106 
HR 2996 RFS
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. Estimated overhead charges, deductions, 
reserves or holdbacks from programs, projects, activities 
and subactivities to support government-wide, depart-
mental, agency or bureau administrative functions or 
headquarters, regional or central operations shall be pre-
sented in annual budget justifications and subject to ap-
proval by the Committees on Appropriations. Changes to 
such estimates shall be presented to the Committees on 
Appropriations for approval. 
SEC. 406. 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 provided in, 
this Act or any other Act. 
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. 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
22:39 Jul 06, 2009
Jkt 079200
PO 00000
Frm 00106
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H2996.RFS
H2996
hsrobinson on PROD1PC76 with BILLS
107 
HR 2996 RFS
(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, 2010, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall file with the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations and the Committee on Natural 
Resources 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 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
22:39 Jul 06, 2009
Jkt 079200
PO 00000
Frm 00107
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H2996.RFS
H2996
hsrobinson on PROD1PC76 with BILLS
108 
HR 2996 RFS
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 otherwise designated 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, 108–447, 109–54, 
109–289, division B and Continuing Appropriations Reso-
lution, 2007 (division B of Public Law 109–289, as 
amended by Public Laws 110–5 and 110–28), Public 
Laws 110–92, 110–116, 110–137, 110–149, 110–161, 
110–329, 111–6, and 111–8 for payments for contract 
support costs associated with self-determination or self- 
governance contracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding 
agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the In-
dian Health Service as funded by such Acts, are the total 
amounts available for fiscal years 1994 through 2009 for 
such purposes, except that the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
22:39 Jul 06, 2009
Jkt 079200
PO 00000
Frm 00108
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H2996.RFS
H2996
hsrobinson on PROD1PC76 with BILLS
109 
HR 2996 RFS
federally recognized tribes, and tribal organizations of fed-
erally recognized tribes may use their tribal priority alloca-
tions for unmet contract support costs of ongoing con-
tracts, grants, self-governance compacts, or annual fund-
ing agreements. 
SEC. 409. 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 Plan-
ning 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 National Forest System. Nothing 
in this section exempts the Secretary from any other re-
quirement of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Re-
sources Planning Act (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.) or any 
other law: Provided, That if the Secretary is not acting 
expeditiously and in good faith, within the funding avail-
able, to revise a plan for a unit of the National Forest 
System, this section shall be void with respect to such plan 
and a court of proper jurisdiction may order completion 
of the plan on an accelerated basis. 
SEC. 410. 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-
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
22:39 Jul 06, 2009
Jkt 079200
PO 00000
Frm 00109
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H2996.RFS
H2996
hsrobinson on PROD1PC76 with BILLS
110 
HR 2996 RFS
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. 411. In entering into agreements with foreign 
fire organizations pursuant to the Temporary Emergency 
Wildfire Suppression Act (42 U.S.C. 1856m–1856o), 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 considered, for purposes of 
tort liability, employees of the fire organization receiving 
said services when the individuals are engaged in fire sup-
pression or presuppression: Provided, That the Secretary 
of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior shall not 
enter into any agreement under this provision unless the 
foreign fire organization agrees to assume any and all li-
ability for the acts or omissions of American firefighters 
engaged in fire suppression or presuppression in a foreign 
country: Provided further, That when an agreement is 
reached for furnishing fire suppression or presuppression 
services, the only remedies for acts or omissions com-
mitted while engaged in fire suppression or presuppression 
shall be those provided under the laws applicable to the 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
22:39 Jul 06, 2009
Jkt 079200
PO 00000
Frm 00110
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H2996.RFS
H2996
hsrobinson on PROD1PC76 with BILLS
111 
HR 2996 RFS
fire organization receiving the fire suppression or 
presuppression services, and those remedies shall be the 
exclusive remedies for any claim arising out of fire sup-
pression or presuppression activities in a foreign country: 
Provided further, That neither the sending country nor 
any legal organization associated with the firefighter shall 
be subject to any legal action, consistent with the applica-
ble laws governing sovereign immunity, pertaining to or 
arising out of the firefighter’s role in fire suppression or 
presuppression, except that if the foreign fire organization 
is unable to provide such protection under laws applicable 
to it, it shall assume any and all liability for the United 
States or for any legal organization associated with the 
American firefighter, and for any and all costs incurred 
or assessed, including legal fees, for any act or omission 
pertaining to or arising out of the firefighter’s role in fire 
suppression or presuppression. 
