IIB 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2361 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MAY 20, 2005 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, 
environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
Department of the Interior, environment, and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, 
and for other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES 
For necessary expenses for protection, use, improve-
ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classi-
fication, acquisition of easements and other interests in 
lands, and performance of other functions, including main-
tenance of facilities, as authorized by law, in the manage-
ment of lands and their resources under the jurisdiction 
of the Bureau of Land Management, including the general 
administration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral 
potential of public lands pursuant to Public Law 96–487 
(16 U.S.C. 3150(a)), $845,783,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which $1,000,000 is for high priority 
projects, to be carried out by the Youth Conservation 
Corps; and of which $3,000,000 shall be available in fiscal 
year 2006 subject to a match by at least an equal amount 
by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for cost- 
shared projects supporting conservation of Bureau lands; 
and such funds shall be advanced to the Foundation as
a lump sum grant without regard to when expenses are 
incurred. 
In addition, $32,696,000 is for Mining Law Adminis-
tration program operations, including the cost of admin-
istering the mining claim fee program; to remain available 
until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected by the 
Bureau and credited to this appropriation from annual 
mining claim fees so as to result in a final appropriation 
estimated 
at 
not 
more 
than 
$845,783,000, 
and 
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended, from com-
munication site rental fees established by the Bureau for 
the cost of administering communication site activities. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, sup-
pression operations, fire science and research, emergency 
rehabilitation, hazardous fuels reduction, and rural fire as-
sistance by the Department of the Interior, $761,564,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 
$7,849,000 shall be for the renovation or construction of 
fire facilities: Provided, That such funds are also available 
for repayment of advances to other appropriation accounts 
from which funds were previously transferred for such 
purposes: Provided further, That persons hired pursuant 
to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence and lodg-
ing without cost from funds available from this appropria-
tion: Provided further, That notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 
1856d, sums received by a bureau or office of the Depart-
ment of the Interior for fire protection rendered pursuant 
to 42 U.S.C. 1856 et seq., protection of United States 
property, may be credited to the appropriation from which 
funds were expended to provide that protection, and are 
available without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, 
That using the amounts designated under this title of this 
Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into procure-
ment contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, for 
hazardous fuels reduction activities, and for training and 
monitoring associated with such hazardous fuels reduction 
activities, on Federal land, or on adjacent non-Federal 
land for activities that benefit resources on Federal land: 
Provided further, That the costs of implementing any co-
operative agreement between the Federal Government and 
any non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutually agreed 
on by the affected parties: Provided further, That notwith-
standing requirements of the Competition in Contracting 
Act, the Secretary, for purposes of hazardous fuels reduc-
tion activities, may obtain maximum practicable competi-
tion among: (1) local private, nonprofit, or cooperative en-
tities; (2) Youth Conservation Corps crews or related part-
nerships with State, local, or non-profit youth groups; (3) 
small or micro-businesses; or (4) other entities that will
hire or train locally a significant percentage, defined as 
50 percent or more, of the project workforce to complete 
such contracts: Provided further, That in implementing 
this section, the Secretary shall develop written guidance 
to field units to ensure accountability and consistent appli-
cation of the authorities provided herein: Provided further, 
That funds appropriated under this head may be used to 
reimburse the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and 
the National Marine Fisheries Service for the costs of car-
rying out their responsibilities under the Endangered Spe-
cies Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to consult and 
conference, as required by section 7 of such Act, in con-
nection with wildland fire management activities: Provided 
further, That the Secretary of the Interior may use 
wildland fire appropriations to enter into non-competitive 
sole source leases of real property with local governments, 
at or below fair market value, to construct capitalized im-
provements for fire facilities on such leased properties, in-
cluding but not limited to fire guard stations, retardant 
stations, and other initial attack and fire support facilities, 
and to make advance payments for any such lease or for 
construction activity associated with the lease: Provided 
further, That the Secretary of the Interior and the Sec-
retary of Agriculture may authorize the transfer of funds 
appropriated for wildland fire management, in an aggre-
gate amount not to exceed $9,000,000, between the De-
partments when such transfers would facilitate and expe-
dite jointly funded wildland fire management programs 
and projects: Provided further, That funds provided for 
wildfire suppression shall be available for support of Fed-
eral emergency response actions. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction of buildings, recreation facilities, 
roads, trails, and appurtenant facilities, $11,476,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 
206, and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579, including admin-
istrative expenses and acquisition of lands or waters, or 
interests therein, $3,817,000, to be derived from the Land 
and Water Conservation Fund and to remain available 
until expended. 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS 
For expenses necessary for management, protection, 
and development of resources and for construction, oper-
ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and 
other improvements on the revested Oregon and California 
Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Or-
egon and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and 
on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or in-
terests therein, including existing connecting roads on or
adjacent to such grant lands; $110,070,000, 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 sec-
ond 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 sal-
vage timber sales and forest ecosystem health and recovery 
activities, such as release from competing 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 improve-
ments 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: Pro-
vided, 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 processing application documents and other authoriza-
tions for use and disposal of public lands and resources, 
for costs of providing copies of official public land docu-
ments, for monitoring construction, operation, and termi-
nation 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 amend-
ed, and Public Law 93–153, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, 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 appropriate 
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 im-
prove, protect, or rehabilitate any public lands adminis-
tered through the Bureau 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 ac-
tion 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, sur-
veys, appraisals, and costs of making conveyances of omit-
ted 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 dismantle-
ment of temporary structures, and alteration and mainte-
nance of necessary buildings and appurtenant facilities to 
which the United States has title; up to $100,000 for pay-
ments, at the discretion of the Secretary, for information 
or evidence concerning violations of laws administered by 
the Bureau; miscellaneous and emergency expenses of en-
forcement activities authorized or approved by the Sec-
retary 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-shar-
ing and partnership arrangements authorized by law, pro-
cure printing services from cooperators in connection with 
jointly produced publications for which the cooperators 
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 agreements
and reimbursable agreements with public and private enti-
ties, $1,005,225,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2007, except as otherwise provided herein: Provided, 
That $2,000,000 is for high priority projects, which shall 
be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps: Provided 
further, That not to exceed $18,130,000 shall be used for 
implementing subsections (a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 
4 of the Endangered Species Act, as amended, for species 
that are indigenous to the United States (except for proc-
essing petitions, developing and issuing proposed and final 
regulations, and taking any other steps to implement ac-
tions described in subsection (c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or 
(c)(2)(B)(ii)), of which not to exceed $12,852,000 shall 
be used for any activity regarding the designation of crit-
ical habitat, pursuant to subsection (a)(3), excluding liti-
gation support, for species listed pursuant to subsection 
(a)(1) prior to October 1, 2005: 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 payment for infor-
mation, rewards, or evidence concerning violations of laws 
administered by the Service, and miscellaneous and emer-
gency expenses of enforcement activity, authorized or ap-
proved by the Secretary and to be accounted for solely on 
her certificate: Provided further, That of the amount pro-
vided for environmental contaminants, up to $1,000,000 
may remain available until expended for contaminant sam-
ple analyses. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvement, acquisition, or re-
moval of buildings and other facilities required in the con-
servation, management, investigation, protection, and uti-
lization of fishery and wildlife resources, and the acquisi-
tion of lands and interests therein; $41,206,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 
U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including administrative ex-
penses, and for acquisition of land or waters, or interest 
therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable 
to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
$14,937,000 to be derived from the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund and to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That land and non-water interests acquired 
from willing sellers incidental to water rights acquired for 
the transfer and use at Lower Klamath and Tule Lake 
National Wildlife Refuges under this heading shall be re-
sold and the revenues therefrom shall be credited to this 
account and shall be available without further appropria-
tion for the acquisition of water rights, including acquisi-
tion of interests in lands incidental to such water rights, 
for the two refuges: Provided further, That none of the 
funds appropriated for specific land acquisition projects 
can be used to pay for any administrative overhead, plan-
ning or other management costs. 
