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(4) Guided and unguided canoeing on Wonder 
Lake, including the storage of five canoes on Wonder 
Lake. 
(5) Transportation over the road between the 
north boundary of the Old Park and Wonder Lake, 
including Wonder Lake Campground, for an average 
of 10 trips per day not to exceed 70 trips per week. 
(b) For purpose of implementing this section, the term 
‘‘person’’ means the person who has a controlling interest 
in the entity described under subsection (a) or his lineal 
descendants born prior to January 1, 1979. 
SEC. 130. Section 16 of the Colorado Ute Indian Water 
Rights Settlement Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–585; 102 
Stat. 2913; 114 Stat. 2763A–263)) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)(3)(B)(iii), by striking ‘‘by 
requiring’’ and all that follows through ‘‘enhance-
ment’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘, the plan shall 
provide that not less than 1⁄3 of the funds referred to 
in clause (i) shall be expended for municipal or rural 
water development and that annual expenditures 
under that provision shall be reported to the Sec-
retary each year’’; and 
(2) in the third sentence of subsection (f), by 
striking ‘‘December 31, 2012’’ and inserting ‘‘the date
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that is 5 years after the date of the final settlement 
of the tribal claims under section 18’’. 
SEC. 131. Funds provided in this Act for Federal land 
acquisition by the National Park Service for Shenandoah 
Valley Battlefields National Historic District and Ice Age 
National Scenic Trail may be used for a grant to a State, 
a local government, or any other land management entity 
for the acquisition of lands without regard to any restric-
tion on the use of Federal land acquisition funds provided 
through the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 
1965 as amended. 
SEC. 132. From within amounts provided to the Na-
tional Park Service Land Acquisition account by this Act, 
$2,000,000 shall be made available to the State of Mis-
sissippi pursuant to a grant agreement with the National 
Park Service, in order that the State may acquire land or 
interests in land on Cat Island, which is located within 
the Gulf Islands National Seashore. Funds provided to the 
State of Mississippi through such grant agreement shall not 
be contingent upon matching funds provided by the State. 
Any lands or interests acquired with funds under this sec-
tion shall be owned by the federal government and adminis-
tered as part of the National Seashore. 
SEC. 133. MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK BOUNDARY 
CHANGE.
(a) ACQUISITION OF LAND.—
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may acquire 
the land or an interest in the land described in sub-
section (b) for addition to the Mesa Verde National 
Park. 
(2) MEANS.—An acquisition of land under para-
graph (1) may be made by donation, purchase from 
a willing seller with donated or appropriated funds, 
or exchange. 
(b) DESCRIPTION OF LAND.—The land referred to in 
subsection (a)(1) is the approximately 360 acres of land ad-
jacent to the Park, as generally depicted on the map, enti-
tled ‘‘Mesa Verde National Park Proposed Boundary Ad-
justment’’, numbered 307/80,180, and dated March 1, 2007. 
(c) AVAILABILITY OF MAP.—The map shall be on file 
and available for inspection in the appropriate offices of 
the National Park Service. 
(d) BOUNDARY MODIFICATION.—The boundary of the 
Park shall be revised to reflect the acquisition of the land 
under subsection (a). 
(e) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary shall administer 
any land or interest in land acquired under subsection 
(a)(1) as part of the Park in accordance with the laws (in-
cluding regulations) applicable to the Park. 
SEC. 134. In implementing section 1307 of Public Law 
96–487 (4 Stat. 2479), the Secretary shall deem the present
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holders of entry permit CP–GLBA005–00 and entry permit 
CP–GLBA004–00 each to be a person who, on or before 
January 1, 1979, was engaged in adequately providing vis-
itor services of the type authorized in said permit within 
Glacier Bay National Park. 
SEC. 135. Funds provided under Public Law 109–54 
may be granted to the Alice Ferguson Foundation for site 
planning and design and rehabilitation of the Potomac 
River Habitat Study Complex and the Wareham Lodge. 
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, as 
amended; necessary expenses for personnel and related costs 
and travel expenses, including uniforms, or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals 
not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the maximum 
rate payable for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; 
procurement of laboratory equipment and supplies; other 
operating expenses in support of research and development; 
construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renova-
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tion of facilities, not to exceed $85,000 per project, 
$772,129,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2009. 
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, including 
uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but 
at rates for individuals 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; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; purchase 
of reprints; library memberships in societies or associations 
which issue publications to members only or at a price to 
members lower than to subscribers who are not members; 
construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renova-
tion of facilities, not to exceed $85,000 per project; and not 
to exceed $9,000 for official reception and representation 
expenses, $2,364,854,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2009, including administrative costs of the 
brownfields program under the Small Business Liability 
Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002.
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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, as amended, and for construction, alteration, 
repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to 
exceed $85,000 per project, $41,750,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2009. 
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, 
$34,801,000, 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), as amended, including sections 
111(c)(3), (c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and 
for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and ren-
ovation of facilities, not to exceed $85,000 per project; 
$1,273,871,000, to remain available until expended, con-
sisting of such sums as are available in the Trust Fund 
on September 30, 2007, as authorized by section 517(a) of 
the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 
1986 (SARA) and up to $1,273,871,000 as a payment from
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general revenues to the Hazardous Substance Superfund for 
purposes as authorized by section 517(b) of SARA, as 
amended: Provided, That funds appropriated under this 
heading may be allocated to other Federal agencies in ac-
cordance with section 111(a) of CERCLA: Provided further, 
That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 
$11,668,000 shall be paid to the ‘‘Office of Inspector Gen-
eral’’ appropriation to remain available until September 
30, 2009, and $26,126,000 shall be paid to the ‘‘Science 
and Technology’’ appropriation to remain available until 
September 30, 2009. 
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, as amended, and 
for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and ren-
ovation of Environmental Protection Agency facilities, not 
to exceed $85,000 per project, $107,493,000, to remain 
available until expended, of which $76,493,000 shall be for 
carrying out leaking underground storage tank cleanup ac-
tivities authorized by section 9003(h) of the Solid Waste 
Disposal Act, as amended; $31,000,000 shall be for carrying 
out the other provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act 
specified in section 9508(c) of the Internal Revenue Code,
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as amended: Provided, That the Administrator is author-
ized to use appropriations made available under this head-
ing to implement section 9013 of the Solid Waste Disposal 
Act to provide financial assistance to federally-recognized 
Indian tribes for the development and implementation of 
programs to manage underground storage tanks. 
OIL SPILL RESPONSE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environmental 
Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil Pollution 
Act of 1990, $17,326,000, to be derived from the Oil Spill 
Liability trust fund, to remain available until expended. 
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolving 
funds and performance partnership grants, $2,972,595,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which $700,000,000 
shall be for making capitalization grants for the Clean 
Water State Revolving Funds under title VI of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (the ‘‘Act’’); of 
which up to $75,000,000 shall be available for loans, includ-
ing interest free loans as authorized by 33 U.S.C. 
1383(d)(1)(A), to municipal, inter-municipal, interstate, or 
State agencies or nonprofit entities for projects that provide 
treatment for or that minimize sewage or stormwater dis-
charges using one or more approaches which include, but
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are not limited to, decentralized or distributed stormwater 
controls, decentralized wastewater treatment, low-impact 
development practices, conservation easements, stream buff-
ers, or wetlands restoration; $842,167,000 shall be for cap-
italization grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving 
Funds under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, 
as amended; $20,000,000 shall be for architectural, engi-
neering, planning, design, construction and related activi-
ties in connection with the construction of high priority 
water and wastewater facilities in the area of the United 
States-Mexico Border, after consultation with the appro-
priate border commission; $25,000,000 shall be for grants 
to the State of Alaska to address drinking water and waste 
infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska Native Villages: 
Provided, That, of these funds: (1) the State of Alaska shall 
provide a match of 25 percent; (2) no more than 5 percent 
of the funds may be used for administrative and overhead 
expenses; and (3) not later than October 1, 2005, the State 
of Alaska shall make awards consistent with the State-wide 
priority list established in 2004 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 Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) or the Con-
solidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 
et seq.) which shall allocate not less than 25 percent of the
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funds provided for projects in regional hub communities; 
$135,000,000 shall be for making special project grants for 
the construction of drinking water, wastewater and storm 
water infrastructure and for water quality protection in ac-
cordance with the terms and conditions specified for such 
grants in the explanatory statement accompanying this Act, 
and, for purposes of these grants, each grantee shall con-
tribute not less than 45 percent of the cost of the project 
unless the grantee is approved for a waiver by the Agency; 
$95,000,000 shall be to carry out section 104(k) of the Com-
prehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including 
grants, interagency agreements, and associated program 
support costs; $50,000,000 shall be for grants under title 
VII, subtitle G of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, as amend-
ed; $10,000,000 shall be for grants for cost-effective emission 
reduction projects in accordance with the terms and condi-
tions of the explanatory statement accompanying this Act; 
and $1,095,428,000 shall be for grants, including associated 
program support costs, to States, federally-recognized tribes, 
interstate agencies, tribal consortia, and air pollution con-
trol agencies for multi-media or single media pollution pre-
vention, control and abatement and related activities, in-
cluding activities pursuant to the provisions set forth under 
this heading in Public Law 104–134, and for making
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grants under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for particu-
late matter monitoring and data collection activities subject 
to terms and conditions specified by the Administrator, of 
which $49,495,000 shall be for carrying out section 128 of 
CERCLA, as amended, $10,000,000 shall be for Environ-
mental Information Exchange Network grants, including 
associated program support costs, $18,500,000 of the funds 
available for grants under section 106 of the Act shall be 
for water quality monitoring activities, $10,000,000 shall 
be for making competitive targeted watershed grants, and, 
in addition to funds appropriated under the heading 
‘‘Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Pro-
gram’’ to carry out the provisions of the Solid Waste Dis-
posal Act specified in section 9508(c) of the Internal Rev-
enue Code other than section 9003(h) of the Solid Waste 
Disposal Act, as amended, $2,500,000 shall be for financial 
assistance to States under section 2007(f)(2) of the Solid 
Waste Disposal Act, as amended: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) of the Federal Water Pol-
lution 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 2008 and prior years where such amounts represent 
costs of administering the fund to the extent that such
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amounts are or were deemed reasonable by the Adminis-
trator, accounted for separately from other assets in the 
fund, and used for eligible purposes of the fund, including 
administration: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2008, 
and notwithstanding section 518(f) of the Act, the Adminis-
trator is authorized to use the amounts appropriated for 
any fiscal year under section 319 of that Act to make grants 
to federally-recognized Indian tribes pursuant to sections 
319(h) and 518(e) of that Act: Provided further, That for 
fiscal year 2008, notwithstanding the limitation on 
amounts in section 518(c) of the Act, up to a total of 11⁄2 
percent of the funds appropriated for State Revolving 
Funds under title VI of that Act may be reserved by the 
Administrator for grants under section 518(c) of that Act: 
Provided further, That no funds provided by this appro-
priations Act to address the water, wastewater and other 
critical infrastructure 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
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which lacks water, wastewater, or other necessary infra-
structure. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL 
PROTECTION AGENCY 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For fiscal year 2008, 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-
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 (as 
added by subsection (f)(2) of the Pesticide Registration Im-
provement Act of 2003), as amended.
