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account: Provided further, That any such unobligated bal-
ances not so transferred shall expire on September 30, 2012: 
Provided further, That in order to enhance the safety of Bu-
reau field employees, the Bureau may use funds to purchase 
uniforms or other identifying articles of clothing for per-
sonnel. 
CONSTRUCTION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, 
and other facilities, including architectural and engineering 
services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests in 
lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for con-
struction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pursuant 
to Public Law 87–483, $225,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That such amounts as may be 
available for the construction of the Navajo Indian Irriga-
tion Project may be transferred to the Bureau of Reclama-
tion: Provided further, That not to exceed 6 percent of con-
tract authority available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
from the Federal Highway Trust Fund may be used to cover 
the road program management costs of the Bureau: Pro-
vided 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: Provided further, 
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That for fiscal year 2010, in implementing new construc-
tion or facilities improvement and repair project grants in 
excess of $100,000 that are provided to grant schools under 
Public Law 100–297, as amended, the Secretary of the Inte-
rior 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 nego-
tiate and determine a schedule of payments for the work 
to be performed: Provided further, That in considering 
grant applications, the Secretary shall consider whether 
such grantee would be deficient in assuring that the con-
struction projects conform to applicable building standards 
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 capabilities: 
Provided further, That if the Secretary declines a grant ap-
plication, the Secretary shall follow the requirements con-
tained in 25 U.S.C. 2504(f): Provided further, That any 
disputes between the Secretary and any grantee concerning 
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 construction projects, the Secretary 
may assume control of a project and all funds related to 
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the project, if, within eighteen months of the date of enact-
ment of this Act, any grantee receiving funds appropriated 
in this Act or in any prior Act, has not completed the plan-
ning and design phase of the project and commenced con-
struction: Provided further, That this appropriation may 
be reimbursed from the Office of the Special Trustee for 
American Indians appropriation for the appropriate share 
of construction costs for space expansion needed in agency 
offices to meet trust reform implementation. 
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
For payments and necessary administrative expenses 
for implementation of Indian land and water claim settle-
ments pursuant to Public Laws 99–264, 100–580, 101–618, 
108–447, 109–379, 109–479, 110–297, and 111–11, and for 
implementation of other land and water rights settlements, 
$47,380,000, to remain available until expended. 
INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION, BIA 
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 Consolida-
tion Act of 1983, as amended, by direct expenditure or coop-
erative agreement, $3,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
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INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, 
$8,215,000, of which $1,629,000 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: Provided further, 
That these funds are available to subsidize total loan prin-
cipal, any part of which is to be guaranteed or insured, 
not to exceed $93,807,956. 
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 manage-
ment, operation, and maintenance of the Power Division 
of the San Carlos Irrigation Project. 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (ex-
cept the Revolving Fund for Loans Liquidating Account, 
Indian Loan Guaranty and Insurance Fund Liquidating 
Account, Indian Guaranteed Loan Financing Account, In-
dian Direct Loan Financing Account, and the Indian 
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Guaranteed Loan Program account) shall be available for 
expenses of exhibits. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office 
oversight and Executive Direction and Administrative 
Services (except executive direction and administrative 
services funding for Tribal Priority Allocations, regional of-
fices, and facilities operations and maintenance) shall be 
available for 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, this 
action shall not diminish the Federal Government’s trust 
responsibility to that tribe, or the government-to-govern-
ment relationship between the United States and that tribe, 
or that tribe’s ability 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 
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 
section 113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106– 
113, if in fiscal year 2003 or 2004 a grantee received indi-
rect and administrative costs pursuant to a distribution 
formula based on section 5(f) of Public Law 101–301, the 
Secretary shall continue to distribute indirect and adminis-
trative cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) dis-
tribution formula. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for management of the Depart-
ment of the Interior, $118,836,000; of which not to exceed 
$25,000 may be for official reception and representation ex-
penses; and of which up to $1,000,000 shall be available 
for workers compensation payments and unemployment 
compensation payments associated with the orderly closure 
of the United States Bureau of Mines: Provided, That, for 
fiscal year 2010 up to $400,000 of the payments authorized 
by the Act of October 20, 1976, as amended (31 U.S.C. 
