H. R. 2361
One Hundred Ninth Congress
of the
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the fourth day of January, two thousand and five 
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 Representatives 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 Sep-
tember 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, improvement, 
development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classification, acquisi-
tion of easements and other interests in lands, and performance 
of other functions, including maintenance of facilities, as authorized 
by law, in the management 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)), $860,791,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
$1,250,000 is for high priority projects, to be carried out by the 
Youth Conservation Corps; and of which $3,000,000 shall be avail-
able 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 Administration pro-
gram operations, including the cost of administering the mining 
claim fee program; to remain available until expended, to be reduced 
by amounts collected by the Bureau and credited to this appropria-
tion from annual mining claim fees so as to result in a final 
appropriation estimated at not more than $860,791,000, and 
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended, from communication 
site rental fees established by the Bureau for the cost of admin-
istering communication site activities.
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WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, suppression oper-
ations, fire science and research, emergency rehabilitation, haz-
ardous fuels reduction, and rural fire assistance by the Department 
of the Interior, $766,564,000, 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 lodging without cost from funds 
available from this appropriation: Provided further, That notwith-
standing 42 U.S.C. 1856d, sums received by a bureau or office 
of the Department of the Interior for fire protection rendered pursu-
ant 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 procurement contracts, grants, or cooperative agree-
ments, 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 cooperative agreement between 
the Federal Government and any non-Federal entity may be shared, 
as mutually agreed on by the affected parties: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding requirements of the Competition in Con-
tracting Act, the Secretary, for purposes of hazardous fuels reduc-
tion activities, may obtain maximum practicable competition among: 
(1) local private, nonprofit, or cooperative entities; (2) Youth Con-
servation Corps crews 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 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 application 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 carrying out their responsibilities under the Endangered 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-competitive sole source leases of real property with local govern-
ments, at or below fair market value, to construct capitalized 
improvements for fire facilities on such leased properties, including 
but not limited to fire guard stations, retardant stations, and other 
initial attack and fire support facilities, and to make advance pay-
ments for any such lease or for construction activity associated 
with the lease: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior 
and the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the transfer of 
funds appropriated for wildland fire management, in an aggregate
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amount not to exceed $9,000,000, between the Departments when 
such transfers would facilitate and expedite jointly funded wildland 
fire management programs and projects: Provided further, That 
funds provided for wildfire suppression shall be available for support 
of Federal emergency response actions. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction of buildings, recreation facilities, roads, trails, 
and appurtenant facilities, $11,926,000, 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 administrative expenses 
and acquisition of lands or waters, or interests therein, $8,750,000, 
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, operation, and 
maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and other improvements 
on the revested Oregon and California Railroad grant lands, on 
other Federal lands in the Oregon and California land-grant coun-
ties of Oregon, and on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of 
lands or interests 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 second 
paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of August 28, 
1937 (50 Stat. 876). 
FOREST ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND 
(REVOLVING FUND, SPECIAL ACCOUNT) 
In addition to the purposes authorized in Public Law 102–
381, funds made available in the Forest Ecosystem Health and 
Recovery Fund can be used for the purpose of planning, preparing, 
implementing and monitoring salvage timber sales and forest eco-
system health and recovery activities, such as release from com-
peting vegetation and density control treatments. The Federal share 
of receipts (defined as the portion of salvage timber receipts not 
paid to the counties under 43 U.S.C. 1181f and 43 U.S.C. 1181f–
1 et seq., and Public Law 106–393) derived from treatments funded 
by this account shall be deposited into the Forest Ecosystem Health 
and Recovery Fund. 
RANGE IMPROVEMENTS 
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands and 
interests therein, and improvement of Federal rangelands pursuant 
to section 401 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), notwithstanding any other Act, sums
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equal to 50 percent of all moneys received during the prior fiscal 
year under sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 
315 et seq.) and the amount designated for range improvements 
from grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts from Bankhead-
Jones lands transferred to the Department of the Interior pursuant 
to law, but not less than $10,000,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall be available 
for administrative expenses. 
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES 
For administrative expenses and other costs related to proc-
essing application documents and other authorizations for use and 
disposal of public lands and resources, for costs of providing copies 
of official public land documents, for monitoring construction, oper-
ation, and termination of facilities in conjunction with use 
authorizations, and for rehabilitation of damaged property, such 
amounts as may be collected under Public Law 94–579, as amended, 
and Public Law 93–153, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of section 
305(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1735(a)), any moneys that 
have been or will be received pursuant to that section, whether 
as a result of forfeiture, compromise, or settlement, if not appro-
priate for refund pursuant to section 305(c) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 
1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended under the 
authority of this Act by the Secretary to improve, protect, or 
rehabilitate any public lands administered through the Bureau 
of Land Management which have been damaged by the action 
of a resource developer, purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized 
person, without regard to whether all moneys collected from each 
such action are used on the exact lands damaged which led to 
the action: Provided further, That any such moneys that are in 
excess of amounts needed to repair damage to the exact land 
for which funds were collected may be used to repair other damaged 
public lands. 
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS 
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended under 
existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such amounts as may 
be contributed under section 307 of the Act of October 21, 1976 
(43 U.S.C. 1701), and such amounts as may be advanced for 
administrative costs, surveys, appraisals, and costs of making 
conveyances of omitted lands under section 211(b) of that Act, 
to remain available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Land Management shall be 
available for purchase, erection, and dismantlement of temporary 
structures, and alteration and maintenance of necessary buildings 
and appurtenant facilities to which the United States has title; 
up to $100,000 for payments, at the discretion of the Secretary, 
for information or evidence concerning violations of laws adminis-
tered by the Bureau; miscellaneous and emergency expenses of 
enforcement activities authorized or approved by the Secretary and 
to be accounted for solely on her certificate, not to exceed $10,000: 
Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Bureau may,