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tion may expend Federal appropriations designated in this 
Act for lease or rent payments for long term and swing 
space, as rent payable to the Smithsonian Institution, and 
such rent payments may be deposited into the general 
trust funds of the Institution to the extent that federally 
supported activities are housed in the 900 H Street, N.W. 
building in the District of Columbia: Provided further, 
That this use of Federal appropriations shall not be con-
strued as debt service, a Federal guarantee of, a transfer 
of risk to, or an obligation of, the Federal Government: 
Provided further, That no appropriated funds may be used 
to service debt which is incurred to finance the costs of 
acquiring the 900 H Street building or of planning, de-
signing, and constructing improvements to such building. 
FACILITIES CAPITAL 
For necessary expenses of repair, revitalization, and 
alteration of facilities owned or occupied by the Smithso-
nian Institution, by contract or otherwise, as authorized 
by section 2 of the Act of August 22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623), 
and
for
construction,
including
necessary
personnel, 
$90,900,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
not to exceed $10,000 is for services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109: Provided, That contracts awarded for envi-
ronmental systems, protection systems, and repair or res-
toration of facilities of the Smithsonian Institution may
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be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded on 
the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, SMITHSONIAN 
INSTITUTION 
None of the funds in this or any other Act may be 
used to make any changes to the existing Smithsonian 
science programs including closure of facilities, relocation 
of staff or redirection of functions and programs without 
the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations. 
None of the funds in this or any other Act may be 
used to initiate the design for any proposed expansion of 
current space or new facility without consultation with the 
House and Senate Appropriations Committees. 
None of the funds in this or any other Act may be 
used for the Holt House located at the National Zoological 
Park in Washington, D.C., unless identified as repairs to 
minimize water damage, monitor structure movement, or 
provide interim structural support. 
None of the funds available to the Smithsonian may 
be reprogrammed without the advance written approval of 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in 
accordance with the reprogramming procedures contained 
in the statement of the managers accompanying this Act.
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None of the funds in this or any other Act may be 
used to purchase any additional buildings without prior 
consultation with the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations. 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For the upkeep and operations of the National Gal-
lery of Art, the protection and care of the works of art 
therein, and administrative expenses incident thereto, as 
authorized by the Act of March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), 
as amended by the public resolution of April 13, 1939 
(Public Resolution 9, Seventy-sixth Congress), including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in ad-
vance when authorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for 
membership in library, museum, and art associations or 
societies whose publications or services are available to 
members only, or to members at a price lower than to the 
general public; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms 
for guards, and uniforms, or allowances therefor, for other 
employees as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); 
purchase or rental of devices and services for protecting 
buildings and contents thereof, and maintenance, alter-
ation, improvement, and repair of buildings, approaches, 
and grounds; and purchase of services for restoration and 
repair of works of art for the National Gallery of Art by
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contracts made, without advertising, with individuals, 
firms, or organizations at such rates or prices and under 
such terms and conditions as the Gallery may deem prop-
er, $97,100,000, of which not to exceed $3,157,000 for 
the special exhibition program shall remain available until 
expended. 
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS 
For necessary expenses of repair, restoration and 
renovation of buildings, grounds and facilities owned or 
occupied by the National Gallery of Art, by contract or 
otherwise, as authorized, $16,200,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That contracts awarded for envi-
ronmental systems, protection systems, and exterior repair 
or renovation of buildings of the National Gallery of Art 
may be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded 
on the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price: 
Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, a single procurement for the Master Facilities 
Plan renovation project at the National Gallery of Art may 
be issued which includes the full scope of the Work Area 
#3 project: Provided further, That the solicitation and the 
contract shall contain the clause ‘‘availability of funds’’ 
found at 48 CFR 52.232.18.
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JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING 
ARTS 
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 
For necessary expenses for the operation, mainte-
nance and security of the John F. Kennedy Center for 
the Performing Arts, $17,800,000. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For necessary expenses for capital repair and restora-
tion of the existing features of the building and site of 
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 
$10,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR 
SCHOLARS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions 
of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 
1356) including hire of passenger vehicles and services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $9,085,000. 
NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE 
HUMANITIES 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National 
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 
as amended, $121,264,000 (increased by $10,000,000) 
shall be available to the National Endowment for the Arts
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for the support of projects and productions in the arts 
through assistance to organizations and individuals pursu-
ant to sections 5(c) and 5(g) of the Act, including 
$14,922,000 (increased by $10,000,000) for support of 
arts education and public outreach activities through the 
Challenge America program, for program support, and for 
administering the functions of the Act, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That funds previously appro-
priated to the National Endowment for the Arts ‘‘Match-
ing Grants’’ account and ‘‘Challenge America’’ account 
may be transferred to and merged with this account. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National 
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 
as amended, $122,605,000 (increased by $5,000,000), 
shall be available to the National Endowment for the Hu-
manities for support of activities in the humanities, pursu-
ant to section 7(c) of the Act, and for administering the 
functions of the Act, to remain available until expended. 
MATCHING GRANTS 
To carry out the provisions of section 10(a)(2) of the 
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act 
of 1965, as amended, $15,449,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which $10,000,000 shall be available 
to the National Endowment for the Humanities for the
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purposes of section 7(h): Provided, That this appropria-
tion shall be available for obligation only in such amounts 
as may be equal to the total amounts of gifts, bequests, 
and devises of money, and other property accepted by the 
chairman or by grantees of the Endowment under the pro-
visions of subsections 11(a)(2)(B) and 11(a)(3)(B) during 
the current and preceding fiscal years for which equal 
amounts have not previously been appropriated. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
None of the funds appropriated to the National 
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities may be used 
to process any grant or contract documents which do not 
include the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided, That none 
of the funds appropriated to the National Foundation on 
the Arts and the Humanities may be used for official re-
ception and representation expenses: Provided further, 
That funds from nonappropriated sources may be used as 
necessary for official reception and representation ex-
penses: Provided further, That the Chairperson of the Na-
tional Endowment for the Arts may approve grants up to 
$10,000, if in the aggregate this amount does not exceed 
5 percent of the sums appropriated for grant-making pur-
poses per year: Provided further, That such small grant 
actions are taken pursuant to the terms of an expressed
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and direct delegation of authority from the National Coun-
cil on the Arts to the Chairperson. 
COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing 
a Commission of Fine Arts (40 U.S.C. 104), $1,893,000: 
Provided, That the Commission is authorized to charge 
fees to cover the full costs of its publications, and such 
fees shall be credited to this account as an offsetting col-
lection, to remain available until expended without further 
appropriation. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 
99–190 (20 U.S.C. 956(a)), as amended, $7,000,000: Pro-
vided, That no one organization shall receive a grant in 
excess of $400,000 in a single year. 
ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on 
Historic Preservation (Public Law 89–665, as amended), 
$4,860,000: Provided, That none of these funds shall be 
available for compensation of level V of the Executive 
Schedule or higher positions.
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NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as authorized by the Na-
tional Capital Planning Act of 1952 (40 U.S.C. 71–71i), 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$8,177,000: Provided, That one-quarter of 1 percent of 
the funds provided under this heading may be used for 
official reception and representational expenses to host 
international visitors engaged in the planning and physical 
development of world capitals. 
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 
For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, as 
authorized by Public Law 106–292 (36 U.S.C. 2301–
2310), $41,880,000, of which $1,874,000 for the muse-
um’s repair and rehabilitation program and $1,246,000 
for the museum’s exhibitions program shall remain avail-
able until expended. 
PRESIDIO TRUST
PRESIDIO TRUST FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out title I of the Om-
nibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996, 
$20,000,000 shall be available to the Presidio Trust, to 
remain available until expended.
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WHITE HOUSE COMMISSION ON THE NATIONAL 
MOMENT OF REMEMBRANCE 
For necessary expenses of the White House Commis-
sion on the National Moment of Remembrance, $250,000. 
TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. The expenditure of any appropriation 
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited 
to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter 
of public record and available for public inspection, except 
where otherwise provided under existing law, or under ex-
isting Executive Order issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 402. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available for any activity or the publica-
tion or distribution of literature that in any way tends to 
promote public support or opposition to any legislative 
proposal on which Congressional action is not complete. 
