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to other Federal agencies for destruction of vehicles, aircraft, or 
other equipment in connection with their use for wildland fire 
operations, such reimbursement to be credited to appropriations 
currently available at the time of receipt thereof: Provided further, 
That for wildland fire operations, no funds shall be made available 
under this authority until the Secretary determines that funds 
appropriated for ‘‘wildland fire operations’’ shall be exhausted 
within 30 days: Provided further, That all funds used pursuant 
to this section must be replenished by a supplemental appropriation 
which must be requested as promptly as possible: Provided further, 
That such replenishment funds shall be used to reimburse, on 
a pro rata basis, accounts from which emergency funds were trans-
ferred. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations made to the Department of the 
Interior in this title shall be available for services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, when authorized by the Secretary, in total amount 
not to exceed $500,000; purchase and replacement of motor vehicles, 
including specially equipped law enforcement vehicles; hire, mainte-
nance, and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
purchase of reprints; payment for telephone service in private resi-
dences in the field, when authorized under regulations approved 
by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, when authorized by 
the Secretary, for library membership in societies or associations 
which issue publications to members only or at a price to members 
lower than to subscribers who are not members. 
SEC. 104. No funds provided in this title may be expended 
by the Department of the Interior for the conduct of offshore 
preleasing, leasing and related activities placed under restriction 
in the President’s moratorium statement of June 12, 1998, in the 
areas of northern, central, and southern California; the North 
Atlantic; Washington and Oregon; and the eastern Gulf of Mexico 
south of 26 degrees north latitude and east of 86 degrees west 
longitude. 
SEC. 105. No funds provided in this title may be expended 
by the Department of the Interior to conduct oil and natural gas 
preleasing, leasing and related activities in the Mid-Atlantic and 
South Atlantic planning areas. 
SEC. 106. Appropriations made in this Act under the headings 
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Office of Special Trustee for American 
Indians and any unobligated balances from prior appropriations 
Acts made under the same headings shall be available for expendi-
ture or transfer for Indian trust management and reform activities, 
excluding litigation costs. Total funding for historical accounting 
activities shall not exceed amounts specifically designated in this 
Act for such purpose. 
SEC. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redistribute any Tribal 
Priority Allocation funds, including tribal base funds, to alleviate 
tribal funding inequities by transferring funds to address identified, 
unmet needs, dual enrollment, overlapping service areas or inac-
curate distribution methodologies. No tribe shall receive a reduction 
in Tribal Priority Allocation funds of more than 10 percent in 
fiscal year 2008. Under circumstances of dual enrollment, overlap-
ping service areas or inaccurate distribution methodologies, the 
10 percent limitation does not apply.
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SEC. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in con-
veying the Twin Cities Research Center under the authority pro-
vided by Public Law 104–134, as amended by Public Law 104– 
208, the Secretary may accept and retain land and other forms 
of reimbursement: Provided, That the Secretary may retain and 
use any such reimbursement until expended and without further 
appropriation: (1) for the benefit of the National Wildlife Refuge 
System within the State of Minnesota; and (2) for all activities 
authorized by 16 U.S.C. 460zz. 
SEC. 109. The Secretary of the Interior may hereafter use 
or contract for the use of helicopters or motor vehicles on the 
Sheldon and Hart National Wildlife Refuges for the purpose of 
capturing and transporting horses and burros. The provisions of 
subsection (a) of the Act of September 8, 1959 (18 U.S.C. 47(a)) 
shall not be applicable to such use. Such use shall be in accordance 
with humane procedures prescribed by the Secretary. 
SEC. 110. None of the funds in this or any other Act can 
be used to compensate the Special Master and the Special Master- 
Monitor, and all variations thereto, appointed by the United States 
District Court for the District of Columbia in the Cobell v. 
Kempthorne litigation at an annual rate that exceeds 200 percent 
of the highest Senior Executive Service rate of pay for the Wash-
ington-Baltimore locality pay area. 