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None of the funds provided in this Act may be used, 
directly or through grants, to pay or to provide reimburse-
ment for payment of the salary of a consultant (whether 
retained by the Federal Government or a grantee) at more 
than the daily equivalent of the rate paid for level IV of 
the Executive Schedule, unless specifically authorized by 
law. 
From unobligated balances to carry out projects and 
activities authorized under section 206(a) of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act, $5,000,000 are hereby re-
scinded. 
None of the funds made available by this Act may be 
used in contravention of, or to delay the implementation 
of, Executive Order No. 12898 of February 11, 1994 (59 
Fed. Reg. 7629; relating to Federal actions to address envi-
ronmental justice in minority populations and low-income 
populations). 
Of the funds provided in the Environmental Programs 
and Management account, not less than $3,500,000 shall 
be provided for activities to develop and publish a draft 
rule not later than 9 months after the date of enactment 
of this Act, and a final rule not later than 18 months after 
the date of enactment of this Act, to require mandatory re-
porting of greenhouse gas emissions above appropriate 
thresholds in all sectors of the economy of the United States.
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TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-
search as authorized by law, $290,457,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That of the funds provided, 
$61,329,000 is for the forest inventory and analysis pro-
gram. 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-
tories, possessions, and others, and for forest health manage-
ment, including treatments of pests, pathogens, and 
invasive or noxious plants and for restoring and rehabili-
tating forests damaged by pests or invasive plants, coopera-
tive forestry, and education and land conservation activi-
ties and conducting an international program as author-
ized, $266,974,000, to remain available until expended, as 
authorized by law; of which $7,500,000 is for the Inter-
national Program; and of which $53,146,000 is to be de-
rived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
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NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not other-
wise provided for, for management, protection, improve-
ment, and utilization of the National Forest System, 
$1,492,868,000, to remain available until expended, which 
shall include 50 percent of all moneys received during prior 
fiscal years as fees collected under the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund Act of 1965, as amended, in accordance 
with section 4 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 460l–6a(i)): Provided, 
That unobligated balances under this heading available at 
the start of fiscal year 2008 shall be displayed by budget 
line item in the fiscal year 2009 budget justification: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds provided under this heading 
for Forest Products, $4,000,000 shall be allocated to the 
Alaska Region, in addition to its normal allocation for the 
purposes of preparing additional timber for sale, to estab-
lish a 3-year timber supply and such funds may be trans-
ferred to other appropriations accounts as necessary to 
maximize accomplishment. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not other-
wise provided for, $456,895,000, to remain available until 
expended, for construction, capital improvement, mainte-
nance and acquisition of buildings and other facilities, and
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infrastructure; and for construction, capital improvement, 
decommissioning, and maintenance of forest roads and 
trails by the Forest Service as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 532– 
538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205; and in addition 
$25,000,000 to be transferred from the timber roads pur-
chaser election fund and merged with this account, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That $40,000,000 
shall be designated for urgently needed road decommis-
sioning, road and trail repair and maintenance and associ-
ated activities, and removal of fish passage barriers, espe-
cially in areas where Forest Service roads may be contrib-
uting to water quality problems in streams and water bod-
ies which support threatened, endangered or sensitive spe-
cies or community water sources and for urgently needed 
road repairs required due to recent storm events: Provided 
further, That up to $40,000,000 of the funds provided herein 
for road maintenance shall be available for the decommis-
sioning of roads, including unauthorized roads not part of 
the transportation system, which are no longer needed: Pro-
vided further, That no funds shall be expended to decommis-
sion any system road until notice and an opportunity for 
public comment has been provided on each decommissioning 
project: Provided further, That the decommissioning of un-
authorized roads not part of the official transportation sys-
tem shall be expedited in response to threats to public safety,
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water quality, or natural resources: Provided further, That 
funds becoming available in fiscal year 2008 under the Act 
of March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501) shall be transferred to 
the General Fund of the Treasury and shall not be available 
for transfer or obligation for any other purpose unless the 
funds are appropriated: Provided further, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, the Forest Service shall 
provide $1,197,000 appropriated in Public Law 110–5 
within the Capital Improvement and Maintenance appro-
priation as an advance direct lump sum payment to West 
Virginia University for the planning and construction of 
a research greenhouse facility as the Federal share in the 
construction of the new facility. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of 
the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including admin-
istrative expenses, and for acquisition of land or waters, 
or interest therein, in accordance with statutory authority 
applicable to the Forest Service, $42,490,000, to be derived 
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and to re-
main available until expended. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL 
ACTS 
For acquisition of lands within the exterior boundaries 
of the Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, Utah;
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the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada; and the Angeles, San 
Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland National Forests, Cali-
fornia, as authorized by law, $1,053,000, 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, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available until ex-
pended. (16 U.S.C. 4601–516–617a, 555a; Public Law 96– 
586; Public Law 76–589, 76–591; and 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, as amended, to remain available until expended, 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), 
$56,000, to remain available until expended, 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 
(Public Law 96–487), $5,053,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression 
activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency 
fire suppression on or adjacent to such lands or other lands 
under fire protection agreement, hazardous fuels reduction 
on or adjacent to such lands, and for emergency rehabilita-
tion of burned-over National Forest System lands and 
water, $1,974,276,000, 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 such funds shall 
be available to reimburse State and other cooperating enti-
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ties 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 re-
paid by the responsible emergency management agency: 
Provided further, That not less than 50 percent of any un-
obligated balances remaining (exclusive of amounts for haz-
ardous fuels reduction) at the end of fiscal year 2007 shall 
be transferred to the fund established pursuant to section 
3 of Public Law 71–319 (16 U.S.C. 576 et seq.) if necessary 
to reimburse the fund for unpaid past advances: Provided 
further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
$8,000,000 of funds appropriated under this appropriation 
shall be used for Fire Science Research in support of the 
Joint Fire Science Program: Provided further, That all au-
thorities 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: Provided further, That funds provided shall be 
available for emergency rehabilitation and restoration, haz-
ardous fuels reduction activities in the urban-wildland 
interface, support to Federal emergency response, and wild-
fire suppression activities of the Forest Service: Provided 
further, That of the funds provided, $315,000,000 is for haz-
ardous fuels reduction activities, $11,000,000 is for reha-
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bilitation and restoration, $23,892,000 is for research ac-
tivities and to make competitive research grants pursuant 
to the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research 
Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1641 et seq.), $48,727,000 is 
for State fire assistance, $8,000,000 is for volunteer fire as-
sistance, $14,252,000 is for forest health activities on Fed-
eral lands and $10,014,000 is for forest health activities on 
State and private lands: Provided further, That amounts 
in this paragraph may be transferred to the ‘‘State and 
Private Forestry’’, ‘‘National Forest System’’, and ‘‘Forest 
and Rangeland Research’’ accounts to fund State fire assist-
ance, volunteer fire assistance, forest health management, 
forest and rangeland research, the Joint Fire Science Pro-
gram, vegetation and watershed management, heritage site 
rehabilitation, and wildlife and fish habitat management 
and restoration: Provided further, That transfers of any 
amounts in excess of those authorized in this paragraph, 
shall require approval of the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations in compliance with reprogramming pro-
cedures contained in the explanatory statement accom-
panying this Act: Provided further, That up to $10,000,000 
of the funds provided under this heading for hazardous fuels 
treatments may be transferred to and made a part of the 
‘‘National Forest System’’ account at the sole discretion of 
the Chief of the Forest Service thirty days after notifying
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the House and the Senate Committees on Appropriations: 
Provided further, That the costs of implementing any coop-
erative agreement between the Federal Government and any 
non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutually agreed on 
by the affected parties: Provided further, That in addition 
to funds provided for State Fire Assistance programs, and 
subject to all authorities available to the Forest Service 
under the State and Private Forestry Appropriation, up 
to $15,000,000 may be used on adjacent non-Federal lands 
for the purpose of protecting communities when hazard re-
duction activities are planned on national forest lands that 
have the potential to place such communities at risk: Pro-
vided further, That funds made available to implement the 
Community Forest Restoration Act, Public Law 106–393, 
title VI, shall be available for use on non-Federal lands in 
accordance with authorities available to the Forest Service 
under the State and Private Forestry Appropriation: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the transfer of funds 
appropriated for wildland fire management, in an aggre-
gate amount not to exceed $10,000,000, between the Depart-
ments when such transfers would facilitate and expedite 
jointly funded wildland fire management programs and 
projects: Provided further, That of the funds provided for 
hazardous fuels reduction, not to exceed $7,000,000, may
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be used to make grants, using any authorities available to 
the Forest Service under the State and Private Forestry ap-
propriation, for the purpose of creating incentives for in-
creased use of biomass from national forest lands: Provided 
further, That funds designated for wildfire suppression shall 
be assessed for cost pools on the same basis as such assess-
ments are calculated against other agency programs. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, FOREST SERVICE 
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 from ex-
cess sources to maintain the operable fleet for use in Forest 
Service wildland fire programs and other Forest Service 
programs; notwithstanding other provisions of law, existing 
aircraft being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived 
or trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the 
replacement aircraft; (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 build-
ings and other 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 Volun-
teers in the National Forest Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 558a,
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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 accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c). 
