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1980, as amended, and section 126(g) of the Superfund 
Amendments 
and 
Reauthorization 
Act 
of 
1986, 
$80,289,000. 
AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE 
REGISTRY 
TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC 
HEALTH 
For necessary expenses for the Agency for Toxic Sub-
stances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in carrying out 
activities set forth in sections 104(i), 111(c)(4), and 
111(c)(14) of the Comprehensive Environmental Re-
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
(CERCLA), as amended; section 118(f) of the Superfund 
Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), 
as amended; and section 3019 of the Solid Waste Disposal 
Act, as amended, $76,024,000, of which up to $1,500,000, 
to remain available until expended, is for Individual 
Learning Accounts for full-time equivalent employees of 
the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry: 
Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, in lieu of performing a health assessment under sec-
tion 104(i)(6) of CERCLA, the Administrator of ATSDR 
may conduct other appropriate health studies, evaluations, 
or activities, including, without limitation, biomedical test-
ing, clinical evaluations, medical monitoring, and referral
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to accredited health care providers: Provided further, That 
in performing any such health assessment or health study, 
evaluation, or activity, the Administrator of ATSDR shall 
not be bound by the deadlines in section 104(i)(6)(A) of 
CERCLA: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-
priated under this heading shall be available for ATSDR 
to issue in excess of 40 toxicological profiles pursuant to 
section 104(i) of CERCLA during fiscal year 2006, and 
existing profiles may be updated as necessary. 
OTHER RELATED AGENCIES 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF 
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 
For necessary expenses to continue functions as-
signed to the Council on Environmental Quality and Office 
of Environmental Quality pursuant to the National Envi-
ronmental Policy Act of 1969, the Environmental Quality 
Improvement Act of 1970, and Reorganization Plan No. 
1 of 1977, and not to exceed $750 for official reception 
and representation expenses, $2,717,000: Provided, That 
notwithstanding section 202 of the National Environ-
mental Policy Act of 1970, the Council shall consist of 
one member, appointed by the President, by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate, serving as chairman and 
exercising all powers, functions, and duties of the Council.
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CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pur-
suant to section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, as amend-
ed, including hire of passenger vehicles, uniforms or allow-
ances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, and 
for services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates for 
individuals not to exceed the per diem equivalent to the 
maximum rate payable for senior level positions under 5 
U.S.C. 5376, $9,200,000: Provided, That the Chemical 
Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (Board) shall have 
not more than three career Senior Executive Service posi-
tions: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the individual appointed to the position 
of Inspector General of the Environmental Protection 
Agency (EPA) shall, by virtue of such appointment, also 
hold the position of Inspector General of the Board: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Inspector General of the Board shall utilize per-
sonnel of the Office of Inspector General of EPA in per-
forming the duties of the Inspector General of the Board, 
and shall not appoint any individuals to positions within 
the Board.
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OFFICE OF NAVAJO AND HOPI INDIAN RELOCATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and 
Hopi Indian Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93– 
531, $8,601,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That funds provided in this or any other appropria-
