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PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 416. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be distributed to the Association of Community 
Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidi-
aries. 
PROHIBITION ON NO-BID CONTRACTS 
SEC. 417. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act to executive branch agen-
cies may be used to enter into any Federal contract unless 
such contract is entered into in accordance with the re-
quirements of Chapter 33 of title 41, United States Code, 
or Chapter 137 of title 10, United States Code, and the 
Federal Acquisition Regulation, unless— 
(1) Federal law specifically authorizes a con-
tract to be entered into without regard for these re-
quirements, including formula grants for States, or 
federally recognized Indian tribes; or 
(2) such contract is authorized by the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education and Assistance 
Act (Public Law 93–638, 25 U.S.C. 450 et seq., as 
amended) or by any other Federal laws that specifi-
cally authorize a contract within an Indian tribe as 
defined in section 4(e) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 
450b(e)); or 
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(3) such contract was awarded prior to the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
POSTING OF REPORTS 
SEC. 418. (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 Congress in this or any 
other Act, upon the determination by the head of the agen-
cy that it shall serve the national interest. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if— 
(1) the public posting of the report com-
promises 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 requesting Committee or Committees of Congress for 
no less than 45 days. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS GRANT 
GUIDELINES 
SEC. 419. 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-
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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. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS PROGRAM 
PRIORITIES 
SEC. 420. (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: 
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(1) The term ‘‘underserved population’’ means 
a population of individuals, including urban minori-
ties, who have historically been outside the purview 
of arts and humanities programs due to factors such 
as a high incidence of income below the poverty line 
or to geographic isolation. 
(2) The term ‘‘poverty line’’ means the poverty 
line (as defined by the Office of Management and 
Budget, and revised annually in accordance with sec-
tion 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant 
Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2))) applicable to a family of 
the size involved. 
(c) In providing services and awarding financial as-
sistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and 
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— 
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(1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant cat-
egory for projects, productions, workshops, or pro-
grams that are of national impact or availability or 
are able to tour several States; 
(2) the Chairperson shall not make grants ex-
ceeding 15 percent, in the aggregate, of such funds 
to any single State, excluding grants made under the 
authority of paragraph (1); 
(3) the Chairperson shall report to the Con-
gress annually and by State, on grants awarded by 
the Chairperson in each grant category under sec-
tion 5 of such Act; and 
(4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of 
grants to improve and support community-based 
music performance and education. 
USE OF COMPETITIVE GRANT FUNDS 
SEC. 421. Section 6(d) of Public Law 96–297 (16 
U.S.C. 431 note), as added by section 101 of Public Law 
108–126, is amended by inserting ‘‘, except funds awarded 
through competitive grants,’’ after ‘‘No Federal funds’’. 
FOREST SERVICE FACILITY REALIGNMENT AND 
ENHANCEMENT 
SEC. 422. Section 503(f) of the Forest Service Re-
alignment and Enhancement Act of 2005 (title V of Public 
Law 109–54; 16 U.S.C. 580d note), as amended by sec-
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Indian Health Service shall provide the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Sen-
ate a quarterly report on the status of balances of appro-
priations. For balances that are unobligated and uncom-
mitted, committed, and obligated but unexpended, the 
quarterly reports shall separately identify the amounts at-
tributable to each source year of appropriation from which 
the balances were derived. Initial reports shall be sub-
mitted to the Committees on Appropriations within 30 
days of the end of the first quarter of fiscal year 2012. 
Subsequent reports shall be submitted within 30 days of 
the end of each quarter thereafter. 
REPORT ON USE OF CLIMATE CHANGE FUNDS 
SEC. 426. Not later than 120 days after the date on 
which the President’s fiscal year 2013 budget request is 
submitted to Congress, the President shall submit a com-
prehensive report to the Committee on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the Senate describing in detail all Federal 
agency funding, domestic and international, for climate 
change programs, projects and activities in fiscal year 
2011 and fiscal year 2012, including an accounting of 
funding by agency with each agency identifying climate 
change programs, projects and activities and associated 
costs by line item as presented in the President’s Budget 
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Appendix, and including citations and linkages where 
practicable to each strategic plan that is driving funding 
within each climate change program, project and activity 
listed in the report. 
