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(i) Not less than 100 percent of the 
contract quantity of the existing Central 
Valley Project agricultural water service 
contractor within the Sacramento River 
Watershed in a ‘‘Wet’’ year. 
(ii) Not less than 100 percent of the 
contract quantity of the existing Central 
Valley Project agricultural water service 
Contractor within the Sacramento River 
Watershed in an ‘‘Above Normal’’ year. 
(iii) Not less than 100 percent of the 
contract quantity of the existing Central 
Valley Project agricultural water service 
contractor within the Sacramento River 
Watershed in a ‘‘Below Normal’’ year that 
is preceded by an ‘‘Above Normal’’ or 
‘‘Wet’’ year. 
(iv) Not less than 50 percent of the 
contract quantity of the existing Central 
Valley Project agricultural water service 
contractor within the Sacramento River 
Watershed in a ‘‘Dry’’ year that is pre-
ceded by a ‘‘Below Normal’’, ‘‘Above Nor-
mal’’, or ‘‘Wet’’ year. 
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(v) Subject to clause (ii), in any other 
year not identified in any of clauses (i) 
through (iv), not less than twice the alloca-
tion percentage to south-of-Delta Central 
Valley Project agricultural water service 
contractors, up to 100 percent. 
(B) EFFECT
OF
CLAUSE.—Nothing in 
clause (A)(v) precludes an allocation to an ex-
isting Central Valley Project agricultural water 
service contractor within the Sacramento River 
Watershed that is greater than twice the alloca-
tion percentage to a south-of-Delta Central Val-
ley Project agricultural water service con-
tractor. 
(3) PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT, MUNICIPAL 
AND INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES, AND OTHER CONTRAC-
TORS.— 
(A) ENVIRONMENT.—Nothing in para-
graph (2) shall adversely affect— 
(i) the cold water pool behind Shasta 
Dam; 
(ii) the obligation of the Secretary of 
the Interior to make water available to 
managed wetlands pursuant to section 
3406(d) of the Central Valley Project Im-
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provement Act (Public Law 102–575; 106 
Stat. 4722); or 
(iii) any obligation— 
(I) of the Secretary of the Inte-
rior and the Secretary of Commerce 
under the smelt biological opinion, the 
salmonid biological opinion, or any 
other applicable biological opinion; or 
(II) under the Endangered Spe-
cies Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 
seq.) or any other applicable law (in-
cluding regulations). 
(B) MUNICIPAL
AND
INDUSTRIAL
SUP-
PLIES.—Nothing in paragraph (2)— 
(i) modifies any provision of a water 
Service contract that addresses municipal 
or industrial water shortage policies of the 
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary 
of Commerce; 
(ii) affects or limits the authority of 
the Secretary of the Interior and the Sec-
retary of Commerce to adopt or modify 
municipal and industrial water shortage 
policies; 
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(iii) affects or limits the authority of 
the Secretary of the Interior and the Sec-
retary of Commerce to implement a munic-
ipal or industrial water shortage policy; 
(iv) constrains, governs, or affects, di-
rectly or indirectly, the operations of the 
American River division of the Central Val-
ley Project or any deliveries from that divi-
sion or a unit or facility of that division; 
or 
(v) affects any allocation to a Central 
Valley Project municipal or industrial 
water service contractor by increasing or 
decreasing allocations to the contractor, as 
compared to the allocation the contractor 
would have received absent paragraph (2). 
(C) OTHER
CONTRACTORS.—Nothing in 
subsection (b)— 
(i) affects the priority of any indi-
vidual or entity with Sacramento River 
water rights, including an individual or en-
tity with a Sacramento River settlement 
contract, that has priority to the diversion 
and use of Sacramento River water over 
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water rights held by the United States for 
operations of the Central Valley Project; 
(ii) affects the obligation of the 
United States to make a substitute supply 
of water available to the San Joaquin 
River exchange contractors; 
(iii) affects the allocation of water to 
Friant division contractors of the Central 
Valley Project; 
(iv) results in the involuntary reduc-
tion in contract water allocations to indi-
viduals or entities with contracts to receive 
water from the Friant division; or 
(v) authorizes any actions inconsistent 
with State water rights law. 
SEC. 450. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able to implement the Stipulation of Settlement (Natural 
Resources Defense Council, et al. v. Kirk Rodgers, et al., 
Eastern District of California, No. Civ. 9 S–88–1658 
LKK/GGH) or subtitle A of title X of Public Law 111– 
11. 
SEC. 451. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able for the purchase of water in the State of California 
to supplement instream flow within a river basin that has 
suffered a drought within the last 2 years. 
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SEC. 452. The Commissioner of Reclamation is di-
rected to work with local water and irrigation districts in 
the Stanislaus River Basin to ascertain the water storage 
made available by the Draft Plan of Operations in New 
Melones Reservoir (DRPO) for water conservation pro-
grams, conjunctive use projects, water transfers, resched-
uled project water and other projects to maximize water 
storage and ensure the beneficial use of the water re-
sources in the Stanislaus River Basin. All such programs 
and projects shall be implemented according to all applica-
ble laws and regulations. The source of water for any such 
storage program at New Melones Reservoir shall be made 
available under a valid water right, consistent with the 
State water transfer guidelines and any other applicable 
State water law. The Commissioner shall inform the Con-
gress within 18 months setting forth the amount of stor-
age made available by the DRPO that has been put to 
use under this program, including proposals received by 
the Commissioner from interested parties for the purpose 
of this section. 