tions Act are to be used to relocate eligible individuals and 
groups including evictees from District 6, Hopi-partitioned 
lands residents, those in significantly substandard hous-
ing, and all others certified as eligible and not included 
in the preceding categories: Provided further, That none 
of the funds contained in this or any other Act may be 
used by the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation 
to evict any single Navajo or Navajo family who, as of 
November 30, 1985, was physically domiciled on the lands 
partitioned to the Hopi Tribe unless a new or replacement 
home is provided for such household: Provided further, 
That no relocatee will be provided with more than one new 
or replacement home: Provided further, That the Office 
shall relocate any certified eligible relocatees who have se-
lected and received an approved homesite on the Navajo 
reservation or selected a replacement residence off the 
Navajo reservation or on the land acquired pursuant to 
25 U.S.C. 640d–10.
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INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE 
CULTURE AND ARTS DEVELOPMENT 
PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE 
For payment to the Institute of American Indian and 
Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, as author-
ized by title XV of Public Law 99–498, as amended (20 
U.S.C. 56 part A), $6,300,000. 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion, as authorized by law, including research in the fields 
of art, science, and history; development, preservation, and 
documentation of the National Collections; presentation of 
public exhibits and performances; collection, preparation, 
dissemination, and exchange of information and publica-
tions; conduct of education, training, and museum assist-
ance programs; maintenance, alteration, operation, lease 
(for terms not to exceed 30 years), and protection of build-
ings, facilities, and approaches; not to exceed $100,000 
for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; up to five 
replacement passenger vehicles; purchase, rental, repair, 
and cleaning of uniforms for employees, $524,381,000, of 
which not to exceed $10,992,000 for the instrumentation 
program, collections acquisition, exhibition reinstallation, 
the National Museum of African American History and
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Culture, and the repatriation of skeletal remains program 
shall remain available until expended; and of which 
$9,086,000 for the reopening of the Patent Office Build-
ing and for fellowships and scholarly awards shall remain 
available until September 30, 2007; and including such 
funds as may be necessary to support American overseas 
research centers and a total of $125,000 for the Council 
of American Overseas Research Centers: Provided, That 
funds appropriated herein are available for advance pay-
ments to independent contractors performing research 
services or participating in official Smithsonian presen-
tations: Provided further, That the Smithsonian Institu-
tion may expend Federal appropriations designated in this 
Act for lease or rent payments for long term and swing 
space, as rent payable to the Smithsonian Institution, and 
such rent payments may be deposited into the general 
trust funds of the Institution to the extent that federally 
supported activities are housed in the 900 H Street, N.W. 
building in the District of Columbia: Provided further, 
That this use of Federal appropriations shall not be con-
strued as debt service, a Federal guarantee of, a transfer 
of risk to, or an obligation of, the Federal Government: 
Provided further, That no appropriated funds may be used 
to service debt which is incurred to finance the costs of
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acquiring the 900 H Street building or of planning, de-
signing, and constructing improvements to such building. 
FACILITIES CAPITAL 
For necessary expenses of repair, revitalization, and 
alteration of facilities owned or occupied by the Smithso-
nian Institution, by contract or otherwise, as authorized 
by section 2 of the Act of August 22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623), 
and for construction, including necessary personnel, 
$90,900,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
not to exceed $10,000 is for services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109: Provided, That contracts awarded for envi-
ronmental systems, protection systems, and repair or res-
toration of facilities of the Smithsonian Institution may 
be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded on 
the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, SMITHSONIAN 
INSTITUTION 
None of the funds in this or any other Act may be 
used to make any changes to the existing Smithsonian 
science programs including closure of facilities, relocation 
of staff or redirection of functions and programs without 
the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations. 
None of the funds in this or any other Act may be 
used to initiate the design for any proposed expansion of
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current space or new facility without consultation with the 
House and Senate Appropriations Committees. 
None of the funds in this or any other Act may be 
used for the Holt House located at the National Zoological 
Park in Washington, D.C., unless identified as repairs to 
minimize water damage, monitor structure movement, or 
provide interim structural support. 
None of the funds available to the Smithsonian may 
be reprogrammed without the advance written approval of 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in 
accordance with the reprogramming procedures contained 
in the statement of the managers accompanying this Act. 
None of the funds in this or any other Act may be 
used to purchase any additional buildings without prior 
consultation with the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations. 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For the upkeep and operations of the National Gal-
lery of Art, the protection and care of the works of art 
therein, and administrative expenses incident thereto, as 
authorized by the Act of March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), 
as amended by the public resolution of April 13, 1939 
(Public Resolution 9, Seventy-sixth Congress), including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in ad-
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vance when authorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for 
membership in library, museum, and art associations or 
societies whose publications or services are available to 
members only, or to members at a price lower than to the 
general public; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms 
for guards, and uniforms, or allowances therefor, for other 
employees as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); 
purchase or rental of devices and services for protecting 
buildings and contents thereof, and maintenance, alter-
ation, improvement, and repair of buildings, approaches, 
and grounds; and purchase of services for restoration and 
repair of works of art for the National Gallery of Art by 
contracts made, without advertising, with individuals, 
firms, or organizations at such rates or prices and under 
such terms and conditions as the Gallery may deem prop-
er, $97,100,000, of which not to exceed $3,157,000 for 
the special exhibition program shall remain available until 
expended. 