SEC. 412. 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-
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
22:39 Jul 06, 2009
Jkt 079200
PO 00000
Frm 00111
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H2996.RFS
H2996
hsrobinson on PROD1PC76 with BILLS
112 
HR 2996 RFS
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-
lated partnerships with State, local or non-profit youth 
groups, or small or micro-business or disadvantaged 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. 413. Unless otherwise provided herein, no funds 
appropriated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or 
interests in lands may be expended for the filing of dec-
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
22:39 Jul 06, 2009
Jkt 079200
PO 00000
Frm 00112
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H2996.RFS
H2996
hsrobinson on PROD1PC76 with BILLS
113 
HR 2996 RFS
larations of taking or complaints in condemnation without 
the approval of the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations. 
SEC. 414. The terms and conditions of section 325 
of Public Law 108–108, regarding grazing permits at the 
Department of the Interior and the Forest Service shall 
remain in effect for fiscal year 2010. 
SEC. 415. Section 6 of the National Foundation on 
the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (Public Law 
89–209, 20 U.S.C. 955), as amended, is further amend-
ed— 
(1) in the first sentence of subsection (b)(1)(C), 
by striking ‘‘14’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘18’’; 
and 
(2) in the second sentence of subsection (d)(1), 
by striking ‘‘Eight’’ and inserting in lieu thereof 
‘‘Ten’’. 
SEC. 416. The item relating to ‘‘National Capital 
Arts and Cultural Affairs’’ in the Department of the Inte-
rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986, as 
enacted into law by section 101(d) of Public Law 99–190 
(99 Stat. 1261; 20 U.S.C. 956a), is amended— 
(1) in the second sentence of the first para-
graph, by striking ‘‘$7,500,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$10,000,000’’; and 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
22:39 Jul 06, 2009
Jkt 079200
PO 00000
Frm 00113
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H2996.RFS
H2996
hsrobinson on PROD1PC76 with BILLS
114 
HR 2996 RFS
(2) in the second sentence of the fourth para-
graph, by striking ‘‘$500,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$650,000’’. 
SEC. 417. Section 339(h) of the Department of the 
Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000, 
as amended, concerning a pilot program for the sale of 
forest botanical products by the Forest Service, is further 
amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2009’’ and inserting 
‘‘September 30, 2014’’. 
SEC. 418. The second sentence of section 2 (a)(1) 
of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 201(a)(1); relating 
to coal bonus bids) does not apply for fiscal year 2010. 
SEC. 419. All monies received by the United States 
in fiscal year 2010 from sales, bonuses, rentals, and royal-
ties under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 shall be dis-
posed of as provided by section 20 of that Act (30 U.S.C. 
1019), as in effect immediately before enactment of the 
Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–58), and 
without regard to the amendments contained in sections 
224(b) and section 234 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 
(42 U.S.C. 17673). 
SEC. 420. Section 331(e) of the Department of the 
Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, 
(Public Law 106–291), as added by section 336 of division 
E of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
22:39 Jul 06, 2009
Jkt 079200
PO 00000
Frm 00114
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H2996.RFS
H2996
hsrobinson on PROD1PC76 with BILLS
115 
HR 2996 RFS
Law 108–447), concerning cooperative forestry agree-
ments known as the Colorado Good Neighbor Act Author-
ity is amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2009’’ and in-
serting ‘‘September 30, 2013’’. 
SEC. 421. None of the funds in this or any other Act 
shall be used to deposit funds from any Federal royalties, 
rents, and bonuses derived from Federal onshore and off-
shore oil and gas leases issued under the Outer Conti-
nental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) and the 
Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) into the 
Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and 
Other Petroleum Research Fund. 
SEC. 422. Section 302(a) of the Secure Rural Schools 
and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (16 
U.S.C. 7142(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ‘‘; and’’ 
and inserting a semicolon; 
(2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period and 
inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (3), the fol-
lowing: ‘‘(4) to reimburse all or part of the costs in-
curred by the county to pay the salaries and benefits 
of county employees who supervise adults or juve-
niles performing mandatory community service on 
Federal lands.’’. 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
22:39 Jul 06, 2009
Jkt 079200
PO 00000
Frm 00115
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H2996.RFS
H2996
hsrobinson on PROD1PC76 with BILLS
116 
HR 2996 RFS
SEC. 423. Within the amounts appropriated in this 
Act, funding shall be allocated in the amounts specified 
for those projects and purposes delineated in the table ti-
tled ‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending’’ included in the 
explanatory statement accompanying this Act. The pre-
ceding sentence shall apply in addition to the allocation 
requirements specified in this Act under the heading ‘‘Na-
tional Park Service–Historic Preservation Fund’’ for Save 
America’s Treasures and under the heading ‘‘Environ-
mental Protection Agency–State and Tribal Assistance 
Grants’’ for special project grants for the construction of 
drinking water, wastewater and storm infrastructure and 
for water quality protection. 