LANDOWNER INCENTIVE PROGRAM 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 
U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including administrative ex-
penses, and for private conservation efforts to be carried 
out on private lands, $23,700,000, 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, feder-
ally recognized Indian tribes, Puerto Rico, Guam, the 
United States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Is-
lands, and American Samoa, to establish or supplement 
existing landowner incentive programs that provide tech-
nical and financial assistance, including habitat protection 
and restoration, to private landowners for the protection 
and management of habitat to benefit federally listed, pro-
posed, candidate, or other at-risk species on private lands.
PRIVATE STEWARDSHIP GRANTS 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 
U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including administrative ex-
penses, and for private conservation efforts to be carried 
out on private lands, $7,386,000, 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 es-
tablished by the Secretary to provide grants and other as-
sistance to individuals and groups engaged in private con-
servation efforts that benefit federally listed, proposed, 
candidate, or other at-risk species. 
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, $84,400,000, of which $20,161,000 is to be 
derived from the Cooperative Endangered Species Con-
servation Fund and $64,239,000 is to be derived from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund and to remain avail-
able until expended. 
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-
ber 17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $14,414,000.
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 
of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, Public 
Law 101–233, as amended, $40,000,000 to remain avail-
able until expended. 
NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION 
For financial assistance for projects to promote the 
conservation of neotropical migratory birds in accordance 
with the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act, 
Public Law 106–247 (16 U.S.C. 6101–6109), $4,000,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the African Ele-
phant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201–4203, 4211– 
4213, 4221–4225, 4241–4245, and 1538), the Asian Ele-
phant Conservation Act of 1997 (Public Law 105–96; 16 
U.S.C. 4261–4266), the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conserva-
tion Act of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 5301–5306), the Great Ape 
Conservation Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 6301), and, the Ma-
rine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004 (Public Law 108– 
266; 16 U.S.C. 6601), $5,900,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS 
For wildlife conservation grants to States and to the 
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United 
States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands,
American Samoa, and federally recognized Indian tribes 
under the provisions of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 
and the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, for the devel-
opment and implementation of programs for the benefit 
of wildlife and their habitat, including species that are not 
hunted or fished, $65,000,000, to be derived from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund, and to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That of the amount pro-
vided herein, $6,000,000 is for a competitive grant pro-
gram for Indian tribes not subject to the remaining provi-
sions of this appropriation: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall, after deducting said $6,000,000 and adminis-
trative expenses, apportion the amount provided herein in 
the following manner: (1) to the District of Columbia and 
to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, each a sum equal 
to not more than one-half of 1 percent thereof; and (2) 
to Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Is-
lands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, each a sum equal to not more than one-fourth 
of 1 percent thereof: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall apportion the remaining amount in the following 
manner: (1) one-third of which is based on the ratio to 
which the land area of such State bears to the total land 
area of all such States; and (2) two-thirds of which is 
based on the ratio to which the population of such State
bears to the total population of all such States: Provided 
further, That the amounts apportioned under this para-
graph shall be adjusted equitably so that no State shall 
be apportioned a sum which is less than 1 percent of the 
amount available for apportionment under this paragraph 
for any fiscal year or more than 5 percent of such amount: 
Provided further, That the Federal share of planning 
grants shall not exceed 75 percent of the total costs of 
such projects and the Federal share of implementation 
grants shall not exceed 50 percent of the total costs of 
such projects: Provided further, That the non-Federal 
share of such projects may not be derived from Federal 
grant programs: Provided further, That no State, terri-
tory, or other jurisdiction shall receive a grant unless it 
has developed, by October 1, 2005, a comprehensive wild-
life conservation plan, consistent with criteria established 
by the Secretary of the Interior, that considers the broad 
range of the State, territory, or other jurisdiction’s wildlife 
and associated habitats, with appropriate priority placed 
on those species with the greatest conservation need and 
taking into consideration the relative level of funding 
available for the conservation of those species: Provided 
further, That no State, territory, or other jurisdiction shall 
receive a grant if its comprehensive wildlife conservation 
plan is disapproved and such funds that would have been
distributed to such State, territory, or other jurisdiction 
shall be distributed equitably to States, territories, and 
other jurisdictions with approved plans: Provided further, 
That any amount apportioned in 2006 to any State, terri-
tory, or other jurisdiction that remains unobligated as of 
September 30, 2007, shall be reapportioned, together with 
funds appropriated in 2008, in the manner provided here-
in: Provided further, That balances from amounts pre-
viously appropriated under the heading ‘‘State Wildlife 
Grants’’ shall be transferred to and merged with this ap-
propriation and shall remain available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations and funds available to the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for pur-
chase of passenger motor vehicles; repair of damage to 
public roads within and adjacent to reservation areas 
caused by operations of the Service; options for the pur-
chase of land at not to exceed $1 for each option; facilities 
incident to such public recreational uses on conservation 
areas as are consistent with their primary purpose; and 
the maintenance and improvement of aquaria, buildings, 
and other facilities under the jurisdiction of the Service 
and to which the United States has title, and which are 
used pursuant to law in connection with management, and 
investigation of fish and wildlife resources: Provided, That 
notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Service may, under
cooperative cost sharing and partnership arrangements 
authorized by law, procure printing services from coopera-
tors in connection with jointly produced publications for 
which the cooperators share at least one-half the cost of 
printing either in cash or services and the Service deter-
mines the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted qual-
ity standards: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Service may use up to 
$2,000,000 from funds provided for contracts for employ-
ment-related legal services: Provided further, That the 
Service may accept donated aircraft as replacements for 
existing aircraft: Provided further, That, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Interior 
may not spend any of the funds appropriated in this Act 
for the purchase of lands or interests in lands to be used 
in the establishment of any new unit of the National Wild-
life Refuge System unless the purchase is approved in ad-
vance by the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions in compliance with the reprogramming procedures 
contained in House Report 108–330. 
