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under the National Flood Insurance Fund, and such 
additional sums as may be provided by States or 
other political subdivisions for cost-shared mapping 
activities under section 1360(f)(2) of the National 
Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4101(f)(2)), 
to remain available until expended. 
(8) $12,000,000 for Regional Catastrophic Pre-
paredness Grants. 
(9) $12,000,000 for Rehabilitation of High Haz-
ard Potential Dams under section 8A of the National 
Dam Safety Program Act (33 U.S.C. 467f–2). 
(10) $130,000,000 for the emergency food and 
shelter program under title III of the McKinney-Vento 
Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11331), to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That not to 
exceed 3.5 percent shall be for total administrative 
costs. 
(11) $287,892,000 to sustain current operations 
for training, exercises, technical assistance, and other 
programs. 
DISASTER RELIEF FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $17,142,000,000, to remain available 
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until expended, shall be for major disasters declared pursu-
ant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-
gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) and is des-
ignated by the Congress as being for disaster relief pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided, That of the 
amount provided under this heading, up to $250,000,000 
may be transferred to the Disaster Assistance Direct Loan 
Program Account for the cost of direct loans as authorized 
under section 417 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5184), including 
loans issued pursuant to section 311 of this Act, of which 
$3,000,000 is for administrative expenses. 
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FUND 
For activities under the National Flood Insurance Act 
of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Flood Disaster Protec-
tion Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Biggert- 
Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 (Public Law 
112–141, 126 Stat. 916), and the Homeowner Flood Insur-
ance Affordability Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–89; 128 
Stat. 1020), $204,412,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2022, which shall be derived from offsetting 
amounts collected under section 1308(d) of the National 
Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4015(d)); of which 
$13,906,000 shall be available for mission support associ-
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ated with flood management; and of which $190,506,000 
shall be available for flood plain management and flood 
mapping: Provided, That any additional fees collected pur-
suant to section 1308(d) of the National Flood Insurance 
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4015(d)) shall be credited as offset-
ting collections to this account, to be available for flood 
plain management and flood mapping: Provided further, 
That in fiscal year 2021, no funds shall be available from 
the National Flood Insurance Fund under section 1310 of 
the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4017) 
in excess of— 
(1) $181,021,000 for operating expenses and sal-
aries and expenses associated with flood insurance op-
erations; 
(2) $1,164,000,000 for commissions and taxes of 
agents; 
(3) such sums as are necessary for interest on 
Treasury borrowings; and 
(4) $175,000,000, which shall remain available 
until expended, for flood mitigation actions and for 
flood mitigation assistance under section 1366 of the 
National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
4104c), 
notwithstanding 
sections 
1366(e) 
and 
1310(a)(7) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 4104c(e), 4017): 
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Provided further, That the amounts collected under section 
102 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 
4012a) and section 1366(e) of the National Flood Insurance 
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4104c(e)), shall be deposited in the 
National Flood Insurance Fund to supplement other 
amounts specified as available for section 1366 of the Na-
tional Flood Insurance Act of 1968, notwithstanding section 
102(f)(8), section 1366(e) of the National Flood Insurance 
Act of 1968, and paragraphs (1) through (3) of section 
1367(b) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 4012a(f)(8), 4104c(e), 
4104d(b)(1)–(3)): Provided further, That total administra-
tive costs shall not exceed 4 percent of the total appropria-
tion: Provided further, That up to $5,000,000 is available 
to carry out section 24 of the Homeowner Flood Insurance 
Affordability Act of 2014 (42 U.S.C. 4033). 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
SEC. 301. Funds made available under the heading 
‘‘Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency—Oper-
ations and Support’’ may be made available for the nec-
essary expenses of carrying out the competition specified in 
section 2(e) of Executive Order No. 13870 (May 2, 2019), 
including the provision of monetary and non-monetary 
awards for Federal civilian employees and members of the 
uniformed services, the necessary expenses for the honorary 
recognition of any award recipients, and activities to en-
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courage participation in the competition, including pro-
motional items: Provided, That any awards made pursuant 
to this section shall be of the same type and amount as 
those authorized under sections 4501 through 4505 of title 
5, United States Code. 
SEC. 302. Notwithstanding section 2008(a)(12) of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 609(a)(12)) or 
any other provision of law, not more than 5 percent of the 
amount of a grant made available in paragraphs (1) 
through (4) under ‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agen-
cy—Federal Assistance’’, may be used by the grantee for 
expenses directly related to administration of the grant. 
SEC. 303. Applications for grants under the heading 
‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency—Federal Assist-
ance’’, for paragraphs (1) through (4), shall be made avail-
able to eligible applicants not later than 60 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, eligible applicants shall sub-
mit applications not later than 80 days after the grant an-
nouncement, and the Administrator of the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency shall act within 65 days after 
the receipt of an application. 
SEC. 304. Under the heading ‘‘Federal Emergency 
Management Agency—Federal Assistance’’, for grants 
under paragraphs (1) through (4), (8), and (9), the Admin-
istrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
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shall brief the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives 5 full business days in 
advance of announcing publicly the intention of making an 
award. 
SEC. 305. Under the heading ‘‘Federal Emergency 
Management Agency—Federal Assistance’’, for grants 
under paragraphs (1) and (2), the installation of commu-
nications towers is not considered construction of a building 
or other physical facility. 
SEC. 306. The reporting requirements in paragraphs 
(1) and (2) under the heading ‘‘Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency—Disaster Relief Fund’’ in the Department 
of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015 (Public 
Law 114–4) shall be applied in fiscal year 2021 with re-
spect to budget year 2022 and current fiscal year 2021, re-
spectively— 
(1) in paragraph (1) by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 
2022’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2016’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2) by inserting ‘‘business’’ 
after ‘‘fifth’’. 
SEC. 307. In making grants under the heading ‘‘Fed-
eral Emergency Management Agency—Federal Assistance’’, 
for Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response 
grants, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency may grant waivers from the requirements 
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in subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(1)(B), (a)(1)(E), (c)(1), (c)(2), 
and (c)(4) of section 34 of the Federal Fire Prevention and 
Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229a). 
SEC. 308. The aggregate charges assessed during fiscal 
year 2021, as authorized in title III of the Departments 
of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, 
and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (42 
U.S.C. 5196e), shall not be less than 100 percent of the 
amounts anticipated by the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity to be necessary for its Radiological Emergency Pre-
paredness Program for the next fiscal year: Provided, That 
the methodology for assessment and collection of fees shall 
be fair and equitable and shall reflect costs of providing 
such services, including administrative costs of collecting 
such fees: Provided further, That such fees shall be deposited 
in a Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program ac-
count as offsetting collections and will become available for 
authorized purposes on October 1, 2021, and remain avail-
able until expended. 
SEC. 309. (a) Any balances of funds appropriated in 
any prior Act for activities funded by National Predisaster 
Mitigation Fund under section 203 of the Robert T. Staf-
ford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5133) (as in effect on the day before the date of en-
actment of section 1234 of division D of Public Law 115– 
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254) may be transferred to and merged for all purposes with 
the funds set aside pursuant to subsection (i)(1) of section 
203 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-
gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5133), as in effect on the 
date of the enactment of this section. 
(b) The transfer authorized in subsection (a) may not 
occur until the Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency submits to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the Senate and the House of Representatives 
a plan for the obligation of funds pursuant to such sub-
section (i)(1), including the criteria to be used for awarding 
grants and a process for tracking the obligation of such 
transferred funds. 
SEC. 310. In making grants under the heading ‘‘Fed-
eral Emergency Management Agency—Federal Assistance’’, 
for Assistance to Firefighter Grants, the Administrator of 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency may waive 
subsection (k) of section 33 of the Federal Fire Prevention 
and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229). 
SEC. 311. (a) For major disasters declared in 2018 
pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170), a territory or 
possession of the United States shall be deemed to be a local 
government for purposes of section 417 of such Act (42 
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U.S.C. 5184) and section 206.361(a) of title 44, Code of 
Federal Regulations. 
(b) Notwithstanding section 206.361(a) of title 44, 
Code of Federal Regulations, the President may provide a 
loan until the last day of the fiscal year that is 3 fiscal 
years after the fiscal year in which the natural disaster de-
scribed in such subsection occurs. 
(c) Notwithstanding section 417(b) of such Act and sec-
tion 206.361(b) of title 44, Code of Federal Regulations, the 
amount of any loan issued to a territory or possession 
may— 
(1) exceed $5,000,000; and 
(2) may be based on the projected loss of tax and 
other revenues and on projected cash outlays not pre-
viously budgeted for a period not to exceed 1 year be-
ginning on the date that the major disaster occurred. 
TITLE IV 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING, AND 
SERVICES 
U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES 
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 
For necessary expenses of U.S. Citizenship and Immi-
gration Services for operations and support of the E-Verify 
Program, $117,790,000. 
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FEDERAL ASSISTANCE 
For necessary expenses of U.S. Citizenship and Immi-
gration Services for Federal assistance for the Citizenship 
and Integration Grant Program, $10,000,000. 
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTERS 
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforce-
ment Training Centers for operations and support, includ-
ing the purchase of not to exceed 117 vehicles for police- 
type use and hire of passenger motor vehicles, and services 
as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, 
$314,348,000, of which $61,391,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2022: Provided, That not to exceed 
$7,180 shall be for official reception and representation ex-
penses. 
PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforce-
ment Training Centers for procurement, construction, and 
improvements, $26,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2025, for acquisition of necessary additional real 
property and facilities, construction and ongoing mainte-
nance, facility improvements and related expenses of the 
Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers. 
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORATE 
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 
For necessary expenses of the Science and Technology 
Directorate for operations and support, including the pur-
chase or lease of not to exceed 5 vehicles, $302,703,000, of 
which $180,112,000 shall remain available until September 
30, 2022: Provided, That not to exceed $10,000 shall be for 
official reception and representation expenses. 
PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 
For necessary expenses of the Science and Technology 
Directorate for procurement, construction, and improve-
ments, $18,927,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2025. 
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Science and Technology 
Directorate for research and development, $443,928,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2023. 
COUNTERING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION OFFICE 
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 
For necessary expenses of the Countering Weapons of 
Mass Destruction Office for operations and support, 
$179,892,000, of which $20,697,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2022: Provided, That not to exceed 
$2,250 shall be for official reception and representation ex-
penses. 
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PROCUREMENT, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 
For necessary expenses of the Countering Weapons of 
Mass Destruction Office for procurement, construction, and 
improvements, $87,413,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2023. 
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Countering Weapons of 
Mass Destruction Office for research and development, 
$65,309,000, to remain available until September 30, 2023. 
FEDERAL ASSISTANCE 
For necessary expenses of the Countering Weapons of 
Mass Destruction Office for Federal assistance through 
grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other activi-
ties, $69,663,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2023. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
funds otherwise made available to U.S. Citizenship and Im-
migration Services may be used to acquire, operate, equip, 
and dispose of up to 5 vehicles, for replacement only, for 
areas where the Administrator of General Services does not 
provide vehicles for lease: Provided, That the Director of 
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services may authorize 
employees who are assigned to those areas to use such vehi-
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cles to travel between the employees’ residences and places 
of employment. 
SEC. 402. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used to process or approve a competition under Of-
fice of Management and Budget Circular A–76 for services 
provided by employees (including employees serving on a 
temporary or term basis) of U.S. Citizenship and Immigra-
tion Services of the Department of Homeland Security who 
are known as Immigration Information Officers, Immigra-
tion Service Analysts, Contact Representatives, Investiga-
tive Assistants, or Immigration Services Officers. 
SEC. 403. The terms and conditions of section 403 of 
the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 
2020 (division D of Public Law 116–93) shall apply to this 
Act. 
SEC. 404. The Director of the Federal Law Enforce-
ment Training Centers is authorized to distribute funds to 
Federal law enforcement agencies for expenses incurred par-
ticipating in training accreditation. 
SEC. 405. The Federal Law Enforcement Training Ac-
creditation Board, including representatives from the Fed-
eral law enforcement community and non-Federal accredi-
tation experts involved in law enforcement training, shall 
lead the Federal law enforcement training accreditation 
process to continue the implementation of measuring and 
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assessing the quality and effectiveness of Federal law en-
forcement training programs, facilities, and instructors. 
SEC. 406. The Director of the Federal Law Enforce-
ment Training Centers may accept transfers to its ‘‘Pro-
curement, Construction, and Improvements’’ account from 
Government agencies requesting the construction of special 
use facilities, as authorized by the Economy Act (31 U.S.C. 
1535(b)): Provided, That the Federal Law Enforcement 
Training Centers maintain administrative control and 
ownership upon completion of such facilities. 
SEC. 407. The functions of the Federal Law Enforce-
ment Training Centers instructor staff shall be classified 
as inherently governmental for purposes of the Federal Ac-
tivities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (31 U.S.C. 501 note). 
TITLE V 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS AND RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 501. 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. 502. Subject to the requirements of section 503 
of this Act, the unexpended balances of prior appropriations 
provided for activities in this Act may be transferred to 
appropriation accounts for such activities established pur-
suant to this Act, may be merged with funds in the applica-
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ble established accounts, and thereafter may be accounted 
for as one fund for the same time period as originally en-
acted. 
SEC. 503. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, 
provided by previous appropriations Acts to the components 
in or transferred to the Department of Homeland Security 
that remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal 
year 2021, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury 
of the United States derived by the collection of fees avail-
able to the components funded by this Act, shall be available 
for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of 
funds that— 
(1) creates or eliminates a program, project, or 
activity, or increases funds for any program, project, 
or activity for which funds have been denied or re-
stricted by the Congress; 
(2) contracts out any function or activity pres-
ently performed by Federal employees or any new 
function or activity proposed to be performed by Fed-
eral employees in the President’s budget proposal for 
fiscal year 2021 for the Department of Homeland Se-
curity; 
(3) augments funding for existing programs, 
projects, or activities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 
percent, whichever is less; 
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(4) reduces funding for any program, project, or 
activity, or numbers of personnel, by 10 percent or 
more; or 
(5) results from any general savings from a re-
duction in personnel that would result in a change in 
funding levels for programs, projects, or activities as 
approved by the Congress. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply if the Committees 
on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Rep-
resentatives are notified at least 15 days in advance of such 
reprogramming. 
(c) Up to 5 percent of any appropriation made avail-
able for the current fiscal year for the Department of Home-
land Security by this Act or provided by previous appro-
priations Acts may be transferred between such appropria-
tions if the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives are notified at least 30 
days in advance of such transfer, but no such appropria-
tion, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall be in-
creased by more than 10 percent by such transfer. 
(d) Notwithstanding subsections (a), (b), and (c), no 
funds shall be reprogrammed within or transferred between 
appropriations based upon an initial notification provided 
after June 30, except in extraordinary circumstances that 
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imminently threaten the safety of human life or the protec-
tion of property. 
(e) The notification thresholds and procedures set forth 
in subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) shall apply to any use 
of deobligated balances of funds provided in previous De-
partment of Homeland Security Appropriations Acts that 
remain available for obligation in the current year. 
(f) Notwithstanding subsection (c), the Secretary of 
Homeland Security may transfer to the fund established by 
8 U.S.C. 1101 note, up to $20,000,000 from appropriations 
available to the Department of Homeland Security: Pro-
vided, That the Secretary shall notify the Committees on 
Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representa-
tives at least 5 days in advance of such transfer. 
