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appropriated funds in the ‘‘Departmental Management’’, 
‘‘Office of the Solicitor’’, and ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ 
may be augmented through the Working Capital Fund: Pro-
vided further, That the annual budget justification for De-
partmental 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 Working Capital Fund estimates 
contained in the Departmental Management budget jus-
tification shall be presented to the Committees on Appro-
priations for approval: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall provide a semi-annual report to the Committees on 
Appropriations on reimbursable support agreements be-
tween the Office of the Secretary and the National Business 
Center and the bureaus and offices of the Department, in-
cluding 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 emergency 
reconstruction, replacement, or repair of aircraft, buildings, 
utilities, or other facilities or equipment damaged or de-
stroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoidable causes: 
Provided, That no funds shall be made available under this 
authority until funds specifically made available to the De-
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partment of the Interior for emergencies shall have been ex-
hausted: Provided further, That all funds used pursuant to 
this section must be replenished by a supplemental appro-
priation 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 programs 
of the several agencies, for the suppression or emergency 
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 ju-
risdiction; for emergency actions related to potential or ac-
tual earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or other un-
avoidable causes; for contingency planning subsequent to 
actual oil spills; for response and natural resource damage 
assessment activities related to actual oil spills; for the pre-
vention, 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 Mining Reclamation 
and Enforcement, such funds as may be necessary to permit 
assumption of regulatory authority in the event a primacy
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State is not carrying out the regulatory 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 pre-
ceding fiscal year, and for reimbursement to other Federal 
agencies for destruction of vehicles, aircraft, or other equip-
ment in connection with their use for wildland fire oper-
ations, 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 oper-
ations’’ shall be exhausted within 30 days: Provided further, 
That all funds used pursuant to this section must be replen-
ished by a supplemental appropriation which must be re-
quested as promptly as possible: Provided further, That such 
replenishment funds shall be used to reimburse, on a pro 
rata basis, accounts from which emergency funds were 
transferred. 
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 Sec-
retary, in total amount not to exceed $500,000; hire, main-
tenance, and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; purchase of reprints; payment for telephone service
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in private residences in the field, when authorized under 
regulations approved by the Secretary; and the payment of 
dues, when authorized by the Secretary, for library member-
ship in societies or associations which issue publications to 
members only or at a price to members lower than to sub-
scribers 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 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 offshore 
oil and natural gas preleasing, leasing and related activi-
ties 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 Pro-
gram, 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.
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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 transfer for 
Indian trust management and reform activities, excluding 
litigation costs. Total funding for historical accounting ac-
tivities 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 redistribute 
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 meth-
odologies. No tribe shall receive a reduction in Tribal Pri-
ority Allocation funds of more than 10 percent in fiscal 
year 2007. Under circumstances of dual enrollment, over-
lapping service areas or inaccurate distribution methodolo-
gies, the 10 percent limitation does not apply. 
SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
in conveying the Twin Cities Research Center under the au-
thority provided by Public Law 104–134, as amended by 
Public Law 104–208, the Secretary may accept and retain 
land and other forms of reimbursement: Provided, That the
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Secretary may retain and use any such reimbursement 
until expended and without further appropriation: (1) for 
the benefit of the National Wildlife Refuge System within 
the State of Minnesota; and (2) for all activities 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 provi-
sions 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 procedures prescribed 
by the Secretary. 
SEC. 111. Funds provided in this Act for Federal land 
acquisition by the National Park Service for Shenandoah 
Valley Battlefields National Historic District and Ice Age 
National Scenic Trail, and funds provided in division E 
of Public Law 108–447 (118 Stat. 3050) for land acquisi-
tion 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 with-
out 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.
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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 Jersey 
City, New Jersey, and Ellis Island; or (2) to prevent pedes-
trian use of such bridge, when such pedestrian use is con-
sistent 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 Spe-
cial Master-Monitor, and all variations thereto, appointed 
by the United States District Court for the District of Co-
lumbia 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-Baltimore locality 
pay area. 
SEC. 115. The Secretary of the Interior may use discre-
tionary funds to pay private attorney fees and costs for em-
ployees and former employees of the Department of the Inte-
rior reasonably incurred in connection with Cobell v. Nor-
ton 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
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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. 116. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service 
shall, in carrying out its responsibilities to protect threat-
ened 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 fi-
nanced 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 com-
mercial and recreational fishers. 