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 
OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM 
For expenses necessary for the management, oper-
ation, and maintenance of areas and facilities adminis-
tered by the National Park Service (including special road
maintenance service to trucking permittees on a reimburs-
able basis), and for the general administration of the Na-
tional 
Park 
Service, 
$1,754,199,000, 
of 
which 
$30,000,000 is provided above the budget request to be 
distributed to all park areas on a pro-rate basis and to 
remain in the park base; of which $9,892,000 is for plan-
ning and interagency coordination in support of Ever-
glades restoration and shall remain available until ex-
pended; of which $97,600,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2007, is for maintenance, repair or reha-
bilitation projects for constructed assets, operation of the 
National Park Service automated facility management 
software system, and comprehensive facility condition as-
sessments; of which $1,937,000 is for the Youth Conserva-
tion Corps for high priority projects: Provided, That the 
only funds in this account which may be made available 
to support United States Park Police are those funds ap-
proved for emergency law and order incidents pursuant 
to established National Park Service procedures, those 
funds needed to maintain and repair United States Park 
Police administrative facilities, and those funds necessary 
to reimburse the United States Park Police account for 
the unbudgeted overtime and travel costs associated with 
special events for an amount not to exceed $10,000 per
event subject to the review and concurrence of the Wash-
ington headquarters office. 
UNITED STATES PARK POLICE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the programs of 
the United States Park Police, $82,411,000. 
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out recreation pro-
grams, natural programs, cultural programs, heritage 
partnership programs, environmental compliance and re-
view, international park affairs, and grant administration, 
not otherwise provided for, $48,997,000: Provided, That 
none of the funds in this Act for the River, Trails and 
Conservation Assistance program may be used for cash 
agreements, or for cooperative agreements that are incon-
sistent with the program’s final strategic plan. 
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary in carrying out the Historic 
Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470), 
and the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management 
Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–333), $72,705,000, to be 
derived from the Historic Preservation Fund, to remain 
available until September 30, 2007, of which $30,000,000 
shall be for Save America’s Treasures for preservation of 
nationally significant sites, structures, and artifacts: Pro-
vided, That any individual Save America’s Treasures 
grant shall be matched by non-Federal funds: Provided
further, That individual projects shall only be eligible for 
one grant: Provided further, That all projects to be funded 
shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior in con-
sultation with the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations and the President’s Committee on the Arts 
and Humanities prior to the commitment of Save Amer-
ica’s Treasures grant funds: Provided further, That Save 
America’s Treasures funds allocated for Federal projects, 
following approval, shall be available by transfer to appro-
priate accounts of individual agencies: Provided further, 
That hereinafter and notwithstanding 20 U.S.C. 951 et 
seq. the National Endowment for the Arts may award 
Save America’s Treasures grants based upon the rec-
ommendations of the Save America’s Treasures grant se-
lection panel convened by the President’s Committee on 
the Arts and the Humanities and the National Park Serv-
ice. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvements, repair or replace-
ment of physical facilities, including the modifications au-
thorized by section 104 of the Everglades National Park 
Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, $308,230,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which $17,000,000 for 
modified water deliveries to Everglades National Park 
shall be derived by transfer from unobligated balances in 
the ‘‘Land Acquisition and State Assistance’’ account for
Everglades National Park land acquisitions: Provided, 
That none of the funds available to the National Park 
Service may be used to plan, design, or construct any part-
nership project with a total value in excess of $5,000,000, 
without advance approval of the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations: Provided further, That, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, the National 
Park Service may not accept donations or services associ-
ated with the planning, design, or construction of such 
new facilities without advance approval of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, 
That funds provided under this heading for implementa-
tion of modified water deliveries to Everglades National 
Park shall be expended consistent with the requirements 
of the fifth proviso under this heading in Public Law 108– 
108: Provided further, That none of the funds provided 
in this or any other Act may be used for planning, design, 
or construction of any underground security screening or 
visitor contact facility at the Washington Monument until 
such facility has been approved in writing by the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND 
(RESCISSION) 
The contract authority provided for fiscal year 2006 
by 16 U.S.C. 460l–10a is rescinded.
LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and 
Water Conservation Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 
460l–4 through 11), including administrative expenses, 
and for acquisition of lands or waters, or interest therein, 
in accordance with the statutory authority applicable to 
the National Park Service, $9,421,000, to be derived from 
the Land and Water Conservation Fund and to remain 
available until expended, of which $1,587,000 is for the 
administration of the State assistance program. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations for the National Park Service shall be 
available for the purchase of not to exceed 245 passenger 
motor vehicles, of which 199 shall be for replacement only, 
including not to exceed 193 for police-type use, 10 buses, 
and 8 ambulances: Provided, That none of the funds ap-
propriated to the National Park Service may be used to 
process any grant or contract documents which do not in-
clude the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided further, That 
none of the funds appropriated to the National Park Serv-
ice may be used to implement an agreement for the rede-
velopment of the southern end of Ellis Island until such 
agreement has been submitted to the Congress and shall 
not be implemented prior to the expiration of 30 calendar 
days (not including any day in which either House of Con-
gress is not in session because of adjournment of more
than 3 calendar days to a day certain) from the receipt 
by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 
President of the Senate of a full and comprehensive report 
on the development of the southern end of Ellis Island, 
including the facts and circumstances relied upon in sup-
port of the proposed project: Provided further, That in fis-
cal year 2006 and thereafter, appropriations available to 
the National Park Service may be used to maintain the 
following areas in Washington, District of Columbia: 
Jackson Place, Madison Place, and Pennsylvania Avenue 
between 15th and 17th Streets, Northwest. 
None of the funds in this Act may be spent by the 
National Park Service for activities taken in direct re-
sponse to the United Nations Biodiversity Convention. 
The National Park Service may distribute to oper-
ating units based on the safety record of each unit the 
costs of programs designed to improve workplace and em-
ployee safety, and to encourage employees receiving work-
ers’ compensation benefits pursuant to chapter 81 of title 
5, United States Code, to return to appropriate positions 
for which they are medically able. 