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS 
For necessary expenses of repair, restoration and 
renovation of buildings, grounds and facilities owned or 
occupied by the National Gallery of Art, by contract or 
otherwise, as authorized, $16,200,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That contracts awarded for envi-
ronmental systems, protection systems, and exterior repair 
or renovation of buildings of the National Gallery of Art
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may be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded 
on the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price: 
Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, a single procurement for the Master Facilities 
Plan renovation project at the National Gallery of Art may 
be issued which includes the full scope of the Work Area 
#3 project: Provided further, That the solicitation and the 
contract shall contain the clause ‘‘availability of funds’’ 
found at 48 CFR 52.232.18. 
JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING 
ARTS 
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 
For necessary expenses for the operation, mainte-
nance and security of the John F. Kennedy Center for 
the Performing Arts, $17,800,000. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For necessary expenses for capital repair and restora-
tion of the existing features of the building and site of 
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 
$10,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR 
SCHOLARS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions 
of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat.
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1356) including hire of passenger vehicles and services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $9,085,000. 
NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE 
HUMANITIES 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National 
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 
as amended, $121,264,000 shall be available to the Na-
tional Endowment for the Arts for the support of projects 
and productions in the arts through assistance to organi-
zations and individuals pursuant to sections 5(c) and 5(g) 
of the Act, including $14,922,000 for support of arts edu-
cation and public outreach activities through the Chal-
lenge America program, for program support, and for ad-
ministering the functions of the Act, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That funds previously appro-
priated to the National Endowment for the Arts ‘‘Match-
ing Grants’’ account and ‘‘Challenge America’’ account 
may be transferred to and merged with this account. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses to carry out the National 
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 
as amended, $122,605,000, shall be available to the Na-
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tional Endowment for the Humanities for support of ac-
tivities in the humanities, pursuant to section 7(c) of the 
Act, and for administering the functions of the Act, to 
remain available until expended. 
MATCHING GRANTS 
To carry out the provisions of section 10(a)(2) of the 
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act 
of 1965, as amended, $15,449,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which $10,000,000 shall be available 
to the National Endowment for the Humanities for the 
purposes of section 7(h): Provided, That this appropria-
tion shall be available for obligation only in such amounts 
as may be equal to the total amounts of gifts, bequests, 
and devises of money, and other property accepted by the 
chairman or by grantees of the Endowment under the pro-
visions of subsections 11(a)(2)(B) and 11(a)(3)(B) during 
the current and preceding fiscal years for which equal 
amounts have not previously been appropriated. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
None of the funds appropriated to the National 
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities may be used 
to process any grant or contract documents which do not 
include the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided, That none 
of the funds appropriated to the National Foundation on 
the Arts and the Humanities may be used for official re-
ception and representation expenses: Provided further,
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That funds from nonappropriated sources may be used as 
necessary for official reception and representation ex-
penses: Provided further, That the Chairperson of the Na-
tional Endowment for the Arts may approve grants up to 
$10,000, if in the aggregate this amount does not exceed 
5 percent of the sums appropriated for grant-making pur-
poses per year: Provided further, That such small grant 
actions are taken pursuant to the terms of an expressed 
and direct delegation of authority from the National Coun-
cil on the Arts to the Chairperson. 
COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing 
a Commission of Fine Arts (40 U.S.C. 104), $1,893,000: 
Provided, That the Commission is authorized to charge 
fees to cover the full costs of its publications, and such 
fees shall be credited to this account as an offsetting col-
lection, to remain available until expended without further 
appropriation. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 
99–190 (20 U.S.C. 956(a)), as amended, $7,000,000: Pro-
vided, That no one organization shall receive a grant in 
excess of $400,000 in a single year.