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 notification of the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations and if and only if all previously 
appropriated emergency contingent funds under the head-
ing ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ have been released by the 
President and apportioned and all wildfire suppression 
funds under the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ are 
obligated. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for assistance to or through the Agency for Inter-
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 and international organizations.
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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– 
107 (7 U.S.C. 8316(b)). 
None of the funds available to the Forest Service may 
be reprogrammed without the advance approval of the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in ac-
cordance with the reprogramming procedures contained in 
the explanatory statement accompanying this Act. 
Not more than $73,285,000 of funds available to the 
Forest Service shall be transferred to the Working Capital 
Fund of the Department of Agriculture and not more than 
$24,021,000 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. Nothing in this paragraph shall pro-
hibit or limit the use of reimbursable agreements requested 
by the Forest Service in order to obtain services from the 
Department of Agriculture’s National Information Tech-
nology Center. 
Funds available to the Forest Service shall be available 
to conduct a program of up to $5,000,000 for priority
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projects within the scope of the approved budget, of which 
$2,500,000 shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation 
Corps and $2,500,000 shall be carried out under the author-
ity of the Public Lands Corps Healthy Forests Restoration 
Act of 2005, Public Law 109–154. 
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, 
$3,000,000 may be advanced in a lump sum to the National 
Forest Foundation to aid conservation partnership projects 
in support of the Forest Service mission, without regard 
to when the Foundation incurs expenses, for administrative 
expenses or projects on or benefitting National Forest Sys-
tem lands or related to Forest Service programs: Provided, 
That the Foundation shall obtain, by the end of the period 
of Federal financial assistance, private contributions to 
match on at least one-for-one basis funds made available 
by the Forest Service: Provided further, That the Founda-
tion may transfer Federal funds to a non-Federal recipient 
for a project at the same rate that the recipient has obtained 
the non-Federal matching funds: Provided further, That au-
thorized investments of Federal funds held by the Founda-
tion may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of
690 
the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both 
principal and interest by the United States. 
Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98–244, 
$2,650,000 of the funds available to the Forest Service shall 
be advanced to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation 
in a lump sum to aid cost-share conservation projects, with-
out 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 Foundation or its sub- 
recipients: Provided further, That the Foundation 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 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 sections 
14(c)(1) and (2), and section 16(a)(2) of Public Law 99– 
663. 
An eligible individual who is employed in any project 
funded under title V of the Older American Act of 1965
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(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. 
Any funds appropriated to the Forest Service may be 
used to meet the non-Federal share requirement in section 
502(c) of the Older American Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 
3056(c)(2)). 
Funds available to the Forest Service, not to exceed 
$45,000,000, shall be assessed for the purpose of performing 
facilities maintenance. Such assessments shall occur using 
a square foot rate charged on the same basis the agency 
uses to assess programs for payment of rent, utilities, and 
other support services. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any ap-
propriations 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-
chase negotiations and similar non-litigation related mat-
ters. Future budget justifications for both the Forest Service 
and the Department of Agriculture should clearly display 
the sums previously transferred and the requested funding 
transfers.
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None of the funds made available under this Act shall 
be obligated or expended to abolish any region, to move or 
close any regional office for National Forest System admin-
istration of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture 
without the consent of the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations. 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
SERVICES 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of August 
5, 1954 (68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determination Act, 
the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, and titles II and 
III of the Public Health Service Act with respect to the In-
dian Health Service, $3,018,624,000, together with pay-
ments received during the fiscal year pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 
238(b) 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 $588,515,000 for
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contract medical care, including $27,000,000 for the Indian 
Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund, shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided further, That no less than 
$35,094,000 is provided for maintaining operations of the 
urban Indian health program: Provided further, That of the 
funds provided, up to $32,000,000 shall remain available 
until expended for implementation of the loan repayment 
program under section 108 of the Indian Health Care Im-
provement Act: Provided further, That $14,000,000 is pro-
vided for a methamphetamine and suicide prevention and 
treatment initiative, of which up to $5,000,000 may be used 
for mental health, suicide prevention, and behavioral issues 
associated with methamphetamine use: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, these 
funds shall be allocated outside all other distribution meth-
ods and formulas at the discretion of the Director of the 
Indian Health Service and shall remain available until ex-
pended: Provided further, That funds provided in this Act 
may be used for one-year contracts and grants which are 
to be performed in two fiscal years, so long as the total 
obligation is recorded in the year for which the funds are 
appropriated: Provided further, That the amounts collected 
by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the 
authority of title IV of the Indian Health Care Improve-
ment Act shall remain available until expended for the pur-
694 
pose of achieving compliance with the applicable conditions 
and requirements of titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Se-
curity Act (exclusive of planning, design, or construction 
of new facilities): Provided further, That funding contained 
herein, and in any earlier appropriations Acts for scholar-
ship programs under the Indian Health Care Improvement 
Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available until expended: 
Provided further, That amounts received by tribes and trib-
al 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, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, of the amounts provided herein, 
not to exceed $271,636,000 shall be for payments to tribes 
and tribal organizations for contract or grant support costs 
associated with contracts, grants, self-governance compacts 
or annual funding agreements between the Indian Health 
Service and a tribe or tribal organization pursuant to the 
Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, prior 
to or during fiscal year 2008, of which not to exceed 
$5,000,000 may be used for contract support costs associ-
ated with new or expanded self-determination contracts, 
grants, self-governance compacts or annual funding agree-
ments: Provided further, That the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
may collect from the Indian Health Service and tribes and
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tribal organizations operating health facilities pursuant to 
Public Law 93–638 such individually identifiable health 
information relating to disabled children as may be nec-
essary for the purpose of carrying out its functions under 
the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 
1400, et seq.): Provided further, That funds available for 
the Indian Health Care Improvement Fund may be used, 
as needed, to carry out activities typically funded under 
the Indian Health Facilities account. 
INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, maintenance, improvement, 
and equipment of health and related auxiliary facilities, in-
cluding quarters for personnel; preparation of plans, speci-
fications, 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 Indian Self-Deter-
mination Act, and the Indian Health Care Improvement 
Act, and for expenses necessary to carry out such Acts and 
titles II and III of the Public Health Service Act with re-
spect to environmental health and facilities support activi-
ties of the Indian Health Service, $380,583,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, funds appropriated for the plan-
ning, design, construction or renovation of health facilities
696 
for the benefit of an Indian tribe or tribes may be used 
to purchase land for sites to construct, improve, or enlarge 
health or related facilities: Provided further, That not to 
exceed $500,000 shall be used by the Indian Health Service 
to purchase TRANSAM equipment from the Department of 
Defense for distribution to the Indian Health Service and 
tribal facilities: Provided further, That none of the funds 
appropriated to the Indian Health Service may be used for 
sanitation facilities construction for new homes funded with 
grants by the housing programs of the United States De-
partment of Housing and Urban Development: Provided 
further, That not to exceed $1,000,000 from this account 
and the ‘‘Indian Health Services’’ account shall be used by 
the Indian Health Service to obtain ambulances for the In-
dian Health Service and tribal facilities in conjunction 
with an existing interagency agreement between the Indian 
Health Service and the General Services Administration: 
Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000 shall be 
placed in a Demolition Fund, available until expended, to 
be used by the Indian Health Service for demolition of Fed-
eral buildings. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 
Appropriations in this Act to the Indian Health Serv-
ice shall be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109 but at rates not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent 
to the maximum rate payable for senior-level positions
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under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger motor vehicles and 
aircraft; purchase of medical equipment; purchase of re-
prints; purchase, renovation and erection of modular build-
ings and renovation of existing facilities; payments for tele-
phone service in private residences in the field, when au-
thorized under regulations approved by the Secretary; and 
for uniforms or allowances therefor as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 5901–5902; and for expenses of attendance at meet-
ings which are concerned with the functions or activities 
for which the appropriation is made or which will con-
tribute to improved conduct, supervision, or management 
of those functions or activities. 