STEWARDSHIP CONTRACTING 
SEC. 427. Section 347(a) of the Department of the 
Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 
(16 U.S.C. 2104 note; Public Law 105–277) is amended 
by striking ‘‘September 30, 2013’’ and inserting ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 2023’’. 
PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 428. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds made available in this Act or any 
other Act may be used to promulgate or implement any 
regulation requiring the issuance of permits under title V 
of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7661 et seq.) for carbon 
dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions 
resulting from biological processes associated with live-
stock production. 
GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING RESTRICTIONS 
SEC. 429. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds made available in this or any other 
Act may be used to implement any provision in a rule, 
if that provision requires mandatory reporting of green-
house gas emissions from manure management systems. 
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INDIAN EMPLOYMENT, TRAINING AND RELATED 
SERVICES 
SEC. 430. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, and notwithstanding any auditing or reporting cir-
cular of the Office of Management and Budget or related 
compliance memoranda, hereinbefore and hereinafter (1) 
any funds supplied by any Federal department or agency 
to carry out a plan under Public Law 102–477 (the Indian 
Employment, Training and Related Services Demonstra-
tion Act), as amended, shall be consolidated and made 
available to the applicable Indian tribe or tribal organiza-
tion pursuant to an existing contract, compact, or funding 
agreement under title I or title IV of Public Law 93–638 
(the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance 
Act), as amended; and (2) no Indian tribe or tribal organi-
zation carrying out such a plan shall be required to sepa-
rately account for the expenditure of the funds of each 
Federal department or agency after the date on which the 
funds are consolidated and paid to the Indian tribe or trib-
al organization. 
STATIONARY SOURCE GREENHOUSE GAS PROHIBITION 
SEC. 431. (a) During the one year period com-
mencing on the date of enactment of this Act— 
(1) the Administrator of the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency shall not propose or promulgate any regula-
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tion regarding the emissions of greenhouse gases from sta-
tionary sources to address climate change, except this 
paragraph does not apply to— 
(A) regulations promulgated under title VI of 
the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7671 et seq.); or 
(B) regulations designed to limit or defer exist-
ing greenhouse gas regulation of stationary sources; 
(2) any Federal statutory or regulatory provision re-
quiring a permit (or permit condition) under the Clean 
Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) for emissions of green-
house gases from a stationary source to address climate 
change shall be of no legal effect; 
(3) any federally enforceable permit condition for 
emissions of greenhouse gases from a stationary source 
to address climate change in a permit under the Clean 
Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) issued prior to the date 
of enactment of this Act shall be of no legal effect; and 
(4) no cause of action based on Federal or State com-
mon law or civil tort (including nuisance) may be brought 
or maintained, and no liability, money damages, or injunc-
tive relief arising from such an action may be imposed, 
for— 
(A) any potential or actual contribution of a 
greenhouse gas to climate change; or 
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(B) any direct or indirect effect of potential or 
actual or past, present, or future increases in con-
centrations of a greenhouse gas. 
(b) Any permit for a stationary source subject to title 
I of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) for which 
an application was submitted prior to the expiration of the 
one year period commencing on the date of the enactment 
of this Act (regardless of when such permit is issued) shall 
not include any federally enforceable condition for green-
house gas emissions to address climate change. 
STREAM BUFFER 
SEC. 432. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to develop, carry out, implement, or oth-
erwise enforce proposed regulations published June 18, 
2010 (75 Fed. Reg. 34,667) by the Office of Surface Min-
ing Reclamation and Enforcement of the Department of 
the Interior. 
ENHANCED COORDINATION RESTRICTIONS 
SEC. 433. None of the funds made available by this 
Act to the Environmental Protection Agency, the Corps 
of Engineers, or the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 
and Enforcement may be used to carry out, implement, 
administer, or enforce any policy or procedure set forth 
in — 
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