SEC. 453. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to make a Presidential declaration by 
public proclamation of a national monument under chap-
ter 3203 of title 54, United States Code in the counties 
of Coconino, Maricopa, Mohave and Yavapai in the State 
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of Arizona, in the counties of Modoc and Siskiyou in the 
State of California, in the counties of Chaffee, Conejos, 
Dolores, Moffat, Montezuma, and Park in the State of 
Colorado, in the counties of Carson City, Churchill, Clark, 
Douglas, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, 
Lyon, Nye, Pershing, Storey and Washoe in the State of 
Nevada, in the county of Otero in the State of New Mex-
ico, in the counties of Jackson, Josephine and, Malheur 
in the State of Oregon, in the counties of Beaver, Carbon, 
Duchesne, Emery, Garfield, Iron, Juab, Kane, Millard, 
Piute, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Tooele, Uintah, Wash-
ington, and Wayne in the State of Utah, or in the county 
of Penobscot in the State of Maine. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 454. The amount by which the applicable alloca-
tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives under sec-
tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ex-
ceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is $0. 
SEC. 455. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency 
to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce section 
1037.601(a)(1) of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, 
as proposed to be revised under the proposed rule entitled 
‘‘Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Efficiency Stand-
ards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles- 
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Phase 2’’ published by the Environmental Protection 
Agency in the Federal Register on July 13, 2015 (80 Fed. 
Reg. 40138 et seq.), or any rule of the same substance, 
with respect to glider kits and glider vehicles (as defined 
in section 1037.801 of title 40, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, as proposed to be revised under such proposed rule). 
SEC. 456. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior to imple-
ment, administer, or enforce any rule or guidance of the 
same substance as the proposed rule regarding Risk Man-
agement, Financial Assurance and Loss Prevention for 
which advanced notice of proposed rulemaking was pub-
lished by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on 
August 19, 2014 (79 Fed. Reg. 49027) or the National 
Notice to Lessees and Operators of Federal Oil and Gas 
and Sulphur Leases, Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) 
issued by such Bureau (NTL No. 2016–N03). 
SEC. 457. None of the funds made available under 
this Act may be used to enter into a cooperative agree-
ments with or make any grant or loan to an entity to es-
tablish in any of Baca, Bent, Crowley, Huerfano, Kiowa, 
Las Animas, Otero, Prowers, and Pueblo counties, Colo-
rado, a national heritage area, national heritage corridor, 
national heritage canal way, national heritage tour route, 
national historic district, or cultural heritage corridor. 
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SEC. 458. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency to hire or pay the salary of any 
officer or employee of the Environmental Protection Agen-
cy under subsection (f) or (g) of section 207 of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 209) who is not already 
receiving pay under either such subsection on the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 459. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to propose or develop legislation to redi-
rect funds allocated under section 105(a)(2)(A) of the 
Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 (43 U.S.C. 
1331 note). 
SEC. 460. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to develop, propose, finalize, implement 
or enforce the rule entitled ‘‘Management of Non-Federal 
Oil and Gas Rights’’ and published by the United States 
Fish and Wildlife Service on December 11, 2015 (80 Fed. 
Reg. 77200), or any rule of the same substance. 
SEC. 461. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency to enforce the requirements of 
part 112 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, with 
respect to any farm (as that term is defined in section 
112.2 of such title). 
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SEC. 462. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of section 1913 of title 
18, United States Code. 
SEC. 463. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act under the heading ‘‘Environmental Programs and 
Management’’ may be used for the Office of Congressional 
and Intergovernmental Relations of the Environmental 
Protection Agency. 
(b) The amount otherwise provided by this Act for 
‘‘Environmental Programs and Management’’ is hereby 
reduced by $4,235,000. 
SEC. 464. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
draft technical report entitled ‘‘Protecting Aquatic Life 
from Effects of Hydrologic Alteration’’ published by the 
Environmental Protection Agency and the United States 
Geological Survey on March 1, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 
10620). 
SEC. 465. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency 
to develop, finalize, promulgate, implement, administer, or 
enforce any rule under section 112 of the Clean Air Act 
(42 U.S.C. 7412) that applies to glass manufacturers that 
do not use continuous furnaces. 
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SEC. 466. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
final rule entitled ‘‘Hydraulic Fracturing on Federal and 
Indian Lands’’ as published in the Federal Register on 
March 26, 2015 and March 30, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 16127 
and 16577, respectively). 
SEC. 467. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-
force the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Greenhouse Gas Emis-
sions and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and 
Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles-Phase 2’’ published by 
the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Reg-
ister on July 13, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 40138 et seq.), with 
respect to trailers. 
SEC. 468. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-
force the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Health and Environ-
mental Protection Standards for Uranium and Thorium 
Mill Tailings’’ published by the Environmental Protection 
Agency in the Federal Register on January 26, 2015 (80 
Fed. Reg. 4156 et seq.), or any rule of the same sub-
stance. 
SEC. 469. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to enforce permit requirements pursuant to part 14 of title 
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