In accordance with the provisions of the Indian Health 
Care Improvement Act, non-Indian patients may be ex-
tended health care at all tribally administered or Indian 
Health Service facilities, subject to charges, and the pro-
ceeds 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. Notwith-
standing 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, as amended.
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Funds appropriated to the Indian Health Service in 
this Act, except those used for administrative and program 
direction purposes, shall not be subject to limitations di-
rected at curtailing Federal travel and transportation. 
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. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
previously or herein made available to a tribe or tribal or-
ganization through a contract, grant, or agreement author-
ized by title I or title V of the Indian Self-Determination 
and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450), may 
be deobligated and reobligated to a self-determination con-
tract under title I, or a self-governance agreement under 
title V of such Act and thereafter shall remain available 
to the tribe or tribal organization without fiscal year limi-
tation. 
None of the funds made available to the Indian Health 
Service in this Act shall be used to implement the final rule 
published 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
699 
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. 
With respect to functions transferred by the Indian 
Health Service to tribes or tribal organizations, the Indian 
Health Service is authorized to provide goods and services 
to those entities, on a reimbursable basis, including pay-
ment in advance with subsequent adjustment. The reim-
bursements received therefrom, along with the funds received 
from those entities pursuant to the Indian Self-Determina-
tion Act, may be credited to the same or subsequent appro-
priation account that provided the funding, with such 
amounts to remain available until expended. 
Reimbursements for training, technical assistance, or 
services provided by the Indian Health Service will contain 
total costs, including direct, administrative, and overhead 
associated with the provision of goods, services, or technical 
assistance. 
The appropriation structure for the Indian Health 
Service may not be altered without advance notification to 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
700 
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, 
as amended, and section 126(g) of the Superfund Amend-
ments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, $78,775,000. 
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), 111(c)(4), and 
111(c)(14) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as 
amended; section 118(f) of the Superfund Amendments and 
Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), as amended; and sec-
tion 3019 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, 
$75,212,000, of which up to $1,500,000, to remain available 
until expended, is for Individual Learning Accounts for 
full-time equivalent employees of the Agency for Toxic Sub-
stances and Disease Registry: Provided, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, in lieu of performing 
a health assessment under section 104(i)(6) of CERCLA,
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the Administrator of ATSDR may conduct other appro-
priate health studies, evaluations, or activities, including, 
without limitation, biomedical testing, clinical evaluations, 
medical monitoring, and referral to accredited health care 
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. 
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, $2,703,000: 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.
702 
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, as amended, 
including hire of passenger vehicles, uniforms or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, and for serv-
ices authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates for individ-
uals not to exceed the per diem equivalent to the maximum 
rate payable for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376, 
$9,410,000: 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.
703 
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, $9,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That funds provided in this or any other appropria-
tions 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 
preceding 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 pro-
vided for such household: Provided further, That no 
relocatee will be provided with more than one new or re-
placement home: Provided further, That the Office shall re-
locate any certified eligible relocatees who have selected and 
received an approved homesite on the Navajo reservation 
or selected a replacement residence off the Navajo reserva-
tion or on the land acquired pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 640d– 
10.
704 
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 title XV of Public Law 99–498, as amended (20 U.S.C. 
56 part A), $7,297,000. 
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 (for terms 
not to exceed 30 years), and protection of buildings, facili-
ties, and approaches; not to exceed $100,000 for services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; up to five replacement pas-
senger vehicles; purchase, rental, repair, and cleaning of 
uniforms for employees, $571,347,000, of which not to ex-
ceed $19,968,000 for the instrumentation program, collec-
tions acquisition, exhibition reinstallation, the National 
Museum of African American History and Culture, and the
705 
repatriation of skeletal remains program shall remain 
available until expended; and of which $1,578,000 for fel-
lowships and scholarly awards shall remain available until 
September 30, 2009; 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 contractors performing 
research services or participating in official Smithsonian 
presentations. 
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, 
$107,100,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
not to exceed $10,000 is for services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109. 
LEGACY FUND 
For major restoration, renovation, and rehabilitation 
of existing Smithsonian facilities, $15,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That funds shall only 
be available after being matched by no less than 
$30,000,000 in private donations, which shall not include 
in-kind contributions: Provided further, That none of the
706 
funds made available under this heading or any required 
matching funds shall be used for day-to-day maintenance, 
general salaries and expenses, or programmatic purposes. 
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, Seventy-sixth Congress), including services as au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in advance when au-
thorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for membership in 
library, museum, 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; pur-
chase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards, and uni-
forms, or allowances therefor, for other employees as author-
ized 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 re-
pair of buildings, approaches, and grounds; and purchase 
of services for restoration and repair of works of art for 
the National Gallery of Art by contracts made, without ad-
vertising, with individuals, firms, or organizations at such
707 
rates or prices and under such terms and conditions as the 
Gallery may deem proper, $101,718,000, of which not to 
exceed $3,350,000 for the special exhibition program shall 
remain available until expended. 
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS 
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, as authorized, $18,017,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That contracts awarded for environ-
mental 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, $20,200,000. 
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, 
$23,150,000, to remain available until expended.
708 
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, $10,000,000. 
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, as 
amended, $147,000,000 shall be available to the National 
Endowment for the Arts for the support of projects and pro-
ductions in the arts, including arts education and public 
outreach activities, 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 available until expended: Provided, That funds ap-
propriated herein shall be expended in accordance with sec-
tions 309 and 311 of Public Law 108–447.
709 
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, as 
amended, $132,490,000, shall be available to the National 
Endowment for the Humanities for support of activities in 
the humanities, pursuant to section 7(c) of the Act, and for 
administering the functions of the Act, to remain available 
until expended. 
MATCHING GRANTS 
To carry out the provisions of section 10(a)(2) of the 
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act 
of 1965, as amended, $14,510,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which $9,479,000 shall be available to the Na-
tional Endowment for the Humanities for the purposes of 
section 7(h): Provided, That this appropriation shall be 
available for obligation only in such amounts as may be 
equal to the total amounts of gifts, bequests, and devises of 
money, and other property accepted by the chairman or by 
grantees of the Endowment under the provisions of sub-
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 appropriated. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
None of the funds appropriated to the National Foun-
dation on the Arts and the Humanities may be used to
710 
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 
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 this amount does not exceed 5 percent of the sums 
appropriated for grant-making purposes per year: Provided 
further, That such small grant actions are taken pursuant 
to the terms of an expressed and direct delegation of author-
ity from the National Council on the Arts to the Chair-
person: Provided further, That section 309(1) of division 
E, Public Law 108–447, is amended by inserting ‘‘National 
Opera Fellowship,’’ after ‘‘National Heritage Fellowship,’’. 
COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing 
a Commission of Fine Arts (40 U.S.C. 104), $2,092,000: 
Provided, 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-
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main available until expended without further appropria-
tion. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 
99–190 (20 U.S.C. 956a), as amended, $8,500,000. 
ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on His-
toric Preservation (Public Law 89–665, as amended), 
$5,348,000: Provided, That none of these funds shall be 
available for compensation of level V of the Executive Sched-
ule or higher positions. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as authorized by the National 
Capital Planning Act of 1952 (40 U.S.C. 71–71i), includ-
ing services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $8,265,000: 
Provided, That one-quarter of 1 percent of the funds pro-
vided under this heading may be used for official reception 
and representational expenses associated with hosting inter-
national visitors engaged in the planning and physical de-
velopment of world capitals.
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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), 
$45,496,000, of which $515,000 for the equipment replace-
ment program shall remain available until September 30, 
2010; and $1,900,000 for the museum’s repair and rehabili-
tation program and $1,264,000 for the museum’s exhibition 
design and production program shall remain available 
until expended. 
PRESIDIO TRUST 
PRESIDIO TRUST FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out title I of the Omni-
bus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996, 
$22,400,000 shall be available to the Presidio Trust, to re-
main available until expended. 
WHITE HOUSE COMMISSION ON THE NATIONAL MOMENT 
OF REMEMBRANCE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the White House Commission 
on the National Moment of Remembrance, $200,000, which 
shall be transferred to the Department of Veterans Affairs, 
‘‘Departmental Administration, General Operating Ex-
penses’’ account and be administered by the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs.
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DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER MEMORIAL 
COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including the costs of construc-
tion design, of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Com-
mission, $2,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 401. The expenditure of any appropriation under 
this Act for any consulting service through procurement 
contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to 
those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of pub-
lic record and available for public inspection, except where 
otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing 
Executive Order issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 402. 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.
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SEC. 403. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 404. None of the funds provided in this Act to 
any department or agency shall be obligated or expended 
to provide a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal serv-
ants to any officer or employee of such department or agen-
cy except as otherwise provided by law. 