SEC. 504. Section 504 of the Department of Homeland 
Security Appropriations Act, 2017 (division F of Public 
Law 115–31), related to the operations of a working capital 
fund, shall apply with respect to funds made available in 
this Act in the same manner as such section applied to 
funds made available in that Act: Provided, That funds 
from such working capital fund may be obligated and ex-
pended in anticipation of reimbursements from components 
of the Department of Homeland Security. 
SEC. 505. Except as otherwise specifically provided by 
law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances re-
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maining available at the end of fiscal year 2021, as re-
corded in the financial records at the time of a reprogram-
ming notification, but not later than June 30, 2022, from 
appropriations for ‘‘Operations and Support’’ for fiscal 
year 2021 in this Act shall remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2022, in the account and for the purposes for 
which the appropriations were provided: Provided, That 
prior to the obligation of such funds, a notification shall 
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
Senate and the House of Representatives in accordance with 
section 503 of this Act. 
SEC. 506. Funds made available by this Act for intel-
ligence activities are deemed to be specifically authorized 
by the Congress for purposes of section 504 of the National 
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fiscal year 
2021 until the enactment of an Act authorizing intelligence 
activities for fiscal year 2021. 
SEC. 507. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security, or 
the designee of the Secretary, shall notify the Committees 
on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Rep-
resentatives at least 3 full business days in advance of— 
(1) making or awarding a grant allocation or 
grant in excess of $1,000,000; 
(2) making or awarding a contract, other trans-
action agreement, or task or delivery order on a De-
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partment of Homeland Security multiple award con-
tract, or to issue a letter of intent totaling in excess 
of $4,000,000; 
(3) awarding a task or delivery order requiring 
an obligation of funds in an amount greater than 
$10,000,000 from multi-year Department of Home-
land Security funds; 
(4) making a sole-source grant award; or 
(5) announcing publicly the intention to make or 
award items under paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4), in-
cluding a contract covered by the Federal Acquisition 
Regulation. 
(b) If the Secretary of Homeland Security determines 
that compliance with this section would pose a substantial 
risk to human life, health, or safety, an award may be made 
without notification, and the Secretary shall notify the 
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 
of Representatives not later than 5 full business days after 
such an award is made or letter issued. 
(c) A notification under this section— 
(1) may not involve funds that are not available 
for obligation; and 
(2) shall include the amount of the award; the 
fiscal year for which the funds for the award were ap-
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propriated; the type of contract; and the account from 
which the funds are being drawn. 
SEC. 508. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
no agency shall purchase, construct, or lease any additional 
facilities, except within or contiguous to existing locations, 
to be used for the purpose of conducting Federal law enforce-
ment training without advance notification to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Rep-
resentatives, except that the Federal Law Enforcement 
Training Centers is authorized to obtain the temporary use 
of additional facilities by lease, contract, or other agreement 
for training that cannot be accommodated in existing Cen-
ters’ facilities. 
SEC. 509. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be used for expenses for 
any construction, repair, alteration, or acquisition project 
for which a prospectus otherwise required under chapter 33 
of title 40, United States Code, has not been approved, ex-
cept that necessary funds may be expended for each project 
for required expenses for the development of a proposed pro-
spectus. 
SEC. 510. Sections 520, 522, and 530 of the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2008 (di-
vision E of Public Law 110–161; 121 Stat. 2073 and 2074) 
shall apply with respect to funds made available in this 
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Act in the same manner as such sections applied to funds 
made available in that Act. 
SEC. 511. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used in contravention of the applicable provi-
sions of the Buy American Act: Provided, That for purposes 
of the preceding sentence, the term ‘‘Buy American Act’’ 
means chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code. 
SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to amend the oath of allegiance required 
by section 337 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1448). 
SEC. 513. None of the funds provided or otherwise 
made available in this Act shall be available to carry out 
section 872 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
452) unless explicitly authorized by the Congress. 
SEC. 514. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for planning, testing, piloting, or devel-
oping a national identification card. 
SEC. 515. Any official that is required by this Act to 
report or to certify to the Committees on Appropriations 
of the Senate and the House of Representatives may not 
delegate such authority to perform that act unless specifi-
cally authorized herein. 
SEC. 516. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available in this or any other Act may be used to 
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transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to or 
within the United States, its territories, or possessions 
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who— 
(1) is not a United States citizen or a member 
of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 
(2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, at 
the United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, 
Cuba, by the Department of Defense. 
SEC. 517. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for first-class travel by the employees of 
agencies funded by this Act in contravention of sections 
301–10.122 through 301–10.124 of title 41, Code of Federal 
Regulations. 
SEC. 518. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to employ workers described in section 
274A(h)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1324a(h)(3)). 
SEC. 519. Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be used to pay award or incentive 
fees for contractor performance that has been judged to be 
below satisfactory performance or performance that does not 
meet the basic requirements of a contract. 
SEC. 520. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be used by the Department 
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of Homeland Security to enter into any Federal contract 
unless such contract is entered into in accordance with the 
requirements of subtitle I of title 41, United States Code, 
or chapter 137 of title 10, United States Code, and the Fed-
eral Acquisition Regulation, unless such contract is other-
wise authorized by statute to be entered into without regard 
to the above referenced statutes. 
SEC. 521. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer net-
work unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, 
and exchanging of pornography. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-
nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities. 
SEC. 522. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by a Federal law enforcement officer to 
facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an indi-
vidual if the Federal law enforcement officer knows or sus-
pects that the individual is an agent of a drug cartel unless 
law enforcement personnel of the United States continu-
ously monitor or control the firearm at all times. 
SEC. 523. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to pay for the travel to or attendance of 
more than 50 employees of a single component of the De-
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partment of Homeland Security, who are stationed in the 
United States, at a single international conference unless 
the Secretary of Homeland Security, or a designee, deter-
mines that such attendance is in the national interest and 
notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives within at least 10 days 
of that determination and the basis for that determination: 
Provided, That for purposes of this section the term ‘‘inter-
national conference’’ shall mean a conference occurring out-
side of the United States attended by representatives of the 
United States Government and of foreign governments, 
international organizations, or nongovernmental organiza-
tions: Provided further, That the total cost to the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security of any such conference shall 
not exceed $500,000. 
SEC. 524. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to reimburse any Federal department or 
agency for its participation in a National Special Security 
Event. 
SEC. 525. None of the funds made available to the De-
partment of Homeland Security by this or any other Act 
may be obligated for any structural pay reform that affects 
more than 100 full-time positions or costs more than 
$5,000,000 in a single year before the end of the 30-day 
period beginning on the date on which the Secretary of 
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Homeland Security submits to Congress a notification that 
includes— 
(1) the number of full-time positions affected by 
such change; 
(2) funding required for such change for the cur-
rent year and through the Future Years Homeland 
Security Program; 
(3) justification for such change; and 
(4) an analysis of compensation alternatives to 
such change that were considered by the Department. 
SEC. 526. (a) Any agency receiving funds made avail-
able in this Act shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), 
post on the public website of that agency any report re-
quired to be submitted by the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the Senate and the House of Representatives in this 
Act, upon the determination by the head of the agency that 
it shall serve the national interest. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if— 
(1) the public posting of the report compromises 
homeland or national security; or 
(2) the report contains proprietary information. 
(c) The head of the agency posting such report shall 
do so only after such report has been made available to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 
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of Representatives for not less than 45 days except as other-
wise specified in law. 
SEC. 527. (a) Funding provided in this Act for ‘‘Oper-
ations and Support’’ may be used for minor procurement, 
construction, and improvements. 
(b) For purposes of subsection (a), ‘‘minor’’ refers to 
end items with a unit cost of $250,000 or less for personal 
property, and $2,000,000 or less for real property. 
SEC. 528. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be obligated or expended to implement the Arms 
Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of rati-
fication for the Treaty. 
SEC. 529. The authority provided by section 532 of 
the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 
2018 (Public Law 115–141) regarding primary and sec-
ondary schooling of dependents shall continue in effect dur-
ing fiscal year 2021. 
SEC. 530. (a) For an additional amount for ‘‘Federal 
Emergency Management Agency—Federal Assistance’’, 
$12,700,000, to remain available until September 30, 2022, 
exclusively for providing reimbursement of extraordinary 
law enforcement or other emergency personnel costs for pro-
tection activities directly and demonstrably associated with 
any residence of the President that is designated or identi-
fied to be secured by the United States Secret Service. 
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(b) Subsections (b) through (f) of section 534 of the 
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 
2018 (Public Law 115–141), shall be applied with respect 
to amounts made available by subsection (a) of this section 
by substituting ‘‘October 1, 2021’’ for ‘‘October 1, 2018’’ 
and ‘‘October 1, 2020’’ for ‘‘October 1, 2017’’. 
SEC. 531. (a) Section 831 of the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 391) shall be applied— 
(1) In subsection (a), by substituting ‘‘September 
30, 2021,’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2017,’’; and 
(2) In subsection (c)(1), by substituting ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 2021,’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2017’’. 
(b) The Secretary of Homeland Security, under the au-
thority of section 831 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
(6 U.S.C. 391(a)), may carry out prototype projects under 
section 2371b of title 10, United States Code, and the Sec-
retary shall perform the functions of the Secretary of De-
fense as prescribed. 
(c) The Secretary of Homeland Security under section 
831 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
391(d)) may use the definition of nontraditional govern-
ment contractor as defined in section 2371b(e) of title 10, 
United States Code. 
SEC. 532. (a) None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available to the Department of Homeland Secu-
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rity by this Act may be used to prevent any of the following 
persons from entering, for the purpose of conducting over-
sight, any facility operated by or for the Department of 
Homeland Security used to detain or otherwise house 
aliens, or to make any temporary modification at any such 
facility that in any way alters what is observed by a vis-
iting member of Congress or such designated employee, com-
pared to what would be observed in the absence of such 
modification: 
(1) A Member of Congress. 
(2) An employee of the United States House of 
Representatives or the United States Senate des-
ignated by such a Member for the purposes of this sec-
tion. 
(b) Nothing in this section may be construed to require 
a Member of Congress to provide prior notice of the intent 
to enter a facility described in subsection (a) for the purpose 
of conducting oversight. 
(c) With respect to individuals described in subsection 
(a)(2), the Department of Homeland Security may require 
that a request be made at least 24 hours in advance of an 
intent to enter a facility described in subsection (a). 
SEC. 533. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), 
none of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to place restraints on a woman in the custody of the De-
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pregnancy. A pregnant woman who is immobilized by re-
straints shall be positioned, to the maximum extent feasible, 
on her left side. 
SEC. 534. (a) None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to destroy any document, recording, or 
other record pertaining to any— 
(1) death of, 
(2) potential sexual assault or abuse perpetrated 
against, or 
(3) allegation of abuse, criminal activity, or dis-
ruption committed by 
an individual held in the custody of the Department of 
Homeland Security. 
(b) The records referred to in subsection (a) shall be 
made available, in accordance with applicable laws and 
regulations, and Federal rules governing disclosure in liti-
gation, to an individual who has been charged with a crime, 
been placed into segregation, or otherwise punished as a re-
sult of an allegation described in paragraph (3), upon the 
request of such individual. 
SEC. 535. Section 519 of division F of Public Law 
114–113, regarding a prohibition on funding for any posi-
tion designated as a Principal Federal Official, shall apply 
with respect to any Federal funds in the same manner as 
such section applied to funds made available in that Act. 
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SEC. 536. Within 60 days of any budget submission 
for the Department of Homeland Security for fiscal year 
2022 that assumes revenues or proposes a reduction from 
the previous year based on user fees proposals that have not 
been enacted into law prior to the submission of the budget, 
the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives specific reductions in proposed discre-
tionary budget authority commensurate with the revenues 
assumed in such proposals in the event that they are not 
enacted prior to October 1, 2021. 
SEC. 537. (a) Not later than 10 days after the date 
on which the budget of the President for a fiscal year is 
submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 
31, United States Code, the Secretary of Homeland Security 
shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the 
unfunded priorities, for the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity and separately for each departmental component, for 
which discretionary funding would be classified as budget 
function 050. 
(b) Each report under this section shall specify, for 
each such unfunded priority— 
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(1) a summary description, including the objec-
tives to be achieved if such priority is funded (wheth-
er in whole or in part); 
(2) the description, including the objectives to be 
achieved if such priority is funded (whether in whole 
or in part); 
(3) account information, including the following 
(as applicable): 
(A) appropriation account; and 
(B) program, project, or activity name; and 
(4) the additional number of full-time or part- 
time positions to be funded as part of such priority. 
(c) In this section, the term ‘‘unfunded priority’’, in 
the case of a fiscal year, means a requirement that— 
(1) is not funded in the budget referred to in 
subsection (a); 
(2) is necessary to fulfill a requirement associ-
ated with an operational or contingency plan for the 
Department; and 
(3) would have been recommended for funding 
through the budget referred to in subsection (a) if— 
(A) additional resources had been available 
for the budget to fund the requirement; 
(B) the requirement has emerged since the 
budget was formulated; or 
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(C) the requirement is necessary to sustain 
prior-year investments. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 538. Not later than 30 days after the date of en-
actment of this Act, $20,000,000 in unobligated balances 
from amounts made available in section 212(b) of division 
D of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public 
Law 116–93) shall be transferred to ‘‘Countering Weapons 
of Mass Destruction Office—Procurement, Construction, 
and Improvements’’ for the development of a department- 
wide electronic health records system, and shall remain 
available until September 30, 2022, in addition to any 
amounts otherwise available for such purposes: Provided, 
That the amounts transferred pursuant to this section that 
were previously designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
are designated by the Congress as an emergency require-
ment pursuant to that section of that Act. 
(RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 539. Of the funds appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security, the following funds are hereby 
rescinded from the following accounts and programs in the 
specified amounts: Provided, That no amounts may be re-
scinded from amounts that were designated by the Congress 
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as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent res-
olution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 99–177): 
(1) $27,036,000 from Public Law 115–141 under 
the heading ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection— 
Procurement, Construction, and Improvements’’. 
(2) $15,000,000 from the unobligated balances 
available in the ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion—Border Security, Fencing, Infrastructure, and 
Technology’’ account (70 × 0533). 
(3) $6,000,000 from the unobligated balances 
available in the ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion—Construction and Facility Improvements’’ ac-
count (70 × 0532). 
(4) $3,098,000 from the unobligated balances 
available in the ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs En-
forcement—Construction’’ account (70 × 0545). 
(5) $658,000 from the unobligated balances 
available in the ‘‘U.S. Immigration and Customs En-
forcement—Automation Modernization’’ account (70 
× 0543). 
(6) $1,718,108 from the unobligated balances 
available 
in 
the 
‘‘Coast 
Guard—Alteration 
of 
Bridges’’ account (070 × 0614). 
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(7) $8,200,000 from Public Law 116–6 under the 
heading ‘‘U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Serv-
ices—Procurement, 
Construction, 
and 
Improve-
ments’’. 
SEC. 540. The following unobligated balances made 
available to the Department of Homeland Security pursu-
ant to section 505 of the Department of Homeland Security 
Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–93) are re-
scinded: 
(1) $929,550 from ‘‘Office of the Secretary and 
Executive Management—Operations and Support’’. 
