may enter into contracts or cooperative agreements di-
rectly 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, $157,496,000 (increased by 
$1,000,000) 
(reduced 
by 
$1,000,000), 
of 
which 
$79,158,000 shall be available for royalty management ac-
tivities; and an amount not to exceed $128,730,000, 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 $128,730,000 in additions to receipts are not real-
ized from the sources of receipts stated above, the amount 
needed to reach $128,730,000 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, 
2008: 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 for the costs of administra-
tion of the Coastal Impact Assistance Program authorized
by section 31 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 
as amended (43 U.S.C. 1456a), MMS in fiscal years 2007 
through 2010 may retain three percent of the amounts 
which are disbursed under section 31 (b)(1), such retained 
amounts to remain available until expended.
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, 
$6,903,000, 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; $112,109,000: Provided, That the Sec-
retary of the Interior, pursuant to regulations, may use 
directly or through grants to States, moneys collected in 
fiscal year 2007 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, $185,936,000, 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 2007: 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 
such Act as of September 30, 2006, but not appropriated 
as of that date, are reallocated to the allocation estab-
lished in section 402(g)(3) of the Act: Provided further, 
That amounts provided under this heading may be used 
for the travel and per diem expenses of State and tribal 
personnel attending Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 
and Enforcement sponsored training.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
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, $1,973,403,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2008 except as otherwise provided herein, 
of which not to exceed $74,179,000 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 
$151,628,000 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 2007, as authorized by such Act, except 
that tribes and tribal organizations may use their tribal 
priority allocations for unmet contract support costs of on-
going contracts, grants, or compacts, or annual funding 
agreements and for unmet welfare assistance costs; and 
of which not to exceed $457,352,000 for school operations 
costs of Bureau-funded schools and other education pro-
grams shall become available on July 1, 2007, and shall 
remain available until September 30, 2008; and of which 
not to exceed $66,277,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended for housing improvement, road maintenance, at-
torney fees, litigation support, the Indian Self-Determina-
tion Fund, land records improvement, and the Navajo-
Hopi Settlement Program: Provided, That in cases of des-
ignated Federal disasters, the Secretary may exceed the 
welfare assistance payments cap, from the amounts pro-
vided herein, to provide for disaster relief to Indian com-
munities affected by the disaster: Provided further, 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 
$44,060,000 within and only from such amounts made 
available for school operations shall be available to tribes 
and tribal organizations for administrative cost grants as-
sociated with ongoing grants entered into with the Bureau 
prior to or during fiscal year 2006 for the operation of 
Bureau-funded schools, and up to $500,000 within and 
only from such amounts made available for school oper-
ations shall be available for the transitional costs of initial 
administrative cost grants to tribes and tribal organiza-
tions that enter into grants for the operation on or after 
July 1, 2006, of Bureau-operated schools: Provided fur-
ther, That any forestry funds allocated to a tribe which 
remain unobligated as of September 30, 2008, may be 
transferred during fiscal year 2009 to an Indian forest 
land assistance account established for the benefit of such 
tribe within the tribe’s trust fund account: Provided fur-
ther, That any such unobligated balances not so trans-
ferred shall expire on September 30, 2009.
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, $215,799,000, 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 2007, 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 such grantee would 
be deficient in assuring that the construction projects con-
form to applicable building standards and codes and Fed-
eral, tribal, or State health and safety standards as re-
quired by 25 U.S.C. 2005(b), with respect to organiza-
tional and financial management capabilities: 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 be-
tween 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 replacement school construction 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 de-
sign phase of the project and commenced construction of
the replacement school: Provided further, That this Appro-
priation may be reimbursed from the Office of the Special 
Trustee for American Indians Appropriation for the ap-
propriate share of construction costs for space expansion 
needed in agency offices to meet trust reform implementa-
tion.
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For miscellaneous payments to Indian tribes and in-
dividuals and for necessary administrative expenses, 
$39,213,000, 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, 
107–331, and 108–477, and for implementation of other 
land and water rights settlements, of which $316,000 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 acquisi-
tion of perpetual conservation easements from the Nation 
and of which $5,067,000 shall be for the Idaho Salmon 
and Clearwater River Basins Habitat Account pursuant 
to the Snake River Water Rights Act of 2004 and of which 
$200,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Bureau of Land 
Management, Management of Lands and Resources’’ ac-
count for mitigation of land transfers associated with the 
Snake River Water Rights Act of 2004.
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed and insured loans, 
$6,262,000, of which $626,000 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 $87,376,744.
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 
oversight and executive direction and administrative serv-
ices (except executive direction and administrative services 
funding for Tribal Priority Allocations and regional of-
fices) shall be available for tribal contracts, grants, com-
pacts, or cooperative agreements with the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs under the provisions of the Indian Self-Deter-
mination 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 25 U.S.C. 2007(d), and imple-
menting regulations, the funds reserved from the Indian 
Student Equalization Program to meet emergencies and 
unforeseen contingencies affecting education programs ap-
propriated herein and in Public Law 109–54 may be used 
for costs associated with significant student enrollment in-
creases at Bureau-funded schools during the relevant 
school year.
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,
$77,561,000, of which: (1) $69,537,000 shall remain 
available 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 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) $8,024,000 shall 
remain available until September 30, 2008, for salaries 
and expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs: Provided, 
That all financial transactions of the territorial and local 
governments herein provided for, including such trans-
actions of all agencies or instrumentalities established or 
used by such governments, may be audited by the Govern-
ment Accountability 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 Mar-
iana Islands approved by Public Law 104–134: Provided 
further, That of the amounts provided for technical assist-
ance, sufficient funds shall be made available for a grant 
to the Pacific Basin Development Council: Provided fur-
ther, That of the amounts provided for technical assist-
ance, 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 im-
provement are appropriated to institutionalize routine op-
erations and maintenance improvement of capital infra-
structure 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 as-
sistance under this heading in this Act or previous appro-
priations 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 Federated States of Micronesia, as authorized by Pub-
lic 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, $118,303,000 (reduced by 
$3,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (reduced by 
$18,000,000) 
(reduced 
by 
$1,800,000); 
of 
which 
$7,915,000 for appraisal services and Take Pride in 
America activities is to be derived from the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund and shall remain available until 
expended; of which not to exceed $8,500 may be for offi-
cial reception and representation expenses; and of which 
up to $1,000,000 shall be available for workers compensa-
tion payments and unemployment compensation payments 
associated with the orderly closure of the United States 
Bureau of Mines: Provided, That none of the funds in this 
Act or previous appropriations Acts may be used to estab-
lish reserves in the Working Capital Fund account other 
than for accrued annual leave and depreciation of equip-
ment 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), 
$228,000,000 (increased by $16,000,000), 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.), $9,923,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 
$56,755,000.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General, $39,688,000.
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, $150,036,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which not to exceed $45,000,000 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 2007, 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 $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 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, $34,006,000, 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 RESOURCE 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.), the 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.), $6,109,000, to re-
main 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: Provided further, That 
all funds used pursuant to this section must be replenished 
by a supplemental appropriation which must be requested 
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: Provided further, That all funds 
used pursuant to this section must be replenished by a 
supplemental 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 oil preleasing, leasing and related activities 
placed under restriction in the President’s moratorium 
statement of June 12, 1998, in the areas of northern, cen-
tral, and southern California; the North Atlantic; Wash-
ington and Oregon; and the eastern Gulf of Mexico south 
of 26 degrees 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 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 Conti-
nental 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 
preleasing, leasing and related activities in the Mid-Atlan-
tic and South Atlantic planning areas. 
SEC. 107. 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. 108. 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 2007. Under circumstances of dual 
enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate dis-
tribution methodologies, the 10 percent limitation does not 
apply. 
SEC. 109. 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. 110. 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. 111. 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, and funds provided in divi-
sion E of Public Law 108–447 (118 Stat. 3050) for land 
acquisition at the Niobrara National Scenic River, may be 
used for a grant to a State, a local government, or any 
other land management 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. 112. 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. 113. 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. 114. 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-