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shall be made available in addition to amounts provided in this 
Act for that purpose. 
FLAME WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION RESERVE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For deposit in the FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund 
created in title V, section 502(b) of this Act, $61,000,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the Interior and 
any of its component offices and bureaus for the response action, 
including associated activities, performed pursuant to the Com-
prehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 
Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), $10,175,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That Public Law 110–161 (121 
Stat. 2116) under this heading is amended by striking ‘‘in advance 
of or as reimbursement for remedial action or response activities 
conducted by the Department pursuant to section 107 or 113(f) 
of such Act’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘including any fines 
or penalties’’. 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND RESTORATION 
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 
To conduct natural resource damage assessment and restora-
tion activities by the Department of the Interior necessary to carry 
out the provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et 
seq.), the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 
U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 
2701 et seq.), and Public Law 101–337, as amended (16 U.S.C. 
19jj et seq.), $6,462,000, to remain available until expended. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
For the acquisition of a departmental financial and business 
management system and information technology improvements of 
general benefit to the Department, $85,823,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That none of the funds in this Act or 
previous appropriations Acts may be used to establish reserves 
in the Working Capital Fund account other than for accrued annual 
leave and depreciation of equipment without prior approval of the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, 
That the Secretary 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 facili-
ties, equipment or professional services of the National Indian 
Program Training Center to State, local and tribal government 
employees or persons or organizations engaged in cultural, edu-
cational, or recreational activities (as defined in 40 U.S.C. 3306(a)) 
at the prevailing rate for similar space, facilities, equipment, or
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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. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from available 
resources within the Working Capital Fund, 15 aircraft, 10 of which 
shall be for replacement and 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. 
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, for the emergency reconstruction, 
replacement, or repair of aircraft, buildings, utilities, or other facili-
ties or equipment damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or 
other unavoidable causes: Provided, That no funds shall be made 
available under this authority until funds specifically made avail-
able 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 supplemental appropriation 
which must be requested as promptly as possible. 
EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY—DEPARTMENT-WIDE 
SEC. 102. The Secretary 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 Depart-
ment of the Interior; for the emergency rehabilitation of burned- 
over lands under its jurisdiction; for emergency actions related 
to potential or actual earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or 
other unavoidable causes; for contingency planning subsequent to 
actual oil spills; for response and natural resource damage assess-
ment activities related to actual oil spills; for the prevention, 
suppression, and control of actual or potential grasshopper and 
Mormon cricket outbreaks on lands under the jurisdiction of the 
Secretary, pursuant to the authority in section 1773(b) of Public 
Law 99–198 (99 Stat. 1658); for emergency reclamation projects 
under section 410 of Public Law 95–87; and shall transfer, from 
any no year funds available to the Office of Surface Mining Reclama-
tion 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 provisions of the Surface Mining 
Act: Provided, That appropriations made in this title for wildland
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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, 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 operations’’ and ‘‘FLAME Wildfire 
Suppression Reserve Fund’’ shall be exhausted within 30 days: 
Provided further, That all funds used pursuant to this section 
must be replenished by a supplemental appropriation which must 
be requested as promptly as possible: Provided further, That such 
replenishment funds shall be used to reimburse, on a pro rata 
basis, accounts from which emergency funds were transferred. 
AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 103. Appropriations made to the Department of the 
Interior in this title shall be available for services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, when authorized by the Secretary, in total amount 
not to exceed $500,000; purchase and replacement of motor vehicles, 
including specially equipped law enforcement vehicles; hire, mainte-
nance, and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
purchase of reprints; payment for telephone service in private resi-
dences in the field, when authorized under regulations approved 
by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, when authorized by 
the Secretary, for library membership in societies or associations 
which issue publications to members only or at a price to members 
lower than to subscribers who are not members. 
AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 104. Appropriations made in this Act under the headings 
Bureau of Indian Affairs 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 available 
for expenditure or transfer for Indian trust management and reform 
activities. Total funding for historical accounting activities shall 
not exceed amounts specifically designated in this Act for such 
purpose. 
REDISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS 
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 inac-
curate distribution methodologies. No tribe shall receive a reduction 
in Tribal Priority Allocation funds of more than 10 percent in 
fiscal year 2010. Under circumstances of dual enrollment, overlap-
ping service areas or inaccurate distribution methodologies, the 
10 percent limitation does not apply.
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TWIN CITIES RESEARCH CENTER 
SEC. 106. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in con-
veying the Twin Cities Research Center under the authority pro-
vided by Public Law 104–134, as amended by Public Law 104– 
208, the Secretary may accept and retain land and other forms 
of reimbursement: Provided, That the Secretary may retain and 
use any such reimbursement until expended and without further 
appropriation: (1) for the benefit of the National Wildlife Refuge 
System within the State of Minnesota; and (2) for all activities 
authorized by 16 U.S.C. 460zz. 
PAYMENT OF FEES 
SEC. 107. The Secretary of the Interior may use discretionary 
funds to pay private attorney fees and costs for employees and 
former employees of the Department of the Interior reasonably 
incurred in connection with Cobell v. Salazar to the extent that 
such fees and costs are not paid by the Department of Justice 
or by private insurance. In no case shall the Secretary make pay-
ments under this section that would result in payment of hourly 
fees in excess of the highest hourly rate approved by the District 
Court for the District of Columbia for counsel in Cobell v. Salazar. 
MASS MARKING OF SALMONIDS 
SEC. 108. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service shall, 
in carrying out its responsibilities to protect threatened and endan-
gered species of salmon, implement a system of mass marking 
of salmonid stocks, intended for harvest, that are released from 
federally operated or federally financed 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 commercial and recreational fishers. 
ELLIS, GOVERNORS, AND LIBERTY ISLANDS 
SEC. 109. 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 facili-
ties in the support of transportation and accommodation of visitors 
to Ellis, Governors, and Liberty Islands, and of other program 
and administrative activities, by donation or with appropriated 
funds, including franchise fees (and other monetary consideration), 
or by exchange; and the Secretary is authorized to negotiate and 
enter into leases, subleases, concession contracts or other agree-
ments for the use of such facilities on such terms and conditions 
as the Secretary may determine reasonable. 
PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 110. (a) Any proposed new use of the Arizona & California 
Railroad Company’s Right of Way for conveyance of water shall 
not proceed unless the Secretary of the Interior certifies that the 
proposed new use is within the scope of the Right of Way.