(2) $1,426,980 from ‘‘Management Directorate— 
Operations and Support’’. 
(3) $298,190 from ‘‘Intelligence, Analysis, and 
Operations Coordination—Operations and Support’’. 
(4) $430,910 from ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection—Operations and Support’’. 
(5) $1,810,393 from ‘‘United States Secret Serv-
ice—Operations and Support’’. 
(6) $1,574,940 from ‘‘Cybersecurity and Infra-
structure Security Agency—Operations and Sup-
port’’. 
(7) $690,090 from ‘‘Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency—Operations and Support’’. 
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(8) $8,984,690 from ‘‘U.S. Citizenship and Im-
migration Services—Operations and Support’’. 
(9) $242,490 from ‘‘Federal Law Enforcement 
Training Centers—Operations and Support’’. 
(10) $136,570 from ‘‘Science and Technology Di-
rectorate—Operations and Support’’. 
(11) $1,103,590 from ‘‘Countering Weapons of 
Mass Destruction Office—Operations and Support’’. 
SEC. 541. For necessary expenses related to providing 
customs and immigration inspection and pre-inspection 
services at, or in support of ports of entry, pursuant to sec-
tion 1356 of title 8, United States Code, and section 58c(f) 
of title 19, United States Code, and in addition to any other 
funds made available for this purpose, there is appro-
priated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, $840,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2021, to offset the loss resulting from the 
coronavirus pandemic of Immigration User Fee receipts 
collected pursuant to section 286(h) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(h)), and fees for certain cus-
toms services collected pursuant to paragraphs 1 through 
8 and paragraph 10 of subsection (a) of section 13031 of 
the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 
1985 (19 U.S.C. 58c(a)(1)–(8) and (a)(10)): Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds made 
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available by this section shall only be used by U.S. Customs 
and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations: Provided 
further, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 542. Not later than 10 days after a determination 
is made by the President to evaluate and initiate protection 
under any authority for a former or retired Government 
official or employee, or for an individual who, during the 
duration of the directed protection, will become a former 
or retired Government official or employee (referred to in 
this section as a ‘‘covered individual’’), the Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall submit a notification to congres-
sional leadership and the Committees on Appropriations of 
the Senate and the House of Representatives, the Commit-
tees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House of Rep-
resentatives, the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on 
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives, and 
the Committee on Oversight and Reform of the House of 
Representatives (referred to in this section as the ‘‘appro-
priate congressional committees’’): Provided, That the noti-
fication may be submitted in classified form, if necessary, 
and in consultation with the Director of National Intel-
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ligence or the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion, as appropriate, and shall include the threat assess-
ment, scope of the protection, and the anticipated cost and 
duration of such protection: Provided further, That not 
later than 15 days before extending, or 30 days before termi-
nating, protection for a covered individual, the Secretary 
of Homeland Security shall submit a notification regarding 
the extension or termination and any change to the threat 
assessment to the congressional leadership and the appro-
priate congressional committees: Provided further, That not 
later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
and quarterly thereafter, the Secretary shall submit a report 
to the congressional leadership and the appropriate congres-
sional committees, which may be submitted in classified 
form, if necessary, detailing each covered individual, and 
the scope and associated cost of protection. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Department of 
Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2021’’. 
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DIVISION G—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTE-
RIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED 
AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2021 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
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 section 1010(a) of Public Law 
96–487 (16 U.S.C. 3150(a)), $1,220,555,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2022; of which $77,669,000 
for annual and deferred maintenance and $115,745,000 for 
the wild horse and burro program, as authorized by Public 
Law 92–195 (16 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That amounts in the fee ac-
count of the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund 
may be used for any bureau-related expenses associated 
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with the processing of oil and gas applications for permits 
to drill and related use of authorizations. 
In addition, $39,696,000 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 mining 
claim maintenance fees and location fees that are hereby 
authorized for fiscal year 2021, so as to result in a final 
appropriation estimated at not more than $1,220,555,000, 
and $2,000,000, to remain available until expended, from 
communication site rental fees established by the Bureau 
for the cost of administering communication site activities. 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts made avail-
able under this heading in fiscal year 2018 or before, 
$13,000,000 is permanently rescinded: Provided, That no 
amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
(RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts made avail-
able for Land Acquisition and derived from the Land and 
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Water Conservation Fund, $5,400,000 is hereby perma-
nently rescinded from projects with cost savings or failed 
or partially failed projects: Provided, That no amounts may 
be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concur-
rent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
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 
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; $114,783,000, 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 (43 
U.S.C. 2605). 
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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. 1751), 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. 315b, 315m) 
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 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
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 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), 
and under section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 
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185), to remain available until expended: Provided, 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 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 of the Interior to improve, protect, or rehabili-
tate 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 unau-
thorized person, without regard to whether all moneys col-
lected 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 col-
lected may be used to repair other damaged public lands. 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts collected in 
fiscal year 2015 or any prior fiscal year, $20,000,000 is 
permanently rescinded: Provided, That no amounts may be 
rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concur-
rent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
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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 Public 
Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1737), and such amounts as may 
be advanced for administrative costs, surveys, appraisals, 
and costs of making conveyances of omitted lands under sec-
tion 211(b) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1721(b)), to remain 
available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Land Management may carry out the 
operations funded under this Act by direct expenditure, con-
tracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and reimbursable 
agreements with public and private entities, including with 
States. Appropriations for the Bureau shall be available for 
purchase, erection, and dismantlement of temporary struc-
tures, and alteration and maintenance of necessary build-
ings 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 vio-
lations of laws administered by the Bureau; miscellaneous 
and emergency expenses of enforcement activities authorized 
or approved by the Secretary and to be accounted for solely 
on the Secretary’s certificate, not to exceed $10,000: Pro-
vided, That notwithstanding Public Law 90–620 (44 U.S.C. 
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501), the Bureau may, under cooperative cost-sharing and 
partnership arrangements authorized by law, procure 
printing services from cooperators in connection with joint-
ly produced 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: Provided further, That projects to be 
funded pursuant to a written commitment by a State gov-
ernment to provide an identified amount of money in sup-
port of the project may be carried out by the Bureau on 
a reimbursable basis. 
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, general administration, and for the 
performance of other authorized functions related to such 
resources, $1,379,828,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2022: Provided, That not to exceed $20,767,000 
shall be used for implementing subsections (a), (b), (c), and 
(e) of section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 
U.S.C. 1533) (except for processing petitions, developing 
and issuing proposed and final regulations, and taking any 
other steps to implement actions described in subsection 
(c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or (c)(2)(B)(ii)). 
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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 fish and wildlife resources, and the acquisition 
of lands and interests therein; $18,193,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary to carry out section 6 of the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1535), 
$43,340,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
$23,702,000 is to be derived from the Cooperative Endan-
gered Species Conservation Fund; and of which $19,638,000 
is to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund. 
Of the unobligated balances made available under this 
heading, $12,500,000 is permanently rescinded from 
projects or from other grant programs with an unobligated 
carry over balance: Provided, That no amounts may be re-
scinded from amounts that were designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent 
Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
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NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND 
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 
17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $13,228,000. 
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of 
the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 
4401 et seq.), $46,500,000, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Neotropical 
Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 6101 et seq.), 
$4,910,000, to remain available until expended. 
MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary to carry out the African Ele-
phant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.), the Asian 
Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 4261 et seq.), 
the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994 (16 
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Great Ape Conservation Act of 
2000 (16 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), and the Marine Turtle Con-
servation Act of 2004 (16 U.S.C. 6601 et seq.), $18,000,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS 
For wildlife conservation grants to States and to the 
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States 
Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, American 
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Samoa, and Indian tribes under the provisions of the Fish 
and Wildlife Act of 1956 and the Fish and Wildlife Coordi-
nation Act, for the development and implementation of pro-
grams for the benefit of wildlife and their habitat, including 
species that are not hunted or fished, $72,362,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That of the 
amount provided herein, $6,000,000 is for a competitive 
grant program for Indian tribes not subject to the remain-
ing provisions of this appropriation: Provided further, That 
$7,362,000 is for a competitive grant program to implement 
approved plans for States, territories, and other jurisdic-
tions and at the discretion of affected States, the regional 
Associations of fish and wildlife agencies, not subject to the 
remaining provisions of this appropriation: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary shall, after deducting $13,362,000 
and administrative expenses, apportion the amount pro-
vided herein in the following manner: (1) to the District 
of Columbia and to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, each 
a sum equal to not more than one-half of 1 percent thereof; 
and (2) to Guam, American Samoa, the United States Vir-
gin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mar-
iana Islands, each a sum equal to not more than one-fourth 
of 1 percent thereof: Provided further, That the Secretary 
of the Interior shall apportion the remaining amount in 
the following manner: (1) one-third of which is based on 
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the ratio to which the land area of such State bears to the 
total land area of all such States; and (2) two-thirds of 
which is based on the ratio to which the population of such 
State bears to the total population of all such States: Pro-
vided further, That the amounts apportioned under this 
paragraph shall be adjusted equitably so that no State shall 
be apportioned a sum which is less than 1 percent of the 
amount available for apportionment under this paragraph 
for any fiscal year or more than 5 percent of such amount: 
Provided further, That the Federal share of planning grants 
shall not exceed 75 percent of the total costs of such projects 
and the Federal share of implementation grants shall not 
exceed 65 percent of the total costs of such projects: Provided 
further, That the non-Federal share of such projects may 
not be derived from Federal grant programs: Provided fur-
ther, That any amount apportioned in 2021 to any State, 
territory, or other jurisdiction that remains unobligated as 
of September 30, 2022, shall be reapportioned, together with 
funds appropriated in 2023, in the manner provided here-
in. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service may 
carry out the operations of Service programs by direct ex-
penditure, contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and re-
imbursable agreements with public and private entities. Ap-
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propriations and funds available to the United States Fish 
and Wildlife Service shall be available for repair of damage 
to public roads within and adjacent to reservation areas 
caused by operations of the Service; options for the purchase 
of land at not to exceed one dollar for each option; facilities 
incident to such public recreational uses on conservation 
areas as are consistent with their primary purpose; and 
the maintenance and improvement of aquaria, buildings, 
and other facilities under the jurisdiction of the Service and 
to which the United States has title, and which are used 
pursuant to law in connection with management, and in-
vestigation of fish and wildlife resources: Provided, That 
notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Service may, under co-
operative cost sharing and partnership arrangements au-
thorized by law, procure printing services from cooperators 
in connection with jointly produced publications for which 
the cooperators share at least one-half the cost of printing 
either in cash or services and the Service determines the 
cooperator is capable of meeting accepted quality standards: 
Provided further, That the Service may accept donated air-
craft as replacements for existing aircraft: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, all fees collected for 
non-toxic shot review and approval shall be deposited under 
the heading ‘‘United States Fish and Wildlife Service—Re-
source Management’’ and shall be available to the Sec-
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retary, without further appropriation, to be used for ex-
penses of processing of such non-toxic shot type or coating 
applications and revising regulations as necessary, and 
shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That obligated balances of funding originally made avail-
able under section 7060(c)(2)(B) of division K of the Con-
solidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115–141) 
and transferred to the Fish and Wildlife Service to combat 
the transnational threat of wildlife poaching and traf-
ficking in the Central Africa Regional Program for the En-
vironment shall be distributed to recipients that were 
awarded grants not later than 60 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 
OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM 
For expenses necessary for the management, operation, 
and maintenance of areas and facilities administered by 
the National Park Service and for the general administra-
tion of the National Park Service, $2,688,287,000, of which 
$10,282,000 for planning and interagency coordination in 
support of Everglades restoration and $135,980,000 for 
maintenance, repair, or rehabilitation projects for con-
structed assets and $188,184,000 for cyclic maintenance 
projects for constructed assets and cultural resources and 
$5,000,000 for uses authorized by section 101122 of title 
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54, United States Code shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2022: Provided, That funds appropriated under 
this heading in this Act are available for the purposes of 
section 5 of Public Law 95–348: Provided further, That not-
withstanding 
section 
9(a) 
of 
the 
United 
States 
Semiquincentennial Commission Act of 2016 (Public Law 
114–196; 130 Stat. 691), $8,000,000 of the funds made 
available under this heading shall be provided to the United 
States Semiquincentennial Commission for the purposes 
specified by that Act: Provided further, That notwith-
standing section 9 of the 400 Years of African-American 
History Commission Act (36 U.S.C. note prec. 101; Public 
Law 115–102), $3,300,000 of the funds provided under this 
heading shall be made available for the purposes specified 
by that Act: Provided further, That sections (7)(b) and (8) 
of that Act shall be amended by striking ‘‘July 1, 2021’’ 
and inserting ‘‘July 1, 2022’’. 
In addition, for purposes described in section 2404 of 
Public Law 116–9, an amount equal to the amount depos-
ited in this fiscal year into the National Park Medical Serv-
ices Fund established pursuant to such section of such Act, 
to remain available until expended, shall be derived from 
such Fund. 
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NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out recreation pro-
grams, natural programs, cultural programs, heritage part-
nership programs, environmental compliance and review, 
international park affairs, and grant administration, not 
otherwise provided for, $74,157,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2022. 
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND 
For expenses necessary in carrying out the National 
Historic Preservation Act (division A of subtitle III of title 
54, United States Code), $144,300,000, to be derived from 
the Historic Preservation Fund and to remain available 
until September 30, 2022, of which $25,000,000 shall be for 
Save America’s Treasures grants for preservation of nation-
ally significant sites, structures and artifacts as authorized 
by section 7303 of the Omnibus Public Land Management 
Act of 2009 (54 U.S.C. 3089): Provided, That an individual 
Save America’s Treasures grant shall be matched by non- 
Federal funds: Provided further, That individual projects 
shall only be eligible for one grant: Provided further, That 
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 of 
the funds provided for the Historic Preservation Fund, 
$1,000,000 is for competitive grants for the survey and 
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nomination of properties to the National Register of His-
toric Places and as National Historic Landmarks associ-
ated with communities currently under-represented, as de-
termined by the Secretary, $21,125,000 is for competitive 
grants to preserve the sites and stories of the Civil Rights 
movement; $10,000,000 is for grants to Historically Black 
Colleges and Universities; $7,500,000 is for competitive 
grants for the restoration of historic properties of national, 
State, and local significance listed on or eligible for inclu-
sion on the National Register of Historic Places, to be made 
without imposing the usage or direct grant restrictions of 
section 101(e)(3) (54 U.S.C. 302904) of the National His-
torical Preservation Act; and $10,000,000 is for a competi-
tive grant program to honor the semiquincentennial anni-
versary of the United States by restoring and preserving 
state-owned sites and structures listed on the National Reg-
ister of Historic Places that commemorate the founding of 
the nation: Provided further, That such competitive grants 
shall be made without imposing the matching requirements 
in section 302902(b)(3) of title 54, United States Code to 
States and Indian tribes as defined in chapter 3003 of such 
title, Native Hawaiian organizations, local governments, 
including Certified Local Governments, and non-profit or-
ganizations. 
