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District of Columbia’’, approved March 3, 1899 (sec. 10–501.02(a), 
D.C. Official Code) is amended by striking the last sentence. 
SEC. 824. Except as expressly provided otherwise, any reference 
to ‘‘this Act’’ contained in this title or in title IV shall be treated 
as referring only to the provisions of this title or of title IV. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Financial Services and Gen-
eral Government Appropriations Act, 2009’’. 
DIVISION E—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRON-
MENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 
2009 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES 
For necessary expenses for protection, use, improvement, 
development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classification, acquisi-
tion 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 Bureau of Land Management, including the 
general administration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral 
potential of public lands pursuant to Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C. 
3150(a)), $890,194,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
not to exceed $79,478,000 is available for oil and gas management; 
and of which $1,500,000 is for high priority projects, to be carried 
out by the Youth Conservation Corps; and of which $3,000,000 
shall be available in fiscal year 2009 subject to a match by at 
least an equal amount by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation 
for cost-shared projects supporting conservation of Bureau lands; 
and such funds shall be advanced to the Foundation as a lump 
sum grant without regard to when expenses are incurred. 
In addition, $36,400,000 is for the processing of applications 
for permit to drill and related use authorizations, to remain avail-
able until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected by the 
Bureau and credited to this appropriation that shall be derived 
from $4,000 per new application for permit to drill that the Bureau 
shall collect upon submission of each new application, and in addi-
tion, $34,696,000 is for Mining Law Administration program oper-
ations, including the cost of administering 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 annual mining claim fees so as to result in a final appropria-
tion estimated at not more than $890,194,000, and $2,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, from communication site rental 
fees established by the Bureau for the cost of administering commu-
nication site activities. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction of buildings, recreation facilities, roads, trails, 
and appurtenant facilities, $6,590,000, to remain available until 
expended.
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LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 206, and 
318(d) of Public Law 94–579, including administrative expenses 
and acquisition of lands or waters, or interests therein, $14,775,000, 
to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and 
to remain available until expended. 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS 
For expenses necessary for management, protection, and 
development of resources and for construction, operation, 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 coun-
ties of Oregon, and on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of 
lands or interests therein, including existing connecting roads on 
or adjacent to such grant lands; $109,949,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That 25 percent of the aggregate of all 
receipts during the current fiscal year from the revested Oregon 
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 subsection (b) of title II of the Act of August 28, 
1937 (50 Stat. 876). 
FOREST ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND 
(REVOLVING FUND, SPECIAL ACCOUNT) 
In addition to the purposes authorized in Public Law 102– 
381, funds made available in the Forest Ecosystem Health and 
Recovery Fund can be used for the purpose of planning, preparing, 
implementing and monitoring salvage timber sales and forest eco-
system health and recovery activities, such as release from com-
peting vegetation and density control treatments. The Federal share 
of receipts (defined as the portion of salvage timber receipts not 
paid to the counties under 43 U.S.C. 1181f and 43 U.S.C. 1181f– 
1 et seq., and Public Law 106–393) derived from treatments funded 
by this account shall be deposited into the Forest Ecosystem Health 
and Recovery Fund. 
RANGE IMPROVEMENTS 
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands and 
interests therein, and improvement of Federal rangelands pursuant 
to section 401 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), notwithstanding 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. 
315 et seq.) 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.