If the Secretary of the Interior considers the decision 
of any value determination proceeding conducted under a 
National Park Service concession contract issued prior to 
November 13, 1998, to misinterpret or misapply relevant
contractual requirements or their underlying legal author-
ity, the Secretary may seek, within 180 days of any such 
decision, the de novo review of the value determination by 
the United States Court of Federal Claims, and that court 
may make an order affirming, vacating, modifying or cor-
recting the determination. 
In addition to other uses set forth in section 407(d) 
of Public Law 105–391, franchise fees credited to a sub- 
account shall be available for expenditure by the Sec-
retary, without further appropriation, for use at any unit 
within the National Park System to extinguish or reduce 
liability for Possessory Interest or leasehold surrender in-
terest. Such funds may only be used for this purpose to 
the extent that the benefiting unit anticipated franchise 
fee receipts over the term of the contract at that unit ex-
ceed the amount of funds used to extinguish or reduce 
liability. Franchise fees at the benefiting unit shall be 
credited to the sub-account of the originating unit over 
a period not to exceed the term of a single contract at 
the benefiting unit, in the amount of funds so expended 
to extinguish or reduce liability. 
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH 
For expenses necessary for the United States Geo-
logical Survey to perform surveys, investigations, and re-
search covering topography, geology, hydrology, biology, 
and the mineral and water resources of the United States, 
its territories and possessions, and other areas as author-
ized by 43 U.S.C. 31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as 
to their mineral and water resources; give engineering su-
pervision to power permittees and Federal Energy Regu-
latory Commission licensees; administer the minerals ex-
ploration program (30 U.S.C. 641); publish and dissemi-
nate data relative to the foregoing activities; and to con-
duct inquiries into the economic conditions affecting min-
ing and materials processing industries (30 U.S.C. 3, 21a, 
and 1603; 50 U.S.C. 98g(1)) and related purposes as au-
thorized by law and to publish and disseminate data; 
$974,586,000, of which $63,770,000 shall be available 
only for cooperation with States or municipalities for 
water resources investigations; of which $8,000,000 shall 
remain available until expended for satellite operations; of 
which $23,320,000 shall be available until September 30, 
2007, for the operation and maintenance of facilities and 
deferred maintenance; of which $1,600,000 shall be avail-
able until expended for deferred maintenance and capital 
improvement projects that exceed $100,000 in cost; and 
of which $174,765,000 shall be available until September 
30, 2007, for the biological research activity and the oper-
ation of the Cooperative Research Units: Provided, That
none of the funds provided for the biological research ac-
tivity shall be used to conduct new surveys on private 
property, unless specifically authorized in writing by the 
property owner: Provided further, That no part of this ap-
propriation shall be used to pay more than one-half the 
cost of topographic mapping or water resources data col-
lection and investigations carried on in cooperation with 
States and municipalities. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The amount appropriated for the United States Geo-
logical Survey shall be available for the purchase and re-
placement of passenger motor vehicles; reimbursement to 
the General Services Administration for security guard 
services; contracting for the furnishing of topographic 
maps and for the making of geophysical or other special-
ized surveys when it is administratively determined that 
such procedures are in the public interest; construction 
and maintenance of necessary buildings and appurtenant 
facilities; acquisition of lands for gauging stations and ob-
servation wells; expenses of the United States National 
Committee on Geology; and payment of compensation and 
expenses of persons on the rolls of the Survey duly ap-
pointed to represent the United States in the negotiation 
and administration of interstate compacts: Provided, That 
activities funded by appropriations herein made may be 
accomplished through the use of contracts, grants, or co-
operative agreements as defined in 31 U.S.C. 6302 et seq.: 
Provided further, That the United States Geological Sur-
vey may enter into contracts or cooperative agreements 
directly with individuals or indirectly with institutions or 
nonprofit organizations, without regard to 41 U.S.C. 5, 
for the temporary or intermittent services of students or 
recent graduates, who shall be considered employees for 
the purpose of chapters 57 and 81 of title 5, United States 
Code, relating to compensation for travel and work inju-
ries, and chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code, re-
lating to tort claims, but shall not be considered to be Fed-
eral employees for any other purposes. 
MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE 
ROYALTY AND OFFSHORE MINERALS MANAGEMENT 
For expenses necessary for minerals leasing and envi-
ronmental studies, regulation of industry operations, and 
collection of royalties, as authorized by law; for enforcing 
laws and regulations applicable to oil, gas, and other min-
erals leases, permits, licenses and operating contracts; and 
for matching grants or cooperative agreements; including 
the purchase of not to exceed eight passenger motor vehi-
cles for replacement only, $152,676,000, of which 
$77,529,000 shall be available for royalty management ac-
tivities; and an amount not to exceed $122,730,000, to 
be credited to this appropriation and to remain available
until expended, from additions to receipts resulting from 
increases to rates in effect on August 5, 1993, from rate 
increases to fee collections for Outer Continental Shelf ad-
ministrative activities performed by the Minerals Manage-
ment Service (MMS) over and above the rates in effect 
on September 30, 1993, and from additional fees for 
Outer Continental Shelf administrative activities estab-
lished after September 30, 1993: Provided, That to the 
extent $122,730,000 in additions to receipts are not real-
ized from the sources of receipts stated above, the amount 
needed to reach $122,730,000 shall be credited to this ap-
propriation from receipts resulting from rental rates for 
Outer Continental Shelf leases in effect before August 5, 
1993: Provided further, That $3,000,000 for computer ac-
quisitions shall remain available until September 30, 
2007: Provided further, That not to exceed $3,000 shall 
be available for reasonable expenses related to promoting 
volunteer beach and marine cleanup activities: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
$15,000 under this heading shall be available for refunds 
of overpayments in connection with certain Indian leases 
in which the Director of MMS concurred with the claimed 
refund due, to pay amounts owed to Indian allottees or 
tribes, or to correct prior unrecoverable erroneous pay-
ments: Provided further, That in fiscal year 2006 and
thereafter, the MMS may under the royalty-in-kind pro-
gram, or under its authority to transfer oil to the Strategic 
Petroleum Reserve, use a portion of the revenues from 
royalty-in-kind sales, without regard to fiscal year limita-
tion, to pay for transportation to wholesale market centers 
or upstream pooling points, to process or otherwise dispose 
of royalty production taken in kind, and to recover MMS 
transportation costs, salaries, and other administrative 
costs directly related to the royalty-in-kind program: Pro-
vided further, That MMS shall analyze and document the 
expected return in advance of any royalty-in-kind sales to 
assure to the maximum extent practicable that royalty in-
come under the program is equal to or greater than roy-
alty income recognized under a comparable royalty-in- 
value program. 
OIL SPILL RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 
1016, title IV, sections 4202 and 4303, title VII, and title 
VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 
$7,006,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-
ability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended. 