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ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on 
Historic Preservation (Public Law 89–665, as amended), 
$4,860,000: Provided, That none of these funds shall 
be available for compensation of level V of the Executive 
Schedule or higher positions. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as authorized by the Na-
tional Capital Planning Act of 1952 (40 U.S.C. 71–71i), 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$8,177,000: Provided, That one-quarter of 1 percent of 
the funds provided under this heading may be used for 
official reception and representational expenses to host 
international visitors engaged in the planning and physical 
development of world capitals. 
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEAUM 
For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, as 
authorized by Public Law 106–292 (36 U.S.C. 2301– 
2310), $41,880,000, of which $1,874,000 for the muse-
um’s repair and rehabilitation program and $1,246,000 
for the museum’s exhibitions program shall remain avail-
able until expended.
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PRESIDIO TRUST 
PRESIDIO TRUST FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out title I of the Om-
nibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996, 
$20,000,000 shall be available to the Presidio Trust, to 
remain available until expended. 
WHITE HOUSE COMMISSION ON THE NATIONAL 
MOMENT OF REMEMBRANCE 
For necessary expenses of the White House Commis-
sion on the National Moment of Remembrance, $250,000. 
TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. The expenditure of any appropriation 
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited 
to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter 
of public record and available for public inspection, except 
where otherwise provided under existing law, or under ex-
isting Executive Order issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 402. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available for any activity or the publica-
tion or distribution of literature that in any way tends to 
promote public support or opposition to any legislative 
proposal on which Congressional action is not complete.
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SEC. 403. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 404. None of the funds provided in this Act to 
any department or agency shall be obligated or expended 
to provide a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal 
servants to any officer or employee of such department 
or agency except as otherwise provided by law. 
SEC. 405. No assessments may be levied against any 
program, budget activity, subactivity, or project funded by 
this Act unless notice of such assessments and the basis 
therefor are presented to the Committees on Appropria-
tions and are approved by such committees. 
SEC. 406. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to plan, prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classi-
fied as giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which 
are located on National Forest System or Bureau of Land 
Management lands in a manner different than such sales 
were conducted in fiscal year 2004. 
SEC. 407. (a) LIMITATION OF FUNDS.—None of the 
funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant 
to this Act shall be obligated or expended to accept or 
process applications for a patent for any mining or mill 
site claim located under the general mining laws.
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(b) EXCEPTIONS.—The provisions of subsection (a) 
shall not apply if the Secretary of the Interior determines 
that, for the claim concerned: (1) a patent application was 
filed with the Secretary on or before September 30, 1994; 
and (2) all requirements established under sections 2325 
and 2326 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) 
for vein or lode claims and sections 2329, 2330, 2331, 
and 2333 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, and 
37) for placer claims, and section 2337 of the Revised 
Statutes (30 U.S.C. 42) for mill site claims, as the case 
may be, were fully complied with by the applicant by that 
date. 
(c) REPORT.—On September 30, 2006, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall file with the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations and the Committee on Re-
sources of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 
a report on actions taken by the Department under the 
plan submitted pursuant to section 314(c) of the Depart-
ment of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1997 (Public Law 104–208). 
(d) MINERAL EXAMINATIONS.—In order to process 
patent applications in a timely and responsible manner, 
upon the request of a patent applicant, the Secretary of 
the Interior shall allow the applicant to fund a qualified
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third-party contractor to be selected by the Bureau of 
Land Management to conduct a mineral examination of 
the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent appli-
cation as set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau of Land 
Management shall have the sole responsibility to choose 
and pay the third-party contractor in accordance with the 
standard procedures employed by the Bureau of Land 
Management in the retention of third-party contractors. 