SEC. 405. Estimated overhead charges, deductions, re-
serves or holdbacks from programs, projects, activities and 
subactivities to support government-wide, departmental, 
agency or bureau administrative functions or headquarters, 
regional or central operations shall be presented in annual 
budget justifications and subject to approval by the Com-
mittees on Appropriations. Changes to such estimates shall 
be presented to the Committees on Appropriations for ap-
proval. 
SEC. 406. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government except pur-
suant to a transfer made by, or transfer provided in, this 
Act or any other Act. 
SEC. 407. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to plan, prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classified 
as giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which are lo-
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cated on National Forest System or Bureau of Land Man-
agement lands in a manner different than such sales were 
conducted in fiscal year 2006. 
SEC. 408. (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.—The provisions of 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 Secretary on or before September 30, 1994; 
and (2) all requirements established under sections 2325 
and 2326 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) 
for vein or lode claims and 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, 2008, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall file with the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations and the Committee on Resources 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on En-
ergy and Natural Resources of the Senate a report on ac-
tions taken by the Department under the plan submitted
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pursuant to 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 Bureau of Land Man-
agement to conduct a mineral examination of the mining 
claims or mill sites contained in a patent application as 
set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau of Land Manage-
ment 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 Management 
in the retention of third-party contractors. 
SEC. 409. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
amounts appropriated to or otherwise designated in com-
mittee reports for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the In-
dian Health Service by Public Laws 103–138, 103–332, 
104–134, 104–208, 105–83, 105–277, 106–113, 106–291, 
107–63, 108–7, 108–108, 108–447, 109–54, 109–289, divi-
sion B and Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 
(division B of Public Law 109–289, as amended by Public 
Law 110–5) for payments for contract support costs associ-
ated with self-determination or self-governance contracts,
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grants, compacts, or annual funding agreements with the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health Service as 
funded by such Acts, are the total amounts available for 
fiscal years 1994 through 2007 for such purposes, except 
that for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tribes and tribal or-
ganizations may use their tribal priority allocations for 
unmet contract support costs of ongoing contracts, grants, 
self-governance compacts or annual funding agreements. 
SEC. 410. Prior to October 1, 2008, the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall not be considered to be in violation of sub-
paragraph 6(f)(5)(A) of the Forest and Rangeland Renew-
able 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 Na-
tional Forest System. Nothing in this section exempts the 
Secretary from any other requirement of the Forest and 
Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act (16 U.S.C. 
1600 et seq.) or any other law: Provided, That if the Sec-
retary 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 re-
spect to such plan and a court of proper jurisdiction may 
order completion of the plan on an accelerated basis. 
SEC. 411. No timber sale in Region 10 shall be adver-
tised if the indicated rate is deficit when appraised using
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a residual value approach that assigns domestic Alaska val-
ues for western redcedar. Program accomplishments shall 
be based on volume sold. Should Region 10 sell, in the cur-
rent fiscal year, the annual average portion of the decadal 
allowable sale quantity called for in the current Tongass 
Land Management Plan in sales which are not deficit when 
appraised using a residual value approach that assigns do-
mestic Alaska values for western redcedar, all of the western 
redcedar timber from those sales which is surplus to the 
needs of domestic processors in Alaska, shall be made avail-
able to domestic processors in the contiguous 48 United 
States at prevailing domestic prices. Should Region 10 sell, 
in the current fiscal year, less than the annual average por-
tion of the decadal allowable sale quantity called for in the 
Tongass Land Management Plan in sales which are not def-
icit when appraised using a residual value approach that 
assigns domestic Alaska values for western redcedar, the vol-
ume of western redcedar timber available to domestic proc-
essors at prevailing domestic prices in the contiguous 48 
United States shall be that volume: (1) which is surplus 
to the needs of domestic processors in Alaska; and (2) is 
that percent of the surplus western redcedar volume deter-
mined by calculating the ratio of the total timber volume 
which has been sold on the Tongass to the annual average 
portion of the decadal allowable sale quantity called for in
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the current Tongass Land Management Plan. The percent-
age shall be calculated by Region 10 on a rolling basis as 
each sale is sold (for purposes of this amendment, a ‘‘rolling 
basis’’ shall mean that the determination of how much west-
ern redcedar is eligible for sale to various markets shall be 
made at the time each sale is awarded). Western redcedar 
shall be deemed ‘‘surplus to the needs of domestic processors 
in Alaska’’ when the timber sale holder has presented to 
the Forest Service documentation of the inability to sell 
western redcedar logs from a given sale to domestic Alaska 
processors at a price equal to or greater than the log selling 
value stated in the contract. All additional western redcedar 
volume not sold to Alaska or contiguous 48 United States 
domestic processors may be exported to foreign markets at 
the election of the timber sale holder. All Alaska yellow 
cedar may be sold at prevailing export prices at the election 
of the timber sale holder. 
SEC. 412. 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,
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except where such activities are allowed under the Presi-
dential proclamation establishing such monument. 
SEC. 413. In entering into agreements with foreign 
countries pursuant to the Wildfire Suppression Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1856m) the Secretary of Agriculture and 
the Secretary of the Interior are authorized to enter into 
reciprocal agreements in which the individuals furnished 
under said agreements to provide wildfire services are con-
sidered, for purposes of tort liability, employees of the coun-
try receiving said services when the individuals are engaged 
in fire suppression: Provided, That the Secretary of Agri-
culture or the Secretary of the Interior shall not enter into 
any agreement under this provision unless the foreign coun-
try (either directly or through its fire organization) agrees 
to assume any and all liability for the acts or omissions 
of American firefighters engaged in firefighting in a foreign 
country: Provided further, That when an agreement is 
reached for furnishing fire fighting services, the only rem-
edies for acts or omissions committed while fighting fires 
shall be those provided under the laws of the host country, 
and those remedies shall be the exclusive remedies for any 
claim arising out of fighting fires in a foreign country: Pro-
vided further, That neither the sending country nor any 
legal organization associated with the firefighter shall be
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subject to any legal action whatsoever pertaining to or aris-
ing out of the firefighter’s role in fire suppression. 
SEC. 414. In awarding a Federal contract with funds 
made available by this Act, notwithstanding Federal Gov-
ernment procurement and contracting laws, the Secretary 
of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior (the ‘‘Secre-
taries’’) may, in evaluating bids and proposals, give consid-
eration to local contractors who are from, and who provide 
employment and training for, dislocated and displaced 
workers in an economically disadvantaged rural commu-
nity, including those historically timber-dependent areas 
that have been affected by reduced timber harvesting on 
Federal lands and other forest-dependent rural communities 
isolated from significant alternative employment opportu-
nities: Provided, That notwithstanding Federal Government 
procurement and contracting laws the Secretaries may 
award contracts, grants or cooperative agreements to local 
non-profit entities, Youth Conservation Corps or related 
partnerships with State, local or non-profit youth groups, 
or small or micro-business or disadvantaged business: Pro-
vided further, That the contract, grant, or cooperative agree-
ment is for forest hazardous fuels reduction, watershed or 
water quality monitoring or restoration, wildlife or fish 
population monitoring, or habitat restoration or manage-
ment: Provided further, That the terms ‘‘rural community’’
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and ‘‘economically disadvantaged’’ shall have the same 
meanings as in section 2374 of Public Law 101–624: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretaries shall develop guidance 
to implement this section: Provided further, That nothing 
in this section shall be construed as relieving the Secretaries 
of any duty under applicable procurement laws, except as 
provided in this section. 
SEC. 415. (a) LIMITATION ON COMPETITIVE SOURCING 
STUDIES.— 
(1) Of the funds made available by this or any 
other Act to the Department of the Interior for fiscal 
year 2008, not more than $3,450,000 may be used by 
the Secretary of the Interior to initiate or continue 
competitive sourcing studies in fiscal year 2008 for 
programs, projects, and activities for which funds are 
appropriated by this Act. 
(2) None of the funds made available by this or 
any other Act may be used in fiscal year 2008 for 
competitive sourcing studies and any related activi-
ties involving Forest Service personnel. 
(b) COMPETITIVE SOURCING STUDY DEFINED.—In 
this section, the term ‘‘competitive sourcing study’’ means 
a study on subjecting work performed by Federal Govern-
ment employees or private contractors to public-private 
competition or on converting the Federal Government em-
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ployees or the work performed by such employees to private 
contractor performance under the Office of Management 
and Budget Circular A–76 or any other administrative reg-
ulation, directive, or policy. 
(c) COMPETITIVE SOURCING EXEMPTION FOR FOREST 
SERVICE STUDIES CONDUCTED PRIOR TO FISCAL YEAR 
2006.—The Forest Service is hereby exempted from imple-
menting the Letter of Obligation and post-competition ac-
countability guidelines where a competitive sourcing study 
involved 65 or fewer full-time equivalents, the performance 
decision was made in favor of the agency provider, no net 
savings was achieved by conducting the study, and the 
study was completed prior to the date of this Act. 
(d) In preparing any reports to the Committees on Ap-
propriations on competitive sourcing activities, agencies 
funded in this Act shall include all costs attributable to con-
ducting the competitive sourcing competitions and staff 
work to prepare for competitions or to determine the feasi-
bility of starting competitions, including costs attributable 
to paying outside consultants and contractors and, in ac-
cordance with full cost accounting principles, all costs at-
tributable to developing, implementing, supporting, man-
aging, monitoring, and reporting on competitive sourcing, 
including personnel, consultant, travel, and training costs 
associated with program management.