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CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, improvements, repair, or replace-
ment of physical facilities, and compliance and planning 
for programs and areas administered by the National Park 
Service, $223,907,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
for any project initially funded in fiscal year 2021 with 
a future phase indicated in the National Park Service 5- 
Year Line Item Construction Plan, a single procurement 
may be issued which includes the full scope of the project: 
Provided further, That the solicitation and contract shall 
contain the clause availability of funds found at 48 CFR 
52.232–18: Provided further, That National Park Service 
Donations, Park Concessions Franchise Fees, and Recre-
ation Fees may be made available for the cost of adjust-
ments and changes within the original scope of effort for 
projects funded by the National Park Service Construction 
appropriation: Provided further, That the Secretary of the 
Interior shall consult with the Committees on Appropria-
tions, in accordance with current reprogramming thresh-
olds, prior to making any charges authorized by this sec-
tion. 
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LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE 
(RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts made avail-
able for the National Park Service and derived from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund in fiscal year 2017 
or any prior fiscal year, $23,000,000 is hereby permanently 
rescinded from grant programs with an unobligated carry 
over balance: Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded 
from amounts that were designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolu-
tion on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of 
section 101701 of title 54, United States Code, relating to 
challenge cost share agreements, $15,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, for Centennial Challenge projects 
and programs: Provided, That not less than 50 percent of 
the total cost of each project or program shall be derived 
from non-Federal sources in the form of donated cash, as-
sets, or a pledge of donation guaranteed by an irrevocable 
letter of credit. 
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
In addition to other uses set forth in section 
101917(c)(2) of title 54, United States Code, franchise fees 
credited to a sub-account shall be available for expenditure 
by the Secretary, without further appropriation, for use at 
any unit within the National Park System to extinguish 
or reduce liability for Possessory Interest or leasehold sur-
render interest. Such funds may only be used for this pur-
pose to the extent that the benefitting unit anticipated fran-
chise fee receipts over the term of the contract at that unit 
exceed the amount of funds used to extinguish or reduce li-
ability. Franchise fees at the benefitting unit shall be cred-
ited to the sub-account of the originating unit over a period 
not to exceed the term of a single contract at the benefitting 
unit, in the amount of funds so expended to extinguish or 
reduce liability. 
For the costs of administration of the Land and Water 
Conservation 
Fund 
grants 
authorized 
by 
section 
105(a)(2)(B) of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 
2006 (Public Law 109–432), the National Park Service 
may retain up to 3 percent of the amounts which are au-
thorized to be disbursed under such section, such retained 
amounts to remain available until expended. 
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National Park Service funds may be transferred to the 
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Department of 
Transportation, for purposes authorized under 23 U.S.C. 
203. Transfers may include a reasonable amount for 
FHWA administrative support costs. 
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH 
For expenses necessary for the United States Geological 
Survey to perform surveys, investigations, and research cov-
ering topography, geology, hydrology, biology, and the min-
eral 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 per-
mittees and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission licens-
ees; 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(a)(1)) and related 
purposes as authorized by law; and to publish and dissemi-
nate 
data 
relative 
to 
the 
foregoing 
activities; 
$1,315,527,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2022; of which $84,337,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended for satellite operations; and of which $74,664,000 
shall be available until expended for deferred maintenance 
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and capital improvement projects that exceed $100,000 in 
cost: Provided, That none of the funds provided for the eco-
system research activity shall be used to conduct new sur-
veys 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 investigations 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 contracting for the fur-
nishing of topographic maps and for the making of geo-
physical or other specialized surveys when it is administra-
tively determined that such procedures are in the public in-
terest; construction and maintenance of necessary buildings 
and appurtenant facilities; acquisition of lands for gauging 
stations, observation wells, and seismic equipment; expenses 
of the United States National Committee for Geological 
Sciences; and payment of compensation and expenses of 
persons employed by 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 
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the use of contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements as 
defined in section 6302 of title 31, United States Code: Pro-
vided further, That the United States Geological Survey 
may enter into contracts or cooperative agreements directly 
with individuals or indirectly with institutions or non-
profit organizations, without regard to 41 U.S.C. 6101, for 
the temporary or intermittent services of students or recent 
graduates, who shall be considered employees for the pur-
pose 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. 
BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT 
OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for granting and administering 
leases, easements, rights-of-way, and agreements for use for 
oil and gas, other minerals, energy, and marine-related 
purposes on the Outer Continental Shelf and approving op-
erations related thereto, as authorized by law; for environ-
mental studies, as authorized by law; for implementing 
other laws and to the extent provided by Presidential or 
Secretarial delegation; and for matching grants or coopera-
tive agreements, $192,815,000, of which $129,760,000 is to 
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remain available until September 30, 2022, and of which 
$63,055,000 is to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That this total appropriation shall be reduced by 
amounts collected by the Secretary of the Interior and cred-
ited to this appropriation from additions to receipts result-
ing from increases to lease rental rates in effect on August 
5, 1993, and from cost recovery fees from activities con-
ducted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management pursu-
ant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, including 
studies, assessments, analysis, and miscellaneous adminis-
trative activities: Provided further, That the sum herein ap-
propriated shall be reduced as such collections are received 
during the fiscal year, so as to result in a final fiscal year 
2021 
appropriation 
estimated 
at 
not 
more 
than 
$129,760,000: Provided further, That not to exceed $3,000 
shall be available for reasonable expenses related to pro-
moting volunteer beach and marine cleanup activities: Pro-
vided further, That of the unobligated balances from 
amounts made available under this heading, $2,000,000 is 
permanently rescinded: Provided further, That no amounts 
may be rescinded from amounts that were designated by 
the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the 
Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budg-
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
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BUREAU OF SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT 
OFFSHORE SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for the regulation of operations 
related to leases, easements, rights-of-way, and agreements 
for use for oil and gas, other minerals, energy, and marine- 
related purposes on the Outer Continental Shelf, as author-
ized by law; for enforcing and implementing laws and regu-
lations as authorized by law and to the extent provided by 
Presidential or Secretarial delegation; and for matching 
grants or cooperative agreements, $150,812,000, of which 
$120,165,000 is to remain available until September 30, 
2022, and of which $30,647,000 is to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That this total appropriation shall be 
reduced by amounts collected by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior and credited to this appropriation from additions to 
receipts resulting from increases to lease rental rates in ef-
fect on August 5, 1993, and from cost recovery fees from 
activities conducted by the Bureau of Safety and Environ-
mental Enforcement pursuant to the Outer Continental 
Shelf Lands Act, including studies, assessments, analysis, 
and miscellaneous administrative activities: Provided fur-
ther, That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as 
such collections are received during the fiscal year, so as 
to result in a final fiscal year 2021 appropriation estimated 
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at not more than $120,165,000: Provided further, That of 
the unobligated balances from amounts made available 
under this heading, $10,000,000 is permanently rescinded: 
Provided further, That no amounts may be rescinded from 
amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution 
on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985. 
For an additional amount, $43,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected 
by the Secretary and credited to this appropriation, which 
shall be derived from non-refundable inspection fees col-
lected in fiscal year 2021, as provided in this Act: Provided, 
That to the extent that amounts realized from such inspec-
tion fees exceed $43,000,000, the amounts realized in excess 
of $43,000,000 shall be credited to this appropriation and 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That for 
fiscal year 2021, not less than 50 percent of the inspection 
fees expended by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental 
Enforcement will be used to fund personnel and mission- 
related costs to expand capacity and expedite the orderly 
development, subject to environmental safeguards, of the 
Outer Continental Shelf pursuant to the Outer Continental 
Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), including the re-
view of applications for permits to drill. 
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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, 
$14,899,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-
ability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended. 
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND 
ENFORCEMENT 
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, 
Public Law 95–87, $117,768,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2022, of which $68,590,000 shall be available 
for state and tribal regulatory grants: Provided, That ap-
propriations for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 
and Enforcement may provide for the travel and per diem 
expenses of State and tribal personnel attending Office of 
Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored 
training: Provided further, That of the unobligated balances 
from amounts made available under this heading, 
$25,000,000 is permanently rescinded: Provided further, 
That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or 
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the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985. 
In addition, for costs to review, administer, and en-
force permits issued by the Office pursuant to section 507 
of Public Law 95–87 (30 U.S.C. 1257), $40,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That fees assessed and 
collected by the Office pursuant to such section 507 shall 
be credited to this account as discretionary offsetting collec-
tions, to remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That the sum herein appropriated from the general fund 
shall be reduced as collections are received during the fiscal 
year, so as to result in a fiscal year 2021 appropriation 
estimated at not more than $117,768,000. 
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the Sur-
face Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, Public 
Law 95–87, $24,831,000, to be derived from receipts of the 
Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That pursuant to Public 
Law 97–365, the Department of the Interior is authorized 
to use up to 20 percent from the recovery of the delinquent 
debt owed to the United States Government to pay for con-
tracts to collect these debts: Provided further, That funds 
made available under title IV of Public Law 95–87 may 
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be used for any required non-Federal share of the cost of 
projects funded by the Federal Government for the purpose 
of environmental restoration related to treatment or abate-
ment of acid mine drainage from abandoned mines: Pro-
vided further, That such projects must be consistent with 
the purposes and priorities of the Surface Mining Control 
and Reclamation Act: Provided further, That amounts pro-
vided under this heading may be used for the travel and 
per diem expenses of State and tribal personnel attending 
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 
sponsored training. 
In addition, $115,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, for grants to States and federally recognized In-
dian Tribes for reclamation of abandoned mine lands and 
other related activities in accordance with the terms and 
conditions described in the explanatory statement described 
in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this con-
solidated Act): Provided, That such additional amount shall 
be used for economic and community development in con-
junction with the priorities in section 403(a) of the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 
1233(a)): Provided further, That of such additional 
amount, $75,000,000 shall be distributed in equal amounts 
to the three Appalachian States with the greatest amount 
of unfunded needs to meet the priorities described in para-
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graphs (1) and (2) of such section, $30,000,000 shall be dis-
tributed in equal amounts to the three Appalachian States 
with the subsequent greatest amount of unfunded needs to 
meet such priorities, and $10,000,000 shall be for grants 
to federally recognized Indian Tribes without regard to 
their status as certified or uncertified under the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 
1233(a)), for reclamation of abandoned mine lands and 
other related activities in accordance with the terms and 
conditions described in the explanatory statement described 
in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this con-
solidated Act) and shall be used for economic and commu-
nity development in conjunction with the priorities in sec-
tion 403(a) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation 
Act of 1977: Provided further, That such additional amount 
shall be allocated to States and Indian Tribes within 60 
days after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts made avail-
able under this heading in fiscal year 2016 or before, 
$10,000,000 is permanently rescinded: Provided, That no 
amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985. 
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INDIAN AFFAIRS 
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian pro-
grams, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act of 
November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13) and the Indian Self-De-
termination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), $1,616,532,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2022, except as otherwise provided 
herein; of which not to exceed $8,500 may be for official 
reception and representation expenses; of which not to ex-
ceed $78,000,000 shall be for welfare assistance payments: 
Provided, That in cases of designated Federal disasters, the 
Secretary of the Interior may exceed such cap for welfare 
payments from the amounts provided herein, to provide for 
disaster relief to Indian communities affected by the dis-
aster: Provided further, That federally recognized Indian 
tribes and tribal organizations of federally recognized In-
dian tribes may use their tribal priority allocations for 
unmet welfare assistance costs: Provided further, That not 
to exceed $58,492,000 shall remain available until expended 
for housing improvement, road maintenance, attorney fees, 
litigation support, land records improvement, and the Nav-
ajo-Hopi Settlement Program: Provided further, That any 
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forestry funds allocated to a federally recognized tribe which 
remain unobligated as of September 30, 2022, may be 
transferred during fiscal year 2023 to an Indian forest land 
assistance account established for the benefit of the holder 
of the funds within the holder’s trust fund account: Provided 
further, That any such unobligated balances not so trans-
ferred shall expire on September 30, 2023: Provided further, 
That in order to enhance the safety of Bureau field employ-
ees, the Bureau may use funds to purchase uniforms or 
other identifying articles of clothing for personnel: Provided 
further, That the Bureau of Indian Affairs may accept 
transfers of funds from United States Customs and Border 
Protection to supplement any other funding available for 
reconstruction or repair of roads owned by the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs as identified on the National Tribal Trans-
portation Facility Inventory, 23 U.S.C. 202(b)(1): Provided 
further, That $1,000,000 made available for Assistant Sec-
retary Support shall not be available for obligation until 
the Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs provides the reports 
requested by the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate related to the 
Tiwahe Initiative. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS 
For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for 
contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter-
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mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian 
Education for fiscal year 2021, such sums as may be nec-
essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-
tember 30, 2022: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, no amounts made available under this 
heading shall be available for transfer to another budget ac-
count. 
PAYMENTS FOR TRIBAL LEASES 
For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for 
leases pursuant to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Deter-
mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5324(l)) 
for fiscal year 2021, such sums as may be necessary, which 
shall be available for obligation through September 30, 
2022: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, no amounts made available under this heading shall 
be available for transfer to another budget account. 
CONSTRUCTION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, 
and other facilities, including architectural and engineering 
services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests in 
lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for con-
struction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pursuant 
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to Public Law 87–483; $128,818,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That such amounts as may be 
available for the construction of the Navajo Indian Irriga-
tion Project may be transferred to the Bureau of Reclama-
tion: Provided further, That any funds provided for the 
Safety of Dams program pursuant to the Act of November 
2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), shall be made available on a nonre-
imbursable basis: Provided further, That this appropriation 
may be reimbursed from the Office of the Special Trustee 
for American Indians appropriation for the appropriate 
share of construction costs for space expansion needed in 
agency offices to meet trust reform implementation: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds made available under this 
heading, $10,000,000 shall be derived from the Indian Irri-
gation Fund established by section 3211 of the WIIN Act 
(Public Law 114–322; 130 Stat. 1749). 
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 
For payments and necessary administrative expenses 
for implementation of Indian land and water claim settle-
ments pursuant to Public Laws 99–264 and 114–322, and 
for implementation of other land and water rights settle-
ments, $45,644,000, to remain available until expended. 
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INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, 
$11,797,000, of which $1,593,000 is for administrative ex-
penses, as authorized by the Indian Financing Act of 1974: 
Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That these 
funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, any 
part of which is to be guaranteed or insured, not to exceed 
$82,886,197. 
BUREAU OF INDIAN EDUCATION 
OPERATION OF INDIAN EDUCATION PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian edu-
cation programs, as authorized by law, including the Sny-
der Act of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 
(25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Education Amendments of 
1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001–2019), and the Tribally Controlled 
Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), $973,092,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2022, except as oth-
erwise provided herein: Provided, That federally recognized 
Indian tribes and tribal organizations of federally recog-
nized Indian tribes may use their tribal priority allocations 
for unmet welfare assistance costs: Provided further, That 
not to exceed $728,820,000 for school operations costs of Bu-
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reau-funded schools and other education programs shall be-
come available on July 1, 2021, and shall remain available 
until September 30, 2022: Provided further, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, including but not lim-
ited to the Indian Self–Determination Act of 1975 (25 
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) and section 1128 of the Education 
Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2008), not to exceed 
$86,884,000 within and only from such amounts made 
available for school operations shall be available for admin-
istrative cost grants associated with grants approved prior 
to July 1, 2021: Provided further, That in order to enhance 
the safety of Bureau field employees, the Bureau may use 
funds to purchase uniforms or other identifying articles of 
clothing for personnel. 
