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lection and investigations carried on in cooperation with 
States and municipalities. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The amount appropriated for the United States Geo-
logical Survey shall be available for the purchase and re-
placement of passenger motor vehicles; reimbursement to 
the General Services Administration for security guard 
services; contracting for the furnishing of topographic 
maps and for the making of geophysical or other special-
ized surveys when it is administratively determined that 
such procedures are in the public interest; construction 
and maintenance of necessary buildings and appurtenant 
facilities; acquisition of lands for gauging stations and ob-
servation wells; expenses of the United States National 
Committee on Geology; and payment of compensation and 
expenses of persons on the rolls of the Survey duly ap-
pointed to represent the United States in the negotiation 
and administration of interstate compacts: Provided, That 
activities funded by appropriations herein made may be 
accomplished through the use of contracts, grants, or co-
operative agreements as defined in 31 U.S.C. 6302 et seq.: 
Provided further, That the United States Geological Sur-
vey may enter into contracts or cooperative agreements 
directly with individuals or indirectly with institutions or 
nonprofit organizations, without regard to 41 U.S.C. 5, 
for the temporary or intermittent services of students or
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recent graduates, who shall be considered employees for 
the purpose of chapters 57 and 81 of title 5, United States 
Code, relating to compensation for travel and work inju-
ries, and chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code, re-
lating to tort claims, but shall not be considered to be Fed-
eral employees for any other purposes. 
MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE 
ROYALTY AND OFFSHORE MINERALS MANAGEMENT 
For expenses necessary for minerals leasing and envi-
ronmental studies, regulation of industry operations, and 
collection of royalties, as authorized by law; for enforcing 
laws and regulations applicable to oil, gas, and other min-
erals leases, permits, licenses and operating contracts; and 
for matching grants or cooperative agreements; including 
the purchase of not to exceed eight passenger motor vehi-
cles for replacement only, $152,676,000, of which 
$77,529,000 shall be available for royalty management ac-
tivities; and an amount not to exceed $122,730,000, to 
be credited to this appropriation and to remain available 
until expended, from additions to receipts resulting from 
increases to rates in effect on August 5, 1993, from rate 
increases to fee collections for Outer Continental Shelf ad-
ministrative activities performed by the Minerals Manage-
ment Service (MMS) over and above the rates in effect 
on September 30, 1993, and from additional fees for
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Outer Continental Shelf administrative activities estab-
lished after September 30, 1993: Provided, That to the 
extent $122,730,000 in additions to receipts are not real-
ized from the sources of receipts stated above, the amount 
needed to reach $122,730,000 shall be credited to this ap-
propriation from receipts resulting from rental rates for 
Outer Continental Shelf leases in effect before August 5, 
1993: Provided further, That $3,000,000 for computer ac-
quisitions shall remain available until September 30, 
2007: Provided further, That not to exceed $3,000 shall 
be available for reasonable expenses related to promoting 
volunteer beach and marine cleanup activities: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
$15,000 under this heading shall be available for refunds 
of overpayments in connection with certain Indian leases 
in which the Director of MMS concurred with the claimed 
refund due, to pay amounts owed to Indian allottees or 
tribes, or to correct prior unrecoverable erroneous pay-
ments: Provided further, That in fiscal year 2006 and 
thereafter, the MMS may under the royalty-in-kind pro-
gram, or under its authority to transfer oil to the Strategic 
Petroleum Reserve, use a portion of the revenues from 
royalty-in-kind sales, without regard to fiscal year limita-
tion, to pay for transportation to wholesale market centers 
or upstream pooling points, to process or otherwise dispose
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of royalty production taken in kind, and to recover MMS 
transportation costs, salaries, and other administrative 
costs directly related to the royalty-in-kind program: Pro-
vided further, That MMS shall analyze and document the 
expected return in advance of any royalty-in-kind sales to 
assure to the maximum extent practicable that royalty in-
come under the program is equal to or greater than roy-
alty income recognized under a comparable royalty-in- 
value program. 