SEC. 408. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, amounts appropriated to or earmarked in committee 
reports for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian 
Health Service by Public Laws 103–138, 103–332, 104– 
134, 104–208, 105–83, 105–277, 106–113, 106–291, 
107–63, 108–7, 108–108, and 108–447 for payments to 
tribes and tribal organizations for contract support costs 
associated with self-determination or self-governance con-
tracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding agreements 
with the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health 
Service as funded by such Acts, are the total amounts 
available for fiscal years 1994 through 2005 for such pur-
poses, except that, for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tribes 
and tribal organizations may use their tribal priority allo-
cations for unmet contract support costs of ongoing con-
tracts, grants, self-governance compacts or annual funding 
agreements.
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SEC. 409. Of the funds provided to the National En-
dowment for the Arts: 
(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant 
to an individual if such grant is awarded to such in-
dividual for a literature fellowship, National Herit-
age Fellowship, or American Jazz Masters Fellow-
ship. 
(2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures 
to ensure that no funding provided through a grant, 
except a grant made to a State or local arts agency, 
or regional group, may be used to make a grant to 
any other organization or individual to conduct ac-
tivity independent of the direct grant recipient. 
Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit payments 
made in exchange for goods and services. 
(3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support 
to a group, unless the application is specific to the 
contents of the season, including identified programs 
and/or projects. 
SEC. 410. The National Endowment for the Arts and 
the National Endowment for the Humanities are author-
ized to solicit, accept, receive, and invest in the name of 
the United States, gifts, bequests, or devises of money and 
other property or services and to use such in furtherance 
of the functions of the National Endowment for the Arts
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and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any 
proceeds from such gifts, bequests, or devises, after ac-
ceptance by the National Endowment for the Arts or the 
National Endowment for the Humanities, shall be paid by 
the donor or the representative of the donor to the Chair-
man. The Chairman shall enter the proceeds in a special 
interest-bearing account to the credit of the appropriate 
endowment for the purposes specified in each case. 
SEC. 411. (a) In providing services or awarding fi-
nancial assistance under the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 from funds appro-
priated under this Act, the Chairperson of the National 
Endowment for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given 
to providing services or awarding financial assistance for 
projects, productions, workshops, or programs that serve 
underserved populations. 
(b) In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘underserved population’’ means 
a population of individuals, including urban minori-
ties, who have historically been outside the purview 
of arts and humanities programs due to factors such 
as a high incidence of income below the poverty line 
or to geographic isolation. 
(2) The term ‘‘poverty line’’ means the poverty 
line (as defined by the Office of Management and
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Budget, and revised annually in accordance with sec-
tion 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant 
Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)) applicable to a family of 
the size involved. 
(c) In providing services and awarding financial as-
sistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and 
Humanities Act of 1965 with funds appropriated by this 
Act, the Chairperson of the National Endowment for the 
Arts shall ensure that priority is given to providing serv-
ices or awarding financial assistance for projects, produc-
tions, workshops, or programs that will encourage public 
knowledge, education, understanding, and appreciation of 
the arts. 
(d) With funds appropriated by this Act to carry out 
section 5 of the National Foundation on the Arts and Hu-
manities Act of 1965— 
(1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant cat-
egory for projects, productions, workshops, or pro-
grams that are of national impact or availability or 
are able to tour several States; 
(2) the Chairperson shall not make grants ex-
ceeding 15 percent, in the aggregate, of such funds 
to any single State, excluding grants made under the 
authority of paragraph (1);
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(3) the Chairperson shall report to the Con-
gress annually and by State, on grants awarded by 
the Chairperson in each grant category under sec-
tion 5 of such Act; and 
(4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of 
grants to improve and support community-based 
music performance and education. 
SEC. 412. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be expended or obligated to complete and 
issue the 5-year program under the Forest and Rangeland 
Renewable Resources Planning Act. 
SEC. 413. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to support Government-wide administrative functions un-
less such functions are justified in the budget process and 
funding is approved by the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations. 