6901–6907) may be retained for administrative expenses of 
the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Program: Provided further, 
That no payment shall be made pursuant to that Act to 
otherwise eligible units of local government if the computed 
amount of the payment is less than $100: Provided further, 
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That for fiscal years 2008 through 2012 the Secretary may 
reduce the payment authorized by 31 U.S.C. 6901–6907, 
as amended, for an individual county by the amount nec-
essary to correct prior year overpayments to that county: 
Provided further, That for fiscal years 2008 through 2012 
the amount needed to correct a prior year underpayment 
to an individual county shall be paid from any reductions 
for overpayments to other counties and the amount nec-
essary to cover any remaining underpayment is hereby ap-
propriated and shall be paid to individual counties using 
current fiscal year funds. 
INSULAR AFFAIRS 
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, 
$81,095,000, of which: (1) $71,815,000 shall remain avail-
able until expended for technical assistance, including 
maintenance assistance, disaster assistance, insular man-
agement 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 reve-
nues, for construction and support of governmental func-
tions; grants to the Government of the Virgin Islands as 
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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 (Public 
Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $9,280,000 shall be 
available until September 30, 2011 for salaries and ex-
penses of the Office of Insular Affairs: Provided, That all 
financial transactions of the territorial and local govern-
ments herein provided for, including such transactions of 
all agencies or instrumentalities established or used by such 
governments, may be audited by the Government Account-
ability Office, at its discretion, in accordance with chapter 
35 of title 31, United States Code: Provided further, That 
Northern Mariana Islands Covenant grant funding shall be 
provided according to those terms of the Agreement of the 
Special Representatives on Future United States Financial 
Assistance for the Northern Mariana Islands approved by 
Public Law 104–134: Provided further, That the funds for 
the program of operations and maintenance improvement 
are appropriated to institutionalize 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 time-
ly maintenance of its capital assets: Provided further, That 
any appropriation for disaster assistance under this head-
ing in this Act or previous appropriations Acts may be used 
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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 Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c): Provided further, That at the 
request of the Governor of Guam, the Secretary may trans-
fer any mandatory or discretionary funds appropriated, in-
cluding those provided under Public Law 104–134, to the 
Secretary of Agriculture for the subsidy cost of direct or 
guaranteed loans, plus not to exceed 3 percent of the amount 
of the subsidy transferred for the cost of loan administra-
tion, for the purposes authorized by the Rural Electrifica-
tion Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act for construction and re-
pair projects in Guam, and such funds shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided further, That such costs, in-
cluding the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined 
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Pro-
vided further, That such loans or loan guarantees may be 
made without regard to the population of the area, credit 
elsewhere requirements, and restrictions on the types of eli-
gible entities under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 
and section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
Development Act: Provided further, That any funds trans-
ferred to the Secretary of Agriculture shall be in addition 
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to funds otherwise made available to make or guarantee 
loans under such authorities. 
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 
For grants and necessary expenses, $5,318,000, to re-
main available until expended, as provided for in sections 
221(a)(2), 221(b), and 233 of the Compact of Free Associa-
tion for the Republic of Palau; and section 221(a)(2) of the 
Compacts of Free Association for the Government of the Re-
public of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of 
Micronesia, as authorized by Public Law 99–658 and Pub-
lic Law 108–188: Provided further, That at the request of 
the Governor of Guam, the Secretary may transfer any 
mandatory or discretionary funds appropriated, including 
those provided under section 104(e) of Public Law 108–188, 
to the Secretary of Agriculture for the subsidy cost of direct 
or guaranteed loans, plus not to exceed 3 percent of the 
amount of the subsidy transferred for the cost of loan ad-
ministration, for the purposes authorized by the Rural Elec-
trification Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) of the Consoli-
dated Farm and Rural Development Act for construction 
and repair projects in Guam, and such funds shall remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That such costs, 
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974: Provided further, That such loans or loan guarantees 
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may be made without regard to the population of the area, 
credit elsewhere requirements, and restrictions on the types 
of eligible entities under the Rural Electrification Act of 
1936 and section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and 
Rural Development Act: Provided further, That any funds 
transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture shall be in addi-
tion to funds otherwise made available to make or guar-
antee loans under such authorities. 
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 
$65,076,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral, $48,590,000. 
OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN 
INDIANS 
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by di-
rect expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, com-
pacts, and grants, $185,984,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which not to exceed $56,536,000 from this or 
any other Act, shall be available for historical accounting, 
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and of which $1,500,000 shall be available for the estate 
planning assistance program under section 207(f) of the In-
dian Land Consolidation Act (25 U.S.C. 2206(f)): Pro-
vided, That funds for trust management improvements and 
litigation support may, as needed, be transferred to or 
merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, ‘‘Operation of 
Indian Programs’’ account; the Office of the Solicitor, ‘‘Sal-
aries and Expenses’’ account; and the Office of the Sec-
retary, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account: Provided further, 
That funds made available through contracts or grants obli-
gated during fiscal year 2010, as authorized by the Indian 
Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), 
shall remain available until expended by the contractor or 
grantee: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the statute of limitations shall not com-
mence to run on any claim, including any claim in litiga-
tion pending on the date of the enactment of this Act, con-
cerning 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 bene-
ficiary can determine whether there has been a loss: Pro-
vided 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 ac-
count that has not had activity for at least 18 months and 
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has a balance of $15.00 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 withdrawn upon the 
express written request of the account holder: Provided fur-
ther, That not to exceed $50,000 is available for the Sec-
retary to make payments to correct administrative errors 
of either disbursements from or deposits to Individual In-
dian Money or Tribal accounts after September 30, 2002: 
Provided further, That erroneous payments that are recov-
ered shall be credited to and remain available in this ac-
count for this purpose. 
DEPARTMENT-WIDE PROGRAMS 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, suppres-
sion operations, fire science and research, emergency reha-
bilitation, hazardous fuels reduction, and rural fire assist-
ance by the Department of the Interior, $904,637,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 
$6,137,000 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 pur-
poses: Provided further, That persons hired pursuant to 43 
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U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence and lodging with-
out cost from funds available from this appropriation: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 1856d, sums 
received by a bureau or office of the Department of the Inte-
rior for fire protection rendered pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1856 
et seq., protection of United States property, may be cred-
ited 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 procurement contracts, grants, or 
cooperative agreements, for hazardous fuels reduction ac-
tivities, 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 cooperative agreement between the 
Federal Government and any non-Federal entity may be 
shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected parties: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding requirements of the 
Competition in Contracting Act, the Secretary, for purposes 
of hazardous fuels reduction activities, may obtain max-
imum practicable competition among: (1) local private, 
nonprofit, or cooperative entities; (2) Youth Conservation 
Corps crews, Public Lands Corps (Public Law 109–154), 
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or related partnerships 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 percent-
age, defined as 50 percent or more, of the project workforce 
to complete such contracts: Provided further, That in imple-
menting this section, the Secretary shall develop written 
guidance to field units to ensure accountability and con-
sistent application of the authorities provided herein: Pro-
vided further, That funds appropriated under this head 
may be used to reimburse the United States Fish and Wild-
life Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service for 
the costs of carrying out their responsibilities under the En-
dangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to 
consult and conference, as required by section 7 of such Act, 
in connection with wildland fire management activities: 
Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior may 
use wildland fire appropriations to enter into non-competi-
tive sole source leases of real property with local govern-
ments, at or below fair market value, to construct capital-
ized improvements for fire facilities on such leased prop-
erties, including but not limited to fire guard stations, re-
tardant 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: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary of the Interior and the 
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Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public Law 111–8; 123 Stat. 
524), the amount of $185,000 made available to the city 
of Manhattan for the sewer mainline extension project (as 
described in the table entitled ‘‘Congressionally Designated 
Spending’’ contained in section 430 of that joint explana-
tory statement) may, at the discretion of the Administrator, 
be made available to the city of Manhattan for a water 
mainline extension project: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing the joint explanatory statement of the Committee 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives accom-
panying the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public 
Law 111–8; 123 Stat. 524), the amount of $290,000 made 
available to the Riley County Board of Commissioners for 
the Konza Sewer Main Extension project (as described in 
the table entitled ‘‘Congressionally Designated Spending’’ 
contained in section 430 of that joint explanatory state-
ment) may, at the discretion of the Administrator, be made 
available to the city of Manhattan for the Konza Water 
Main Extension project: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing the joint explanatory statement of the Committee 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives accom-
panying Public Law 111–8 (123 Stat. 524), the amount 
of $1,300,000 made available to the City of Warrensburg, 
Missouri for a drinking water and wastewater infrastruc-
ture project (as described in the table entitled ‘‘Congression-
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