tional Endowment for the Arts may approve grants up to 
$10,000, if in the aggregate this amount does not exceed 
5 percent of the sums appropriated for grant-making pur-
poses per year: Provided further, That such small grant 
actions are taken pursuant to the terms of an expressed 
and direct delegation of authority from the National Coun-
cil on the Arts to the Chairperson: 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 col-
lection, to remain available until expended without further 
appropriation. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 
99–190 (20 U.S.C. 956a), as amended, $10,000,000: Pro-
vided, That no organization shall receive a grant in excess 
of $650,000 in a single year.
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ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on 
Historic 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 
Schedule or higher positions. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as authorized by the Na-
tional Capital Planning Act of 1952 (40 U.S.C. 71–71i), 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$8,265,000: Provided, That one-quarter of 1 percent of 
the funds provided under this heading may be used for 
official reception and representational expenses associated 
with hosting international visitors engaged in the planning 
and physical development of world capitals. 
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 
For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, as 
authorized by Public Law 106–292 (36 U.S.C. 2301– 
2310), $44,996,000, of which $515,000 for the equipment 
replacement program shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2009; and $1,900,000 for the museum’s repair 
and rehabilitation program and $1,264,000 for the muse-
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um’s exhibition design and production program shall re-
main available until expended. 
PRESIDIO TRUST 
PRESIDIO TRUST FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out title I of the Om-
nibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996, 
$22,400,000 shall be available to the Presidio Trust, to 
remain 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 Commis-
sion on the National Moment of Remembrance, $200,000, 
which shall be transferred to the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, ‘‘Departmental Administration, General Oper-
ating Expenses’’ account and be administered by the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs. 
TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. The expenditure of any appropriation 
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited 
to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter 
of public record and available for public inspection, except
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where otherwise provided under existing law, or under ex-
isting 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 
proposal on which Congressional action is not complete 
other than to communicate to Members of Congress as 
described in 18 U.S.C. 1913. 
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 
servants to any officer or employee of such department 
or agency except as otherwise provided by law. 
SEC. 405. Estimated overhead charges, deductions, 
reserves or holdbacks from programs, projects, activities 
and subactivities to supportgovernment-wide, depart-
mental, agency or bureau administrative functions or 
headquarters, regional or central operations shall be pre-
sented in annual budget justifications and subject to ap-
proval by the Committees on Appropriations. Changes to
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such estimates shall be presented to the Committees on 
Appropriations for approval. 
SEC. 406. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the UnitedStates Government except pur-
suant to a transfer made by, or transferprovided 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 classi-
fied as giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which 
are located on National Forest System or Bureau of Land 
Management lands in a manner different than such sales 
were conducted in fiscal year 2005. 
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 
process 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,
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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 Re-
sources of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 
a report on actions taken by the Department under the 
plan submitted pursuant to section 314(c) of the Depart-
ment 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 Management to conduct a mineral examination of 
the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent appli-
cation as set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau of Land 
Management shall have the sole responsibility to choose 
and pay the third-party contractor in accordance with the
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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 in committee reports for the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian 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, division 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 associated with 
self-determination or self-governance contracts, 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 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and federally-recognized 
tribes 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 subparagraph 6(f)(5)(A) of the Forest and Rangeland 
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 
1604(f)(5)(A)) solely because more than 15 years have
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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 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 Monu-
ment established pursuant to the Act of June 8, 1906 (16 
U.S.C. 431 et seq.) as such boundary existed on January 
20, 2001, except where such activities are allowed under 
the Presidential proclamation establishing such monu-
ment. 
SEC. 412. 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
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under said agreements to provide wildfire services are con-
sidered, for purposes of tort liability, employees of the 
country receiving said services when the individuals are 
engaged in fire suppression: Provided, That the Secretary 
of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior shall not 
enter into any agreement under this provision unless the 
foreign country (either directly or through its fire organi-
zation) agrees to assume any and all liability for the acts 
or omissions of American firefighters engaged in fire-
fighting in a foreign country: Provided further, That when 
an agreement is reached for furnishing fire fighting serv-
ices, the only remedies 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 exclu-
sive remedies for any claim arising out of fighting fires 
in a foreign country: Provided further, That neither the 
sending country nor any legal organization associated with 
the firefighter shall be subject to any legal action whatso-
ever pertaining to or arising out of the firefighter’s role 
in fire suppression. 
SEC. 413. 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 ‘‘Sec-
retaries’’) may, in evaluating bids and proposals, give con-
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sideration to local contractors who are from, and who pro-
vide 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 commu-
nities isolated from significant alternative employment op-
portunities: Provided, That notwithstanding Federal Gov-
ernment procurement and contracting laws the Secretaries 
may award contracts, grants or cooperative agreements to 
local non-profit entities, Youth Conservation Corps or re-
lated partnerships with State, local or non-profit youth 
groups, or small or micro-business or disadvantaged busi-
ness: Provided further, That the contract, grant, or cooper-
ative agreement is for forest hazardous fuels reduction, 
watershed or water quality monitoring or restoration, wild-
life or fish population monitoring, or habitat restoration 
or management: Provided further, That the terms ‘‘rural 
community’’ and ‘‘economically disadvantaged’’ shall have 
the same meanings as in section 2374 of Public Law 101– 
624: Provided 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.
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SEC. 414. (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 fis-
cal 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 available to the Forest 
Service may be used in fiscal year 2008 for competi-
tive sourcing studies and related activities. 
(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-
ployees or the work performed by such employees to pri-
vate contractor performance under the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget Circular A–76 or any other administra-
tive regulation, directive, or policy. 
(c) In preparing any reports to the Committees on 
Appropriations on competitive sourcing activities, agencies 
funded in this Act shall include the incremental cost di-
rectly attributable to conducting the competitive sourcing
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competitions, including costs attributable to paying out-
side consultants and contractors and, in accordance with 
full cost accounting principles, all costs attributable to de-
veloping, implementing, supporting, managing, moni-
toring, and reporting on competitive sourcing, including 
personnel, consultant, travel, and training costs associated 
with program management. 
(d) In carrying out any competitive sourcing study 
involving Department of the Interior employees, the Sec-
retary of the Interior shall— 
(1) determine whether any of the employees 
concerned 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 ef-
fectively and efficiently fight and manage wildfires. 
SEC. 415. Section 331 of the Department of the Inte-
rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000, re-
garding the pilot program to enhance Forest Service ad-
ministration of rights-of-way (as enacted into law by sec-
tion 1000(a)(3) of Public Law 106–113; 113 Stat. 
1501A–196; 16 U.S.C. 497 note), as amended, is amend-
ed—
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(1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘2006’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2012’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b) by striking ‘‘2006’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2012’’. 
SEC. 416. 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 note) is amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2007’’ and 
inserting ‘‘September 30, 2010’’. 
TITLE V—GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE 
SEC. 501. (a) The Congress finds that— 
(1) greenhouse gases accumulating in the at-
mosphere 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, al-
tered patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circula-
tion, 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
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(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 pro-
gram of mandatory, market-based limits and incentives on 
emissions 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 that are major trading partners and key con-
tributors to global emissions. 
SEC. 502. No funds made available by this Act shall 
be used to condemn land. 
SEC. 503. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to plan, design, study, or construct, for 
the purpose of harvesting timber by private entities or in-
dividuals, a forest development road in the Tongass Na-
tional Forest. 
SEC. 504. The amount otherwise provided in this Act 
for the ‘‘The Historic Preservation Fund’’ is hereby re-
duced by $1,000,000 and increased by $1,000,000.
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TITLE VI—ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 601. None of the funds made available in the 
Act may be used to eliminate or restrict programs that 
are for the reforestation of urban areas. 
SEC. 602. None of the funds made available in the 
Act may be used to limit outreach programs administered 
by the Smithsonian Institution. 
SEC. 603. 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 
Management Program’’ designation. 
SEC. 604. None of the funds made available under 
this Act may be used to promulgate or implement the En-
vironmental Protection Agency proposed regulations pub-
lished in the Federal Register on January 3, 2007 (72 
Fed. Reg. 69). 
SEC. 605. None of the Funds made available in this 
Act for the Division of Criminal Investigation of the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency may be used in contraven-
tion of the criminal investigator requirements of the Pollu-
tion Prevention Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–593). 
SEC. 606. 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
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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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2008’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 27, 2007. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2643 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Department of the 
Interior, environment, and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and 
for other purposes.