SEC. 414. Amounts deposited during fiscal year 2005 
in the roads and trails fund provided for in the 14th para-
graph under the heading ‘‘FOREST SERVICE’’ of the 
Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 843; 16 U.S.C. 501), shall 
be used by the Secretary of Agriculture, without regard 
to the State in which the amounts were derived, to repair 
or reconstruct roads, bridges, and trails on National For-
est System lands or to carry out and administer projects 
to improve forest health conditions, which may include the
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repair or reconstruction of roads, bridges, and trails on 
National Forest System lands in the wildland-community 
interface where there is an abnormally high risk of fire. 
The projects shall emphasize reducing risks to human 
safety and public health and property and enhancing eco-
logical functions, long-term forest productivity, and bio-
logical integrity. The projects may be completed in a sub-
sequent fiscal year. Funds shall not be expended under 
this section to replace funds which would otherwise appro-
priately be expended from the timber salvage sale fund. 
Nothing in this section shall be construed to exempt any 
project from any environmental law. 
SEC. 415. Other than in emergency situations, none 
of the funds in this Act may be used to operate telephone 
answering machines during core business hours unless 
such answering machines include an option that enables 
callers to reach promptly an individual on-duty with the 
agency being contacted. 
SEC. 416. Prior to October 1, 2006, the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall not be considered to be in violation 
of subparagraph 6(f)(5)(A) of the Forest and Rangeland 
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 
1604(f)(5)(A)) solely because more than 15 years have 
passed without revision of the plan for a unit of the Na-
tional Forest System. Nothing in this section exempts the
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Secretary from any other requirement of the Forest and 
Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act (16 U.S.C. 
1600 et seq.) or any other law: Provided, That if the Sec-
retary is not acting expeditiously and in good faith, within 
the funding available, to revise a plan for a unit of the 
National Forest System, this section shall be void with re-
spect to such plan and a court of proper jurisdiction may 
order completion of the plan on an accelerated basis. 
SEC. 417. No funds provided in this Act may be ex-
pended to conduct preleasing, leasing and related activities 
under either the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et 
seq.) or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1331 et seq.) within the boundaries of a National Monu-
ment established pursuant to the Act of June 8, 1906 (16 
U.S.C. 431 et seq.) as such boundary existed on January 
20, 2001, except where such activities are allowed under 
the Presidential proclamation establishing such monu-
ment. 
SEC. 418. EXTENSION OF FOREST SERVICE CONVEY-
ANCES PILOT PROGRAM.—Section 329 of the Department 
of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2002 (16 U.S.C. 580d note; Public Law 107–63) is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘40’’ and in-
serting ‘‘60’’;
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(2) in subsection (c) by striking ‘‘13’’ and in-
serting ‘‘25’’; and 
(3) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘2008’’ and 
inserting ‘‘2009’’. 
SEC. 419. In entering into agreements with foreign 
countries pursuant to the Wildfire Suppression Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1856m) the Secretary of Agriculture and 
the Secretary of the Interior are authorized to enter into 
reciprocal agreements in which the individuals furnished 
under said agreements to provide wildfire services are con-
sidered, for purposes of tort liability, employees of the 
country receiving said services when the individuals are 
engaged in fire suppression: Provided, That the Secretary 
of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior shall not 
enter into any agreement under this provision unless the 
foreign country (either directly or through its fire organi-
zation) agrees to assume any and all liability for the acts 
or omissions of American firefighters engaged in fire-
fighting in a foreign country: Provided further, That when 
an agreement is reached for furnishing fire fighting serv-
ices, the only remedies for acts or omissions committed 
while fighting fires shall be those provided under the laws 
of the host country, and those remedies shall be the exclu-
sive remedies for any claim arising out of fighting fires 
in a foreign country: Provided further, That neither the
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sending country nor any legal organization associated with 
the firefighter shall be subject to any legal action whatso-
ever pertaining to or arising out of the firefighter’s role 
in fire suppression. 
