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the Reclamation Fund and be nonreimbursable as provided in 43 
U.S.C. 377: Provided, That no part of any other appropriation 
in this Act shall be available for activities or functions budgeted 
as policy and administration expenses: Provided further, That, of 
the funds provided under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be trans-
ferred to ‘‘Water and Related Resources’’ upon the expiration of 
the 90-day period following the date of enactment of this Act if 
during such period, the Secretary of the Interior has not submitted 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate the Bureau of Reclamation’s five-year budget 
plan. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Reclamation shall be available 
for purchase of not to exceed seven passenger motor vehicles, which 
are for replacement only. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
SEC. 201. (a) None of the funds provided in title II of this 
Act for Water and Related Resources, or provided by previous 
appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities funded in title II 
of this Act for Water and Related Resources that remain available 
for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2009, shall be available 
for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds 
that— 
(1) initiates or creates a new program, project, or activity; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds for any program, project, or activity 
for which funds have been denied or restricted by this Act, 
unless prior approval is received from the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate; 
(4) restarts or resumes any program, project or activity 
for which funds are not provided in this Act, unless prior 
approval is received from the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate; 
(5) transfers funds in excess of the following limits, unless 
prior approval is received from the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate: 
(A) 15 percent for any program, project or activity 
for which $2,000,000 or more is available at the beginning 
of the fiscal year; or 
(B) $300,000 for any program, project or activity for 
which less than $2,000,000 is available at the beginning 
of the fiscal year; 
(6) transfers more than $500,000 from either the Facilities 
Operation, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation category or the 
Resources Management and Development category to any pro-
gram, project, or activity in the other category, unless prior 
approval is received from the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate; or 
(7) transfers, where necessary to discharge legal obligations 
of the Bureau of Reclamation, more than $5,000,000 to provide 
adequate funds for settled contractor claims, increased con-
tractor earnings due to accelerated rates of operations, and 
real estate deficiency judgments, unless prior approval is
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received from the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate. 
(b) Subsection (a)(5) shall not apply to any transfer of funds 
within the Facilities Operation, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation 
category. 
(c) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘transfer’’ means 
any movement of funds into or out of a program, project, or activity. 
(d) The Bureau of Reclamation shall submit reports on a quar-
terly basis to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives 
and 
the 
Senate 
detailing 
all 
the 
funds 
reprogrammed between programs, projects, activities, or categories 
of funding. The first quarterly report shall be submitted not later 
than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 202. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be used to determine the final 
point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit 
until development by the Secretary of the Interior and the State 
of California of a plan, which shall conform to the water quality 
standards of the State of California as approved by the Adminis-
trator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to minimize any 
detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters. 
(b) The costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program 
and the costs of the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program shall 
be classified by the Secretary of the Interior as reimbursable or 
nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid pursuant to the 
‘‘Cleanup Program-Alternative Repayment Plan’’ and the ‘‘SJVDP- 
Alternative Repayment Plan’’ described in the report entitled 
‘‘Repayment Report, Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and San 
Joaquin Valley Drainage Program, February 1995’’, prepared by 
the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. Any future 
obligations of funds by the United States relating to, or providing 
for, drainage service or drainage studies for the San Luis Unit 
shall be fully reimbursable by San Luis Unit beneficiaries of such 
service or studies pursuant to Federal reclamation law. 
SEC. 203. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this or any other Act may be used to pay the salaries 
and expenses of personnel to purchase or lease water in the Middle 
Rio Grande or the Carlsbad Projects in New Mexico unless said 
purchase or lease is in compliance with the purchase requirements 
of section 202 of Public Law 106–60. 
SEC. 204. Funds under this title for Drought Emergency Assist-
ance shall be made available primarily for leasing of water for 
specified drought related purposes from willing lessors, in compli-
ance with existing State laws and administered under State water 
priority allocation. 
SEC. 205. The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the 
Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, is authorized to enter 
into grants, cooperative agreements, and other agreements with 
irrigation or water districts and States to fund up to 50 percent 
of the cost of planning, designing, and constructing improvements 
that will conserve water, increase water use efficiency, or enhance 
water management through measurement or automation, at 
existing water supply projects within the States identified in the 
Act of June 17, 1902, as amended, and supplemented: Provided, 
That when such improvements are to federally owned facilities, 
such funds may be provided in advance on a nonreimbursable 
basis to an entity operating affected transferred works or may