv-
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ices, and related State administration provided pursuant 
to section 231(a) of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Exten-
sion Act of 2011, sections 405(a) and 406 of the Trade Pref-
erences Extension Act of 2015, and section 285(a) of the 
Trade Act of 1974, as amended, $494,400,000 together with 
such amounts as may be necessary to be charged to the sub-
sequent appropriation for payments for any period subse-
quent to September 15, 2023: Provided, That notwith-
standing section 502 of this Act, any part of the appropria-
tion provided under this heading may remain available for 
obligation beyond the current fiscal year pursuant to the 
authorities of section 245(c) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 
U.S.C. 2317(c)). 
STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND EMPLOYMENT 
SERVICE OPERATIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For authorized administrative expenses, $84,066,000, 
together with not to exceed $3,925,084,000 which may be 
expended from the Employment Security Administration 
Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund (‘‘the Trust 
Fund’’), of which— 
(1) $3,134,635,000 from the Trust Fund is for 
grants to States for the administration of State un-
employment insurance laws as authorized under title 
III of the Social Security Act (including not less than
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$375,000,000 to carry out reemployment services and 
eligibility assessments under section 306 of such Act, 
any claimants of regular compensation, as defined in 
such section, including those who are profiled as most 
likely to exhaust their benefits, may be eligible for 
such services and assessments: Provided, That of such 
amount, $117,000,000 is specified for grants under 
section 306 of the Social Security Act and is provided 
to meet the terms of a concurrent resolution on the 
budget in the Senate and section 1(j)(2) of H. Res. 
1151 (117th Congress), as engrossed in the House of 
Representatives on June 8, 2022, and $258,000,000 is 
additional new budget authority specified for pur-
poses of a concurrent resolution on the budget in the 
Senate and section 1(j) of such House resolution; and 
$9,000,000 for continued support of the Unemploy-
ment Insurance Integrity Center of Excellence), the 
administration of unemployment insurance for Fed-
eral employees and for ex-service members as author-
ized under 5 U.S.C. 8501–8523, and the administra-
tion of trade readjustment allowances, reemployment 
trade adjustment assistance, and alternative trade ad-
justment assistance under the Trade Act of 1974 and 
under section 231(a) of the Trade Adjustment Assist-
ance Extension Act of 2011, sections 405(a) and 406
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of the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015, and 
section 285(a) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, 
and shall be available for obligation by the States 
through December 31, 2023, except that funds used for 
automation shall be available for Federal obligation 
through December 31, 2023, and for State obligation 
through September 30, 2025, or, if the automation is 
being carried out through consortia of States, for 
State obligation through September 30, 2029, and for 
expenditure through September 30, 2030, and funds 
for competitive grants awarded to States for improved 
operations and to conduct in-person reemployment 
and eligibility assessments and unemployment insur-
ance improper payment reviews and provide reem-
ployment services and referrals to training, as appro-
priate, shall be available for Federal obligation 
through December 31, 2023 (except that funds for out-
come payments pursuant to section 306(f)(2) of the 
Social Security Act shall be available for Federal ob-
ligation through March 31, 2024), and for obligation 
by the States through September 30, 2025, and funds 
for the Unemployment Insurance Integrity Center of 
Excellence shall be available for obligation by the 
State through September 30, 2024, and funds used for 
unemployment 
insurance 
workloads 
experienced
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through September 30, 2023 shall be available for 
Federal obligation through December 31, 2023; 
(2) $23,000,000 from the Trust Fund is for na-
tional activities necessary to support the administra-
tion of the Federal-State unemployment insurance 
system; 
(3) $658,639,000 from the Trust Fund, together 
with $21,413,000 from the General Fund of the Treas-
ury, is for grants to States in accordance with section 
6 of the Wagner-Peyser Act, and shall be available for 
Federal obligation for the period July 1, 2023 through 
June 30, 2024; 
(4) $25,000,000 from the Trust Fund is for na-
tional activities of the Employment Service, including 
administration of the work opportunity tax credit 
under section 51 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
(including assisting States in adopting or modern-
izing information technology for use in the processing 
of certification requests), and the provision of tech-
nical assistance and staff training under the Wagner- 
Peyser Act; 
(5) $83,810,000 from the Trust Fund is for the 
administration of foreign labor certifications and re-
lated activities under the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act and related laws, of which $60,528,000 shall
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be available for the Federal administration of such 
activities, and $23,282,000 shall be available for 
grants to States for the administration of such activi-
ties; and 
(6) $62,653,000 from the General Fund is to 
provide workforce information, national electronic 