EDUCATION CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-
nance of buildings, utilities, and other facilities necessary 
for the operation of Indian education programs, including 
architectural and engineering services by contract; acquisi-
tion of lands, and interests in lands; $264,277,000 to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That in order to 
ensure timely completion of construction projects, the Sec-
retary of the Interior may assume control of a project and 
all funds related to the project, if, not later than 18 months 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, any Public Law 
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100–297 (25 U.S.C. 2501, et seq.) grantee receiving funds 
appropriated in this Act or in any prior Act, has not com-
pleted the planning and design phase of the project and 
commenced construction. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of In-
dian Education may carry out the operation of Indian pro-
grams by direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agree-
ments, compacts, and grants, either directly or in coopera-
tion with States and other organizations. 
Notwithstanding Public Law 87–279 (25 U.S.C. 15), 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs may contract for services in 
support of the management, operation, and maintenance of 
the Power Division of the San Carlos Irrigation Project. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau 
of Indian Education for central office oversight and Execu-
tive Direction and Administrative Services (except Execu-
tive Direction and Administrative Services funding for 
Tribal Priority Allocations, regional offices, and facilities 
operations and maintenance) shall be available for con-
tracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative agreements with the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau of Indian Edu-
cation under the provisions of the Indian Self-Determina-
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tion Act or the Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 (Public 
Law 103–413). 
In the event any tribe returns appropriations made 
available by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or 
the Bureau of Indian Education, this action shall not di-
minish the Federal Government’s trust responsibility to 
that tribe, or the government-to-government relationship be-
tween the United States and that tribe, or that tribe’s abil-
ity to access future appropriations. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Education, other than 
the amounts provided herein for assistance to public schools 
under 25 U.S.C. 452 et seq., shall be available to support 
the operation of any elementary or secondary school in the 
State of Alaska. 
No funds available to the Bureau of Indian Education 
shall be used to support expanded grades for any school or 
dormitory beyond the grade structure in place or approved 
by the Secretary of the Interior at each school in the Bureau 
of Indian Education school system as of October 1, 1995, 
except that the Secretary of the Interior may waive this 
prohibition to support expansion of up to one additional 
grade when the Secretary determines such waiver is needed 
to support accomplishment of the mission of the Bureau of 
Indian Education, or more than one grade to expand the 
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elementary grade structure for Bureau-funded schools with 
a K–2 grade structure on October 1, 1996. Appropriations 
made available in this or any prior Act for schools funded 
by the Bureau shall be available, in accordance with the 
Bureau’s funding formula, only to the schools in the Bureau 
school system as of September 1, 1996, and to any school 
or school program that was reinstated in fiscal year 2012. 
Funds made available under this Act may not be used to 
establish a charter school at a Bureau-funded school (as that 
term is defined in section 1141 of the Education Amend-
ments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2021)), except that a charter 
school that is in existence on the date of the enactment of 
this Act and that has operated at a Bureau-funded school 
before September 1, 1999, may continue to operate during 
that period, but only if the charter school pays to the Bu-
reau a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau 
for the use of the real and personal property (including 
buses and vans), the funds of the charter school are kept 
separate and apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau 
does not assume any obligation for charter school programs 
of the State in which the school is located if the charter 
school loses such funding. Employees of Bureau-funded 
schools sharing a campus with a charter school and per-
forming functions related to the charter school’s operation 
and employees of a charter school shall not be treated as 
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Federal employees for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, 
United States Code. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 
section 113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106– 
113, if in fiscal year 2003 or 2004 a grantee received indi-
rect and administrative costs pursuant to a distribution 
formula based on section 5(f) of Public Law 101–301, the 
Secretary shall continue to distribute indirect and adminis-
trative cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) dis-
tribution formula. 
Funds available under this Act may not be used to 
establish satellite locations of schools in the Bureau school 
system as of September 1, 1996, except that the Secretary 
may waive this prohibition in order for an Indian tribe 
to provide language and cultural immersion educational 
programs for non-public schools located within the jurisdic-
tional area of the tribal government which exclusively serve 
tribal members, do not include grades beyond those cur-
rently served at the existing Bureau-funded school, provide 
an educational environment with educator presence and 
academic facilities comparable to the Bureau-funded school, 
comply with all applicable Tribal, Federal, or State health 
and safety standards, and the Americans with Disabilities 
Act, and demonstrate the benefits of establishing operations 
at a satellite location in lieu of incurring extraordinary 
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costs, such as for transportation or other impacts to stu-
dents such as those caused by busing students extended dis-
tances: Provided, That no funds available under this Act 
may be used to fund operations, maintenance, rehabilita-
tion, construction, or other facilities-related costs for such 
assets that are not owned by the Bureau: Provided further, 
That the term ‘‘satellite school’’ means a school location 
physically separated from the existing Bureau school by 
more than 50 miles but that forms part of the existing 
school in all other respects. 
Funds made available for Tribal Priority Allocations 
within Operation of Indian Programs and Operation of In-
dian Education Programs may be used to execute requested 
adjustments in tribal priority allocations initiated by an 
Indian Tribe. 
OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN 
INDIANS 
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by di-
rect expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, com-
pacts, and grants, $108,399,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which not to exceed $17,911,000 from this or 
any other Act, may be available for historical accounting: 
Provided, That funds for trust management improvements 
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and litigation support may, as needed, be transferred to or 
merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, ‘‘Operation of 
Indian Programs’’ and Bureau of Indian Education, ‘‘Op-
eration of Indian Education Programs’’ accounts; the Office 
of the Solicitor, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account; and the 
Office of the Secretary, ‘‘Departmental Operations’’ ac-
count: Provided further, That funds made available through 
contracts or grants obligated during fiscal year 2021, as 
authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 
(25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall remain available until ex-
pended by the contractor or grantee: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary 
shall not be required to provide a quarterly statement of 
performance for any Indian trust account that has not had 
activity for at least 15 months and has a balance of $15 
or less: Provided further, That the Secretary shall issue an 
annual account statement and maintain a record of any 
such accounts and shall permit the balance in each such 
account to be withdrawn upon the express written request 
of the account holder: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$50,000 is available for the Secretary to make payments 
to correct administrative errors of either disbursements 
from or deposits to Individual Indian Money or Tribal ac-
counts after September 30, 2002: Provided further, That er-
roneous payments that are recovered shall be credited to and 
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remain available in this account for this purpose: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall not be required to reconcile 
Special Deposit Accounts with a balance of less than $500 
unless the Office of the Special Trustee receives proof of 
ownership from a Special Deposit Accounts claimant: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding section 102 of the 
American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 
1994 (Public Law 103–412) or any other provision of law, 
the Secretary may aggregate the trust accounts of individ-
uals whose whereabouts are unknown for a continuous pe-
riod of at least 5 years and shall not be required to generate 
periodic statements of performance for the individual ac-
counts: Provided further, That with respect to the eighth 
proviso, the Secretary shall continue to maintain sufficient 
records to determine the balance of the individual accounts, 
including any accrued interest and income, and such funds 
shall remain available to the individual account holders. 
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER AND RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for management of the Depart-
ment of the Interior and for grants and cooperative agree-
ments, as authorized by law, $120,608,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2022; of which no less than 
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$1,860,000 shall be to assist the Department with its com-
pliance responsibilities under 5 U.S.C. 552; of which not 
to exceed $15,000 may be for official reception and represen-
tation expenses; of which up to $1,000,000 shall be available 
for workers compensation payments and unemployment 
compensation payments associated with the orderly closure 
of the United States Bureau of Mines; and of which 
$11,204,000 for Indian land, mineral, and resource valu-
ation activities shall remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That funds for Indian land, mineral, and resource 
valuation activities may, as needed, be transferred to and 
merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs ‘‘Operation of 
Indian Programs’’ and Bureau of Indian Education ‘‘Oper-
ation of Indian Education Programs’’ accounts and the Of-
fice of the Special Trustee ‘‘Federal Trust Programs’’ ac-
count: Provided further, That funds made available through 
contracts or grants obligated during fiscal year 2021, as 
authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 
(25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall remain available until ex-
pended by the contractor or grantee. 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts made avail-
able under this heading in fiscal year 2016 or before, 
$17,398,000 is permanently rescinded: Provided, That no 
amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
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suant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
For fiscal year 2021, up to $400,000 of the payments 
authorized by chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, 
may be retained for administrative expenses of the Pay-
ments in Lieu of Taxes Program: Provided, That the 
amounts provided under this Act specifically for the Pay-
ments in Lieu of Taxes program are the only amounts 
available for payments authorized under chapter 69 of title 
31, United States Code: Provided further, That in the event 
the sums appropriated for any fiscal year for payments 
pursuant to this chapter are insufficient to make the full 
payments authorized by that chapter to all units of local 
government, then the payment to each local government 
shall be made proportionally: Provided further, That the 
Secretary may make adjustments to payment to individual 
units of local government to correct for prior overpayments 
or underpayments: Provided further, That no payment shall 
be made pursuant to that chapter to otherwise eligible units 
of local government if the computed amount of the payment 
is less than $100. 
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INSULAR AFFAIRS 
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior and 
other jurisdictions identified in section 104(e) of Public 
Law 108–188, $106,693,000, of which: (1) $97,140,000 shall 
remain available until expended for territorial assistance, 
including general technical assistance, maintenance assist-
ance, disaster assistance, coral reef initiative and natural 
resources activities, and brown tree snake control and re-
search; grants to the judiciary in American Samoa for com-
pensation and expenses, as authorized by law (48 U.S.C. 
1661(c)); grants to the Government of American Samoa, in 
addition to current local revenues, for construction and sup-
port of governmental functions; grants to the Government 
of the Virgin Islands, as authorized by law; grants to the 
Government of Guam, as authorized by law; and grants to 
the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands, as au-
thorized by law (Public Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and 
(2) $9,553,000 shall be available until September 30, 2022, 
for salaries and expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs: 
Provided, That all financial transactions of the territorial 
and local governments herein provided for, including such 
transactions of all agencies or instrumentalities established 
or used by such governments, may be audited by the Gov-
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ernment Accountability Office, at its discretion, in accord-
ance with chapter 35 of title 31, United States Code: Pro-
vided further, That Northern Mariana Islands Covenant 
grant funding shall be provided according to those terms 
of the Agreement of the Special Representatives on Future 
United States Financial Assistance for the Northern Mar-
iana Islands approved by Public Law 104–134: Provided 
further, That the funds for the program of operations and 
maintenance improvement are appropriated to institu-
tionalize routine operations and maintenance improvement 
of capital infrastructure with territorial participation and 
cost sharing to be determined by the Secretary based on the 
grantee’s commitment to timely maintenance of its capital 
assets: Provided further, That any appropriation for dis-
aster assistance under this heading in this Act or previous 
appropriations Acts may be used as non–Federal matching 
funds for the purpose of hazard mitigation grants provided 
pursuant to section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c). 
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 
For grants and necessary expenses, $8,463,000, to re-
main available until expended, as provided for in sections 
221(a)(2) and 233 of the Compact of Free Association for 
the Republic of Palau; and section 221(a)(2) of the Com-
pacts of Free Association for the Government of the Repub-
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lic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Mi-
cronesia, as authorized by Public Law 99–658 and Public 
Law 108–188: Provided, That of the funds appropriated 
under this heading, $5,000,000 is for deposit into the Com-
pact Trust Fund of the Republic of the Marshall Islands 
as compensation authorized by Public Law 108–188 for ad-
verse financial and economic impacts. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
At the request of the Governor of Guam, the Secretary 
may transfer discretionary funds or mandatory funds pro-
vided under section 104(e) of Public Law 108–188 and Pub-
lic Law 104–134, that are allocated for Guam, to the Sec-
retary of Agriculture for the subsidy cost of direct or guar-
anteed loans, plus not to exceed three percent of the amount 
of the subsidy transferred for the cost of loan administra-
tion, for the purposes authorized by the Rural Electrifica-
tion Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act for construction and re-
pair projects in Guam, and such funds shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That such costs, including 
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in sec-
tion 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided 
further, That such loans or loan guarantees may be made 
without regard to the population of the area, credit else-
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where requirements, and restrictions on the types of eligible 
entities under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and 
section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural De-
velopment Act: Provided further, That any funds trans-
ferred to the Secretary of Agriculture shall be in addition 
to funds otherwise made available to make or guarantee 
loans under such authorities. 
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 
$86,813,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral, $58,552,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2022. 
DEPARTMENT-WIDE PROGRAMS 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, fire sup-
pression operations, fire science and research, emergency re-
habilitation, fuels management activities, and rural fire as-
sistance by the Department of the Interior, $992,623,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 
$18,427,000 shall be for the renovation or construction of 
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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 pur-
poses: Provided further, That of the funds provided 
$219,964,000 is for fuels management activities: Provided 
further, That of the funds provided $20,470,000 is for 
burned area rehabilitation: Provided further, That persons 
hired pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsist-
ence and lodging without cost from funds available from 
this appropriation: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
42 U.S.C. 1856d, sums received by a bureau or office of 
the Department of the Interior for fire protection rendered 
pursuant 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 fur-
ther, 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 fuels management activities, and for training and moni-
toring associated with such fuels management 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 enti-
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ty may be shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected 
parties: Provided further, That notwithstanding require-
ments of the Competition in Contracting Act, the Secretary, 
for purposes of fuels management activities, may obtain 
maximum practicable competition among: (1) local private, 
nonprofit, or cooperative entities; (2) Youth Conservation 
Corps crews, Public Lands Corps (Public Law 109–154), 
or related partnerships with State, local, or nonprofit youth 
groups; (3) small or micro-businesses; or (4) other entities 
that will hire or train locally a significant percentage, de-
fined as 50 percent or more, of the project workforce to com-
plete such contracts: Provided further, That in imple-
menting this section, the Secretary shall develop written 
guidance to field units to ensure accountability and con-
sistent application of the authorities provided herein: Pro-
vided further, That funds appropriated under this heading 
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 leases of real 
property with local governments, at or below fair market 
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value, to construct capitalized improvements for fire facili-
ties on such leased properties, including but not limited to 
fire guard stations, retardant stations, and other initial at-
tack and fire support facilities, and to make advance pay-
ments for any such lease or for construction activity associ-
ated with the lease: Provided further, That the Secretary 
of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may author-
ize the transfer of funds appropriated for wildland fire 
management, in an aggregate amount not to exceed 
$50,000,000 between the Departments when such transfers 
would facilitate and expedite wildland fire management 
programs and projects: Provided further, That funds pro-
vided for wildfire suppression shall be available for support 
of Federal emergency response actions: Provided further, 
That funds appropriated under this heading shall be avail-
able for assistance to or through the Department of State 
in connection with forest and rangeland research, technical 
information, and assistance in foreign countries, and, with 
the concurrence of the Secretary of State, shall be available 
to support forestry, wildland fire management, and related 
natural resource activities outside the United States and 
its territories and possessions, including technical assist-
ance, education and training, and cooperation with United 
States and international organizations: Provided further, 
That of the funds provided under this heading $383,657,000 
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is provided to meet the terms of section 251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985, as amended. 
WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
In addition to the amounts provided under the heading 
‘‘Department of the Interior—Department-Wide Pro-
grams—Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppres-
sion operations, $310,000,000, to remain available until 
transferred, is additional new budget authority as specified 
for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided, That 
such amounts may be transferred to and merged with 
amounts made available under the headings ‘‘Department 
of Agriculture—Forest Service—Wildland Fire Manage-
ment’’ and ‘‘Department of the Interior—Department-Wide 
Programs—Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire sup-
pression operations in the fiscal year in which such 
amounts are transferred: Provided further, That amounts 
may be transferred to the ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ ac-
counts in the Department of Agriculture or the Department 
of the Interior only upon the notification of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations that all wildfire sup-
pression operations funds appropriated under that heading 
in this and prior appropriations Acts to the agency to 
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which the funds will be transferred will be obligated within 
30 days: Provided further, That the transfer authority pro-
vided under this heading is in addition to any other trans-
fer authority provided by law: Provided further, That, in 
determining whether all wildfire suppression operations 
funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire 
Management’’ in this and prior appropriations Acts to ei-
ther the Department of Agriculture or the Department of 
the Interior will be obligated within 30 days pursuant to 
the previous proviso, any funds transferred or permitted to 
be transferred pursuant to any other transfer authority pro-
vided by law shall be excluded. 
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the Inte-
rior and any of its component offices and bureaus for the 
response action, including associated activities, performed 
pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), 
$10,010,000, to remain available until expended. 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND 
RESTORATION 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 
To conduct natural resource damage assessment, res-
toration activities, and onshore oil spill preparedness by the 
Department of the Interior necessary to carry out the provi-
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sions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com-
pensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et 
seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), 
and 54 U.S.C. 100721 et seq., $7,767,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
For the operation and maintenance of a departmental 
financial and business management system, information 
technology improvements of general benefit to the Depart-
ment, cybersecurity, and the consolidation of facilities and 
operations throughout the Department, $60,735,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That none of the 
funds appropriated in this Act or any other Act may be 
used to establish reserves in the Working Capital Fund ac-
count other than for accrued annual leave and depreciation 
of equipment without prior approval of the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior 
may assess reasonable charges to State, local, and tribal 
government employees for training services provided by the 
National Indian Program Training Center, other than 
training related to Public Law 93–638: Provided further, 
That the Secretary may lease or otherwise provide space 
and related facilities, equipment, or professional services of 
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the National Indian Program Training Center to State, 
local and tribal government employees or persons or organi-
zations engaged in cultural, educational, or recreational ac-
tivities (as defined in section 3306(a) of title 40, United 
States Code) at the prevailing rate for similar space, facili-
ties, equipment, or services in the vicinity of the National 
Indian Program Training Center: Provided further, That 
all funds received pursuant to the two preceding provisos 
shall be credited to this account, shall be available until 
expended, and shall be used by the Secretary for necessary 
expenses of the National Indian Program Training Center: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may enter into grants 
and cooperative agreements to support the Office of Natural 
Resource Revenue’s collection and disbursement of royalties, 
fees, and other mineral revenue proceeds, as authorized by 
law. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from avail-
able resources within the Working Capital Fund, aircraft 
which may be obtained by donation, purchase, or through 
available excess surplus property: Provided, That existing 
aircraft being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived 
or trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the 
replacement aircraft. 
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OFFICE OF NATURAL RESOURCES REVENUE 
For necessary expenses for management of the collec-
tion and disbursement of royalties, fees, and other mineral 
revenue proceeds, and for grants and cooperative agree-
ments, as authorized by law, $148,474,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2022; of which $50,651,000 shall 
remain available until expended for the purpose of mineral 
revenue management activities: Provided, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, $15,000 shall be avail-
able for refunds of overpayments in connection with certain 
Indian leases in which the Secretary of the Interior con-
curred with the claimed refund due, to pay amounts owed 
to Indian allottees or tribes, or to correct prior unrecover-
able erroneous payments. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY—INTRA-BUREAU 
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 of the Interior, 
for the emergency reconstruction, replacement, or repair of 
aircraft, buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment 
damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other un-
avoidable causes: Provided, That no funds shall be made 
available under this authority until funds specifically made 
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available to the Department of the Interior for emergencies 
shall have been exhausted: Provided further, That all funds 
used pursuant to this section must be replenished by a sup-
plemental appropriation, which must be requested as 
promptly as possible. 
EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY—DEPARTMENT-WIDE 
SEC. 102. The Secretary of the Interior may authorize 
the expenditure 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 Inte-
rior; for the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands 
under its jurisdiction; for emergency actions related to po-
tential or actual earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or 
other unavoidable causes; for contingency planning subse-
quent to actual oil spills; for response and natural resource 
damage assessment activities related to actual oil spills or 
releases of hazardous substances into the environment; for 
the prevention, suppression, and control of actual or poten-
tial grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks on lands 
under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, pursuant to the au-
thority in section 417(b) of Public Law 106–224 (7 U.S.C. 
7717(b)); for emergency reclamation projects under section 
410 of Public Law 95–87; and shall transfer, from any no 
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year funds available to the Office of Surface Mining Rec-
lamation and Enforcement, such funds as may be necessary 
to permit assumption of regulatory authority in the event 
a primacy State is not carrying out the regulatory provi-
sions of the Surface Mining Act: Provided, That appropria-
tions made in this title for wildland fire operations shall 
be available for the payment of obligations incurred during 
the preceding fiscal year, and for reimbursement to other 
Federal agencies for destruction of vehicles, aircraft, or 
other equipment in connection with their use for wildland 
fire operations, with 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 suppression’’ shall be exhausted within 30 
days: Provided further, That all funds used pursuant to this 
section must be replenished by a supplemental appropria-
tion, which must be requested as promptly as possible: Pro-
vided further, That such replenishment funds shall be used 
to reimburse, on a pro rata basis, accounts from which 
emergency funds were transferred. 
AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 103. Appropriations made to the Department of 
the Interior in this title shall be available for services as 
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authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, 
when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, in total 
amount not to exceed $500,000; purchase and replacement 
of motor vehicles, including specially equipped law enforce-
ment vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; purchase of reprints; pay-
ment for telephone service in private residences in the field, 
when authorized under regulations approved by the Sec-
retary; and the payment of dues, when authorized by the 
Secretary, for library membership in societies or associa-
tions which issue publications to members only or at a price 
to members lower than to subscribers who are not members. 
AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS, INDIAN TRUST MANAGEMENT 
SEC. 104. Appropriations made in this Act under the 
headings Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian 
Education, and Office of the Special Trustee for American 
Indians and any unobligated balances from prior appro-
priations Acts made under the same headings shall be avail-
able for expenditure or transfer for Indian trust manage-
ment and reform activities. Total funding for historical ac-
counting activities shall not exceed amounts specifically 
designated in this Act for such purpose. The Secretary shall 
notify the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
within 60 days of the expenditure or transfer of any funds 
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under this section, including the amount expended or trans-
ferred and how the funds will be used. 
REDISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS, BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
SEC. 105. 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 2021. Under circumstances of dual enrollment, over-
lapping service areas or inaccurate distribution methodolo-
gies, the 10 percent limitation does not apply. 
ELLIS, GOVERNORS, AND LIBERTY ISLANDS 
SEC. 106. 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 
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-
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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. 
OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF INSPECTION FEES 
SEC. 107. (a) In fiscal year 2021, the Secretary of the 
Interior shall collect a nonrefundable inspection fee, which 
shall be deposited in the ‘‘Offshore Safety and Environ-
mental Enforcement’’ account, from the designated operator 
for facilities subject to inspection under 43 U.S.C. 1348(c). 
(b) Annual fees shall be collected for facilities that are 
above the waterline, excluding drilling rigs, and are in 
place at the start of the fiscal year. Fees for fiscal year 2021 
shall be— 
(1) $10,500 for facilities with no wells, but with 
processing equipment or gathering lines; 
(2) $17,000 for facilities with 1 to 10 wells, with 
any combination of active or inactive wells; and 
(3) $31,500 for facilities with more than 10 
wells, with any combination of active or inactive 
wells. 
(c) Fees for drilling rigs shall be assessed for all inspec-
tions completed in fiscal year 2021. Fees for fiscal year 
2021 shall be— 
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(1) $30,500 per inspection for rigs operating in 
water depths of 500 feet or more; and 
(2) $16,700 per inspection for rigs operating in 
water depths of less than 500 feet. 
(d) Fees for inspection of well operations conducted via 
non-rig units as outlined in title 30 CFR 250 subparts D, 
E, F, and Q shall be assessed for all inspections completed 
in fiscal year 2021. Fees for fiscal year 2021 shall be— 
(1) $13,260 per inspection for non-rig units op-
erating in water depths of 2,500 feet or more; 
(2) $11,530 per inspection for non-rig units op-
erating in water depths between 500 and 2,499 feet; 
and 
(3) $4,470 per inspection for non-rig units oper-
ating in water depths of less than 500 feet. 
(e) The Secretary shall bill designated operators under 
subsection (b) quarterly, with payment required within 30 
days of billing. The Secretary shall bill designated operators 
under subsection (c) within 30 days of the end of the month 
in which the inspection occurred, with payment required 
within 30 days of billing. The Secretary shall bill des-
ignated operators under subsection (d) with payment re-
quired by the end of the following quarter. 
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CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS FOR WILD HORSE AND 
BURRO HOLDING FACILITIES 
SEC. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into multiyear 
cooperative agreements with nonprofit organizations and 
other appropriate entities, and may enter into multiyear 
contracts in accordance with the provisions of section 3903 
of title 41, United States Code (except that the 5-year term 
restriction in subsection (a) shall not apply), for the long- 
term care and maintenance of excess wild free roaming 
horses and burros by such organizations or entities on pri-
vate land. Such cooperative agreements and contracts may 
not exceed 10 years, subject to renewal at the discretion of 
the Secretary. 
MASS MARKING OF SALMONIDS 
SEC. 109. 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. 
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CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS WITH INDIAN AFFAIRS 
SEC. 110. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
during fiscal year 2021, in carrying out work involving co-
operation with State, local, and tribal governments or any 
political subdivision thereof, Indian Affairs may record ob-
ligations against accounts receivable from any such entities, 
except that total obligations at the end of the fiscal year 
shall not exceed total budgetary resources available at the 
end of the fiscal year. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR EXPERIENCED SERVICES 
PROGRAM 
SEC. 111. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law relating to Federal grants and cooperative agreements, 
the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make grants 
to, or enter into cooperative agreements with, private non-
profit organizations designated by the Secretary of Labor 
under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 to utilize 
the talents of older Americans in programs authorized by 
other provisions of law administered by the Secretary and 
consistent with such provisions of law. 
(b) Prior to awarding any grant or agreement under 
subsection (a), the Secretary shall ensure that the agreement 
would not— 
(1) result in the displacement of individuals cur-
rently employed by the Department, including partial 
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displacement through reduction of non-overtime 
hours, wages, or employment benefits; 
(2) result in the use of an individual under the 
Department of the Interior Experienced Services Pro-
gram for a job or function in a case in which a Fed-
eral employee is in a layoff status from the same or 
substantially equivalent job within the Department; 
or 
(3) affect existing contracts for services. 
OBLIGATION OF FUNDS 
SEC. 112. Amounts appropriated by this Act to the De-
partment of the Interior shall be available for obligation 
and expenditure not later than 60 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
EXTENSION OF AUTHORITIES 
SEC. 113. (a) Section 708(a) of division II of Public 
Law 104–333, as amended by Public Law 110–229 section 
461, is further amended by striking ‘‘ $15,000,000’’ and in-
serting ‘‘ $17,000,000’’. 
(b) Section 109(a) of title I of Public Law 106–278 
is amended by striking ‘‘ $10,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘ 
$12,000,000’’. 
SEPARATION OF ACCOUNTS 
SEC. 114. The Secretary of the Interior, in order to 
implement an orderly transition to separate accounts of the 
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Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian Edu-
cation, may transfer funds among and between the successor 
offices and bureaus affected by the reorganization only in 
conformance with the reprogramming guidelines described 
in this Act. 
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES (PILT) 
SEC. 115. Section 6906 of title 31, United States Code, 
shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2021’’ for ‘‘fis-
cal year 2019’’. 
SAGE-GROUSE 
SEC. 116. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior to write or issue pursuant to section 4 of the Endan-
gered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533)— 
(1) a proposed rule for greater sage-grouse 
(Centrocercus urophasianus); 
(2) a proposed rule for the Columbia basin dis-
tinct population segment of greater sage-grouse. 
DISCLOSURE OF DEPARTURE OR ALTERNATE PROCEDURE 
APPROVAL 
SEC. 117. (a) Subject to subsection (b), beginning no 
later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act, in any 
case in which the Bureau of Safety and Environmental En-
forcement or the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management pre-
scribes or approves any departure or use of alternate proce-
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dure or equipment, in regards to a plan or permit, under 
30 CFR 585.103, 30 CFR 550.141; 30 CFR 550.142; 30 
CFR 250.141, or 30 CFR 250.142, the head of such bureau 
shall post a description of such departure or alternate pro-
cedure or equipment use approval on such bureau’s publicly 
available website not more than 15 business days after such 
issuance. 
(b) The head of each bureau may exclude confidential 
business information. 
MEDICAL SERVICES FUND 
SEC. 118. Beginning in fiscal year 2022 and for each 
fiscal year thereafter, fees collected pursuant to section 2404 
of Public Law 116-9 shall be deposited into the National 
Park Medical Services Fund established pursuant to such 
section of such Act as discretionary offsetting receipts. 
INTERAGENCY MOTOR POOL 
SEC. 119. Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
or Federal regulation, federally recognized Indian tribes or 
authorized tribal organizations that receive Tribally-Con-
trolled School Grants pursuant to Public Law 100–297 may 
obtain interagency motor vehicles and related services for 
performance of any activities carried out under such grants 
to the same extent as if they were contracting under the 
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. 
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LONG BRIDGE PROJECT 
SEC. 120. (a) AUTHORIZATION OF CONVEYANCE.—On 
request by the State of Virginia or the District of Columbia 
for the purpose of the construction of rail and other infra-
structure relating to the Long Bridge Project, the Secretary 
of the Interior may convey to the State or the District of 
Columbia, as applicable, all right, title, and interest of the 
United States in and to any portion of the approximately 
4.4 acres of National Park Service land depicted as ‘‘Per-
manent Impact to NPS Land’’ on the Map dated May 15, 
2020, that is identified by the State or the District of Co-
lumbia. 
(b) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—Such conveyance of the 
National Park Service land under subsection (a) shall be 
subject to any terms and conditions that the Secretary may 
require. If such conveyed land is no longer being used for 
the purposes specified in this section, the lands or interests 
therein shall revert to the National Park Service after they 
have been restored or remediated to the satisfaction of the 
Secretary. 
(c) CORRECTIONS.—The Secretary and the State or the 
District of Columbia, as applicable, by mutual agreement, 
may— 
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(1) make minor boundary adjustments to the Na-
tional Park Service land to be conveyed to the State 
or the District of Columbia under subsection (a); and 
(2) correct any minor errors in the Map referred 
to in subsection (a). 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 
(1) LONG BRIDGE PROJECT.—The term ‘‘Long 
Bridge Project’’ means the rail project, as identified 
by the Federal Railroad Administration, from 
Rosslyn (RO) Interlocking in Arlington, Virginia, to 
L’Enfant (LE) Interlocking in Washington, DC, 
which includes a bicycle and pedestrian bridge. 
(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Di-
rector of the National Park Service. 