SEC. 420. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 421. In awarding a Federal contract with funds 
made available by this Act, notwithstanding Federal gov-
ernment procurement and contracting laws, the Secretary 
of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior (the ‘‘Sec-
retaries’’) may, in evaluating bids and proposals, give con-
sideration to local contractors who are from, and who pro-
vide employment and training for, dislocated and displaced 
workers in an economically disadvantaged rural commu-
nity, including those historically timber-dependent areas 
that have been affected by reduced timber harvesting on 
Federal lands and other forest-dependent rural commu-
nities isolated from significant alternative employment op-
portunities: Provided, That notwithstanding Federal Gov-
ernment procurement and contracting laws the Secretaries 
may award contracts, grants or cooperative agreements to 
local non-profit entities, Youth Conservation Corps or re-
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lated partnerships with State, local or non-profit youth 
groups, or small or disadvantaged business or micro-busi-
ness: Provided further, That the contract, grant, or cooper-
ative agreement is for forest hazardous fuels reduction, 
watershed or water quality monitoring or restoration, wild-
life or fish population monitoring, or habitat restoration 
or management: Provided further, That the terms ‘‘rural 
community’’ and ‘‘economically disadvantaged’’ shall have 
the same meanings as in section 2374 of Public Law 101– 
624: Provided further, That the Secretaries shall develop 
guidance to implement this section: Provided further, That 
nothing in this section shall be construed as relieving the 
Secretaries of any duty under applicable procurement 
laws, except as provided in this section. 
SEC. 422. No funds appropriated in this Act for the 
acquisition of lands or interests in lands may be expended 
for the filing of declarations of taking or complaints in 
condemnation without the approval of the House and Sen-
ate Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That this 
provision shall not apply to funds appropriated to imple-
ment the Everglades National Park Protection and Ex-
pansion Act of 1989, or to funds appropriated for Federal 
assistance to the State of Florida to acquire lands for Ev-
erglades restoration purposes.
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SEC. 423. (a) LIMITATION
ON
COMPETITIVE 
SOURCING STUDIES.— 
(1) Of the funds made available by this or any 
other Act to the Department of the Interior for fis-
cal year 2006, not more than $3,450,000 may be 
used by the Secretary of the Interior to initiate or 
continue competitive sourcing studies in fiscal year 
2006 for programs, projects, and activities for which 
funds are appropriated by this Act and such funds 
shall not be available until the Secretary submits a 
reprogramming proposal to the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the Senate and the House of Rep-
resentatives, and such proposal has been processed 
consistent with the reprogramming guidelines in 
House Report 108–330. 
(2) Of the funds appropriated by this Act, not 
more than $2,500,000 may be used in fiscal year 
2006 for competitive sourcing studies and related 
activities by the Forest Service. 
(b) COMPETITIVE SOURCING STUDY DEFINED.—In 
this section, the term ‘‘competitive sourcing study’’ means 
a study on subjecting work performed by Federal Govern-
ment employees or private contractors to public-private 
competition or on converting the Federal Government em-
ployees or the work performed by such employees to pri-
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vate contractor performance under the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget Circular A–76 or any other administra-
tive regulation, directive, or policy. 
(c) COMPETITIVE SOURCING EXEMPTION FOR FOR-
EST SERVICE STUDIES CONDUCTED PRIOR TO FISCAL 
YEAR 2006.—Notwithstanding requirements of Office of 
Management and Budget Circular A–76, Attachment B, 
the Forest Service is hereby exempted from implementing 
the Letter of Obligation and post-competition account-
ability guidelines where a competitive sourcing study in-
volved 65 or fewer full-time equivalents, the performance 
decision was made in favor of the agency provider; no net 
savings was achieved by conducting the study, and the 
study was completed prior to the date of this Act. 
(d) In preparing any reports to the Committees on 
Appropriations on competitive sourcing activities, agencies 
funded in this Act shall include the incremental cost di-
rectly attributable to conducting the competitive sourcing 
competitions, including costs attributable to paying out-
side consultants and contractors and, in accordance with 
full cost accounting principles, all costs attributable to de-
veloping, implementing, supporting, managing, moni-
toring, and reporting on competitive sourcing, including 
personnel, consultant, travel, and training costs associated 
with program management.