SEC. 403. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 404. None of the funds provided in this Act to 
any department or agency shall be obligated or expended 
to provide a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal 
servants to any officer or employee of such department 
or agency except as otherwise provided by law.
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SEC. 405. No assessments may be levied against any 
program, budget activity, subactivity, or project funded by 
this Act unless notice of such assessments and the basis 
therefor are presented to the Committees on Appropria-
tions and are approved by such committees. 
SEC. 406. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to plan, prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classi-
fied as giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which 
are located on National Forest System or Bureau of Land 
Management lands in a manner different than such sales 
were conducted in fiscal year 2004. 
SEC. 407. (a) LIMITATION OF FUNDS.—None of the 
funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant 
to this Act shall be obligated or expended to accept or 
process applications for a patent for any mining or mill 
site claim located under the general mining laws. 
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—The provisions of subsection (a) 
shall not apply if the Secretary of the Interior determines 
that, for the claim concerned: (1) a patent application was 
filed with the Secretary on or before September 30, 1994; 
and (2) all requirements established under sections 2325 
and 2326 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) 
for vein or lode claims and sections 2329, 2330, 2331, 
and 2333 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, and 
37) for placer claims, and section 2337 of the Revised
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Statutes (30 U.S.C. 42) for mill site claims, as the case 
may be, were fully complied with by the applicant by that 
date. 
(c) REPORT.—On September 30, 2006, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall file with the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations and the Committee on Re-
sources of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 
a report on actions taken by the Department under the 
plan submitted pursuant to section 314(c) of the Depart-
ment of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1997 (Public Law 104–208). 
(d) MINERAL EXAMINATIONS.—In order to process 
patent applications in a timely and responsible manner, 
upon the request of a patent applicant, the Secretary of 
the Interior shall allow the applicant to fund a qualified 
third-party contractor to be selected by the Bureau of 
Land Management to conduct a mineral examination of 
the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent appli-
cation as set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau of Land 
Management shall have the sole responsibility to choose 
and pay the third-party contractor in accordance with the 
standard procedures employed by the Bureau of Land 
Management in the retention of third-party contractors.
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SEC. 408. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, amounts appropriated to or earmarked in committee 
reports for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian 
Health Service by Public Laws 103–138, 103–332, 104–
134, 104–208, 105–83, 105–277, 106–113, 106–291, 
107–63, 108–7, 108–108, and 108–447 for payments to 
tribes and tribal organizations for contract support costs 
associated with self-determination or self-governance con-
tracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding agreements 
with the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health 
Service as funded by such Acts, are the total amounts 
available for fiscal years 1994 through 2005 for such pur-
poses, except that, for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tribes 
and tribal organizations may use their tribal priority allo-
cations for unmet contract support costs of ongoing con-
tracts, grants, self-governance compacts or annual funding 
agreements. 
SEC. 409. Of the funds provided to the National En-
dowment for the Arts: 
(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant 
to an individual if such grant is awarded to such in-
dividual for a literature fellowship, National Herit-
age Fellowship, or American Jazz Masters Fellow-
ship.
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(2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures 
to ensure that no funding provided through a grant, 
except a grant made to a State or local arts agency, 
or regional group, may be used to make a grant to 
any other organization or individual to conduct ac-
tivity independent of the direct grant recipient. 
Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit payments 
made in exchange for goods and services. 
(3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support 
to a group, unless the application is specific to the 
contents of the season, including identified programs 
and/or projects. 
SEC. 410. The National Endowment for the Arts and 
the National Endowment for the Humanities are author-
ized to solicit, accept, receive, and invest in the name of 
the United States, gifts, bequests, or devises of money and 
other property or services and to use such in furtherance 
of the functions of the National Endowment for the Arts 
and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any 
proceeds from such gifts, bequests, or devises, after ac-
ceptance by the National Endowment for the Arts or the 
National Endowment for the Humanities, shall be paid by 
the donor or the representative of the donor to the Chair-
man. The Chairman shall enter the proceeds in a special
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interest-bearing account to the credit of the appropriate 
endowment for the purposes specified in each case. 