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(e) In carrying out any competitive sourcing study in-
volving Department of the Interior employees, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall— 
(1) determine whether any of the employees con-
cerned are also qualified to participate in wildland 
fire management activities; and 
(2) take into consideration the effect that con-
tracting with a private sector source would have on 
the ability of the Department of the Interior to effec-
tively and efficiently fight and manage wildfires. 
SEC. 416. Section 331 of the Department of the Inte-
rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000, re-
garding the pilot program to enhance Forest Service admin-
istration of rights-of-way (as enacted into law by section 
1000(a)(3) of Public Law 106–113; 113 Stat. 1501A–196; 
16 U.S.C. 497 note), as amended, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘2006’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2012’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b) by striking ‘‘2006’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2012’’. 
SEC. 417. Section 321 of the Department of the Inte-
rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003, re-
garding Forest Service cooperative agreements with third 
parties that are of mutually significant benefit (division F 
of Public Law 108–7; 117 Stat. 274; 16 U.S.C. 565a–1
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note) is amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2007’’ and in-
serting ‘‘September 30, 2010’’. 
SEC. 418. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law and until October 1, 2009, the Indian Health Service 
may not disburse funds for the provision of health care serv-
ices pursuant to Public Law 93–638 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.) 
to any Alaska Native village or Alaska Native village cor-
poration that is located within the area served by an Alaska 
Native regional health entity. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to pro-
hibit the disbursal of funds to any Alaska Native village 
or Alaska Native village corporation under any contract or 
compact entered into prior to May 1, 2006, or to prohibit 
the renewal of any such agreement. 
(c) For the purpose of this section, Eastern Aleutian 
Tribes, Inc. and the Council of Athabascan Tribal Govern-
ments shall be treated as Alaska Native regional health enti-
ties to which funds may be disbursed under this section. 
SEC. 419. 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
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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. 
SEC. 420. Section 337(a) of the Department of the In-
terior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 
(Public Law 108–447; 118 Stat. 3012) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘September 30, 2006’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 
2008’’. 
SEC. 421. Section 339 of division E of the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–447; 118 Stat. 
3103) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘2005 through 2007’’and insert-
ing ‘‘2005 through 2008’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sen-
tence: ‘‘The categorical exclusion under this section 
shall not apply with respect to any allotment in a 
federally designated wilderness area.’’. 
SEC. 422. A permit fee collected during fiscal year 
2007 by the Secretary of Agriculture under the Act of March 
4, 1915 (16 U.S.C. 497) for a marina on the Shasta-Trinity 
National Forest shall be deposited in a special account in 
the Treasury established for the Secretary of Agriculture, 
and shall remain available to the Secretary of Agriculture 
until expended, without further appropriation, for purposes 
stated in section 808(a)(3)(A–D) of title VIII of division
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J of Public Law 108–447 (16 U.S.C. 6807), and for direct 
operating or capital costs associated with the issuance of 
a marina permit. 
SEC. 423. The Forest Service shall allocate to the Re-
gions of the Forest Service, $15,000,000 from the current 
balance in the ‘‘timber roads purchaser election fund’’, to 
remain available until expended, for the following purposes: 
vegetative treatments in timber stands at high risk of fire 
due to insect, disease, or drought; road work in support of 
vegetative treatments to support forest health objectives; and 
maintaining infrastructure for the processing of woody fiber 
in Regions where it is critical to sustaining local economies 
and fulfilling the forest health objectives of the Forest Serv-
ice. 
SEC. 424. (a) LAND SALE AUTHORIZATION.—To offset 
the acreage acquired by the Federal Government upon the 
acquisition of the Elkhorn Ranch in Medora, North Dakota, 
the Secretary of Agriculture (in this section referred to as 
the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall sell all right, title, and interest of 
the United States to between 5,195 or 5,205 acres of Na-
tional Forest System lands located in Billings County, 
North Dakota. It is the intent of Congress that there will 
be no net gain in federally owned land in North Dakota 
as a result of these land conveyances.
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(b) LAND SALES.—The Secretary may prescribe res-
ervations, terms, and conditions of sale under this section, 
and may configure the descriptions of the land to be sold 
under this section to enhance the marketability of the land 
or for management purposes. The Secretary may utilize 
brokers or other third parties in the sale of land and, from 
the proceeds of the sale, may pay reasonable commissions 
or fees for services rendered. 
(c) CONSIDERATION.—As consideration for the pur-
chase of land sold under this section, the purchaser shall 
pay to the Secretary an amount, in cash, equal to the fair 
market value of the land, as determined by the Secretary 
by appraisal or competitive sale consistent with Federal 
law applicable to land sales. The Secretary may reject any 
offer made under this section if the Secretary determines, 
in the absolute discretion of the Secretary, that the offer 
is not adequate or not in the public interest; 
(d) INITIAL OFFER.—Under such terms, conditions, 
and procedures as the Secretary may prescribe, any base 
property landowner holding a current permit to graze any 
land authorized for sale under this section shall have a non- 
assignable first right to buy the land, provided that right 
must be exercised within 6 months after the date of the offer 
from the Secretary;
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(e) TREATMENT OF PROCEEDS.—Using the proceeds 
from the sale of land under this section, the Secretary shall 
cover direct expenses incurred by the Secretary in con-
ducting the sale. Any remaining proceeds shall be deposited 
into the fund established by the Act of December 4, 1967 
(commonly known as the Sisk Act; 16 U.S.C. 484a), and 
shall be available, until expended, for the acquisition of 
land for inclusion in the National Forest System. 
(f) LAND TRANSFERS.—The lands are to be conveyed 
from fiscal years 2008 to 2009. In the conveyance of any 
land authorized by this section, the Secretary shall not be 
required to conduct additional environmental analysis, in-
cluding heritage resource analysis, and no sale, offer to sell, 
or conveyance shall be subject to administrative appeal. 
(g) ELKHORN RANCH.—The grazing land lease terms 
in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act relating 
to the acquired Elkhorn Ranch in Medora, North Dakota, 
shall remain in effect until December 31, 2009. After that 
date, Federal land grazing use of the Elkhorn Ranch shall 
be managed through the grazing agreement between the 
Medora Grazing Association and the Forest Service. The 
Animal Unit Months (AUMs) for both Federal and private 
lands encompassing the Elkhorn Ranch shall become part 
of the grazing agreement held by Medora Grazing Associa-
tion to be reallocated to its members in accordance with
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their rules in effect as of the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
(h) The multiple uses of the acquired Elkhorn Ranch 
shall continue. 
SEC. 425. In fiscal year 2008 and thereafter, the Forest 
Service shall not change the eligibility requirements for base 
property, and livestock ownership as they relate to leasing 
of base property and shared livestock agreements for grazing 
permits on the Dakota Prairie Grasslands that were in ef-
fect as of July 18, 2005. 
SEC. 426. The Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act (Pub-
lic Law 94–158) is amended— 
(1) in section 3(a) by striking ‘‘(B) the exhi-
bition of which is’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘(B) 
in the case of international exhibitions,’’; and 
(2) in section 5(b), by inserting before the period 
‘‘for international exhibitions, and $5,000,000,000 at 
any one time for domestic exhibitions’’; and 
(3) in section 5(c), by inserting before the period 
‘‘for international exhibitions, or $750,000,000 for do-
mestic exhibitions’’. 
SEC. 427. In accordance with authorities available in 
section 428, of Public Law 109–54, the Secretary of Agri-
culture and the Secretary of the Interior shall execute an 
agreement that transfers management and oversight of the
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Great Onyx, Harper’s Ferry, and Oconaluftee Job Corps 
Centers to the Forest Service. These Job Corps centers shall 
continue to be administered as described in section 147(c) 
of Public Law 105–220, Workforce Investment Act of 1998. 
SEC. 428. The United States Department of Agri-
culture, Forest Service shall seek to collaborate with stake-
holders or parties in Sierra Forest Legacy, et al v. 
Weingardt, et al, Civil No. C 07–001654 (E.D. Cal.), and 
Sierra Club, et al v. Bosworth, et al, Civil No. C 05–00397 
(N.D. Cal.), regarding harvest operations outside of the 
Giant Sequoia National Monument in relation to the deci-
sions approving the Revised Ice Timber Sale and Fuels Re-
duction Project and the Frog Project, and taking into ac-
count the terms of the contracts for those projects, and in 
relation to the Record of Decision for the Kings River 
Project, and as appropriate in regard to other disputed fuel 
reduction projects in the area. 
SEC. 429. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 636 of division 
A of the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government 
Appropriations Act, 1997 (5 U.S.C. prec. 5941 note; Public 
Law 104–208), is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘or’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking the period 
and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and
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(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) a temporary fire line manager.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘, and’’ 
and inserting a semicolon; 
(B) in paragraph (4)(B), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) notwithstanding the definition of the terms 
‘supervisor’ and ‘management official’ under section 
7103(a) of title 5, United States Code, the term ‘tem-
porary fire line manager’ means an employee of the 
Forest Service or the Department of the Interior, 
whose duties include, as determined by the employing 
agency— 
‘‘(A) temporary supervision or management 
of personnel engaged in wildland or managed 
fire activities; 
‘‘(B) providing analysis or information that 
affects a decision by a supervisor or manager 
about a wildland or managed fire; or 
(C) directing the deployment of equipment 
for a wildland or managed fire.’’.