(3) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the State 
of Virginia. 
TITLE II 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
For science and technology, including research and de-
velopment activities, which shall include research and devel-
opment activities under the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980; nec-
essary expenses for personnel and related costs and travel 
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expenses; procurement of laboratory equipment and sup-
plies; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; and 
other operating expenses in support of research and develop-
ment, $729,329,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2022: Provided, That of the funds included under this 
heading, $7,500,000 shall be for Research: National Prior-
ities as specified in the explanatory statement described in 
section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consoli-
dated Act). 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT 
For environmental programs and management, in-
cluding necessary expenses not otherwise provided for, for 
personnel and related costs and travel expenses; hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of 
aircraft; purchase of reprints; library memberships in soci-
eties or associations which issue publications to members 
only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers 
who are not members; administrative costs of the 
brownfields program under the Small Business Liability 
Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002; imple-
mentation of a coal combustion residual permit program 
under section 2301 of the Water and Waste Act of 2016; 
and not to exceed $19,000 for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses, $2,761,550,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2022: Provided, That of the funds in-
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cluded under this heading, $21,700,000 shall be for Envi-
ronmental Protection: National Priorities as specified in 
the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the 
matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act): Pro-
vided further, That of the funds included under this head-
ing, $541,972,000 shall be for Geographic Programs speci-
fied in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in 
the matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act). 
In addition, $5,000,000 to remain available until ex-
pended, for necessary expenses of activities described in sec-
tion 26(b)(1) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 
U.S.C. 2625(b)(1)): Provided, That fees collected pursuant 
to that section of that Act and deposited in the ‘‘TSCA Serv-
ice Fee Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting receipts in fiscal 
year 2021 shall be retained and used for necessary salaries 
and expenses in this appropriation and shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided further, That the sum herein 
appropriated in this paragraph from the general fund for 
fiscal year 2021 shall be reduced by the amount of discre-
tionary offsetting receipts received during fiscal year 2021, 
so as to result in a final fiscal year 2021 appropriation 
from the general fund estimated at not more than $0: Pro-
vided further, That to the extent that amounts realized from 
such receipts exceed $5,000,000, those amount in excess of 
$5,000,000 shall be deposited in the ‘‘TSCA Service Fee 
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Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting receipts in fiscal year 
2021, shall be retained and used for necessary salaries and 
expenses in this account, and shall remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That of the funds included in 
the first paragraph under this heading, the Chemical Risk 
Review and Reduction program project shall be allocated 
for this fiscal year, excluding the amount of any fees appro-
priated, not less than the amount of appropriations for that 
program project for fiscal year 2014. 
HAZARDOUS WASTE ELECTRONIC MANIFEST SYSTEM 
FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out section 3024 of the 
Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6939g), including the 
development, operation, maintenance, and upgrading of the 
hazardous waste electronic manifest system established by 
such section, $8,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That the sum herein appropriated from 
the general fund shall be reduced as offsetting collections 
under such section 3024 are received during fiscal year 
2021, which shall remain available until expended and be 
used for necessary expenses in this appropriation, so as to 
result in a final fiscal year 2021 appropriation from the 
general fund estimated at not more than $0: Provided fur-
ther, That to the extent such offsetting collections received 
in fiscal year 2021 exceed $8,000,000, those excess amounts 
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shall remain available until expended and be used for nec-
essary expenses in this appropriation. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General 
Act of 1978, $43,500,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2022. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, 
or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency, 
$33,752,000, to remain available until expended. 
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 
of 1980 (CERCLA), including sections 111(c)(3), (c)(5), 
(c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and hire, maintenance, 
and operation of aircraft, $1,205,811,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, consisting of such sums as are available 
in the Trust Fund on September 30, 2020, as authorized 
by section 517(a) of the Superfund Amendments and Reau-
thorization Act of 1986 (SARA) and up to $1,205,811,000 
as a payment from general revenues to the Hazardous Sub-
stance Superfund for purposes as authorized by section 
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517(b) of SARA: Provided, That funds appropriated under 
this heading may be allocated to other Federal agencies in 
accordance with section 111(a) of CERCLA: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds appropriated under this heading, 
$11,586,000 shall be paid to the ‘‘Office of Inspector Gen-
eral’’ appropriation to remain available until September 
30, 2022, and $30,755,000 shall be paid to the ‘‘Science 
and Technology’’ appropriation to remain available until 
September 30, 2022. 
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TRUST FUND 
PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sub-
title I of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $92,203,000, to re-
main available until expended, of which $66,834,000 shall 
be for carrying out leaking underground storage tank clean-
up activities authorized by section 9003(h) of the Solid 
Waste Disposal Act; $25,369,000 shall be for carrying out 
the other provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act speci-
fied in section 9508(c) of the Internal Revenue Code: Pro-
vided, That the Administrator is authorized to use appro-
priations made available under this heading to implement 
section 9013 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide fi-
nancial assistance to federally recognized Indian tribes for 
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the development and implementation of programs to man-
age underground storage tanks. 
INLAND OIL SPILL PROGRAMS 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environmental 
Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil Pollution 
Act of 1990, including hire, maintenance, and operation 
of aircraft, $20,098,000, to be derived from the Oil Spill 
Liability trust fund, to remain available until expended. 
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolving 
funds and performance partnership grants, $4,313,901,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which— 
(1) $1,638,826,000 shall be for making capital-
ization grants for the Clean Water State Revolving 
Funds under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act; and of which $1,126,088,000 shall be for 
making capitalization grants for the Drinking Water 
State Revolving Funds under section 1452 of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act: Provided, That for fiscal year 
2021, to the extent there are sufficient eligible project 
applications and projects are consistent with State 
Intended Use Plans, not less than 10 percent of the 
funds made available under this title to each State for 
Clean Water State Revolving Fund capitalization 
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grants shall be used by the State for projects to ad-
dress green infrastructure, water or energy efficiency 
improvements, or other environmentally innovative 
activities: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2021, 
funds made available under this title to each State for 
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund capitalization 
grants may, at the discretion of each State, be used 
for projects to address green infrastructure, water or 
energy efficiency improvements, or other environ-
mentally innovative activities: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act, the limitation on the 
amounts in a State water pollution control revolving 
fund that may be used by a State to administer the 
fund shall not apply to amounts included as prin-
cipal in loans made by such fund in fiscal year 2021 
and prior years where such amounts represent costs 
of administering the fund to the extent that such 
amounts are or were deemed reasonable by the Ad-
ministrator, accounted for separately from other as-
sets in the fund, and used for eligible purposes of the 
fund, including administration: Provided further, 
That for fiscal year 2021, notwithstanding the provi-
sions of subsections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of section 201 
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, grants 
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made under title II of such Act for American Samoa, 
Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, 
the United States Virgin Islands, and the District of 
Columbia may also be made for the purpose of pro-
viding assistance: (1) solely for facility plans, design 
activities, or plans, specifications, and estimates for 
any proposed project for the construction of treatment 
works; and (2) for the construction, repair, or replace-
ment of privately owned treatment works serving one 
or more principal residences or small commercial es-
tablishments: Provided further, That for fiscal year 
2021, notwithstanding the provisions of such sub-
sections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of section 201 and section 
518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 
funds reserved by the Administrator for grants under 
section 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act may also be used to provide assistance: (1) solely 
for facility plans, design activities, or plans, speci-
fications, and estimates for any proposed project for 
the construction of treatment works; and (2) for the 
construction, repair, or replacement of privately 
owned treatment works serving one or more principal 
residences or small commercial establishments: Pro-
vided further, That for fiscal year 2021, notwith-
standing any provision of the Federal Water Pollu-
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tion Control Act and regulations issued pursuant 
thereof, up to a total of $2,000,000 of the funds re-
served by the Administrator for grants under section 
518(c) of such Act may also be used for grants for 
training, technical assistance, and educational pro-
grams relating to the operation and management of 
the treatment works specified in section 518(c) of such 
Act: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2021, funds 
reserved under section 518(c) of such Act shall be 
available for grants only to Indian tribes, as defined 
in section 518(h) of such Act and former Indian res-
ervations in Oklahoma (as determined by the Sec-
retary of the Interior) and Native Villages as defined 
in Public Law 92–203: Provided further, That for fis-
cal year 2021, notwithstanding the limitation on 
amounts in section 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollu-
tion Control Act, up to a total of 2 percent of the 
funds appropriated, or $30,000,000, whichever is 
greater, and notwithstanding the limitation on 
amounts in section 1452(i) of the Safe Drinking 
Water Act, up to a total of 2 percent of the funds ap-
propriated, or $20,000,000, whichever is greater, for 
State Revolving Funds under such Acts may be re-
served by the Administrator for grants under section 
518(c) and section 1452(i) of such Acts: Provided fur-
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ther, That for fiscal year 2021, notwithstanding the 
amounts specified in section 205(c) of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act, up to 1.5 percent of the 
aggregate funds appropriated for the Clean Water 
State Revolving Fund program under the Act less any 
sums reserved under section 518(c) of the Act, may be 
reserved by the Administrator for grants made under 
title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act for 
American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Marianas, and United States Virgin Is-
lands: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2021, 
notwithstanding the limitations on amounts specified 
in section 1452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, up 
to 1.5 percent of the funds appropriated for the 
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs 
under the Safe Drinking Water Act may be reserved 
by the Administrator for grants made under section 
1452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water Act: Provided fur-
ther, That 10 percent of the funds made available 
under this title to each State for Clean Water State 
Revolving Fund capitalization grants and 14 percent 
of the funds made available under this title to each 
State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund cap-
italization grants shall be used by the State to pro-
vide additional subsidy to eligible recipients in the 
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form of forgiveness of principal, negative interest 
loans, or grants (or any combination of these), and 
shall be so used by the State only where such funds 
are provided as initial financing for an eligible re-
cipient or to buy, refinance, or restructure the debt 
obligations of eligible recipients only where such debt 
was incurred on or after the date of enactment of this 
Act, or where such debt was incurred prior to the date 
of enactment of this Act if the State, with concurrence 
from the Administrator, determines that such funds 
could be used to help address a threat to public health 
from heightened exposure to lead in drinking water or 
if a Federal or State emergency declaration has been 
issued due to a threat to public health from height-
ened exposure to lead in a municipal drinking water 
supply before the date of enactment of this Act: Pro-
vided further, That in a State in which such an emer-
gency declaration has been issued, the State may use 
more than 14 percent of the funds made available 
under this title to the State for Drinking Water State 
Revolving Fund capitalization grants to provide ad-
ditional subsidy to eligible recipients; 
(2) $30,000,000 shall be for architectural, engi-
neering, planning, design, construction and related 
activities in connection with the construction of high 
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priority water and wastewater facilities in the area 
of the United States-Mexico Border, after consultation 
with the appropriate border commission: Provided, 
That no funds provided by this appropriations Act to 
address the water, wastewater and other critical in-
frastructure needs of the colonias in the United States 
along the United States-Mexico border shall be made 
available to a county or municipal government unless 
that government has established an enforceable local 
ordinance, or other zoning rule, which prevents in 
that jurisdiction the development or construction of 
any additional colonia areas, or the development 
within an existing colonia the construction of any 
new home, business, or other structure which lacks 
water, wastewater, or other necessary infrastructure; 
(3) $36,186,000 shall be for grants to the State 
of Alaska to address drinking water and wastewater 
infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska Native Vil-
lages: Provided, That of these funds: (A) the State of 
Alaska shall provide a match of 25 percent; (B) no 
more than 5 percent of the funds may be used for ad-
ministrative and overhead expenses; and (C) the State 
of Alaska shall make awards consistent with the 
Statewide priority list established in conjunction with 
the Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture 
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for all water, sewer, waste disposal, and similar 
projects carried out by the State of Alaska that are 
funded under section 221 of the Federal Water Pollu-
tion Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) or the Consolidated 
Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 et 
seq.) which shall allocate not less than 25 percent of 
the funds provided for projects in regional hub com-
munities; 
(4) $90,982,000 shall be to carry out section 
104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Re-
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
(CERCLA), including grants, interagency agree-
ments, and associated program support costs: Pro-
vided, That at least 10 percent shall be allocated for 
assistance in persistent poverty counties: Provided 
further, That for purposes of this section, the term 
‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ means any county that 
has had 20 percent or more of its population living 
in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by the 
1990 and 2000 decennial censuses and the most recent 
Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, or any 
territory or possession of the United States; 
(5) $90,000,000 shall be for grants under title 
VII, subtitle G of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; 
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(6) $59,000,000 shall be for targeted airshed 
grants in accordance with the terms and conditions 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 
(in the matter preceding division A of this consoli-
dated Act); 
(7) $4,000,000 shall be to carry out the water 
quality program authorized in section 5004(d) of the 
Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation 
Act (Public Law 114–322); 
(8) $26,408,000 shall be for grants under sub-
sections (a) through (j) of section 1459A of the Safe 
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–19a); 
(9) $26,500,000 shall be for grants under section 
1464(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–24(d)); 
(10) $21,511,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 1459B of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
U.S.C. 300j–19b); 
(11) $4,000,000 shall be for grants under section 
1459A(l) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–19a(l)); 
(12) $18,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 104(b)(8) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1254(b)(8)); 
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(13) $40,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1301); 
(14) $3,000,000 shall be for grants under section 
4304(b) of the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 
2018 (Public Law 115–270); and 
(15) $1,099,400,000 shall be for grants, includ-
ing associated program support costs, to States, feder-
ally recognized tribes, interstate agencies, tribal con-
sortia, and air pollution control agencies for multi- 
media or single media pollution prevention, control 
and abatement, and related activities, including ac-
tivities pursuant to the provisions set forth under this 
heading in Public Law 104–134, and for making 
grants under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for par-
ticulate matter monitoring and data collection activi-
ties subject to terms and conditions specified by the 
Administrator, and under section 2301 of the Water 
and Waste Act of 2016 to assist States in developing 
and implementing programs for control of coal com-
bustion residuals, of which: $46,195,000 shall be for 
carrying out section 128 of CERCLA; $9,336,000 
shall be for Environmental Information Exchange 
Network grants, including associated program sup-
port costs; $1,475,000 shall be for grants to States 
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under section 2007(f)(2) of the Solid Waste Disposal 
Act, which shall be in addition to funds appropriated 
under the heading ‘‘Leaking Underground Storage 
Tank Trust Fund Program’’ to carry out the provi-
sions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act specified in sec-
tion 9508(c) of the Internal Revenue Code other than 
section 9003(h) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; 
$17,924,000 of the funds available for grants under 
section 106 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act shall be for State participation in national- and 
State-level statistical surveys of water resources and 
enhancements 
to 
State 
monitoring 
programs; 
$10,000,000 shall be for multipurpose grants, includ-
ing interagency agreements, in accordance with the 
terms and conditions described in the explanatory 
statement described in section 4 (in the matter pre-
ceding division A of this consolidated Act). 