SEC. 411. (a) In providing services or awarding fi-
nancial assistance under the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 from funds appro-
priated under this Act, the Chairperson of the National 
Endowment for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given 
to providing services or awarding financial assistance for 
projects, productions, workshops, or programs that serve 
underserved populations. 
(b) In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘underserved population’’ means 
a population of individuals, including urban minori-
ties, who have historically been outside the purview 
of arts and humanities programs due to factors such 
as a high incidence of income below the poverty line 
or to geographic isolation. 
(2) The term ‘‘poverty line’’ means the poverty 
line (as defined by the Office of Management and 
Budget, and revised annually in accordance with sec-
tion 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant 
Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)) applicable to a family of 
the size involved. 
(c) In providing services and awarding financial as-
sistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and
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Humanities Act of 1965 with funds appropriated by this 
Act, the Chairperson of the National Endowment for the 
Arts shall ensure that priority is given to providing serv-
ices or awarding financial assistance for projects, produc-
tions, workshops, or programs that will encourage public 
knowledge, education, understanding, and appreciation of 
the arts. 
(d) With funds appropriated by this Act to carry out 
section 5 of the National Foundation on the Arts and Hu-
manities Act of 1965—
(1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant cat-
egory for projects, productions, workshops, or pro-
grams that are of national impact or availability or 
are able to tour several States; 
(2) the Chairperson shall not make grants ex-
ceeding 15 percent, in the aggregate, of such funds 
to any single State, excluding grants made under the 
authority of paragraph (1); 
(3) the Chairperson shall report to the Con-
gress annually and by State, on grants awarded by 
the Chairperson in each grant category under sec-
tion 5 of such Act; and 
(4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of 
grants to improve and support community-based 
music performance and education.
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SEC. 412. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be expended or obligated to complete and 
issue the 5-year program under the Forest and Rangeland 
Renewable Resources Planning Act. 
SEC. 413. Amounts deposited during fiscal year 2005 
in the roads and trails fund provided for in the 14th para-
graph under the heading ‘‘FOREST SERVICE’’ of the 
Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 843; 16 U.S.C. 501), shall 
be used by the Secretary of Agriculture, without regard 
to the State in which the amounts were derived, to repair 
or reconstruct roads, bridges, and trails on National For-
est System lands or to carry out and administer projects 
to improve forest health conditions, which may include the 
repair or reconstruction of roads, bridges, and trails on 
National Forest System lands in the wildland-community 
interface where there is an abnormally high risk of fire. 
The projects shall emphasize reducing risks to human 
safety and public health and property and enhancing eco-
logical functions, long-term forest productivity, and bio-
logical integrity. The projects may be completed in a sub-
sequent fiscal year. Funds shall not be expended under 
this section to replace funds which would otherwise appro-
priately be expended from the timber salvage sale fund. 
Nothing in this section shall be construed to exempt any 
project from any environmental law.
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SEC. 414. Other than in emergency situations, none 
of the funds in this Act may be used to operate telephone 
answering machines during core business hours unless 
such answering machines include an option that enables 
callers to reach promptly an individual on-duty with the 
agency being contacted. 
SEC. 415. Prior to October 1, 2006, the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall not be considered to be in violation 
of subparagraph 6(f)(5)(A) of the Forest and Rangeland 
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 
1604(f)(5)(A)) solely because more than 15 years have 
passed without revision of the plan for a unit of the Na-
tional Forest System. Nothing in this section exempts the 
Secretary from any other requirement of the Forest and 
Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act (16 U.S.C. 
1600 et seq.) or any other law: Provided, That if the Sec-
retary is not acting expeditiously and in good faith, within 
the funding available, to revise a plan for a unit of the 
National Forest System, this section shall be void with re-
spect to such plan and a court of proper jurisdiction may 
order completion of the plan on an accelerated basis. 
SEC. 416. No funds provided in this Act may be ex-
pended to conduct preleasing, leasing and related activities 
under either the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et 
seq.) or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C.
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1331 et seq.) within the boundaries of a National Monu-
ment established pursuant to the Act of June 8, 1906 (16 
U.S.C. 431 et seq.) as such boundary existed on January 
20, 2001, except where such activities are allowed under 
the Presidential proclamation establishing such monu-
ment. 
SEC. 417. EXTENSION OF FOREST SERVICE CONVEY-
ANCES PILOT PROGRAM.—Section 329 of the Department 
of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2002 (16 U.S.C. 580d note; Public Law 107–63) is 
amended—
(1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘40’’ and in-
serting ‘‘60’’; 
(2) in subsection (c) by striking ‘‘13’’ and in-
serting ‘‘25’’; and 
(3) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘2008’’ and 
inserting ‘‘2009’’. 
SEC. 418. In entering into agreements with foreign 
countries pursuant to the Wildfire Suppression Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1856m) the Secretary of Agriculture and 
the Secretary of the Interior are authorized to enter into 
reciprocal agreements in which the individuals furnished 
under said agreements to provide wildfire services are con-
sidered, for purposes of tort liability, employees of the 
country receiving said services when the individuals are
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engaged in fire suppression: Provided, That the Secretary 
of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior shall not 
enter into any agreement under this provision unless the 
foreign country (either directly or through its fire organi-
zation) agrees to assume any and all liability for the acts 
or omissions of American firefighters engaged in fire-
fighting in a foreign country: Provided further, That when 
an agreement is reached for furnishing fire fighting serv-
ices, the only remedies for acts or omissions committed 
while fighting fires shall be those provided under the laws 
of the host country, and those remedies shall be the exclu-
sive remedies for any claim arising out of fighting fires 
in a foreign country: Provided further, That neither the 
sending country nor any legal organization associated with 
the firefighter shall be subject to any legal action whatso-
ever pertaining to or arising out of the firefighter’s role 
in fire suppression. 
SEC. 419. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 420. In awarding a Federal contract with funds 
made available by this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture 
and the Secretary of the Interior (the ‘‘Secretaries’’) may,
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in evaluating bids and proposals, give consideration to 
local contractors who are from, and who provide employ-
ment and training for, dislocated and displaced workers 
in an economically disadvantaged rural community, in-
cluding those historically timber-dependent areas that 
have been affected by reduced timber harvesting on Fed-
eral lands and other forest-dependent rural communities 
isolated from significant alternative employment opportu-
nities: Provided, That the Secretaries may award con-
tracts, grants or cooperative agreements to local non-prof-
it entities, Youth Conservation Corps or related partner-
ships with State, local or non-profit youth groups, or small 
or disadvantaged business or micro-business: Provided fur-
ther, That the contract, grant, or cooperative agreement 
is for forest hazardous fuels reduction, watershed or water 
quality monitoring or restoration, wildlife or fish popu-
lation monitoring, or habitat restoration or management: 
Provided further, That the terms ‘‘rural community’’ and 
‘‘economically disadvantaged’’ shall have the same mean-
ings as in section 2374 of Public Law 101–624: Provided 
further, That the Secretaries shall develop guidance to im-
plement this section: Provided further, That nothing in 
this section shall be construed as relieving the Secretaries 
of any duty under applicable procurement laws, except as 
provided in this section.
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SEC. 421. No funds appropriated in this Act for the 
acquisition of lands or interests in lands may be expended 
for the filing of declarations of taking or complaints in 
condemnation without the approval of the House and Sen-
ate Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That this 
provision shall not apply to funds appropriated to imple-
ment the Everglades National Park Protection and Ex-
pansion Act of 1989, or to funds appropriated for Federal 
assistance to the State of Florida to acquire lands for Ev-
erglades restoration purposes. 
SEC.
422.
(a)
LIMITATION
ON
COMPETITIVE 
SOURCING STUDIES.—
(1) Of the funds made available by this or any 
other Act to the Department of the Interior for fis-
cal year 2006, not more than $3,450,000 may be 
used by the Secretary of the Interior to initiate or 
continue competitive sourcing studies in fiscal year 
2006 for programs, projects, and activities for which 
funds are appropriated by this Act and such funds 
shall not be available until the Secretary submits a 
reprogramming proposal to the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the Senate and the House of Rep-
resentatives, and such proposal has been processed 
consistent with the reprogramming guidelines in 
House Report 108–330.
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(2) Of the funds appropriated by this Act, not 
more than $2,500,000 may be used in fiscal year 
2006 for competitive sourcing studies and related 
activities by the Forest Service. 
(b) COMPETITIVE SOURCING STUDY DEFINED.—In 
this section, the term ‘‘competitive sourcing study’’ means 
a study on subjecting work performed by Federal Govern-
ment employees or private contractors to public-private 
competition or on converting the Federal Government em-
ployees or the work performed by such employees to pri-
vate contractor performance under the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget Circular A–76 or any other administra-
tive regulation, directive, or policy. 
(c) COMPETITIVE SOURCING EXEMPTION FOR FOR-
EST SERVICE STUDIES CONDUCTED PRIOR TO FISCAL 
YEAR 2006.—The Forest Service is hereby exempted from 
implementing the Letter of Obligation and post-competi-
tion accountability guidelines where a competitive sourcing 
study involved 65 or fewer full-time equivalents, the per-
formance decision was made in favor of the agency pro-
vider; no net savings was achieved by conducting the 
study, and the study was completed prior to the date of 
this Act. 
SEC. 423. Estimated overhead charges, deductions, 
reserves or holdbacks from programs, projects and activi-
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ties to support governmentwide, departmental, agency or 
bureau administrative functions or headquarters, regional 
or central office operations shall be presented in annual 
budget justifications. Changes to such estimates shall be 
presented to the Committees on Appropriations for ap-
proval. 
SEC. 424. None of the funds in this Act or prior Acts 
making appropriations for the Department of the Interior 
and Related Agencies may be provided to the managing 
partners or their agents for the SAFECOM or Disaster 
Management projects. 
SEC. 425. (a) IN GENERAL.—An entity that enters 
into a contract with the United States to operate the Na-
tional Recreation Reservation Service (as solicited by the 
solicitation numbered WO–04–06vm) shall not carry out 
any duties under the contract using: 
(1) a contact center located outside the United 
States; or 
(2) a reservation agent who does not live in the 
United States. 
(b) NO WAIVER.—The Secretary of Agriculture may 
not waive the requirements of subsection (a). 
(c) TELECOMMUTING.—A reservation agent who is 
carrying out duties under the contract described in sub-
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section (a) may not telecommute from a location outside 
the United States. 
(d) LIMITATIONS.—Nothing in this Act shall be con-
strued to apply to any employee of the entity who is not 
a reservation agent carrying out the duties under the con-
tract described in subsection (a) or who provides manage-
rial or support services. 
SEC. 426. Section 331, of Public Law 106–113, is 
amended—
(1) in part (a) by striking ‘‘2005’’ and inserting 
‘‘2009’’; and 
(2) in part (b) by striking ‘‘2005’’ and inserting 
‘‘2009’’. 
SEC. 427. Section 330 of the Department of the Inte-
rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Pub-
lic Law 106–291; 114 Stat. 996; 43 U.S.C. 1701 note), 
is amended—
(1) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘2005’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2008’’; 
(2) in the third sentence, by inserting ‘‘, Na-
tional Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service,’’ 
after ‘‘Bureau of Land Management’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sen-
tence: ‘‘To facilitate the sharing of resources under 
the Service First initiative, the Secretaries of the In-
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terior and Agriculture may make transfers of funds 
and reimbursement of funds on an annual basis 
among the land management agencies referred to in 
this section, except that this authority may not be 
used to circumvent requirements and limitations im-
posed on the use of funds.’’. 
SEC. 428. The Secretary of Agriculture may acquire, 
by exchange or otherwise, a parcel of real property, includ-
ing improvements thereon, of the Inland Valley Develop-
ment Agency of San Bernardino, California, or its succes-
sors and assigns, generally comprising Building No. 3 and 
Building No. 4 of the former Defense Finance and Ac-
counting Services complex located at the southwest corner 
of Tippecanoe Avenue and Mill Street in San Bernardino, 
California, adjacent to the former Norton Air Force Base. 
As full consideration for the property to be acquired, the 
Secretary of Agriculture may terminate the leasehold 
rights of the United States received pursuant to section 
8121(a)(2) of the Department of Defense Appropriations 
Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–287; 118 Stat. 999). The ac-
quisition of the property shall be on such terms and condi-
tions as the Secretary of Agriculture considers appropriate 
and may be carried out without appraisals, environmental 
or administrative surveys, consultations, analyses, or other 
considerations of the condition of the property.
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SEC. 429. The Secretary of the Interior shall submit 
to the House Committee on Appropriations a report detail-
ing the Federal expenditures pursuant to the Southern 
Nevada Public Lands Management Act (section 4(e)(3) of 
Public Law 105–263) for fiscal years 2003 and 2004. 
SEC. 430. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to prepare or issue a permit or lease for oil or gas drilling 
in the Finger Lakes National Forest, New York, during 
fiscal year 2006. 
SEC. 431. None of the funds made available in this 
Act for the Department of the Interior may be used to 
implement the first proviso under the heading ‘‘UNITED 
STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE-LAND ACQUISI-
TION’’. 
SEC. 432. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used in contravention of Executive Order No. 
12898 (Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice 
in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations) or 
to delay the implementation of that order. 
SEC. 433. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to finalize, issue, implement, or enforce 
the proposed policy of the Environmental Protection Agen-
cy entitled ‘‘National Pollutant Discharge Elimination 
System (NPDES) Permit Requirements for Municipal
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Wastewater Treatment During Wet Weather Conditions’’, 
dated November 3, 2003 (68 Fed. Reg. 63042). 
SEC. 434. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency—
(1) to accept, consider, or rely on third-party 
intentional dosing human studies for pesticides; or 
(2) to conduct intentional dosing human studies 
for pesticides. 
SEC. 435. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attend-
ance of more than 50 Federal employees at any single con-
ference occurring outside the United States. 
SEC. 436. None of the funds made available in this 
Act for the Department of the Interior may be used to 
enter into or renew any concession contract except a con-
cession contract that includes a provision that requires 
that merchandise for sale at units of the National Park 
System be made in any State of the United States, the 
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, or the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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SEC. 437. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR SALE OR 
SLAUGHTER OF FREE-ROAMING HORSES AND 
BURROS. 
None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used for the sale or slaughter of wild free-roaming 
horses and burros (as defined in Public Law 92–195). 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2006’’.
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 agen-
cies for the fiscal year ending September 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, improve-
ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classifica-
tion, acquisition 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 Bu-
reau of Land Management, including the general adminis-
tration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral potential 
of public lands pursuant to Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C.
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3150(a)), $867,045,000, to remain available until expended, 
of which $1,000,000 is for high priority projects, to be car-
ried out by the Youth Conservation Corps; and of which 
$3,000,000 shall be available 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 ad-
vanced to the Foundation as a lump sum grant without 
regard to when expenses are incurred. 
In addition, $32,696,000 is for Mining Law Adminis-
tration program operations, including the cost of admin-
istering the mining claim fee program; to remain available 
until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected by the 
Bureau and credited to this appropriation from annual 
mining claim fees so as to result in a final appropriation 
estimated at not more than $867,045,000, and $2,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, from communication 
site rental fees established by the Bureau for the cost of ad-
ministering communication site activities. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
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, $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
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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 
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
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of hazardous fuels reduction activities, may obtain max-
imum practicable competition among: (1) local private, 
nonprofit, or cooperative entities; (2) Youth Conservation 
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 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
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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 
Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the transfer of funds 
appropriated for wildland fire management, in an aggre-
gate amount not to exceed $12,000,000, between the Depart-
ments 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 emer-
gency response actions. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction of buildings, recreation facilities, 
roads, trails, and appurtenant facilities, $9,976,000, to re-
main available until expended. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 206, 
and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579, including administra-
tive expenses and acquisition of lands or waters, or interests 
therein, $12,250,000, 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, oper-
ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and
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other improvements on the revested Oregon and California 
Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Oregon 
and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and on adja-
cent 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 Or-
egon 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 sub-
section (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 ecosystem health and recovery activi-
ties, such as release from competing 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
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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 range-
lands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), notwith-
standing any other Act, sums 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 
processing 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, operation, and termination of fa-
cilities in conjunction with use authorizations, and for re-
habilitation 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: Provided,
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That, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of sec-
tion 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 set-
tlement, if not appropriate 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 Manage-
ment which have been damaged by the action of a resource 
developer, purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized per-
son, 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, sur-
veys, appraisals, and costs of making conveyances of omit-
ted lands under section 211(b) of that Act, to remain avail-
able until expended.
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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 evi-
dence concerning violations of laws administered by the Bu-
reau; 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, under cooperative cost-sharing and part-
nership arrangements authorized by law, procure printing 
services from cooperators in connection with jointly pro-
duced publications for which the cooperators share the cost 
of printing either in cash or in services, and the Bureau 
determines the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted 
quality standards. 
UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service, as authorized by law, and for scientific 
and economic studies, maintenance of the herd of long-
horned cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge,
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general administration, and for the performance of other 
authorized functions related to such resources by direct ex-
penditure, contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and re-
imbursable agreements with public and private entities, 
$993,485,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2007, except as otherwise provided herein: Provided, That 
$2,000,000 is for high priority projects, which shall be car-
ried out by the Youth Conservation Corps: Provided further, 
That not to exceed $18,130,000 shall be used for imple-
menting subsections (a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 4 of the 
Endangered Species Act, as amended, for species that are 
indigenous to the United States (except for processing peti-
tions, developing and issuing proposed and final regula-
tions, and taking any other steps to implement actions de-
scribed 
in 
subsection 
(c)(2)(A), 
(c)(2)(B)(i), 
or 
(c)(2)(B)(ii)), of which not to exceed $12,852,000 shall be 
used for any activity regarding the designation of critical 
habitat, pursuant to subsection (a)(3), excluding litigation 
support, for species listed pursuant to subsection (a)(1) 
prior to October 1, 2005: Provided further, That of the 
amount available for law enforcement, up to $400,000, to 
remain available until expended, may at the discretion of 
the Secretary be used for payment for information, rewards, 
or evidence concerning violations of laws administered by 
the Service, and miscellaneous and emergency expenses of
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enforcement activity, authorized or approved by the Sec-
retary and to be accounted for solely on her certificate: Pro-
vided further, That of the amount provided for environ-
mental contaminants, up to $1,000,000 may remain avail-
able until expended for contaminant sample analyses. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvement, acquisition, or re-
moval of buildings and other facilities required in the con-
servation, management, investigation, protection, and utili-
zation of fishery and wildlife resources, and the acquisition 
of lands and interests therein; $31,811,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That funds made available 
under the 2005 Consolidated Appropriations Act (Public 
Law 108–447) for the Chase Lake and Arrowwood National 
Wildlife Refuges, North Dakota, shall be transferred to 
North Dakota State University to complete planning and 
design for a Joint Interpretive Center. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 
U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including administrative ex-
penses, and for acquisition of land or waters, or interest 
therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable 
to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, $40,827,000 
to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund 
and to remain available until expended.
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LANDOWNER INCENTIVE PROGRAM 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 
U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including administrative ex-
penses, and for private conservation efforts to be carried out 
on private lands, $25,000,000, to be derived from the Land 
and Water Conservation Fund, and to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That the amount provided herein 
is for a Landowner Incentive Program established by the 
Secretary that provides matching, competitively awarded 
grants to States, the District of Columbia, federally recog-
nized Indian tribes, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States 
Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Amer-
ican Samoa, to establish or supplement existing landowner 
incentive programs that provide technical and financial as-
sistance, including habitat protection and restoration, to 
private landowners for the protection and management of 
habitat to benefit federally listed, proposed, candidate, or 
other at-risk species on private lands. 
PRIVATE STEWARDSHIP GRANTS 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 
U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including administrative ex-
penses, and for private conservation efforts to be carried out 
on private lands, $7,500,000, to be derived from the Land 
and Water Conservation Fund, and to remain available