OIL SPILL RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 
1016, title IV, sections 4202 and 4303, title VII, and title 
VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 
$7,006,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-
ability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended. 
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND 
ENFORCEMENT 
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 
of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
1977, Public Law 95–87, as amended, including the pur-
chase of not to exceed 10 passenger motor vehicles, for 
replacement only; $110,435,000: Provided, That the Sec-
retary of the Interior, pursuant to regulations, may use 
directly or through grants to States, moneys collected in 
fiscal year 2006 for civil penalties assessed under section
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518 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 
of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1268), to reclaim lands adversely af-
fected by coal mining practices after August 3, 1977, to 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
appropriations for the Office of Surface Mining Reclama-
tion and Enforcement may provide for the travel and per 
diem expenses of State and tribal personnel attending Of-
fice of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 
sponsored training. 
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the 
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, 
Public Law 95–87, as amended, including the purchase 
of not more than 10 passenger motor vehicles for replace-
ment only, $188,014,000, to be derived from receipts of 
the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain 
available until expended; of which up to $10,000,000, to 
be derived from the Federal Expenses Share of the Fund, 
shall be for supplemental grants to States for the reclama-
tion of abandoned sites with acid mine rock drainage from 
coal mines, and for associated activities, through the Ap-
palachian Clean Streams Initiative: Provided, That grants 
to minimum program States will be $1,500,000 per State 
in fiscal year 2006: Provided further, That pursuant to 
Public Law 97–365, the Department of the Interior is au-
thorized to use up to 20 percent from the recovery of the
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delinquent debt owed to the United States Government to 
pay for contracts to collect these debts: Provided further, 
That funds made available under title IV of Public Law 
95–87 may be used for any required non-Federal share 
of the cost of projects funded by the Federal Government 
for the purpose of environmental restoration related to 
treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage from aban-
doned mines: Provided further, That such projects must 
be consistent with the purposes and priorities of the Sur-
face Mining Control and Reclamation Act: Provided fur-
ther, That amounts allocated under section 402(g)(2) of 
the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 
(30 U.S.C. 1232(g)(2)) as of September 30, 2005, but not 
appropriated as of that date, are reallocated to the alloca-
tion established in section 402(g)(3) of the Surface Mining 
Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 
1232(g)(3)): Provided further, That amounts provided 
under this heading may be used for the travel and per 
diem expenses of State and tribal personnel attending Of-
fice of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 
sponsored training. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
With funds available for the Technical Innovation 
and Professional Services program in this Act, the Sec-
retary may transfer title for computer hardware, software
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and other technical equipment to State and Tribal regu-
latory and reclamation programs. 
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian 
programs, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act 
of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian Self-De-
termination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 
U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as amended, the Education Amend-
ments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001–2019), and the Tribally 
Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), 
as amended, $1,992,737,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2007 except as otherwise provided herein, 
of which not to exceed $86,462,000 shall be for welfare 
assistance payments and notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, including but not limited to the Indian Self- 
Determination Act of 1975, as amended, not to exceed 
$134,609,000 shall be available for payments to tribes and 
tribal organizations for contract support costs associated 
with ongoing contracts, grants, compacts, or annual fund-
ing agreements entered into with the Bureau prior to or 
during fiscal year 2006, as authorized by such Act, of 
which $129,609,000 shall be available for indirect contract 
support costs and $5,000,000 shall be available for direct 
contract support costs, except that tribes and tribal orga-
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nizations may use their tribal priority allocations for 
unmet contract support costs of ongoing contracts, grants, 
or compacts, or annual funding agreements and for unmet 
welfare assistance costs; and of which not to exceed 