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND 
ENFORCEMENT 
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 
of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of
1977, Public Law 95–87, as amended, including the pur-
chase of not to exceed 10 passenger motor vehicles, for 
replacement only; $110,435,000: Provided, That the Sec-
retary of the Interior, pursuant to regulations, may use 
directly or through grants to States, moneys collected in 
fiscal year 2006 for civil penalties assessed under section 
518 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 
of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1268), to reclaim lands adversely af-
fected by coal mining practices after August 3, 1977, to 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
appropriations for the Office of Surface Mining Reclama-
tion and Enforcement may provide for the travel and per 
diem expenses of State and tribal personnel attending Of-
fice of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 
sponsored training. 
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the 
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, 
Public Law 95–87, as amended, including the purchase 
of not more than 10 passenger motor vehicles for replace-
ment only, $188,014,000, to be derived from receipts of 
the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain 
available until expended; of which up to $10,000,000, to 
be derived from the Federal Expenses Share of the Fund, 
shall be for supplemental grants to States for the reclama-
tion of abandoned sites with acid mine rock drainage from
coal mines, and for associated activities, through the Ap-
palachian Clean Streams Initiative: Provided, That grants 
to minimum program States will be $1,500,000 per State 
in fiscal year 2006: Provided further, That pursuant to 
Public Law 97–365, the Department of the Interior is au-
thorized to use up to 20 percent from the recovery of the 
delinquent debt owed to the United States Government to 
pay for contracts to collect these debts: Provided further, 
That funds made available under title IV of Public Law 
95–87 may be used for any required non-Federal share 
of the cost of projects funded by the Federal Government 
for the purpose of environmental restoration related to 
treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage from aban-
doned mines: Provided further, That such projects must 
be consistent with the purposes and priorities of the Sur-
face Mining Control and Reclamation Act: Provided fur-
ther, That amounts allocated under section 402(g)(2) of 
the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 
(30 U.S.C. 1232(g)(2)) as of September 30, 2005, but not 
appropriated as of that date, are reallocated to the alloca-
tion established in section 402(g)(3) of the Surface Mining 
Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 
1232(g)(3)): Provided further, That amounts provided 
under this heading may be used for the travel and per 
diem expenses of State and tribal personnel attending Of-
fice of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 
sponsored training. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
With funds available for the Technical Innovation 
and Professional Services program in this Act, the Sec-
retary may transfer title for computer hardware, software 
and other technical equipment to State and Tribal regu-
latory and reclamation programs. 
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian 
programs, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act 
of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian Self-De-
termination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 
U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as amended, the Education Amend-
ments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001–2019), and the Tribally 
Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), 
as amended, $1,992,737,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2007 except as otherwise provided herein, 
of which not to exceed $86,462,000 shall be for welfare 
assistance payments and notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, including but not limited to the Indian Self- 
Determination Act of 1975, as amended, not to exceed 
$134,609,000 shall be available for payments to tribes and 
tribal organizations for contract support costs associated 
with ongoing contracts, grants, compacts, or annual fund-
ing agreements entered into with the Bureau prior to or 
during fiscal year 2006, as authorized by such Act, of 
which $129,609,000 shall be available for indirect contract 
support costs and $5,000,000 shall be available for direct 
contract support costs, except that tribes and tribal orga-
nizations may use their tribal priority allocations for 
unmet contract support costs of ongoing contracts, grants, 
or compacts, or annual funding agreements and for unmet 
welfare assistance costs; and of which not to exceed 
$478,085,000 for school operations costs of Bureau-fund-
ed schools and other education programs shall become 
available on July 1, 2006, and shall remain available until 
September 30, 2007; and of which not to exceed 
$61,267,000 shall remain available until expended for 
housing improvement, road maintenance, attorney fees, 
litigation support, the Indian Self-Determination Fund, 
land records improvement, and the Navajo-Hopi Settle-
ment Program: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, including but not limited to the Indian 
Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, and 25 
U.S.C. 2008, not to exceed $44,718,000 within and only 
from such amounts made available for school operations 
shall be available to tribes and tribal organizations for ad-
ministrative cost grants associated with ongoing grants 
entered into with the Bureau prior to or during fiscal year
2005 for the operation of Bureau-funded schools, and up 
to $500,000 within and only from such amounts made 
available for school operations shall be available for the 
transitional costs of initial administrative cost grants to 
tribes and tribal organizations that enter into grants for 
the operation on or after July 1, 2005, of Bureau-operated 
schools: Provided further, That any forestry funds allo-
cated to a tribe which remain unobligated as of September 
30, 2007, may be transferred during fiscal year 2008 to 
an Indian forest land assistance account established for 
the benefit of such tribe within the tribe’s trust fund ac-
count: Provided further, That any such unobligated bal-
ances not so transferred shall expire on September 30, 
2008. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, 
and other facilities, including architectural and engineer-
ing services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests 
in lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for 
construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pur-
suant to Public Law 87–483, $284,137,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That such amounts as 
may be available for the construction of the Navajo Indian 
Irrigation Project may be transferred to the Bureau of 
Reclamation: Provided further, That not to exceed 6 per-
cent of contract authority available to the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs from the Federal Highway Trust Fund may 
be used to cover the road program management costs of 
the Bureau: Provided further, That any funds provided for 
the Safety of Dams program pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 13 
shall be made available on a nonreimbursable basis: Pro-
vided further, That for fiscal year 2006, in implementing 
new construction or facilities improvement and repair 
project grants in excess of $100,000 that are provided to 
tribally controlled grant schools under Public Law 100– 
297, as amended, the Secretary of the Interior shall use 
the Administrative and Audit Requirements and Cost 
Principles for Assistance Programs contained in 43 CFR 
part 12 as the regulatory requirements: Provided further, 
That such grants shall not be subject to section 12.61 of 
43 CFR; the Secretary and the grantee shall negotiate and 
determine a schedule of payments for the work to be per-
formed: Provided further, That in considering applications, 
the Secretary shall consider whether the Indian tribe or 
tribal organization would be deficient in assuring that the 
construction projects conform to applicable building stand-
ards and codes and Federal, tribal, or State health and 
safety standards as required by 25 U.S.C. 2005(b), with 
respect to organizational and financial management capa-
bilities: Provided further, That if the Secretary declines an
application, the Secretary shall follow the requirements 
contained in 25 U.S.C. 2504(f): Provided further, That 
any disputes between the Secretary and any grantee con-
cerning a grant shall be subject to the disputes provision 
in 25 U.S.C. 2507(e): Provided further, That in order to 
ensure timely completion of replacement school construc-
tion projects, the Secretary may assume control of a 
project and all funds related to the project, if, within 
eighteen months of the date of enactment of this Act, any 
tribe or tribal organization receiving funds appropriated 
in this Act or in any prior Act, has not completed the 
planning and design phase of the project and commenced 
construction of the replacement school: Provided further, 
That this Appropriation may be reimbursed from the Of-
fice of the Special Trustee for American Indians Appro-
priation for the appropriate share of construction costs for 
space expansion needed in agency offices to meet trust re-
form implementation. 