SEC. 424. Not later than 120 days after the date on 
which the President’s Fiscal Year 2011 budget request is 
submitted to Congress, the President shall submit a report 
to the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate describing in detail all Federal agency obligations 
and expenditures, domestic and international, for climate 
change programs and activities in fiscal year 2008, fiscal 
year 2009, and fiscal year 2010, including an accounting 
of expenditures by agency with each agency identifying cli-
mate change activities and associated costs by line item 
as presented in the President’s Budget Appendix. 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
22:39 Jul 06, 2009
Jkt 079200
PO 00000
Frm 00116
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H2996.RFS
H2996
hsrobinson on PROD1PC76 with BILLS
117 
HR 2996 RFS
SEC. 425. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds made available in this or any other 
Act may be used to implement any rule that requires man-
datory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure 
management systems. 
SEC. 426. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this or any prior Act may be used to release an individual 
who is detained, as of April 30, 2009, at Naval Station, 
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into any of the United States 
territories of Guam, American Samoa (AS), the United 
States Virgin Islands (USVI), the Commonwealth of Puer-
to Rico and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands (CNMI). 
(b) None of the funds made available in this or any 
other prior Act may be used to transfer an individual who 
is detained, as of April 30, 2009, at Naval Station, Guan-
tanamo Bay, Cuba, into any of the United States terri-
tories of Guam, American Samoa (AS), the United States 
Virgin Islands (USVI), the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico 
and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 
(CNMI), for the purposes of detaining or prosecuting such 
individual, until 2 months after the plan described in sub-
section (c) is received. 
(c) The President shall submit to the Congress, in 
writing, a comprehensive plan regarding the proposed dis-
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
22:39 Jul 06, 2009
Jkt 079200
PO 00000
Frm 00117
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H2996.RFS
H2996
hsrobinson on PROD1PC76 with BILLS
118 
HR 2996 RFS
position of each individual who is detained, as of April 30, 
2009, at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who is 
not covered under subsection (d). Such plan shall include, 
at a minimum, each of the following for each such indi-
vidual: 
(1) The findings of an analysis regarding any 
risk to the national security of the United States 
that is posed by the transfer of the individual. 
(2) The costs associated with not transferring 
the individual in question. 
(3) The legal rationale and associated court de-
mands for transfer. 
(4) A certification by the President that any 
risk described in paragraph (1) has been mitigated, 
together with a full description of the plan for such 
mitigation. 
(5) A certification by the President that the 
President has submitted to the Governor and legisla-
ture of the State or territory (or, in the case of the 
District of Columbia, to the Mayor of the District of 
Columbia) to which the President intends to transfer 
the individual a certification in writing at least 30 
days prior to such transfer (together with supporting 
documentation and justification) that the individual 
does not pose a security risk to the United States. 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
22:39 Jul 06, 2009
Jkt 079200
PO 00000
Frm 00118
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H2996.RFS
H2996
hsrobinson on PROD1PC76 with BILLS
119 
HR 2996 RFS
(d) None of the funds made available in this or any 
prior Act may be used to transfer or release an individual 
detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as of 
April 30, 2009, to a freely associated State, unless the 
President submits to the Congress, in writing, at least 30 
days prior to such transfer or release, the following infor-
mation: 
(1) The name of any individual to be trans-
ferred or released and the freely associated State to 
which such individual is to be transferred or re-
leased. 
(2) An assessment of any risk to the national 
security of the United States or its citizens, includ-
ing members of the Armed Services or the United 
States, that is posed by such transfer or release and 
the actions taken to mitigate such risk. 
(3) The terms of any agreement with the freely 
associated State for the acceptance of such indi-
vidual, including the amount of any financial assist-
ance related to such agreement. 
(e) In this section, the term ‘‘freely associated 
States’’ means the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), 
the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Re-
public of Palau. 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
22:39 Jul 06, 2009
Jkt 079200
PO 00000
Frm 00119
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H2996.RFS
H2996
hsrobinson on PROD1PC76 with BILLS
120 
HR 2996 RFS
SEC. 427. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds made available in this or any other 
Act may be used to promulgate or implement any regula-
tion requiring the issuance of permits under title V of the 
Clean Air Act for carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water 
vapor, or methane emissions resulting from biological 
processes associated with livestock production. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2010’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 26, 2009. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
22:39 Jul 06, 2009
Jkt 079200
PO 00000
Frm 00120
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H2996.RFS
H2996
hsrobinson on PROD1PC76 with BILLS