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(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by sub-
section (a) shall take effect on the date of enactment of this 
Act. 
SEC. 430. GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE. (a) The Con-
gress finds that— 
(1) greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmos-
phere are causing average temperatures to rise at a 
rate outside the range of natural variability and are 
posing a substantial risk of rising sea-levels, altered 
patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation, and 
increased frequency and severity of floods, droughts, 
and wildfires; 
(2) there is a growing scientific consensus that 
human activity is a substantial cause of greenhouse 
gas accumulation in the atmosphere; and 
(3) mandatory steps will be required to slow or 
stop the growth of greenhouse gas emissions into the 
atmosphere. 
(b) It is the sense of the Congress that there should 
be enacted a comprehensive and effective national program 
of mandatory, market-based limits and incentives on emis-
sions of greenhouse gases that slow, stop, and reverse the 
growth of such emissions at a rate and in a manner that: 
(1) will not significantly harm the United States economy; 
and (2) will encourage comparable action by other nations
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that are major trading partners and key contributors to 
global emissions. 
SEC. 431. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to purchase light bulbs unless the light 
bulbs have the ‘‘ENERGY STAR’’ or ‘‘Federal Energy Man-
agement Program’’ designation, except in instances where 
the agency determines that ENERGY STAR or FEMP des-
ignated light bulbs are not cost-effective over the life of the 
light bulbs or are not reasonably available to meet the func-
tional requirements of the agency. 
SEC. 432. None of the funds made available under this 
Act may be used to promulgate or implement the Environ-
mental Protection Agency proposed regulations published in 
the Federal Register on January 3, 2007 (72 Fed. Reg. 69). 
SEC. 433. None of the funds made available by this 
Act shall be used to prepare or publish final regulations 
regarding a commercial leasing program for oil shale re-
sources on public lands pursuant to section 369(d) of the 
Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–58) or to con-
duct an oil shale lease sale pursuant to subsection 369(e) 
of such Act. 
SEC. 434. Section 401 of the Herger-Feinstein Quincy 
Library Group Forest Recovery Act, Public Law 105–277, 
division A, § 101(e) [title IV], 112 Stat. 2681–305, is 
amended—
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(1) In section (g) by striking ‘‘until’’ and all 
that follows and inserting ‘‘until September 30, 
2012.’’; 
(2) By deleting section (i) and inserting: ‘‘By 
June 1, 2008, the Forest Service shall initiate a col-
laborative process with the Plaintiffs in Sierra Ne-
vada Forest Prot. Campaign v. Rey, Case No. CIV– 
S–05–0205 MCE/GGH (E.D. Cal.), appeal docketed 
sub nom. Sierra Forest Legacy v. Rey, No. 07–16892 
(9th Cir. Oct. 23, 2007) and the Quincy Library 
Group to determine whether modifications to the Pilot 
Project are appropriate for the remainder of the Pilot 
Project.’’; and 
(3) By adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(m) Sections 104–106 of Public Law 108–148 shall 
apply to projects authorized by this Act.’’. 
SEC. 435. In addition to the amounts otherwise pro-
vided to the Environmental Protection Agency in this Act, 
$8,000,000, to remain available until expended, is provided 
to EPA to be transferred to the Department of the Navy 
for clean-up activities at the Treasure Island Naval Sta-
tion—Hunters Point Annex. 
SEC. 436. In addition to amounts provided to the En-
vironmental Protection Agency in this Act, the Oklahoma 
Department of Environmental Quality is provided the
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amount of $3,000,000 for a grant to the Oklahoma Depart-
ment of Environmental Quality for ongoing relocation as-
sistance as administered by the Lead Impacted Commu-
nities Relocation Assistance Trust and as conducted con-
sistent with the use of prior unexpended funding for reloca-
tion assistance, including buy outs of properties, in accord-
ance with section 2301 of Public Law 109–234 (120 Stat. 
455–466). 
SEC. 437. (a) ACROSS-THE-BOARD RESCISSIONS.— 
There is hereby rescinded an amount equal to 1.56 percent 
of the budget authority provided for fiscal year 2008 for 
any discretionary appropriation in titles I through IV of 
this Act. 
(b) PROPORTIONATE APPLICATION.—Any rescission 
made by subsection (a) shall be applied proportionately— 
(1) to each discretionary account and each item 
of budget authority described in subsection (a); and 
(2) within each such account and item, to each 
program, project, and activity (with programs, 
projects, and activities as delineated in the appro-
priation Act or accompanying reports for the relevant 
fiscal year covering such account or item, or for ac-
counts and items not included in appropriation Acts, 
as delineated in the most recently submitted Presi-
dent’s budget).
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(c) INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS.— 
Under the heading ‘‘Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Land 
and Water Claim Settlements and Miscellaneous Payments 
to Indians’’, the across-the-board rescission in this section, 
and any subsequent across-the-board rescission for fiscal 
year 2008, shall apply only to the first dollar amount in 
the paragraph and the distribution of the rescission shall 
be at the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior who shall 
submit a report on such distribution and the rationale 
therefor to the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions. 
(d) OMB REPORT.—Within 30 days after the date of 
the enactment of this section the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget shall submit to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate a report specifying the account and amount of each 
rescission made pursuant to this section. 
TITLE V 
WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION EMERGENCY 
APPROPRIATIONS 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Wildland Fire Man-
agement’’, $78,000,000, to remain available until expended,
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for urgent wildland fire suppression activities: Provided, 
That such funds shall only become available if funds pre-
viously provided for wildland fire suppression will be ex-
hausted imminently and the Secretary of the Interior noti-
fies the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
in writing of the need for these additional funds: Provided 
further, That such funds are also available for repayment 
to other appropriations accounts from which funds were 
transferred for wildfire suppression: Provided further, That 
the amount provided by this paragraph is designated as 
described in section 5 (in the matter preceding division A 
of this consolidated Act). 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOREST SERVICE 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Wildland Fire Man-
agement’’, $222,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, for urgent wildland fire suppression activities: Pro-
vided, That such funds shall only become available if funds 
provided previously for wildland fire suppression will be 
exhausted imminently and the Secretary of Agriculture no-
tifies the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
in writing of the need for these additional funds: Provided 
further, That such funds are also available for repayment 
to other appropriation accounts from which funds were
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transferred for wildfire suppression: Provided further, That 
the amount provided by this paragraph is designated as 
described in section 5 (in the matter preceding division A 
of this consolidated Act). 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the 
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 2008’’. 
DIVISION G—DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH 
AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, 
AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS 
ACT, 2008 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION 
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS) 
For necessary expenses of the Workforce Investment Act 
of 1998 (‘‘WIA’’), the Denali Commission Act of 1998, and 
the Women in Apprenticeship and Non-Traditional Occu-
pations Act of 1992, including the purchase and hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles, the construction, alteration, and re-
pair of buildings and other facilities, and the purchase of 
real property for training centers as authorized by the WIA; 
$3,608,349,000, plus reimbursements, is available. Of the 
amounts provided:
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(1) for grants to States for adult employment 
and training activities, youth activities, and dis-
located worker employment and training activities, 
$2,994,510,000 as follows: 
(A) $864,199,000 for adult employment and 
training activities, of which $152,199,000 shall 
be available for the period July 1, 2008 to June 
30, 2009, and of which $712,000,000 shall be 
available for the period October 1, 2008 through 
June 30, 2009; 
(B) $940,500,000 for youth activities, which 
shall be available for the period April 1, 2008 
through June 30, 2009; and 
(C) $1,189,811,000 for dislocated worker 
employment and training activities, of which 
$341,811,000 shall be available for the period 
July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009, and of 
which $848,000,000 shall be available for the pe-
riod October 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009: 
Provided, That notwithstanding the transfer limita-
tion under section 133(b)(4) of the WIA, up to 30 per-
cent of such funds may be transferred by a local 
board if approved by the Governor; 
(2) 
for 
federally 
administered 
programs, 
$477,873,000 as follows:
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(A) $282,092,000 for the dislocated workers 
assistance national reserve, of which $6,300,000 
shall be available on October 1, 2007, of which 
$63,792,000 shall be available for the period 
July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009, and of 
which $212,000,000 shall be available for the pe-
riod October 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009: 
Provided, That up to $125,000,000 may be made 
available for Community-Based Job Training 
grants 
from 
funds 
reserved 
under 
section 
132(a)(2)(A) of the WIA and shall be used to 
carry out such grants under section 171(d) of 
such Act, except that the 10 percent limitation 
otherwise applicable to the amount of funds that 
may be used to carry out section 171(d) shall not 
be applicable to funds used for Community- 
Based Job Training grants: Provided further, 
That funds provided to carry out section 
132(a)(2)(A) of the WIA 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 multiple sectors or 
across multiple local areas and such workers re-
main dislocated; coordinate the State workforce 
development plan with emerging economic devel-
742 
opment needs; and train such eligible dislocated 
workers: Provided further, That funds provided 
to carry out section 171(d) of the WIA may be 
used for demonstration projects that provide as-
sistance to new entrants in the workforce and in-
cumbent 
workers: 
Provided 
further, 
That 
$2,600,000 shall be for a noncompetitive grant to 
the National Center on Education and the Econ-
omy, which shall be awarded not later than 30 
days after the date of enactment of this Act: Pro-
vided further, That $1,500,000 shall be for a 
non-competitive grant to the AFL–CIO Working 
for America Institute, which shall be awarded 
not later than 30 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act: Provided further, That 
$2,200,000 shall be for a non-competitive grant 
to the AFL–CIO Appalachian Council, Incor-
porated, for Job Corps career transition services, 
which shall be awarded not later than 30 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act; 
(B) $53,696,000 for Native American pro-
grams, which shall be available for the period 
July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009; 
(C) $81,085,000 for migrant and seasonal 
farmworker programs under section 167 of the
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WIA, including $75,610,000 for formula grants 
(of which not less that 70 percent shall be for em-
ployment and training services), $4,975,000 for 
migrant and seasonal housing (of which not less 
than 70 percent shall be for permanent housing), 
and $500,000 for other discretionary purposes, 
which shall be available for the period July 1, 
2008 through June 30, 2009: Provided, That, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law or 
related regulation, the Department shall take no 
action limiting the number or proportion of eli-
gible participants receiving related assistance 
services or discouraging grantees from providing 
such services; 
(D) $1,000,000 for carrying out the Women 
in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupa-
tions Act, which shall be available for the period 
July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009; and 
(E) $60,000,000 for YouthBuild activities 
as described in section 173A of the WIA, which 
shall be available for the period April 1, 2008 
through June 30, 2009; 
(3) for national activities, $135,966,000, which 
shall be available for the period July 1, 2008 through 
July 30, 2009 as follows:
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(A) $49,370,000 for Pilots, Demonstrations, 
and Research, of which $5,000,000 shall be for 
grants to address the employment and training 
needs of young parents (notwithstanding the re-
quirements 
of 
sections 
171(b)(2)(B) 
or 
171(c)(4)(D) of the WIA): Provided, That fund-
ing provided to carry out projects under section 
171 of the WIA that are identified in the explan-
atory statement described in section 4 (in the 
matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act), shall not be subject to the requirements of 
section 171(b)(2)(B) and 171(c)(4)(D) of the 
WIA, the joint funding requirements of sections 
171(b)(2)(A) and 171(c)(4)(A) of the WIA, or 
any 
time 
limit 
requirements 
of 
sections 
171(b)(2)(C) and 171(c)(4)(B) of the WIA; 
(B) $74,800,000 for ex-offender activities, 
under the authority of section 171 of the Act, 
notwithstanding the requirements of sections 
171(b)(2)(B) or 171(c)(4)(D), of which not less 
than $55,000,000 shall be for youthful offender 
activities: Provided, That $50,000,000 shall be 
available from program year 2007 and program 
year 2008 funds for competitive grants to local 
educational agencies or community-based organi-
745 
zations to develop and implement mentoring 
strategies that integrate educational and employ-
ment interventions designed to prevent youth vi-
olence in schools identified as persistently dan-
gerous under section 9532 of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act; 
(C) $4,921,000 for Evaluation under section 
172 of the WIA; and 
(D) $6,875,000 for the Denali Commission, 
which shall be available for the period July 1, 
2008 through June 30, 2009. 
Of the amounts made available under this heading in 
Public Law 107–116 to carry out the activities of the Na-
tional Skills Standards Board, $44,000 are rescinded. 
Of the unexpended balances remaining from funds ap-
propriated to the Department of Labor under this heading 
for fiscal years 2005 and 2006 to carry out the Youth, Adult 
and Dislocated Worker formula programs under the Work-
force Investment Act, $250,000,000 are rescinded: Provided, 
That the Secretary of Labor may, upon the request of a 
State, apply any portion of the State’s share of this rescis-
sion to funds otherwise available to the State for such pro-
grams during program year 2007: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any provision of such Act, the Secretary 
may waive such requirements as may be necessary to carry
746 
out the instructions relating to this rescission in House Re-
port 110–424. 
COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT FOR OLDER AMERICANS 
To carry out title V of the Older Americans Act of 
1965, $530,900,000, which shall be available for the period 
July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009. 
FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND ALLOWANCES 
For payments during fiscal year 2008 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, allowances 
for job search and relocation, and related State administra-
tive expenses under Part II of subchapter B of chapter 2 
of title II of the Trade Act of 1974, $888,700,000, together 
with such amounts as may be necessary to be charged to 
the subsequent appropriation for payments for any period 
subsequent to September 15, 2008. 
STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND EMPLOYMENT 
SERVICE OPERATIONS 
For authorized administrative expenses, $90,517,000, 
together with not to exceed $3,233,436,000 which may be 
expended from the Employment Security Administration 
Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund (‘‘the Trust 
Fund’’), of which: 
(1) $2,497,770,000 from the Trust Fund is for 
grants to States for the administration of State un-
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employment insurance laws as authorized under title 
III of the Social Security Act, the administration of 
unemployment insurance for Federal employees and 
for ex-service members as authorized under sections 
8501–8523 of title 5, United States Code, and the ad-
ministration of trade readjustment allowances and al-
ternative trade adjustment assistance under the Trade 
Act of 1974, and shall be available for obligation by 
the States through December 31, 2008, except that 
funds used for automation acquisitions shall be avail-
able for obligation by the States through September 
30, 2010, and funds used for unemployment insur-
ance workloads experienced by the States through 
September 30, 2008 shall be available for Federal ob-
ligation through December 31, 2008; 
(2) $9,900,000 from the Trust Fund is for na-
tional activities necessary to support the administra-
tion of the Federal-State unemployment insurance 
system; 
(3) $693,000,000 from the Trust Fund, together 
with $22,883,000 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, 2008 through 
June 30, 2009;
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(4) $32,766,000 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, the administration of activities, including for-
eign labor certifications, under the Immigration and 
Nationality Act, and the provision of technical assist-
ance and staff training under the Wagner-Peyser Act, 
including not to exceed $1,228,000 that may be used 
for amortization payments to States which had inde-
pendent retirement plans in their State employment 
service agencies prior to 1980; 
(5) $52,985,000 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, 2008 through June 30, 
2009; and 
(6) $14,649,000 from the General Fund is to 
provide for work incentive grants to the States and 
shall be available for the period July 1, 2008 through 
June 30, 2009: 
Provided, That to the extent that the Average Weekly In-
sured Unemployment (‘‘AWIU’’) for fiscal year 2008 is pro-
jected by the Department of Labor to exceed 2,786,000, an
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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 
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 of Labor 
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 
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 Federal-State un-
employment insurance or immigration programs, may be 
obligated in contracts, grants, or agreements with non-State 
entities: 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 Insurance and
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Employment Service automation efforts, notwithstanding 
cost allocation principles prescribed under the Office of 
Management and Budget Circular A–87. 
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 1954; and for nonrepayable advances to 
the Unemployment Trust Fund as authorized by section 
8509 of title 5, United States Code, and to the ‘‘Federal 
unemployment benefits and allowances’’ account, to remain 
available until September 30, 2009, $437,000,000. 
In addition, for making repayable advances to the 
Black Lung Disability Trust Fund in the current fiscal 
year after September 15, 2008, for costs incurred by the 
Black Lung Disability Trust Fund in the current fiscal 
year, such sums as may be necessary. 
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION 
For expenses of administering employment and train-
ing programs, $88,451,000, together with not to exceed 
$86,936,000, 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, $141,790,000. 
PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION 
PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION FUND 
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is author-
ized to make such expenditures, including financial assist-
ance authorized by subtitle E of title IV of the Employee 
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 4201 
et seq.), within limits of funds and borrowing authority 
available to such Corporation, and in accord with law, and 
to make such contracts and commitments without regard 
to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the 
Government Corporation Control Act (31 U.S.C. 9104), as 
may be necessary in carrying out the program, including 
associated administrative expenses, through September 30, 
2008, for such Corporation: Provided, That none of the 
funds available to the Corporation for fiscal year 2008 shall 
be available for obligations for administrative expenses in 
excess of $411,151,000: Provided further, That to the extent 
that the number of new plan participants in plans termi-
nated by the Corporation exceeds 100,000 in fiscal year 
2008, an amount not to exceed an additional $9,200,000 
shall be available for obligation for administrative expenses
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for every 20,000 additional terminated participants: Pro-
vided further, That an additional $50,000 shall be made 
available for obligation for investment management fees for 
every $25,000,000 in assets received by the Corporation as 
a result of new plan terminations, after approval by the 
Office of Management and Budget and notification of the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate. 
EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION) 
For necessary expenses for the Employment Standards 
Administration, including reimbursement to State, Federal, 
and local agencies and their employees for inspection serv-
ices rendered, $426,351,000, together with $2,058,000 which 
may be expended from the Special Fund in accordance with 
sections 39(c), 44(d), and 44(j) of the Longshore and Har-
bor Workers’ Compensation Act: Provided, That the Sec-
retary of Labor is authorized to establish and, in accord-
ance with 31 U.S.C. 3302, collect and deposit in the Treas-
ury fees for processing applications and issuing certificates 
under sections 11(d) and 14 of the Fair Labor Standards 
Act of 1938 and for processing applications and issuing reg-
istrations under title I of the Migrant and Seasonal Agri-
cultural Worker Protection Act.