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
For miscellaneous payments to Indian tribes and in-
dividuals and for necessary administrative expenses, 
$34,754,000, to remain available until expended, for im-
plementation of Indian land and water claim settlements 
pursuant to Public Laws 99–264, 100–580, 101–618, 
106–554, 107–331, and 108–34, and for implementation
of other land and water rights settlements, of which 
$10,000,000 shall be available for payment to the 
Quinault Indian Nation pursuant to the terms of the 
North Boundary Settlement Agreement dated July 14, 
2000, providing for the acquisition of perpetual conserva-
tion easements from the Nation. 
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed and insured loans, 
$6,348,000, of which $701,000 is for administrative ex-
penses, as authorized by the Indian Financing Act of 
1974, as amended: Provided, That such costs, including 
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in 
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Pro-
vided further, That these funds are available to subsidize 
total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, 
not to exceed $118,884,000. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the oper-
ation of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts, 
cooperative agreements, compacts and grants, either di-
rectly or in cooperation with States and other organiza-
tions. 
Notwithstanding 25 U.S.C. 15, the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs may contract for services in support of the man-
agement, operation, and maintenance of the Power Divi-
sion of the San Carlos Irrigation Project.
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (ex-
cept the revolving fund for loans, the Indian loan guar-
antee and insurance fund, and the Indian Guaranteed 
Loan Program account) shall be available for expenses of 
exhibits, and purchase and replacement of passenger 
motor vehicles. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office 
operations or pooled overhead general administration (ex-
cept facilities operations and maintenance) shall be avail-
able for tribal contracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative 
agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the 
provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the 
Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103– 
413). 
In the event any tribe returns appropriations made 
available by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for 
distribution to other tribes, this action shall not diminish 
the Federal Government’s trust responsibility to that 
tribe, or the government-to-government relationship be-
tween the United States and that tribe, or that tribe’s abil-
ity to access future appropriations. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau, other than the amounts provided 
herein for assistance to public schools under 25 U.S.C.
452 et seq., shall be available to support the operation of 
any elementary or secondary school in the State of Alaska. 
Appropriations made available in this or any other 
Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be available 
only to the schools in the Bureau school system as of Sep-
tember 1, 1996. No funds available to the Bureau shall 
be used to support expanded grades for any school or dor-
mitory beyond the grade structure in place or approved 
by the Secretary of the Interior at each school in the Bu-
reau school system as of October 1, 1995. Funds made 
available under this Act may not be used to establish a 
charter school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term 
is defined in section 1146 of the Education Amendments 
of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2026)), except that a charter school 
that is in existence on the date of the enactment of this 
Act and that has operated at a Bureau-funded school be-
fore September 1, 1999, may continue to operate during 
that period, but only if the charter school pays to the Bu-
reau a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau 
for the use of the real and personal property (including 
buses and vans), the funds of the charter school are kept 
separate and apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau 
does not assume any obligation for charter school pro-
grams of the State in which the school is located if the 
charter school loses such funding. Employees of Bureau-
funded schools sharing a campus with a charter school and 
performing functions related to the charter school’s oper-
ation and employees of a charter school shall not be treat-
ed as Federal employees for purposes of chapter 171 of 
title 28, United States Code. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 
section 113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106– 
113, if a tribe or tribal organization in fiscal year 2003 
or 2004 received indirect and administrative costs pursu-
ant to a distribution formula based on section 5(f) of Pub-
lic Law 101–301, the Secretary shall continue to dis-
tribute indirect and administrative cost funds to such tribe 
or tribal organization using the section 5(f) distribution 
formula. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
INSULAR AFFAIRS 
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, 
$76,563,000, of which: (1) $69,182,000 shall be available 
until expended for technical assistance, including mainte-
nance assistance, disaster assistance, insular management 
controls, coral reef initiative activities, and brown tree 
snake control and research; grants to the judiciary in 
American Samoa for compensation and expenses, as au-
thorized by law (48 U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Govern-
ment of American Samoa, in addition to current local rev-
enues, for construction and support of governmental func-
tions; grants to the Government of the Virgin Islands as 
authorized by law; grants to the Government of Guam, 
as authorized by law; and grants to the Government of 
the Northern Mariana Islands as authorized by law (Pub-
lic Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $7,381,000 shall 
be available for salaries and expenses of the Office of Insu-
lar Affairs: Provided, That all financial transactions of the 
territorial and local governments herein provided for, in-
cluding such transactions of all agencies or instrumental-
ities established or used by such governments, may be au-
dited by the Government Accountability Office, at its dis-
cretion, in accordance with chapter 35 of title 31, United 
States Code: Provided further, That Northern Mariana Is-
lands Covenant grant funding shall be provided according 
to those terms of the Agreement of the Special Represent-
atives on Future United States Financial Assistance for 
the Northern Mariana Islands approved by Public Law 
104–134: Provided further, That of the amounts provided 
for technical assistance, sufficient funds shall be made 
available for a grant to the Pacific Basin Development 
Council: Provided further, That of the amounts provided 
for technical assistance, sufficient funding shall be made
available for a grant to the Close Up Foundation: Provided 
further, That the funds for the program of operations and 
maintenance improvement are appropriated to institu-
tionalize routine operations and maintenance improvement 
of capital infrastructure with territorial participation and 
cost sharing to be determined by the Secretary based on 
the grantee’s commitment to timely maintenance of its 
capital assets: Provided further, That any appropriation 
for disaster assistance under this heading in this Act or 
previous appropriations Acts may be used as non-Federal 
matching funds for the purpose of hazard mitigation 
grants provided pursuant to section 404 of the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 5170c). 
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 
For grants and necessary expenses, $5,362,000, to 
remain available until expended, as provided for in sec-
tions 221(a)(2), 221(b), and 233 of the Compact of Free 
Association for the Republic of Palau; and section 
221(a)(2) of the Compacts of Free Association for the 
Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and 
the Government of the United States and the Federated 
States of Micronesia, as authorized by Public Law 99– 
658 and Public Law 108–188.
