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lands or interests therein, including existing connecting roads on
or adjacent to such grant lands; $109,057,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That 25 percent of the aggregate of all
receipts during the current fiscal year from the revested Oregon
and California Railroad grant lands is hereby made a charge against
the Oregon and California land-grant fund and shall be transferred
to the General Fund in the Treasury in accordance with the second
paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of August 28,
1937 (50 Stat. 876).
FOREST ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND
(REVOLVING FUND, SPECIAL ACCOUNT)
In addition to the purposes authorized in Public Law 102–
381, funds made available in the Forest Ecosystem Health and
Recovery Fund can be used for the purpose of planning, preparing,
implementing and monitoring salvage timber sales and forest eco-
system health and recovery activities, such as release from com-
peting vegetation and density control treatments. The Federal share
of receipts (defined as the portion of salvage timber receipts not
paid to the counties under 43 U.S.C. 1181f and 43 U.S.C. 1181f–
1 et seq., and Public Law 106–393) derived from treatments funded
by this account shall be deposited into the Forest Ecosystem Health
and Recovery Fund.
RANGE IMPROVEMENTS
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands and
interests therein, and improvement of Federal rangelands pursuant
to section 401 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act
of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), notwithstanding any other Act, sums
equal to 50 percent of all moneys received during the prior fiscal
year under sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C.
315 et seq.) and the amount designated for range improvements
from grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts from Bankhead-
Jones lands transferred to the Department of the Interior pursuant
to law, but not less than $10,000,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall be available
for administrative expenses.
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES
For administrative expenses and other costs related to proc-
essing application documents and other authorizations for use and
disposal of public lands and resources, for costs of providing copies
of official public land documents, for monitoring construction, oper-
ation, and termination of facilities in conjunction with use
authorizations, and for rehabilitation of damaged property, such
amounts as may be collected under Public Law 94–579, as amended,
and Public Law 93–153, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of section
305(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1735(a)), any moneys that
have been or will be received pursuant to that section, whether
as a result of forfeiture, compromise, or settlement, if not appro-
priate for refund pursuant to section 305(c) of that Act (43 U.S.C.
1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended under the
authority of this Act by the Secretary to improve, protect, or
rehabilitate any public lands administered through the Bureau
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of Land Management which have been damaged by the action
of a resource developer, purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized
person, without regard to whether all moneys collected from each
such action are used on the exact lands damaged which led to
the action: Provided further, That any such moneys that are in
excess of amounts needed to repair damage to the exact land
for which funds were collected may be used to repair other damaged
public lands.
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended under
existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such amounts as may
be contributed under section 307 of the Act of October 21, 1976
(43 U.S.C. 1701), and such amounts as may be advanced for
administrative costs, surveys, appraisals, and costs of making
conveyances of omitted lands under section 211(b) of that Act,
to remain available until expended.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Appropriations for the Bureau of Land Management shall be
available for purchase, erection, and dismantlement of temporary
structures, and alteration and maintenance of necessary buildings
and appurtenant facilities to which the United States has title;
up to $100,000 for payments, at the discretion of the Secretary,
for information or evidence concerning violations of laws adminis-
tered by the Bureau; miscellaneous and emergency expenses of
enforcement activities authorized or approved by the Secretary and
to be accounted for solely on her certificate, not to exceed $10,000:
Provided, That, notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Bureau may,
under cooperative cost-sharing and partnership arrangements
authorized by law, procure printing services from cooperators in
connection with jointly produced publications for which the coopera-
tors share the cost of printing either in cash or in services, and
the Bureau determines the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted
quality standards.
UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service, as authorized by law, and for scientific and economic
studies, maintenance of the herd of long-horned cattle on the
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, general administration, and
for the performance of other authorized functions related to such
resources by direct expenditure, contracts, grants, cooperative agree-
ments and reimbursable agreements with public and private enti-
ties, $977,205,000, to remain available until September 30, 2006,
except as otherwise provided herein: Provided, That not less than
$1,000,000 shall be provided to local governments in southern Cali-
fornia for planning associated with the Natural Communities Con-
servation Planning (NCCP) program and shall remain available
until expended: Provided further, That $2,000,000 is for high pri-
ority projects, which shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation
Corps: Provided further, That, not to exceed $16,175,000, shall
be used for implementing subsections (a), (b), (c), and (e) of section
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4 of the Endangered Species Act, as amended, for species that
are indigenous to the United States (except for processing petitions,
developing and issuing proposed and final regulations, and taking
any other steps to implement actions described in subsection
(c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or (c)(2)(B)(ii)), of which not to exceed
$11,400,000 shall be used for any activity regarding the designation
of critical habitat, pursuant to subsection (a)(3), excluding litigation
support, for species listed pursuant to subsection (a)(1) prior to
October 1, 2004: Provided further, That of the amount available
for law enforcement, up to $400,000, to remain available until
expended, may at the discretion of the Secretary be used for pay-
ment for information, rewards, or evidence concerning violations
of laws administered by the Service, and miscellaneous and emer-
gency expenses of enforcement activity, authorized or approved
by the Secretary and to be accounted for solely on her certificate:
Provided further, That of the amount provided for environmental
contaminants, up to $1,000,000 may remain available until
expended for contaminant sample analyses.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction, improvement, acquisition, or removal of
buildings and other facilities required in the conservation, manage-
ment, investigation, protection, and utilization of fishery and wild-
life resources, and the acquisition of lands and interests therein;
$53,400,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, a single procurement
for the construction project at the Clark R. Bavin Forensics Labora-
tory in Oregon may be issued which includes the full scope of
the project: Provided further, That the solicitation and the contract
shall contain the clause ‘‘availability of funds’’ found at 48 CFR
52.232.18.
LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–4 through
11), including administrative expenses, and for acquisition of land
or waters, or interest therein, in accordance with statutory authority
applicable to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service,
$37,526,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation
Fund and to remain available until expended, of which $750,000
is for support of acquisition of lands for waterfowl habitat in the
Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, and the related conveyance
of Federal lands and interests in lands to Doyon, Limited, an
Alaska Native Corporation organized pursuant to the Alaska Native
Claims Settlement Act: Provided, That the Secretary is authorized
to, and shall, execute all necessary acquisitions and exchange agree-
ment documents in furtherance of this acquisition and exchange
as soon as possible: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any
other law, all revenues, fees and royalties received by the Federal
Government from oil and/or gas production from the lands, and
interests in land, acquired by Doyon, Limited, pursuant to the
exchange of lands located within Yukon Flats National Wildlife
Refuge shall be deposited in a special account in the Treasury
of the United States to be called the Alaska National Wildlife
Refuge Land Acquisition and Facility Account (‘‘Acquisition
Account’’): Provided further, That all amounts deposited in the
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acquisition account shall be available until expended without fur-
ther act of appropriation to the Director of the United States Fish
and Wildlife Service for only the following purposes: (1) to acquire
lands from Doyon, Limited, located within Yukon Flats National
Wildlife Refuge in accordance with the Exchange Agreement; (2)
to acquire lands from other willing sellers in the Yukon Flats
National Wildlife Refuge, or from other willing sellers in other
units of the National Wildlife Refuge System located within the
State of Alaska; and (3) to construct facilities and infrastructure
for Alaska refuges: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-
priated for specific land acquisition projects, other than the appro-
priations for the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge exchange
and acquisition provided for under this heading, can be used to
pay for any administrative overhead, planning or other management
costs: Provided further, That none of the funds in this or any
other Act may be used for the acquisition of land for inclusion
in the Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge.
LANDOWNER INCENTIVE PROGRAM
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–4 through
11), including administrative expenses, and for private conservation
efforts to be carried out on private lands, $22,000,000, to be derived
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That the amount provided herein
is for a Landowner Incentive Program established by the Secretary
that provides matching, competitively awarded grants to States,
the District of Columbia, federally recognized Indian tribes, Puerto
Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mar-
iana Islands, and American Samoa, to establish or supplement
existing landowner incentive programs that provide technical and
financial assistance, including habitat protection and restoration,
to private landowners for the protection and management of habitat
to benefit federally listed, proposed, candidate, or other at-risk
species on private lands.
PRIVATE STEWARDSHIP GRANTS
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–4 through
11), including administrative expenses, and for private conservation
efforts to be carried out on private lands, $7,000,000, to be derived
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That the amount provided herein
is for the Private Stewardship Grants Program established by the
Secretary to provide grants and other assistance to individuals
and groups engaged in private conservation efforts that benefit
federally listed, proposed, candidate, or other at-risk species: Pro-
vided further, That balances from amounts previously appropriated
under the heading ‘‘Stewardship Grants’’ shall be transferred to
and merged with this appropriation and shall remain available
until expended.
COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out section 6 of the Endangered
Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), as amended,