$478,085,000 for school operations costs of Bureau-fund-
ed schools and other education programs shall become 
available on July 1, 2006, and shall remain available until 
September 30, 2007; and of which not to exceed 
$61,267,000 shall remain available until expended for 
housing improvement, road maintenance, attorney fees, 
litigation support, the Indian Self-Determination Fund, 
land records improvement, and the Navajo-Hopi Settle-
ment Program: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, including but not limited to the Indian 
Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, and 25 
U.S.C. 2008, not to exceed $44,718,000 within and only 
from such amounts made available for school operations 
shall be available to tribes and tribal organizations for ad-
ministrative cost grants associated with ongoing grants 
entered into with the Bureau prior to or during fiscal year 
2005 for the operation of Bureau-funded schools, and up 
to $500,000 within and only from such amounts made 
available for school operations shall be available for the 
transitional costs of initial administrative cost grants to 
tribes and tribal organizations that enter into grants for
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the operation on or after July 1, 2005, of Bureau-operated 
schools: Provided further, That any forestry funds allo-
cated to a tribe which remain unobligated as of September 
30, 2007, may be transferred during fiscal year 2008 to 
an Indian forest land assistance account established for 
the benefit of such tribe within the tribe’s trust fund ac-
count: Provided further, That any such unobligated bal-
ances not so transferred shall expire on September 30, 
2008. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, 
and other facilities, including architectural and engineer-
ing services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests 
in lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for 
construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pur-
suant to Public Law 87–483, $284,137,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That such amounts as 
may be available for the construction of the Navajo Indian 
Irrigation Project may be transferred to the Bureau of 
Reclamation: Provided further, That not to exceed 6 per-
cent of contract authority available to the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs from the Federal Highway Trust Fund may 
be used to cover the road program management costs of 
the Bureau: Provided further, That any funds provided for 
the Safety of Dams program pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 13
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shall be made available on a nonreimbursable basis: Pro-
vided further, That for fiscal year 2006, in implementing 
new construction or facilities improvement and repair 
project grants in excess of $100,000 that are provided to 
tribally controlled grant schools under Public Law 100– 
297, as amended, the Secretary of the Interior shall use 
the Administrative and Audit Requirements and Cost 
Principles for Assistance Programs contained in 43 CFR 
part 12 as the regulatory requirements: Provided further, 
That such grants shall not be subject to section 12.61 of 
43 CFR; the Secretary and the grantee shall negotiate and 
determine a schedule of payments for the work to be per-
formed: Provided further, That in considering applications, 
the Secretary shall consider whether the Indian tribe or 
tribal organization would be deficient in assuring that the 
construction projects conform to applicable building stand-
ards and codes and Federal, tribal, or State health and 
safety standards as required by 25 U.S.C. 2005(b), with 
respect to organizational and financial management capa-
bilities: Provided further, That if the Secretary declines an 
application, the Secretary shall follow the requirements 
contained in 25 U.S.C. 2504(f): Provided further, That 
any disputes between the Secretary and any grantee con-
cerning a grant shall be subject to the disputes provision 
in 25 U.S.C. 2507(e): Provided further, That in order to
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ensure timely completion of replacement school construc-
tion projects, the Secretary may assume control of a 
project and all funds related to the project, if, within 
eighteen months of the date of enactment of this Act, any 
tribe or tribal organization receiving funds appropriated 
in this Act or in any prior Act, has not completed the 
planning and design phase of the project and commenced 
construction of the replacement school: Provided further, 
That this Appropriation may be reimbursed from the Of-
fice of the Special Trustee for American Indians Appro-
priation for the appropriate share of construction costs for 
space expansion needed in agency offices to meet trust re-
form implementation. 
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
For miscellaneous payments to Indian tribes and in-
dividuals and for necessary administrative expenses, 
$34,754,000, to remain available until expended, for im-
plementation of Indian land and water claim settlements 
pursuant to Public Laws 99–264, 100–580, 101–618, 
106–554, 107–331, and 108–34, and for implementation 
of other land and water rights settlements, of which 
$10,000,000 shall be available for payment to the 
Quinault Indian Nation pursuant to the terms of the 
North Boundary Settlement Agreement dated July 14,