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for management of the De-
partment of the Interior, $118,755,000 (reduced by 
$8,000,000) (reduced by $13,000,000) of which not to ex-
ceed $8,500 may be for official reception and representa-
tion expenses; and of which up to $1,000,000 shall be 
available for workers compensation payments and unem-
ployment compensation payments associated with the or-
derly closure of the United States Bureau of Mines: Pro-
vided, That none of the funds in this or previous appro-
priations Acts may be used to establish any additional re-
serves in the Working Capital Fund account other than 
the two authorized reserves without prior approval of the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-
ber 20, 1976, as amended (31 U.S.C. 6901–6907), 
$230,000,000 (increased by $12,000,000), of which not 
to exceed $400,000 shall be available for administrative 
expenses: Provided, That no payment shall be made to oth-
erwise eligible units of local government if the computed 
amount of the payment is less than $100. 
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-
terior and any of its component offices and bureaus for
the remedial action, including associated activities, of haz-
ardous waste substances, pollutants, or contaminants pur-
suant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
9601 et seq.), $9,855,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, 
sums recovered from or paid by a party in advance of or 
as reimbursement for remedial action or response activi-
ties conducted by the Department pursuant to section 107 
or 113(f) of such Act, shall be credited to this account, 
to be available until expended without further appropria-
tion: Provided further, That such sums recovered from or 
paid by any party are not limited to monetary payments 
and may include stocks, bonds or other personal or real 
property, which may be retained, liquidated, or otherwise 
disposed of by the Secretary and which shall be credited 
to this account. 
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 
$55,340,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General, $39,566,000.
OFFICE OF SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS 
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by 
direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, 
compacts, and grants, $191,593,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which not to exceed $58,000,000 from 
this or any other Act, shall be available for historical ac-
counting: Provided, That funds for trust management im-
provements and litigation support may, as needed, be 
transferred to or merged with the Bureau of Indian Af-
fairs, ‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ account; the Office 
of the Solicitor, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account; and the 
Departmental Management, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ ac-
count: Provided further, That funds made available to 
Tribes and Tribal organizations through contracts or 
grants obligated during fiscal year 2006, as authorized by 
the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 
et seq.), shall remain available until expended by the con-
tractor or grantee: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, the statute of limita-
tions shall not commence to run on any claim, including 
any claim in litigation pending on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, concerning losses to or mismanagement 
of trust funds, until the affected tribe or individual Indian 
has been furnished with an accounting of such funds from
which the beneficiary can determine whether there has 
been a loss: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Secretary shall not be required 
to provide a quarterly statement of performance for any 
Indian trust account that has not had activity for at least 
18 months and has a balance of $1.00 or less: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall issue an annual account 
statement and maintain a record of any such accounts and 
shall permit the balance in each such account to be with-
drawn upon the express written request of the account 
holder: Provided further, That not to exceed $50,000 is 
available for the Secretary to make payments to correct 
administrative errors of either disbursements from or de-
posits to Individual Indian Money or Tribal accounts after 
September 30, 2002: Provided further, That erroneous 
payments that are recovered shall be credited to and re-
main available in this account for this purpose. 
INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION 
For consolidation of fractional interests in Indian 
lands and expenses associated with redetermining and re-
distributing escheated interests in allotted lands, and for 
necessary expenses to carry out the Indian Land Consoli-
dation Act of 1983, as amended, by direct expenditure or 
cooperative agreement, $34,514,000, to remain available 
until expended, and which may be transferred to the Bu-
reau of Indian Affairs and Departmental Management ac-
counts: Provided, That funds provided under this heading 
may be expended pursuant to the authorities contained in 
the provisos under the heading ‘‘Office of Special Trustee 
for American Indians, Indian Land Consolidation’’ of the 
Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 
(Public Law 106–291). 
NATURAL RESOURCES DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND 
RESTORATION 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 
To conduct natural resource damage assessment and 
restoration activities by the Department of the Interior 
necessary to carry out the provisions of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 
Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1251 et 
seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–380) 
(33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), and Public Law 101–337, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 19jj et seq.), $6,106,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from avail-
able resources within the Working Capital Fund, 15 air-
craft, 10 of which shall be for replacement and which may 
be obtained by donation, purchase or through available ex-
cess surplus property: Provided, That existing aircraft 
being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or
trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the 
replacement aircraft: Provided further, That no programs 
funded with appropriated funds in the ‘‘Departmental 
Management’’, ‘‘Office of the Solicitor’’, and ‘‘Office of In-
spector General’’ may be augmented through the Working 
Capital Fund: Provided further, That the annual budget 
justification for Departmental Management shall describe 
estimated Working Capital Fund charges to bureaus and 
offices, including the methodology on which charges are 
based: Provided further, That departures from the Work-
ing Capital Fund estimates contained in the Departmental 
Management budget justification shall be presented to the 
Committees on Appropriations for approval: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary shall provide a semi-annual re-
port to the Committees on Appropriations on reimbursable 
support agreements between the Office of the Secretary 
and the National Business Center and the bureaus and 
offices of the Department, including the amounts billed 
pursuant to such agreements. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
SEC. 101. Appropriations made in this title shall be 
available for expenditure or transfer (within each bureau 
or office), with the approval of the Secretary, for the emer-
gency reconstruction, replacement, or repair of aircraft, 
buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment dam-
aged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoid-
able causes: Provided, That no funds shall be made avail-
able under this authority until funds specifically made 
available to the Department of the Interior for emer-
gencies shall have been exhausted, and must be replen-
ished by a supplemental appropriation which must be re-
quested as promptly as possible. 
SEC. 102. The Secretary may authorize the expendi-
ture or transfer of any no year appropriation in this title, 
in addition to the amounts included in the budget pro-
grams of the several agencies, for the suppression or emer-
gency prevention of wildland fires on or threatening lands 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior; 
for the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands 
under its jurisdiction; for emergency actions related to po-
tential or actual earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or 
other unavoidable causes; for contingency planning subse-
quent to actual oil spills; for response and natural resource 
damage assessment activities related to actual oil spills; 
for the prevention, suppression, and control of actual or 
potential grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks on 
lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, pursuant to 
the authority in section 1773(b) of Public Law 99–198 
(99 Stat. 1658); for emergency reclamation projects under 
section 410 of Public Law 95–87; and shall transfer, from
any no year funds available to the Office of Surface Min-
ing Reclamation and Enforcement, such funds as may be 
necessary to permit assumption of regulatory authority in 
the event a primacy State is not carrying out the regu-
latory provisions of the Surface Mining Act: Provided, 
That appropriations made in this title for wildland fire 
operations shall be available for the payment of obligations 
incurred during the preceding fiscal year, and for reim-
bursement to other Federal agencies for destruction of ve-
hicles, aircraft, or other equipment in connection with 
their use for wildland fire operations, such reimbursement 
to be credited to appropriations currently available at the 
time of receipt thereof: Provided further, That for wildland 
fire operations, no funds shall be made available under 
this authority until the Secretary determines that funds 
appropriated for ‘‘wildland fire operations’’ shall be ex-
hausted within 30 days, and must be replenished by a sup-
plemental appropriation which must be requested as 
promptly as possible: Provided further, That such replen-
ishment funds shall be used to reimburse, on a pro rata 
basis, accounts from which emergency funds were trans-
ferred. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations made to the Department 
of the Interior in this title shall be available for services 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, when authorized by the
Secretary, in total amount not to exceed $500,000; hire, 
maintenance, and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; purchase of reprints; payment for tele-
phone service in private residences in the field, when au-
thorized under regulations approved by the Secretary; and 
the payment of dues, when authorized by the Secretary, 
for library membership in societies or associations which 
issue publications to members only or at a price to mem-
bers lower than to subscribers who are not members. 
SEC. 104. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior for the conduct 
of offshore preleasing, leasing and related activities placed 
under restriction in the President’s moratorium statement 
of June 12, 1998, in the areas of northern, central, and 
southern California; the North Atlantic; Washington and 
Oregon; and the eastern Gulf of Mexico south of 26 de-
grees north latitude and east of 86 degrees west longitude. 
SEC. 105. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior to conduct off-
shore oil and natural gas preleasing, leasing and related 
activities in the eastern Gulf of Mexico planning area for 
any lands located outside Sale 181, as identified in the 
final Outer Continental Shelf 5-Year Oil and Gas Leasing 
Program, 1997–2002.
SEC. 106. No funds provided in this title may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior to conduct oil 
and natural gas preleasing, leasing and related activities 
in the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic planning areas. 
SEC. 107. Notwithstanding any other provisions of 
law, the National Park Service shall not develop or imple-
ment a reduced entrance fee program to accommodate 
non-local travel through a unit. The Secretary may provide 
for and regulate local non-recreational passage through 
units of the National Park System, allowing each unit to 
develop guidelines and permits for such activity appro-
priate to that unit. 
SEC. 108. Appropriations made in this Act under the 
headings Bureau of Indian Affairs and Office of Special 
Trustee for American Indians and any unobligated bal-
ances from prior appropriations Acts made under the 
same headings shall be available for expenditure or trans-
fer for Indian trust management and reform activities, ex-
cept that total funding for historical accounting activities 
shall not exceed amounts specifically designated in this 
Act for such purpose. 
SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, for the purpose of reducing the backlog of Indian pro-
bate cases in the Department of the Interior, the hearing 
requirements of chapter 10 of title 25, United States
Code, are deemed satisfied by a proceeding conducted by 
an Indian probate judge, appointed by the Secretary with-
out regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, 
governing the appointments in the competitive service, for 
such period of time as the Secretary determines necessary: 
Provided, That the basic pay of an Indian probate judge 
so appointed may be fixed by the Secretary without regard 
to the provisions of chapter 51, and subchapter III of 
chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, governing the 
classification and pay of General Schedule employees, ex-
cept that no such Indian probate judge may be paid at 
a level which exceeds the maximum rate payable for the 
highest grade of the General Schedule, including locality 
pay. 
SEC. 110. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redis-
tribute any Tribal Priority Allocation funds, including 
tribal base funds, to alleviate tribal funding inequities by 
transferring funds to address identified, unmet needs, 
dual enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate 
distribution methodologies. No tribe shall receive a reduc-
tion in Tribal Priority Allocation funds of more than 10 
percent in fiscal year 2006. Under circumstances of dual 
enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate dis-
tribution methodologies, the 10 percent limitation does not 
apply. 
SEC. 111. Funds appropriated for the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs for postsecondary schools for fiscal year 2006 
shall be allocated among the schools proportionate to the 
unmet need of the schools as determined by the Postsec-
ondary Funding Formula adopted by the Office of Indian 
Education Programs. 
SEC. 112. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, in conveying the Twin Cities Research Center under 
the authority provided by Public Law 104–134, as amend-
ed by Public Law 104–208, the Secretary may accept and 
retain land and other forms of reimbursement: Provided, 
That the Secretary may retain and use any such reim-
bursement until expended and without further appropria-
tion: (1) for the benefit of the National Wildlife Refuge 
System within the State of Minnesota; and (2) for all ac-
tivities authorized by Public Law 100–696; 16 U.S.C. 
460zz. 
SEC. 113. The Secretary of the Interior may use or 
contract for the use of helicopters or motor vehicles on 
the Sheldon and Hart National Wildlife Refuges for the 
purpose of capturing and transporting horses and burros. 
The provisions of subsection (a) of the Act of September 
8, 1959 (18 U.S.C. 47(a)) shall not be applicable to such
use. Such use shall be in accordance with humane proce-
dures prescribed by the Secretary. 
SEC. 114. Funds provided in this Act for Federal 
land acquisition by the National Park Service for Shen-
andoah 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 manage-
ment entity for the acquisition of lands without regard to 
any restriction on the use of Federal land acquisition 
funds provided through the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund Act of 1965 as amended. 
SEC. 115. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be obligated or expended by the National Park 
Service to enter into or implement a concession contract 
which permits or requires the removal of the underground 
lunchroom at the Carlsbad Caverns National Park. 
SEC. 116. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used: (1) to demolish the bridge between Jer-
sey City, New Jersey, and Ellis Island; or (2) to prevent 
pedestrian use of such bridge, when such pedestrian use 
is consistent with generally accepted safety standards. 
SEC. 117. None of the funds in this or any other Act 
can be used to compensate the Special Master and the 
Special Master-Monitor, and all variations thereto, ap-
pointed by the United States District Court for the Dis-
trict of Columbia in the Cobell v. Norton litigation at an 
annual rate that exceeds 200 percent of the highest Senior 
Executive Service rate of pay for the Washington-Balti-
more locality pay area. 
SEC. 118. The Secretary of the Interior may use dis-
cretionary funds to pay private attorneys fees and costs 
for employees and former employees of the Department 
of the Interior reasonably incurred in connection with 
Cobell v. Norton to the extent that such fees and costs 
are not paid by the Department of Justice or by private 
insurance. In no case shall the Secretary make payments 
under this section that would result in payment of hourly 
fees in excess of the highest hourly rate approved by the 
District Court for the District of Columbia for counsel in 
Cobell v. Norton. 
SEC. 119. The United States Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice shall, in carrying out its responsibilities to protect 
threatened and endangered species of salmon, implement 
a system of mass marking of salmonid stocks, intended 
for harvest, that are released from Federally operated or 
Federally financed hatcheries including but not limited to 
fish releases of coho, chinook, and steelhead species. 
Marked fish must have a visible mark that can be readily 
identified by commercial and recreational fishers.