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to the head of any Federal department or agency, with the concur-
rence 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 department 
or agency to carry out these activities; and to make grants to 
governmental entities, nonprofit organizations, institutions, and 
individuals for planning, research, monitoring, outreach, and 
implementation in furtherance of the Great Lakes Restoration Ini-
tiative 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 renovation of facilities provided that 
the cost does not exceed $150,000 per project. 
For fiscal year 2017, 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 sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act. 
The Administrator is authorized to use the amounts appro-
priated under the heading ‘‘Environmental Programs and Manage-
ment’’ for fiscal year 2017 to provide grants to implement the 
Southeastern New England Watershed Restoration Program. 
Notwithstanding the limitation on amounts in section 320(i) 
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, funds made available 
under this title for the National Estuary Program shall be used 
for the development, implementation, and monitoring of comprehen-
sive conservation and management plans. 
Of the unobligated balances available for ‘‘State and Tribal 
Assistance Grants’’ account, $61,198,000 are permanently rescinded: 
Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that 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 Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 or from 
amounts that were made available by subsection (a) of section 
196 of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2017 (division C of Public 
Law 114–223), as amended by the Further Continuing and Security 
Assistance Appropriations Act, 2017 (Public Law 114–254). 
TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland research as 
authorized by law, $288,514,000, to remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2020: Provided, That of the funds provided, $77,000,000 
is for the forest inventory and analysis program.
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STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and providing tech-
nical and financial assistance to States, territories, possessions, 
and others, and for forest health management, including treatments 
of pests, pathogens, and invasive or noxious plants and for restoring 
and rehabilitating forests damaged by pests or invasive plants, 
cooperative forestry, and education and land conservation activities 
and 
conducting 
an 
international 
program 
as 
authorized, 
$228,923,000, to remain available through September 30, 2020, 
as authorized by law; of which $62,347,000 is to be derived from 
the Land and Water Conservation Fund to be used for the Forest 
Legacy Program, to remain available until expended. 
Of the unobligated balances from amounts made available for 
the Forest Legacy Program and derived from the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund, $12,002,000 is hereby permanently rescinded 
from projects with cost savings or failed or partially failed projects 
that had funds returned. 
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, for management, protection, improvement, and utiliza-
tion of the National Forest System, $1,513,318,000, to remain avail-
able through September 30, 2020: Provided, That of the funds 
provided, $40,000,000 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, $367,805,000 shall be for forest products: Provided 
further, That of the funds provided, up to $81,941,000 is for the 
Integrated Resource Restoration pilot program for Region 1, Region 
3 and Region 4: Provided further, That of the funds provided for 
forest products, up to $65,560,000 may be transferred to support 
the Integrated Resource Restoration pilot program in the preceding 
proviso: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture may 
transfer to the Secretary of the Interior any unobligated funds 
appropriated in a previous fiscal year for operation of the Valles 
Caldera National Preserve: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
section 33 of the Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 
1012), the Secretary of Agriculture, in calculating a fee for grazing 
on a National Grassland, may provide 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 incurred. And, that the amount credited shall remain available 
to the Grazing Association or the direct permittee, as appropriate, 
in the fiscal year in which the credit is made and each fiscal 
year thereafter for use on the project for conservation practices 
approved by the Secretary.
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CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, $364,014,000, to remain available through September 
30, 2020, for construction, capital improvement, maintenance and 
acquisition of buildings and other facilities and infrastructure; and 
for construction, reconstruction, 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 $40,000,000 shall be 
designated for urgently needed road decommissioning, road and 
trail repair and maintenance and associated activities, and removal 
of fish passage barriers, especially in areas where Forest Service 
roads may be contributing to water quality problems in streams 
and water bodies which support threatened, endangered, or sen-
sitive species or community water sources: Provided further, That 
funds becoming available in fiscal year 2017 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: 
Provided further, That of the funds provided for decommissioning 
of roads, up to $14,743,000 may be transferred to the ‘‘National 
Forest System’’ to support the Integrated Resource Restoration 
pilot program. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of chapter 
2003 of title 54, United States Code, including administrative 
expenses, and for acquisition of land or waters, or interest therein, 
in accordance with statutory authority applicable to the Forest 
Service, $54,415,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund and to remain available until expended. 
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, California, as authorized by law, 
$950,000, 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 governments, public school 
districts, or other public school authorities, and for authorized 
expenditures from funds deposited by non-Federal parties pursuant 
to Land Sale and Exchange Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 
4, 1967 (16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available through September 
30, 2020, (16 U.S.C. 516–617a, 555a; Public Law 96–586; Public 
Law 76–589, 76–591; and Public Law 78–310).
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RANGE BETTERMENT FUND 
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, protection, 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 Sep-
tember 30, 2020, of which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available 
for administrative expenses associated with on-the-ground range 
rehabilitation, 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, 2020, 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 (Public Law 96–487), 
$2,500,000, to remain available through September 30, 2020. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression activities 
on National Forest System lands, for emergency fire suppression 
on or adjacent to such lands or other lands under fire protection 
agreement, hazardous fuels management on or adjacent to such 
lands, emergency rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest 
System lands and water, and for State and volunteer fire assistance, 
$2,833,415,000, to remain available through September 30, 2020: 
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 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 emer-
gencies are fully repaid by the responsible emergency management 
agency: Provided further, That funds provided shall be available 
for emergency rehabilitation and restoration, hazardous fuels 
management activities, support to Federal emergency response, and 
wildfire suppression activities of the Forest Service: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds provided, $390,000,000 is for hazardous 
fuels management activities, $19,795,000 is for research activities 
and to make competitive research grants pursuant to the Forest 
and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act, (16 U.S.C. 1641 
et seq.), $78,000,000 is for State fire assistance, and $15,000,000 
is for volunteer fire assistance under section 10 of the Cooperative 
Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2106): Provided further, 
That amounts in this paragraph may be transferred to the ‘‘National 
Forest System’’, and ‘‘Forest and Rangeland Research’’ accounts 
to fund forest and rangeland research, vegetation and watershed