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SEC. 424. Estimated overhead charges, deductions, 
reserves or holdbacks from programs, projects and activi-
ties to support governmentwide, departmental, agency or 
bureau administrative functions or headquarters, regional 
or central office operations shall be presented in annual 
budget justifications. Changes to such estimates shall be 
presented to the Committees on Appropriations for ap-
proval. 
SEC. 425. None of the funds in this Act or prior Acts 
making appropriations for the Department of the Interior 
and Related Agencies may be provided to the managing 
partners or their agents for the SAFECOM or Disaster 
Management projects. 
SEC. 426. (a) IN GENERAL.—An entity that enters 
into a contract with the United States to operate the Na-
tional Recreation Reservation Service (as solicited by the 
solicitation numbered WO–04–06vm) shall not carry out 
any duties under the contract using: 
(1) a contact center located outside the United 
States; or 
(2) a reservation agent who does not live in the 
United States. 
(b) NO WAIVER.—The Secretary of Agriculture may 
not waive the requirements of subsection (a).
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(c) TELECOMMUTING.—A reservation agent who is 
carrying out duties under the contract described in sub-
section (a) may not telecommute from a location outside 
the United States. 
(d) LIMITATIONS.—Nothing in this Act shall be con-
strued to apply to any employee of the entity who is not 
a reservation agent carrying out the duties under the con-
tract described in subsection (a) or who provides manage-
rial or support services. 
SEC. 427. Section 331, of Public Law 106–113, is 
amended— 
(1) in part (a) by striking ‘‘2005’’ and inserting 
‘‘2009’’; and 
(2) in part (b) by striking ‘‘2005’’ and inserting 
‘‘2009’’. 
SEC. 428. Section 330 of the Department of the Inte-
rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Pub-
lic Law 106–291; 114 Stat. 996; 43 U.S.C. 1701 note), 
is amended— 
(1) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘2005’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2008’’; 
(2) in the third sentence, by inserting ‘‘, Na-
tional Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service,’’ 
after ‘‘Bureau of Land Management’’; and
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(3) by adding at the end the following new sen-
tence: ‘‘To facilitate the sharing of resources under 
the Service First initiative, the Secretaries of the In-
terior and Agriculture may make transfers of funds 
and reimbursement of funds on an annual basis 
among the land management agencies referred to in 
this section, except that this authority may not be 
used to circumvent requirements and limitations im-
posed on the use of funds.’’. 
SEC. 429. The Secretary of Agriculture may acquire, 
by exchange or otherwise, a parcel of real property, includ-
ing improvements thereon, of the Inland Valley Develop-
ment Agency of San Bernardino, California, or its succes-
sors and assigns, generally comprising Building No. 3 and 
Building No. 4 of the former Defense Finance and Ac-
counting Services complex located at the southwest corner 
of Tippecanoe Avenue and Mill Street in San Bernardino, 
California, adjacent to the former Norton Air Force Base. 
As full consideration for the property to be acquired, the 
Secretary of Agriculture may terminate the leasehold 
rights of the United States received pursuant to section 
8121(a)(2) of the Department of Defense Appropriations 
Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–287; 118 Stat. 999). The ac-
quisition of the property shall be on such terms and condi-
tions as the Secretary of Agriculture considers appropriate
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and may be carried out without appraisals, environmental 
or administrative surveys, consultations, analyses, or other 
considerations of the condition of the property. 
SEC. 430. The Secretary of the Interior shall submit 
to the House Committee on Appropriations a report detail-
ing the Federal expenditures pursuant to the Southern 
Nevada Public Lands Management Act (section 4(e)(3) of 
Public Law 105–263) for fiscal years 2003 and 2004. 
SEC. 431. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to prepare or issue a permit or lease for oil or gas drilling 
in the Finger Lakes National Forest, New York, during 
fiscal year 2006. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2006’’.
Union Calendar No. 39 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2361 
[Report No. 109–80] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Department of the 
Interior, environment, and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and 
for other purposes. 
MAY 13, 2005 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed