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matched by non-Federal funds; individual projects shall only be 
eligible for one grant; and all projects to be funded shall be approved 
by the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That 
Save America’s Treasures funds allocated for Federal projects, fol-
lowing approval, shall be available by transfer to appropriate 
accounts of individual agencies. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvements, repair or replacement of phys-
ical facilities, including the modifications authorized by section 
104 of the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion 
Act of 1989, $221,985,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That funds provided under this heading for implementa-
tion of modified water deliveries to Everglades National Park shall 
be expended consistent with the requirements of the fifth proviso 
under this heading in Public Law 108–108: Provided further, That 
funds provided under this heading for implementation of modified 
water deliveries to Everglades National Park shall be available 
for obligation only if matching funds are appropriated to the Army 
Corps of Engineers for the same purpose: Provided further, That 
none of the funds provided under this heading for implementation 
of modified water deliveries to Everglades National Park shall 
be available for obligation if any of the funds appropriated to 
the Army Corps of Engineers for the purpose of implementing 
modified water deliveries, including finalizing detailed engineering 
and design documents for a bridge or series of bridges for the 
Tamiami Trail component of the project, becomes unavailable for 
obligation: Provided further, That of the funds made available under 
this heading, not to exceed $3,800,000 is authorized to be used 
for the National Park Service’s proportionate cost of upgrading 
the West Yellowstone/Hebgen Basin (Gallatin County, Montana) 
municipal solid waste disposal system for the processing and dis-
posal of municipal solid waste generated within Yellowstone 
National Park: Provided further, That future fees paid by the 
National Park Service to the West Yellowstone/Hebgen Basin Solid 
Waste District will be restricted to operations and maintenance 
costs of the facility, given the capital contribution made by the 
National Park Service. 
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND 
(RESCISSION) 
The contract authority provided for fiscal year 2008 by 16 
U.S.C. 460l–10a is rescinded. 
LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and Water Con-
servation Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), 
including administrative expenses, and for acquisition of lands or 
waters, or interest therein, in accordance with the statutory 
authority applicable to the National Park Service, $70,070,000, 
to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and 
to remain available until expended, of which $25,000,000 is for 
the State assistance program.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
For fiscal year 2008 and hereafter, if the Secretary of the 
Interior, or either party to a value determination proceeding con-
ducted under a National Park Service concession contract issued 
prior to November 13, 1998, considers that the value determination 
decision issued pursuant to the proceeding misinterprets or 
misapplies relevant contractual requirements or their underlying 
legal authority, the Secretary or either party may seek, within 
180 days of any such decision, the de novo review of the value 
determination decision by the United States Court of Federal 
Claims. This court may make an order affirming, vacating, modi-
fying or correcting the determination decision. 
In addition to other uses set forth in section 407(d) of Public 
Law 105–391, franchise fees credited to a sub-account shall be 
available for expenditure by the Secretary, without further appro-
priation, for use at any unit within the National Park System 
to extinguish or reduce liability for Possessory Interest or leasehold 
surrender interest. Such funds may only be used for this purpose 
to the extent that the benefiting unit anticipated franchise fee 
receipts over the term of the contract at that unit exceed the 
amount of funds used to extinguish or reduce liability. Franchise 
fees at the benefiting unit shall be credited to the sub-account 
of the originating unit over a period not to exceed the term of 
a single contract at the benefiting unit, in the amount of funds 
so expended to extinguish or reduce liability. 
A willing seller from whom the Service acquires title to real 
property may be considered a ‘‘displaced person’’ for purposes of 
the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition 
Policy Act and its implementing regulations, whether or not the 
Service has the authority to acquire such property by eminent 
domain. 
Section 3(f) of the Act of August 21, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 463(f)), 
related to the National Park System Advisory Board, is amended 
in the first sentence by striking ‘‘2007’’ and inserting ‘‘2009’’. 
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH 
For expenses necessary for the United States Geological Survey 
to perform surveys, investigations, and research covering topog-
raphy, geology, hydrology, biology, and the mineral and water 
resources of the United States, its territories and possessions, and 
other areas as authorized by 43 U.S.C. 31, 1332, and 1340; classify 
lands as to their mineral and water resources; give engineering 
supervision to power permittees and Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission licensees; administer the minerals exploration program 
(30 U.S.C. 641); conduct inquiries into the economic conditions 
affecting mining and materials processing industries (30 U.S.C. 
3, 21a, and 1603; 50 U.S.C. 98g(1)) and related purposes as author-
ized by law; and to publish and disseminate data relative to the 
foregoing activities; $1,022,430,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2009, of which $63,845,000 shall be available only for 
cooperation with States or municipalities for water resources inves-
tigations; of which $40,150,000 shall remain available until 
expended for satellite operations; and of which $8,023,000 shall 
be available until expended for deferred maintenance and capital
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improvement projects: Provided, That none of the funds provided 
for the biological research activity shall be used to conduct new 
surveys on private property, unless specifically authorized in writing 
by the property owner: Provided further, That no part of this 
appropriation shall be used to pay more than one-half the cost 
of topographic mapping or water resources data collection and inves-
tigations carried on in cooperation with States and municipalities. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
From within the amount appropriated for activities of the 
United States Geological Survey such sums as are necessary shall 
be available for reimbursement to the General Services Administra-
tion for security guard services; contracting for the furnishing of 
topographic maps and for the making of geophysical or other special-
ized surveys when it is administratively determined that such proce-
dures are in the public interest; construction and maintenance 
of necessary buildings and appurtenant facilities; acquisition of 
lands for gauging stations and observation wells; expenses of the 
United States National Committee on Geology; and payment of 
compensation and expenses of persons on the rolls of the Survey 
duly appointed to represent the United States in the negotiation 
and administration of interstate compacts: Provided, That activities 
funded by appropriations herein made may be accomplished through 
the use of contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements as defined 
in 31 U.S.C. 6302 et seq.: Provided further, That the United States 
Geological Survey may enter into contracts or cooperative agree-
ments directly 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 injuries, and chapter 171 of title 28, United 
States Code, relating to tort claims, but shall not be considered 
to be Federal employees for any other purposes. 
MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE 
ROYALTY AND OFFSHORE MINERALS MANAGEMENT 
For expenses necessary for minerals leasing and environmental 
studies, regulation of industry operations, and collection of royalties, 
as authorized by law; for enforcing laws and regulations applicable 
to oil, gas, and other minerals leases, permits, licenses and oper-
ating contracts; for energy-related or other authorized marine- 
related purposes on the Outer Continental Shelf; and for matching 
grants or cooperative agreements, $157,202,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2009, of which $82,371,000 shall be available 
for royalty management activities; and an amount not to exceed 
$135,730,000, 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 administrative activi-
ties performed by the Minerals Management Service (MMS) over 
and above the rates in effect on September 30, 1993, and from 
additional fees for Outer Continental Shelf administrative activities 
established after September 30, 1993 that the Secretary of the 
Interior shall collect in fiscal year 2008 and retain and use for
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the necessary expenses of this appropriation: Provided, That to 
the extent $135,730,000 in addition to receipts are not realized 
from the sources of receipts stated above, the amount needed to 
reach $135,730,000 shall be credited to this appropriation from 
receipts resulting from rental rates for Outer Continental Shelf 
leases in effect before August 5, 1993: Provided further, That not 
to exceed $3,000 shall be available for reasonable expenses related 
to promoting volunteer beach and marine cleanup activities: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
$15,000 under this heading shall be available for refunds of overpay-
ments 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 payments: Provided further, That for the costs of adminis-
tration 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 2008 through 2010 may 
retain up to 3 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, $6,403,000, which shall be derived 
from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, to remain available until 
expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The eighth proviso under the heading of ‘‘Minerals Management 
Service’’ in division E, title I, of the Consolidated Appropriations 
Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–447), is amended by inserting ‘‘and 
Indian accounts’’ after ‘‘States’’, replacing the term ‘‘provision’’ with 
‘‘provisions’’, and inserting ‘‘and (d)’’ after 30 U.S.C. 1721(b). 
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 35(b) of the Mineral 
Leasing Act, as amended (30 U.S.C. 191(b)), the Secretary shall 
deduct 2 percent from the amount payable to each State in fiscal 
year 2008 and deposit the amount deducted to miscellaneous 
receipts of the Treasury. 
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT 
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Sur-
face Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, Public Law 
95–87, as amended, $120,237,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2009: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior, 
pursuant to regulations, may use directly or through grants to 
States, moneys collected in fiscal year 2008 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 
affected by coal mining practices after August 3, 1977, to remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That appropriations for 
the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement may 
provide for the travel and per diem expenses of State and tribal