SEC. 117. (a) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in section 134 
of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 2002 (115 Stat. 443) affects the decision 
of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit 
in Sac and Fox Nation v. Norton, 240 F.3d 1250 (2001). 
(b) USE OF CERTAIN INDIAN LAND.—Nothing in this 
section permits the conduct of gaming under the Indian 
Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) on land 
described in section 123 of the Department of the Interior 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (114 Stat. 
944), or land that is contiguous to that land, regardless of 
whether the land or contiguous land has been taken into 
trust by the Secretary of the Interior.
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SEC. 118. No funds appropriated for the Department 
of the Interior by this Act or any other Act shall be used 
to study or implement any plan to drain Lake Powell or 
to reduce the water level of the lake below the range of water 
levels required for the operation of the Glen Canyon Dam. 
SEC. 119. Section 121 of the Department of the Inte-
rior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2006 (Public Law 109–54) is hereby repealed. 
SEC. 120. Notwithstanding any implementation of the 
Department of the Interior’s trust reorganization or re-
engineering plans, or the implementation of the ‘‘To Be’’ 
Model, funds appropriated for fiscal year 2007 shall be 
available to the tribes within the California Tribal Trust 
Reform Consortium and to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa 
Indian Community, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai 
Tribes of the Flathead Reservation and the Chippewa Cree 
Tribe of the Rocky Boys Reservation through the same 
methodology as funds were distributed in fiscal year 2003. 
This Demonstration Project shall continue to operate sepa-
rate and apart from the Department of the Interior’s trust 
reform and reorganization and the Department shall not 
impose its trust management infrastructure upon or alter 
the existing trust resource management systems of the above 
referenced tribes having a self-governance compact and op-
erating in accordance with the Tribal Self-Governance Pro-
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gram set forth in 25 U.S.C. 458aa–458hh: Provided, That 
the California Trust Reform Consortium and any other 
participating tribe agree to carry out their responsibilities 
under the same written and implemented fiduciary stand-
ards as those being carried by the Secretary of the Interior: 
Provided further, That they demonstrate to the satisfaction 
of the Secretary that they have the capability to do so: Pro-
vided further, That the Department shall provide funds to 
the tribes in an amount equal to that required by 25 U.S.C. 
458cc(g)(3), including funds specifically or functionally re-
lated to the provision of trust services to the tribes or their 
members. 
SEC. 121. Notwithstanding any provision of law, in-
cluding 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., nonrenewable grazing per-
mits authorized in the Jarbidge Field Office, Bureau of 
Land Management within the past 10 years, shall be re-
newed. The Animal Unit Months contained in the most re-
cently expired nonrenewable grazing permit, authorized be-
tween March 1, 1997, and February 28, 2003, shall con-
tinue in effect under the renewed permit. Nothing in this 
section shall be deemed to extend the nonrenewable permits 
beyond the standard 1-year term. 
SEC. 122. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire lands, 
waters, or interests therein including the use of all or part
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of any pier, dock, or landing within the State of New York 
and the State of New Jersey, for the purpose of operating 
and maintaining facilities in the support of transportation 
and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, Governors, and Lib-
erty Islands, and of other program and administrative ac-
tivities, by donation or with appropriated funds, including 
franchise fees (and other monetary consideration), or by ex-
change; and the Secretary is authorized to negotiate and 
enter into leases, subleases, concession contracts or other 
agreements for the use of such facilities on such terms and 
conditions as the Secretary may determine reasonable. 
SEC. 123. Upon the request of the permittee for the 
Clark Mountain Allotment lands adjacent to the Mojave Na-
tional Preserve, the Secretary shall also issue a special use 
permit for that portion of the grazing allotment located 
within the Preserve. The special use permit shall be issued 
with the same terms and conditions as the most recently- 
issued permit for that allotment and the Secretary shall 
consider the permit to be one transferred in accordance with 
section 325 of Public Law 108–108. 
SEC. 124. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law and subject to subsections (b) and (c), the final rule 
that amends part 7 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, 
entitled ‘‘Special Regulations; Areas of the National Park 
System’’ (69 Fed. Reg. 65348 (November 10, 2004)) (as in