tools, and one-stop system building under the Wagner- 
Peyser Act and shall be available for Federal obliga-
tion for the period July 1, 2023 through June 30, 
2024, of which up to $9,800,000 may be used to carry 
out research and demonstration projects related to 
testing effective ways to promote greater labor force 
participation of people with disabilities: Provided, 
That the Secretary may transfer amounts made avail-
able for research and demonstration projects under 
this paragraph to the ‘‘Office of Disability Employ-
ment Policy’’ account for such purposes: 
Provided, That to the extent that the Average Weekly In-
sured Unemployment (‘‘AWIU’’) for fiscal year 2023 is pro-
jected by the Department of Labor to exceed 1,778,000, an 
additional $28,600,000 from the Trust Fund shall be avail-
able for obligation for every 100,000 increase in the AWIU 
level (including a pro rata amount for any increment less 
than 100,000) to carry out title III of the Social Security 
Act: Provided further, That funds appropriated in this Act
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that are allotted to a State to carry out activities under 
title III of the Social Security Act may be used by such 
State to assist other States in carrying out activities under 
such title III if the other States include areas that have 
suffered a major disaster declared by the President under 
the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As-
sistance Act: Provided further, That the Secretary may use 
funds appropriated for grants to States under title III of 
the Social Security Act to make payments on behalf of 
States for the use of the National Directory of New Hires 
under section 453(j)(8) of such Act: Provided further, That 
the Secretary may use funds appropriated for grants to 
States under title III of the Social Security Act to make 
payments on behalf of States to the entity operating the 
State Information Data Exchange System: Provided fur-
ther, That funds appropriated in this Act which are used 
to establish a national one-stop career center system, or 
which are used to support the national activities of the Fed-
eral-State unemployment insurance, employment service, or 
immigration programs, may be obligated in contracts, 
grants, or agreements with States and non-State entities: 
Provided further, That States awarded competitive grants 
for improved operations under title III of the Social Secu-
rity Act, or awarded grants to support the national activi-
ties of the Federal-State unemployment insurance system,
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may award subgrants to other States and non-State entities 
under such grants, subject to the conditions applicable to 
the grants: Provided further, That funds appropriated 
under this Act for activities authorized under title III of 
the Social Security Act and the Wagner-Peyser Act may 
be used by States to fund integrated Unemployment Insur-
ance and Employment Service automation efforts, notwith-
standing cost allocation principles prescribed under the 
final rule entitled ‘‘Uniform Administrative Requirements, 
Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal 
Awards’’ at part 200 of title 2, Code of Federal Regulations: 
Provided further, That the Secretary, at the request of a 
State participating in a consortium with other States, may 
reallot funds allotted to such State under title III of the 
Social Security Act to other States participating in the con-
sortium or to the entity operating the Unemployment In-
surance Information Technology Support Center in order 
to carry out activities that benefit the administration of 
the unemployment compensation law of the State making 
the request: Provided further, That the Secretary may col-
lect fees for the costs associated with additional data collec-
tion, analyses, and reporting services relating to the Na-
tional Agricultural Workers Survey requested by State and 
local governments, public and private institutions of higher 
education, and nonprofit organizations and may utilize
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such sums, in accordance with the provisions of 29 U.S.C. 
9a, for the National Agricultural Workers Survey infra-
structure, methodology, and data to meet the information 
collection and reporting needs of such entities, which shall 
be credited to this appropriation and shall remain available 
until September 30, 2024, for such purposes. 
ADVANCES TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT TRUST FUND AND 
OTHER FUNDS 
For repayable advances to the Unemployment Trust 
Fund as authorized by sections 905(d) and 1203 of the So-
cial Security Act, and to the Black Lung Disability Trust 
Fund as authorized by section 9501(c)(1) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986; and for nonrepayable advances to 
the revolving fund established by section 901(e) of the Social 
Security Act, to the Unemployment Trust Fund as author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 8509, and to the ‘‘Federal Unemployment 
Benefits and Allowances’’ account, such sums as may be 
necessary, which shall be available for obligation through 
September 30, 2024. 
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION 
For expenses of administering employment and train-
ing programs, $118,900,000, together with not to exceed 
$54,015,000 which may be expended from the Employment 
Security Administration Account in the Unemployment 
Trust Fund.
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EMPLOYEE BENEFITS SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Employee Benefits Secu-
rity Administration, $191,100,000, of which up to 
$3,000,000 shall be made available through September 30, 
2024, for the procurement of expert witnesses for enforce-
ment litigation. 
PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION 
PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION FUND 
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (‘‘Cor-
poration’’) is authorized to make such expenditures, includ-
ing financial assistance authorized by subtitle E of title IV 
of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 
within limits of funds and borrowing authority available 
to the Corporation, and in accord with law, and to make 
such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal 
year limitations, as provided by 31 U.S.C. 9104, as may 
be necessary in carrying out the program, including associ-
ated administrative expenses, through September 30, 2023, 
for the Corporation: Provided, That none of the funds avail-
able to the Corporation for fiscal year 2023 shall be avail-
able for obligations for administrative expenses in excess of 
$493,314,000: Provided further, That to the extent that the 
number of new plan participants in plans terminated by 
the Corporation exceeds 100,000 in fiscal year 2023, an
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amount not to exceed an additional $9,200,000 shall be 
available through September 30, 2027, for obligations for 
administrative expenses for every 20,000 additional termi-
nated participants: Provided further, That obligations in 
excess of the amounts provided for administrative expenses 
in this paragraph may be incurred and shall be available 
through September 30, 2027 for obligation for unforeseen 
and extraordinary pre-termination or termination expenses 
or extraordinary multiemployer program related expenses 
after approval by the Office of Management and Budget and 
notification of the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate: Provided further, 
That an additional amount shall be available for obligation 
through September 30, 2027 to the extent the Corporation’s 
costs exceed $250,000 for the provision of credit or identity 
monitoring to affected individuals upon suffering a security 
incident or privacy breach, not to exceed an additional 
$100 per affected individual. 
WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Wage and Hour Divi-
sion, including reimbursement to State, Federal, and local 
agencies and their employees for inspection services ren-
dered, $260,000,000.
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OFFICE OF LABOR-MANAGEMENT STANDARDS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Office of Labor-Manage-
ment Standards, $48,515,000. 
OFFICE OF FEDERAL CONTRACT COMPLIANCE PROGRAMS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Office of Federal Con-
tract Compliance Programs, $110,976,000. 
OFFICE OF WORKERS’ COMPENSATION PROGRAMS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Office of Workers’ Com-
pensation 
Programs, 
$120,500,000, 
together 
with 
$2,205,000 which may be expended from the Special Fund 
in accordance with sections 39(c), 44(d), and 44(j) of the 
Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. 
SPECIAL BENEFITS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the payment of compensation, benefits, and ex-
penses (except administrative expenses not otherwise au-
thorized) accruing during the current or any prior fiscal 
year authorized by 5 U.S.C. 81; continuation of benefits 
as provided for under the heading ‘‘Civilian War Benefits’’ 
in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1947; 
the Employees’ Compensation Commission Appropriation 
Act, 1944; section 5(f) of the War Claims Act (50 U.S.C.
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App. 2012); obligations incurred under the War Hazards 
Compensation Act (42 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.); and 50 percent 
of the additional compensation and benefits required by sec-
tion 10(h) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Com-
pensation Act, $250,000,000, together with such amounts 
as may be necessary to be charged to the subsequent year 
appropriation for the payment of compensation and other 
benefits for any period subsequent to August 15 of the cur-
rent year, for deposit into and to assume the attributes of 
the Employees’ Compensation Fund established under 5 
U.S.C. 8147(a): Provided, That amounts appropriated may 
be used under 5 U.S.C. 8104 by the Secretary to reimburse 
an employer, who is not the employer at the time of injury, 
for portions of the salary of a re-employed, disabled bene-
ficiary: Provided further, That balances of reimbursements 
unobligated on September 30, 2022, shall remain available 
until expended for the payment of compensation, benefits, 
and expenses: Provided further, That in addition there shall 
be transferred to this appropriation from the Postal Service 
and from any other corporation or instrumentality required 
under 5 U.S.C. 8147(c) to pay an amount for its fair share 
of the cost of administration, such sums as the Secretary 
determines to be the cost of administration for employees 
of such fair share entities through September 30, 2023: Pro-
vided further, That of those funds transferred to this ac-
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count from the fair share entities to pay the cost of adminis-
tration of the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act, 
$81,752,000 shall be made available to the Secretary as fol-
lows: 
(1) For enhancement and maintenance of auto-
mated data processing systems operations and tele-
communications systems, $27,727,000; 
(2) For automated workload processing oper-
ations, including document imaging, centralized mail 
intake, and medical bill processing, $26,125,000; 
(3) For periodic roll disability management and 
medical review, $26,126,000; 
(4) For program integrity, $1,744,000; and 
(5) The remaining funds shall be paid into the 
Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may require that any 
person filing a notice of injury or a claim for benefits under 
5 U.S.C. 81, or the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Com-
pensation Act, provide as part of such notice and claim, 
such identifying information (including Social Security ac-
count number) as such regulations may prescribe. 
SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR DISABLED COAL MINERS 
For carrying out title IV of the Federal Mine Safety 
and Health Act of 1977, as amended by Public Law 107– 
275, $36,031,000, to remain available until expended.