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE AND INNOVATION 
PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of direct loans and for the cost of guaran-
teed loans, as authorized by the Water Infrastructure Fi-
nance and Innovation Act of 2014, $59,500,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That such costs, includ-
ing the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined 
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Pro-
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vided further, That these funds are available to subsidize 
gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans, 
including capitalized interest, and total loan principal, in-
cluding capitalized interest, any part of which is to be 
guaranteed, not to exceed $12,500,000,000: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds made available under this heading, 
$5,000,000 shall be used solely for the cost of direct loans 
and for the cost of guaranteed loans for projects described 
in section 5026(9) of the Water Infrastructure Finance and 
Innovation Act of 2014 to State infrastructure financing 
authorities, as authorized by section 5033(e) of such Act: 
Provided further, That the use of direct loans or loan guar-
antee authority under this heading for direct loans or com-
mitments to guarantee loans for any project shall be in ac-
cordance with the criteria published in the Federal Register 
on June 30, 2020 (85 FR 39189) pursuant to the fourth 
proviso under the heading ‘‘Water Infrastructure Finance 
and Innovation Program Account’’ in division D of the 
Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public 
Law 116–94): Provided further, That none of the direct 
loans or loan guarantee authority made available under 
this heading shall be available for any project unless the 
Administrator and the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget have certified in advance in writing that the 
direct loan or loan guarantee, as applicable, and the project 
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comply with the criteria referenced in the previous proviso: 
Provided further, That, for the purposes of carrying out the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Director of the Con-
gressional Budget Office may request, and the Adminis-
trator shall promptly provide, documentation and informa-
tion relating to a project identified in a Letter of Interest 
submitted to the Administrator pursuant to a Notice of 
Funding Availability for applications for credit assistance 
under the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation 
Act Program, including with respect to a project that was 
initiated or completed before the date of enactment of this 
Act. 
In addition, fees authorized to be collected pursuant 
to sections 5029 and 5030 of the Water Infrastructure Fi-
nance and Innovation Act of 2014 shall be deposited in this 
account, to remain available until expended. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, notwithstanding 
section 5033 of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Inno-
vation Act of 2014, $5,500,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2022. 
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—ENVIRONMENTAL 
PROTECTION AGENCY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS AND RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For fiscal year 2021, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 
6303(1) and 6305(1), the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, in carrying out the Agency’s 
function to implement directly Federal environmental pro-
grams required or authorized by law in the absence of an 
acceptable tribal program, may award cooperative agree-
ments to federally recognized Indian tribes or Intertribal 
consortia, if authorized by their member tribes, to assist the 
Administrator in implementing Federal environmental 
programs for Indian tribes required or authorized by law, 
except that no such cooperative agreements may be awarded 
from funds designated for State financial assistance agree-
ments. 
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency is authorized to collect and obligate pesticide reg-
istration service fees in accordance with section 33 of the 
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 
U.S.C. 136w–8). 
Notwithstanding section 33(d)(2) of the Federal Insec-
ticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 U.S.C. 
136w–8(d)(2)), the Administrator of the Environmental 
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Protection Agency may assess fees under section 33 of 
FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136w–8) for fiscal year 2021. 
The Administrator is authorized to transfer up to 
$330,000,000 of the funds appropriated for the Great Lakes 
Restoration Initiative under the heading ‘‘Environmental 
Programs and Management’’ to the head of any Federal de-
partment or agency, with the concurrence of such head, to 
carry out activities that would support the Great Lakes 
Restoration Initiative and Great Lakes Water Quality 
Agreement programs, projects, or activities; to enter into 
an interagency agreement with the head of such Federal de-
partment or agency to carry out these activities; and to 
make grants to governmental entities, nonprofit organiza-
tions, institutions, and individuals for planning, research, 
monitoring, outreach, and implementation in furtherance 
of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and the Great 
Lakes Water Quality Agreement. 
The Science and Technology, Environmental Programs 
and Management, Office of Inspector General, Hazardous 
Substance Superfund, and Leaking Underground Storage 
Tank Trust Fund Program Accounts, are available for the 
construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renova-
tion of facilities, provided that the cost does not exceed 
$150,000 per project. 
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For fiscal year 2021, and notwithstanding section 
518(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1377(f)), the Administrator is authorized to use the 
amounts appropriated for any fiscal year under section 319 
of the Act to make grants to Indian tribes pursuant to sec-
tions 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act. 
The Administrator is authorized to use the amounts 
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Environmental Programs 
and Management’’ for fiscal year 2021 to provide grants 
to implement the Southeastern New England Watershed 
Restoration Program. 
Notwithstanding the limitations on amounts in section 
320(i)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 
not less than $1,500,000 of the funds made available under 
this title for the National Estuary Program shall be for 
making competitive awards described in section 320(g)(4). 
For fiscal year 2021, the Office of Chemical Safety and 
Pollution Prevention and the Office of Water may, using 
funds appropriated under the headings ‘‘Environmental 
Programs and Management’’ and ‘‘Science and Tech-
nology’’, contract directly with individuals or indirectly 
with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without re-
gard to 41 U.S.C. 5, for the temporary or intermittent per-
sonal services of students or recent graduates, who shall be 
considered employees for the purposes of chapters 57 and 
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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 purpose: 
Provided, That amounts used for this purpose by the Office 
of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention and the Office 
of Water collectively may not exceed $2,000,000. 
Of the unobligated balances available for the ‘‘State 
and Tribal Assistance Grants’’ account, $27,991,000 are 
hereby permanently rescinded: Provided, That no amounts 
may be rescinded from amounts that were designated by 
the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the 
Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budg-
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR NATURAL 
RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Sec-
retary for Natural Resources and Environment, $875,000: 
Provided, That funds made available by this Act to any 
agency in the Natural Resources and Environment mission 
area for salaries and expenses are available to fund up to 
one administrative support staff for the office. 
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FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST SERVICE OPERATIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not other-
wise provided for, $1,026,163,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2024: Provided, That a portion of 
the funds made available under this heading shall be for 
the base salary and expenses of employees in the Chief’s Of-
fice, the Work Environment and Performance Office, the 
Business Operations Deputy Area, and the Chief Financial 
Officer’s Office to carry out administrative and general 
management support functions: Provided further, That 
funds provided under this heading shall be available for the 
costs of facility maintenance, repairs, and leases for build-
ings and sites where these support functions take place; the 
costs of all utility and telecommunication expenses of the 
Forest Service, as well as business services; and, for infor-
mation technology, including cyber security requirements: 
Provided further, That funds provided under this heading 
may be used for necessary administrative support function 
expenses of the Forest Service not otherwise provided for 
and necessary for its operation. 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-
search as authorized by law, $258,760,000, to remain avail-
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able through September 30, 2024: Provided, That of the 
funds provided, $17,621,000 is for the forest inventory and 
analysis program: Provided further, That all authorities for 
the use of funds, including the use of contracts, grants, and 
cooperative agreements, available to execute the Forest and 
Rangeland Research appropriation, are also available in 
the utilization of these funds for Fire Science Research. 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-
tories, possessions, and others, and for forest health manage-
ment, and conducting an international program and trade 
compliance activities as authorized, $267,180,000, to re-
main available through September 30, 2024, as authorized 
by law. 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts made avail-
able for the Forest Legacy Program and derived from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund, $5,809,000 is hereby 
permanently rescinded from projects with cost savings or 
failed or partially failed projects: Provided, That no 
amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the 
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Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985. 
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not other-
wise provided for, for management, protection, improve-
ment, and utilization of the National Forest System, and 
for hazardous fuels management on or adjacent to such 
lands, $1,786,870,000, to remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2024: Provided, That of the funds provided, 
$13,787,000 shall be deposited in the Collaborative Forest 
Landscape Restoration Fund for ecological restoration 
treatments as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 7303(f): Provided 
further, That of the funds provided, $37,017,000 shall be 
for forest products: Provided further, That of the funds pro-
vided, $180,388,000 shall be for hazardous fuels manage-
ment activities, of which not to exceed $12,454,000 may be 
used to make grants, using any authorities available to the 
Forest Service under the ‘‘State and Private Forestry’’ ap-
propriation, for the purpose of creating incentives for in-
creased use of biomass from National Forest System lands: 
Provided further, That $20,000,000 may be used by the Sec-
retary of Agriculture to enter into procurement contracts 
or cooperative agreements or to issue grants for hazardous 
fuels management activities, and for training or moni-
toring associated with such hazardous fuels management 
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activities on Federal land, or on non-Federal land if the 
Secretary determines such activities benefit resources on 
Federal land: Provided further, That funds made available 
to implement the Community Forestry Restoration Act, 
Public Law 106–393, title VI, shall be available for use on 
non-Federal lands in accordance with authorities made 
available to the Forest Service under the ‘‘State and Private 
Forestry’’ appropriations: Provided further, That notwith-
standing section 33 of the Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant 
Act (7 U.S.C. 1012), the Secretary of Agriculture, in calcu-
lating a fee for grazing on a National Grassland, may pro-
vide a credit of up to 50 percent of the calculated fee to 
a Grazing Association or direct permittee for a conservation 
practice approved by the Secretary in advance of the fiscal 
year in which the cost of the conservation practice is in-
curred, and that the amount credited shall remain available 
to the Grazing Association or the direct permittee, as appro-
priate, in the fiscal year in which the credit is made and 
each fiscal year thereafter for use on the project for con-
servation practices approved by the Secretary: Provided 
further, That funds appropriated to this account shall be 
available for the base salary and expenses of employees that 
carry out the functions funded by the ‘‘Capital Improve-
ment and Maintenance’’ account, the ‘‘Range Betterment 
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Fund’’ account, and the ‘‘Management of National Forests 
for Subsistence Uses’’ account. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not other-
wise provided for, $140,371,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2024, for construction, capital im-
provement, maintenance, and acquisition of buildings and 
other facilities and infrastructure; and for construction, re-
construction, decommissioning of roads that are no longer 
needed, including unauthorized roads that are not part of 
the transportation system, and maintenance of forest roads 
and trails by the Forest Service as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 
532–538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205: Provided, That funds 
becoming available in fiscal year 2021 under the Act of 
March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501) shall be transferred to the 
General Fund of the Treasury and shall not be available 
for transfer or obligation for any other purpose unless the 
funds are appropriated. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
(RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts made avail-
able for Land Acquisition and derived from the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund, $5,619,000 is hereby perma-
nently rescinded from projects with cost savings or failed 
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or partially failed projects: Provided, That no amounts may 
be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concur-
rent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL 
ACTS 
For acquisition of lands within the exterior boundaries 
of the Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, Utah; 
the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada; and the Angeles, San 
Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland National Forests, Cali-
fornia; and the Ozark-St. Francis and Ouachita National 
Forests, Arkansas; as authorized by law, $664,000, to be 
derived from forest receipts. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES 
For acquisition of lands, such sums, to be derived from 
funds deposited by State, county, or municipal govern-
ments, public school districts, or other public school authori-
ties, and for authorized expenditures from funds deposited 
by non-Federal parties pursuant to Land Sale and Ex-
change Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 4, 1967 (16 
U.S.C. 484a), to remain available through September 30, 
2024, (16 U.S.C. 516–617a, 555a; Public Law 96–586; Pub-
lic Law 76–589, 76–591; and Public Law 78–310). 
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RANGE BETTERMENT FUND 
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, protec-
tion, and improvement, 50 percent of all moneys received 
during the prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing domestic 
livestock on lands in National Forests in the 16 Western 
States, pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of Public Law 94– 
579, to remain available through September 30, 2024, of 
which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available for adminis-
trative expenses associated with on-the-ground range reha-
bilitation, protection, and improvements. 
GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND 
RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), 
$45,000, to remain available through September 30, 2024, 
to be derived from the fund established pursuant to the 
above Act. 
MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR 
SUBSISTENCE USES 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service to manage 
Federal lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under title VIII 
of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 
U.S.C. 3111 et seq.), $1,099,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2024. 
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WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression 
activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency 
wildland fire suppression on or adjacent to such lands or 
other lands under fire protection agreement, and for emer-
gency rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest System 
lands and water, $1,927,241,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That such funds including unobligated 
balances under this heading, are available for repayment 
of advances from other appropriations accounts previously 
transferred for such purposes: Provided further, That any 
unobligated funds appropriated in a previous fiscal year 
for hazardous fuels management may be transferred to the 
‘‘National Forest System’’ account: Provided further, That 
such funds shall be available to reimburse State and other 
cooperating entities for services provided in response to 
wildfire and other emergencies or disasters to the extent 
such reimbursements by the Forest Service for non-fire 
emergencies are fully repaid by the responsible emergency 
management agency: Provided further, That funds provided 
shall be available for support to Federal emergency re-
sponse: Provided further, That the costs of implementing 
any cooperative agreement between the Federal Government 
and any non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutually 
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agreed on by the affected parties: Provided further, That 
of the funds provided under this heading, $1,011,000,000 
shall be available for wildfire suppression operations, and 
is 
provided 
to 
the 
meet 
the 
terms 
of 
section 
251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. 
WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
In addition to the amounts provided under the heading 
‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Service—Wildland 
Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppression operations, 
$2,040,000,000, to remain available until transferred, is ad-
ditional new budget authority as specified for purposes of 
section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided, That such 
amounts may be transferred to and merged with amounts 
made available under the headings ‘‘Department of the Inte-
rior—Department-Wide Programs—Wildland Fire Man-
agement’’ and ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Serv-
ice—Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppression 
operations in the fiscal year in which such amounts are 
transferred: Provided further, That amounts may be trans-
ferred to the ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ accounts in the 
Department of the Interior or the Department of Agri-
culture only upon the notification of the House and Senate 
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Committees on Appropriations that all wildfire suppression 
operations funds appropriated under that heading in this 
and prior appropriations Acts to the agency to which the 
funds will be transferred will be obligated within 30 days: 
Provided further, That the transfer authority provided 
under this heading is in addition to any other transfer au-
thority provided by law: Provided further, That, in deter-
mining whether all wildfire suppression operations funds 
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Manage-
ment’’ in this and prior appropriations Acts to either the 
Department of Agriculture or the Department of the Inte-
rior will be obligated within 30 days pursuant to the pre-
vious proviso, any funds transferred or permitted to be 
transferred pursuant to any other transfer authority pro-
vided by law shall be excluded. 
COMMUNICATIONS SITE ADMINISTRATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
Amounts collected in this fiscal year pursuant to sec-
tion 8705(f)(2) of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115–334), shall be deposited in the special ac-
count established by section 8705(f)(1) of such Act, shall be 
available to cover the costs described in subsection (c)(3) 
of such section of such Act, and shall remain available until 
expended: Provided, That such amounts shall be transferred 
to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account. 
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FOREST SERVICE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current 
fiscal year shall be available for: (1) purchase of passenger 
motor vehicles; acquisition of passenger motor vehicles from 
excess sources, and hire of such vehicles; purchase, lease, op-
eration, maintenance, and acquisition of aircraft to main-
tain the operable fleet for use in Forest Service wildland 
fire programs and other Forest Service programs; notwith-
standing other provisions of law, existing aircraft being re-
placed may be sold, with proceeds derived or trade-in value 
used to offset the purchase price for the replacement air-
craft; (2) services pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2225, and not to 
exceed $100,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; (3) 
purchase, erection, and alteration of buildings and other 
public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); (4) acquisition of 
land, waters, and interests therein pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 
428a; (5) for expenses pursuant to the Volunteers in the Na-
tional Forest Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 558a, 558d, and 558a 
note); (6) the cost of uniforms as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902; and (7) for debt collection contracts in accord-
ance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c). 
Funds made available to the Forest Service in this Act 
may be transferred between accounts affected by the Forest 
Service budget restructure outlined in section 435 of divi-
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