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For making after July 31 of the current fiscal year, 
benefit payments to individuals under title IV of such Act, 
for costs incurred in the current fiscal year, such amounts 
as may be necessary. 
For making benefit payments under title IV for the 
first quarter of fiscal year 2024, $10,250,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, ENERGY EMPLOYEES 
OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS COMPENSATION FUND 
For necessary expenses to administer the Energy Em-
ployees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, 
$64,564,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That the Secretary may require that any person filing a 
claim for benefits under the Act provide as part of such 
claim such identifying information (including Social Secu-
rity account number) as may be prescribed. 
BLACK LUNG DISABILITY TRUST FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
Such sums as may be necessary from the Black Lung 
Disability Trust Fund (the ‘‘Fund’’), to remain available 
until expended, for payment of all benefits authorized by 
section 9501(d)(1), (2), (6), and (7) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986; and repayment of, and payment of interest 
on advances, as authorized by section 9501(d)(4) of that 
Act. In addition, the following amounts may be expended
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from the Fund for fiscal year 2023 for expenses of operation 
and administration of the Black Lung Benefits program, 
as authorized by section 9501(d)(5): not to exceed 
$42,194,000 for transfer to the Office of Workers’ Compensa-
tion Programs, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’; not to exceed 
$38,407,000 for transfer to Departmental Management, 
‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’; not to exceed $353,000 for trans-
fer to Departmental Management, ‘‘Office of Inspector Gen-
eral’’; and not to exceed $356,000 for payments into mis-
cellaneous receipts for the expenses of the Department of the 
Treasury. 
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Occupational Safety 
and Health Administration, $632,309,000, including not to 
exceed $120,000,000 which shall be the maximum amount 
available for grants to States under section 23(g) of the Oc-
cupational Safety and Health Act (the ‘‘Act’’), which grants 
shall be no less than 50 percent of the costs of State occupa-
tional safety and health programs required to be incurred 
under plans approved by the Secretary under section 18 
of the Act; and, in addition, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 
3302, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration 
may retain up to $499,000 per fiscal year of training insti-
tute course tuition and fees, otherwise authorized by law
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to be collected, and may utilize such sums for occupational 
safety and health training and education: Provided, That 
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Secretary is author-
ized, during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, to 
collect and retain fees for services provided to Nationally 
Recognized Testing Laboratories, and may utilize such 
sums, in accordance with the provisions of 29 U.S.C. 9a, 
to administer national and international laboratory rec-
ognition programs that ensure the safety of equipment and 
products used by workers in the workplace: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the funds appropriated under this para-
graph shall be obligated or expended to prescribe, issue, ad-
minister, or enforce any standard, rule, regulation, or order 
under the Act which is applicable to any person who is en-
gaged in a farming operation which does not maintain a 
temporary labor camp and employs 10 or fewer employees: 
Provided further, That no funds appropriated under this 
paragraph shall be obligated or expended to administer or 
enforce any standard, rule, regulation, or order under the 
Act with respect to any employer of 10 or fewer employees 
who is included within a category having a Days Away, 
Restricted, or Transferred (‘‘DART’’) occupational injury 
and illness rate, at the most precise industrial classification 
code for which such data are published, less than the na-
tional average rate as such rates are most recently published
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by the Secretary, acting through the Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics, in accordance with section 24 of the Act, except— 
(1) to provide, as authorized by the Act, con-
sultation, technical assistance, educational and train-
ing services, and to conduct surveys and studies; 
(2) to conduct an inspection or investigation in 
response to an employee complaint, to issue a citation 
for violations found during such inspection, and to 
assess a penalty for violations which are not corrected 
within a reasonable abatement period and for any 
willful violations found; 
(3) to take any action authorized by the Act with 
respect to imminent dangers; 
(4) to take any action authorized by the Act with 
respect to health hazards; 
(5) to take any action authorized by the Act with 
respect to a report of an employment accident which 
is fatal to one or more employees or which results in 
hospitalization of two or more employees, and to take 
any action pursuant to such investigation authorized 
by the Act; and 
(6) to take any action authorized by the Act with 
respect to complaints of discrimination against em-
ployees for exercising rights under the Act:
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Provided further, That the foregoing proviso shall not apply 
to any person who is engaged in a farming operation which 
does not maintain a temporary labor camp and employs 
10 or fewer employees: Provided further, That $12,787,000 
shall be available for Susan Harwood training grants, of 
which not more than $6,500,000 is for Susan Harwood 
Training Capacity Building Developmental grants, for pro-
gram activities starting not later than September 30, 2023 
and lasting for a period of 12 months: Provided further, 
That not less than $3,500,000 shall be for Voluntary Protec-
tion Programs. 
MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Mine Safety and Health 
Administration, $387,816,000, including purchase and be-
stowal of certificates and trophies in connection with mine 
rescue and first-aid work, and the hire of passenger motor 
vehicles, including up to $2,000,000 for mine rescue and 
recovery activities and not less than $10,537,000 for State 
assistance grants: Provided, That notwithstanding 31 
U.S.C. 3302, not to exceed $750,000 may be collected by 
the National Mine Health and Safety Academy for room, 
board, tuition, and the sale of training materials, otherwise 
authorized by law to be collected, to be available for mine 
safety and health education and training activities: Pro-
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vided further, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the 
Mine Safety and Health Administration is authorized to 
collect and retain up to $2,499,000 from fees collected for 
the approval and certification of equipment, materials, and 
explosives for use in mines, and may utilize such sums for 
such activities: Provided further, That the Secretary is au-
thorized to accept lands, buildings, equipment, and other 
contributions from public and private sources and to pros-
ecute projects in cooperation with other agencies, Federal, 
State, or private: Provided further, That the Mine Safety 
and Health Administration is authorized to promote health 
and safety education and training in the mining commu-
nity through cooperative programs with States, industry, 
and safety associations: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary is authorized to recognize the Joseph A. Holmes Safe-
ty Association as a principal safety association and, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, may provide 
funds and, with or without reimbursement, personnel, in-
cluding service of Mine Safety and Health Administration 
officials as officers in local chapters or in the national orga-
nization: Provided further, That any funds available to the 
Department of Labor may be used, with the approval of 
the Secretary, to provide for the costs of mine rescue and 
survival operations in the event of a major disaster.
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BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics, including advances or reimbursements to State, Fed-
eral, and local agencies and their employees for services ren-
dered, $629,952,000, together with not to exceed $68,000,000 
which may be expended from the Employment Security Ad-
ministration account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. 
OFFICE OF DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT POLICY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for the Office of Disability Em-
ployment Policy to provide leadership, develop policy and 
initiatives, and award grants furthering the objective of 
eliminating barriers to the training and employment of 
people with disabilities, $43,000,000, of which not less than 
$9,000,000 shall be for research and demonstration projects 
related to testing effective ways to promote greater labor 
force participation of people with disabilities: Provided, 
That the Secretary may transfer amounts made available 
under this heading for research and demonstration projects 
to the ‘‘State Unemployment Insurance and Employment 
Service Operations’’ account for such purposes.
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DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for Departmental Management, 
including the hire of three passenger motor vehicles, 
$391,889,000, together with not to exceed $308,000, which 
may be expended from the Employment Security Adminis-
tration account in the Unemployment Trust Fund: Pro-
vided, That $81,725,000 for the Bureau of International 
Labor Affairs shall be available for obligation through De-
cember 31, 2023: Provided further, That funds available to 
the Bureau of International Labor Affairs may be used to 
administer or operate international labor activities, bilat-
eral and multilateral technical assistance, and micro-
finance programs, by or through contracts, grants, sub-
grants and other arrangements: Provided further, That not 
less than $30,175,000 shall be for programs to combat ex-
ploitative child labor internationally and not less than 
$30,175,000 shall be used to implement model programs 
that address worker rights issues through technical assist-
ance in countries with which the United States has free 
trade agreements or trade preference programs: Provided 
further, That $8,281,000 shall be used for program evalua-
tion and shall be available for obligation through September 
30, 2024: Provided further, That funds available for pro-
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gram evaluation may be used to administer grants for the 
purpose of evaluation: Provided further, That grants made 
for the purpose of evaluation shall be awarded through fair 
and open competition: Provided further, That funds avail-
able for program evaluation may be transferred to any 
other appropriate account in the Department for such pur-
pose: Provided further, That the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate are 
notified at least 15 days in advance of any transfer: Pro-
vided further, That the funds available to the Women’s Bu-
reau may be used for grants to serve and promote the inter-
ests of women in the workforce: Provided further, That of 
the amounts made available to the Women’s Bureau, not 
less than $5,000,000 shall be used for grants authorized by 
the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupa-
tions Act. 
VETERANS’ EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING 
Not to exceed $269,841,000 may be derived from the 
Employment Security Administration account in the Un-
employment Trust Fund to carry out the provisions of 
chapters 41, 42, and 43 of title 38, United States Code, of 
which— 
(1) $185,000,000 is for Jobs for Veterans State 
grants under 38 U.S.C. 4102A(b)(5) to support dis-
abled veterans’ outreach program specialists under
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section 4103A of such title and local veterans’ employ-
ment representatives under section 4104(b) of such 
title, and for the expenses described in section 
4102A(b)(5)(C), which shall be available for expendi-
ture by the States through September 30, 2025, and 
not to exceed 3 percent for the necessary Federal ex-
penditures for data systems and contract support to 
allow for the tracking of participant and performance 
information: Provided, That, in addition, such funds 
may be used to support such specialists and rep-
resentatives 
in 
the 
provision 
of 
services 
to 
transitioning members of the Armed Forces who have 
participated in the Transition Assistance Program 
and have been identified as in need of intensive serv-
ices, to members of the Armed Forces who are wound-
ed, ill, or injured and receiving treatment in military 
treatment facilities or warrior transition units, and 
to the spouses or other family caregivers of such 
wounded, ill, or injured members; 
(2) $34,379,000 is for carrying out the Transi-
tion Assistance Program under 38 U.S.C. 4113 and 
10 U.S.C. 1144; 
(3) $47,048,000 is for Federal administration of 
chapters 41, 42, and 43 of title 38, and sections 2021, 
2021A and 2023 of title 38, United States Code: Pro-
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vided, That, up to $500,000 may be used to carry out 
the Hire VETS Act (division O of Public Law 115– 
31); and 
(4) $3,414,000 is for the National Veterans’ Em-
ployment and Training Services Institute under 38 
U.S.C. 4109: 
Provided, That the Secretary may reallocate among the ap-
propriations provided under paragraphs (1) through (4) 
above an amount not to exceed 3 percent of the appropria-
tion from which such reallocation is made. 
In addition, from the General Fund of the Treasury, 
$65,500,000 is for carrying out programs to assist homeless 
veterans and veterans at risk of homelessness who are 
transitioning from certain institutions under sections 2021, 
2021A, and 2023 of title 38, United States Code: Provided, 
That notwithstanding subsections (c)(3) and (d) of section 
2023, the Secretary may award grants through September 
30, 2023, to provide services under such section: Provided 
further, That services provided under sections 2021 or 
under 2021A may include, in addition to services to home-
less veterans described in section 2002(a)(1), services to vet-
erans who were homeless at some point within the 60 days 
prior to program entry or veterans who are at risk of home-
lessness within the next 60 days, and that services provided 
under section 2023 may include, in addition to services to
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the individuals described in subsection (e) of such section, 
services to veterans recently released from incarceration who 
are at risk of homelessness: Provided further, That notwith-
standing paragraph (3) under this heading, funds appro-
priated in this paragraph may be used for data systems 
and contract support to allow for the tracking of partici-
pant and performance information: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding sections 2021(e)(2) and 2021A(f)(2) of title 
38, United States Code, such funds shall be available for 
expenditure pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 1553. 
In addition, fees may be assessed and deposited in the 
HIRE Vets Medallion Award Fund pursuant to section 5(b) 
of the HIRE Vets Act, and such amounts shall be available 
to the Secretary to carry out the HIRE Vets Medallion 
Award Program, as authorized by such Act, and shall re-
main available until expended: Provided, That such sums 
shall be in addition to any other funds available for such 
purposes, including funds available under paragraph (3) 
of this heading: Provided further, That section 2(d) of divi-
sion O of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 (Pub-
lic Law 115–31; 38 U.S.C. 4100 note) shall not apply. 
IT MODERNIZATION 
For necessary expenses for Department of Labor cen-
tralized infrastructure technology investment activities re-
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lated to support systems and modernization, $34,269,000, 
which shall be available through September 30, 2024. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector Gen-
eral Act of 1978, $91,187,000, together with not to exceed 
$5,841,000 which may be expended from the Employment 
Security Administration account in the Unemployment 
Trust Fund: Provided, That not more than $2,000,000 of 
the amount provided under this heading may be available 
until expended. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
for the Job Corps shall be used to pay the salary and bo-
nuses of an individual, either as direct costs or any prora-
tion as an indirect cost, at a rate in excess of Executive 
Level II. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 102. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary 
funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985) which are appropriated for the 
current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act 
may be transferred between a program, project, or activity, 
but no such program, project, or activity shall be increased 
by more than 3 percent by any such transfer: Provided,
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That the transfer authority granted by this section shall not 
be used to create any new program or to fund any project 
or activity for which no funds are provided in this Act: 
Provided further, That the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified 
at least 15 days in advance of any transfer. 
SEC. 103. In accordance with Executive Order 13126, 
none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or expended for the 
procurement of goods mined, produced, manufactured, or 
harvested or services rendered, in whole or in part, by forced 
or indentured child labor in industries and host countries 
already identified by the United States Department of 
Labor prior to enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 104. Except as otherwise provided in this section, 
none of the funds made available to the Department of 
Labor for grants under section 414(c) of the American Com-
petitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 (29 
U.S.C. 2916a) may be used for any purpose other than com-
petitive grants for training individuals who are older than 
16 years of age and are not currently enrolled in school 
within a local educational agency in the occupations and 
industries for which employers are using H–1B visas to 
hire foreign workers, and the related activities necessary to 
support such training.
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SEC. 105. None of the funds made available by this 
Act under the heading ‘‘Employment and Training Admin-
istration’’ shall be used by a recipient or subrecipient of 
such funds to pay the salary and bonuses of an individual, 
either as direct costs or indirect costs, at a rate in excess 
of Executive Level II. This limitation shall not apply to 
vendors providing goods and services as defined in Office 
of Management and Budget Circular A–133. Where States 
are recipients of such funds, States may establish a lower 
limit for salaries and bonuses of those receiving salaries and 
bonuses from subrecipients of such funds, taking into ac-
count factors including the relative cost-of-living in the 
State, the compensation levels for comparable State or local 
government employees, and the size of the organizations 
that administer Federal programs involved including Em-
ployment and Training Administration programs. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 106. (a) Notwithstanding section 102, the Sec-
retary may transfer funds made available to the Employ-
ment and Training Administration by this Act, either di-
rectly or through a set-aside, for technical assistance serv-
ices to grantees to ‘‘Program Administration’’ when it is 
determined that those services will be more efficiently per-
formed by Federal employees: Provided, That this section 
shall not apply to section 171 of the WIOA.
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(b) Notwithstanding section 102, the Secretary may 
transfer not more than 0.5 percent of each discretionary ap-
propriation made available to the Employment and Train-
ing Administration by this Act to ‘‘Program Administra-
tion’’ in order to carry out program integrity activities re-
lating to any of the programs or activities that are funded 
under any such discretionary appropriations: Provided, 
That notwithstanding section 102 and the preceding pro-
viso, the Secretary may transfer not more than 0.5 percent 
of funds made available in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the 
‘‘Office of Job Corps’’ account to paragraph (3) of such ac-
count to carry out program integrity activities related to 
the Job Corps program: Provided further, That funds trans-
ferred under this subsection shall be available to the Sec-
retary to carry out program integrity activities directly or 
through grants, cooperative agreements, contracts and other 
arrangements with States and other appropriate entities: 
Provided further, That funds transferred under the author-
ity provided by this subsection shall be available for obliga-
tion through September 30, 2024. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 107. (a) The Secretary may reserve not more 
than 0.75 percent from each appropriation made available 
in this Act identified in subsection (b) in order to carry 
out evaluations of any of the programs or activities that
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are funded under such accounts. Any funds reserved under 
this section shall be transferred to ‘‘Departmental Manage-
ment’’ for use by the Office of the Chief Evaluation Officer 
within the Department of Labor, and shall be available for 
obligation through September 30, 2024: Provided, That such 
funds shall only be available if the Chief Evaluation Officer 
of the Department of Labor submits a plan to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate describing the evaluations to be carried out 15 
days in advance of any transfer. 
(b) The accounts referred to in subsection (a) are: 
‘‘Training and Employment Services’’, ‘‘Job Corps’’, ‘‘Com-
munity Service Employment for Older Americans’’, ‘‘State 
Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Oper-
ations’’, ‘‘Employee Benefits Security Administration’’, 
‘‘Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs’’, ‘‘Wage and 
Hour Division’’, ‘‘Office of Federal Contract Compliance 
Programs’’, ‘‘Office of Labor Management Standards’’, ‘‘Oc-
cupational Safety and Health Administration’’, ‘‘Mine 
Safety and Health Administration’’, ‘‘Office of Disability 
Employment Policy’’, funding made available to the ‘‘Bu-
reau of International Labor Affairs’’ and ‘‘Women’s Bu-
reau’’ within the ‘‘Departmental Management, Salaries and 
Expenses’’ account, and ‘‘Veterans’ Employment and 
Training’’.
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SEC. 108. (a) Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards 
Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 207) shall be applied as if the fol-
lowing text is part of such section: 
‘‘(s)(1) The provisions of this section shall not apply 
for a period of 2 years after the occurrence of a major dis-
aster to any employee— 
‘‘(A) employed to adjust or evaluate claims re-
sulting from or relating to such major disaster, by an 
employer not engaged, directly or through an affiliate, 
in underwriting, selling, or marketing property, cas-
ualty, or liability insurance policies or contracts; 
‘‘(B) who receives from such employer on average 
weekly compensation of not less than $591.00 per 
week or any minimum weekly amount established by 
the Secretary, whichever is greater, for the number of 
weeks such employee is engaged in any of the activi-
ties described in subparagraph (C); and 
‘‘(C) whose duties include any of the following: 
‘‘(i) interviewing insured individuals, indi-
viduals who suffered injuries or other damages or 
losses arising from or relating to a disaster, wit-
nesses, or physicians; 
‘‘(ii) inspecting property damage or review-
ing factual information to prepare damage esti-
mates;
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‘‘(iii) evaluating and making recommenda-
tions regarding coverage or compensability of 
claims or determining liability or value aspects 
of claims; 
‘‘(iv) negotiating settlements; or 
‘‘(v) making recommendations regarding 
litigation. 
‘‘(2) The exemption in this subsection shall not affect 
the exemption provided by section 13(a)(1). 
‘‘(3) For purposes of this subsection— 
‘‘(A) the term ‘major disaster’ means any dis-
aster or catastrophe declared or designated by any 
State or Federal agency or department; 
‘‘(B) the term ‘employee employed to adjust or 
evaluate claims resulting from or relating to such 
major disaster’ means an individual who timely se-
cured or secures a license required by applicable law 
to engage in and perform the activities described in 
clauses (i) through (v) of paragraph (1)(C) relating to 
a major disaster, and is employed by an employer 
that maintains worker compensation insurance cov-
erage or protection for its employees, if required by 
applicable law, and withholds applicable Federal, 
State, and local income and payroll taxes from the
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wages, salaries and any benefits of such employees; 
and 
‘‘(C) the term ‘affiliate’ means a company that, 
by reason of ownership or control of 25 percent or 
more of the outstanding shares of any class of voting 
securities of one or more companies, directly or indi-
rectly, controls, is controlled by, or is under common 
control with, another company.’’. 
(b) This section shall be effective on the date of enact-
ment of this Act. 
SEC. 109. (a) FLEXIBILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE 
CROSSING OF H–2B NONIMMIGRANTS WORKING IN THE 
SEAFOOD INDUSTRY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), if a 
petition for H–2B nonimmigrants filed by an em-
ployer in the seafood industry is granted, the em-
ployer may bring the nonimmigrants described in the 
petition into the United States at any time during 
the 120-day period beginning on the start date for 
which the employer is seeking the services of the non-
immigrants without filing another petition. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS FOR CROSSINGS AFTER 90TH 
DAY.—An employer in the seafood industry may not 
bring H–2B nonimmigrants into the United States 
after the date that is 90 days after the start date for
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which the employer is seeking the services of the non-
immigrants unless the employer— 
(A) completes a new assessment of the local 
labor market by— 
(i) listing job orders in local news-
papers on 2 separate Sundays; and 
(ii) posting the job opportunity on the 
appropriate Department of Labor Elec-
tronic Job Registry and at the employer’s 
place of employment; and 
(B) offers the job to an equally or better 
qualified United States worker who— 
(i) applies for the job; and 
(ii) will be available at the time and 
place of need. 
(3) EXEMPTION FROM RULES WITH RESPECT TO 
STAGGERING.—The Secretary of Labor shall not con-
sider an employer in the seafood industry who brings 
H–2B nonimmigrants into the United States during 
the 120-day period specified in paragraph (1) to be 
staggering the date of need in violation of section 
655.20(d) of title 20, Code of Federal Regulations, or 
any other applicable provision of law. 
(b) H–2B NONIMMIGRANTS DEFINED.—In this section, 
the term ‘‘H–2B nonimmigrants’’ means aliens admitted
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to 
the 
United 
States 
pursuant 
to 
section 
101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(B)). 
SEC. 110. The determination of prevailing wage for 
the purposes of the H–2B program shall be the greater of— 
(1) the actual wage level paid by the employer to other em-
ployees with similar experience and qualifications for such 
position in the same location; or (2) the prevailing wage 
level for the occupational classification of the position in 
the geographic area in which the H–2B nonimmigrant will 
be employed, based on the best information available at the 
time of filing the petition. In the determination of pre-
vailing wage for the purposes of the H–2B program, the 
Secretary shall accept private wage surveys even in in-
stances where Occupational Employment Statistics survey 
data are available unless the Secretary determines that the 
methodology and data in the provided survey are not statis-
tically supported. 
SEC. 111. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 
to enforce the definition of corresponding employment found 
in 20 CFR 655.5 or the three-fourths guarantee rule defini-
tion found in 20 CFR 655.20, or any references thereto. 
Further, for the purpose of regulating admission of tem-
porary workers under the H–2B program, the definition of