SEC. 111. The Secretary of the Interior may use discretionary 
funds to pay private attorney fees and costs for employees and 
former employees of the Department of the Interior reasonably 
incurred in connection with Cobell v. Kempthorne to the extent 
that such fees and costs are not paid by the Department of Justice 
or by private insurance. In no case shall the Secretary make pay-
ments under this section that would result in payment of hourly 
fees in excess of the highest hourly rate approved by the District 
Court for the District of Columbia for counsel in Cobell v. 
Kempthorne. 
SEC. 112. No funds appropriated for the Department of the 
Interior by this Act or any other Act shall be used to study or 
implement any plan to drain Lake Powell or to reduce the water 
level of the lake below the range of water levels required for 
the operation of the Glen Canyon Dam. 
SEC. 113. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service shall, 
in carrying out its responsibilities to protect threatened and endan-
gered species of salmon, implement a system of mass marking 
of salmonid stocks, intended for harvest, that are released from 
federally-operated or federally-financed hatcheries including but not 
limited to fish releases of coho, chinook, and steelhead species. 
Marked fish must have a visible mark that can be readily identified 
by commercial and recreational fishers. 
SEC. 114. Notwithstanding any implementation of the Depart-
ment of the Interior’s trust reorganization or reengineering plans, 
or the implementation of the ‘‘To Be’’ Model, funds appropriated 
for fiscal year 2008 shall be available to the tribes within the 
California Tribal Trust Reform Consortium and to the Salt River 
Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, the Confederated Salish and 
Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation and the Chippewa 
Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boys Reservation through the same method-
ology as funds were distributed in fiscal year 2003. This Demonstra-
tion Project shall continue to operate separate and apart from 
the Department of the Interior’s trust reform and reorganization
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and the Department shall not impose its trust management infra-
structure upon or alter the existing trust resource management 
systems of the above referenced tribes having a self-governance 
compact and operating in accordance with the Tribal Self-Govern-
ance Program set forth in 25 U.S.C. 458aa–458hh: Provided, That 
the California Trust Reform Consortium and any other participating 
tribe agree to carry out their responsibilities under the same written 
and implemented fiduciary standards as those being carried by 
the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That they dem-
onstrate to the satisfaction of the Secretary that they have the 
capability to do so: Provided further, That the Department shall 
provide funds to the tribes in an amount equal to that required 
by 25 U.S.C. 458cc(g)(3), including funds specifically or functionally 
related to the provision of trust services to the tribes or their 
members. 
SEC. 115. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire lands, waters, 
or interests therein including the use of all or part of any pier, 
dock, or landing within the State of New York and the State 
of New Jersey, for the purpose of operating and maintaining facili-
ties in the support of transportation and accommodation of visitors 
to Ellis, Governors, and Liberty Islands, and of other program 
and administrative activities, by donation or with appropriated 
funds, including franchise fees (and other monetary consideration), 
or by exchange; and the Secretary is authorized to negotiate and 
enter into leases, subleases, concession contracts or other agree-
ments for the use of such facilities on such terms and conditions 
as the Secretary may determine reasonable. 
SEC. 116. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 
42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., nonrenewable grazing permits authorized 
in the Jarbidge Field Office, Bureau of Land Management since 
March 1, 1997 shall be renewed. The Animal Unit Months, author-
ized in any nonrenewable grazing permit from March 1, 1997 to 
present shall continue in effect under the renewed permit. Nothing 
in this section shall be deemed to extend the renewed permit 
beyond the standard 1-year term. The period of this provision 
will be until all of the grazing permits in the Jarbidge Field Office 
are renewed after the completion of the Record of Decision for 
the Jarbidge Resource Management Plan/Final Environmental 
Impact Statement. 
SEC. 117. OIL AND GAS LEASING INTERNET PILOT PROGRAM. 
Notwithstanding section 17(b)(1)(A) of the Mineral Leasing Act 
(30 U.S.C 226(b)(1)(A)), the Secretary of the Interior shall establish 
an oil and gas leasing Internet pilot program, under which the 
Secretary may conduct lease sales through methods other than 
oral bidding. To carry out the pilot program, the Secretary of 
the Interior may use not more than $250,000 of funds in the 
BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund described in section 
35(c)(2)(B) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 191(c)(2)(B)). 
SEC. 118. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of the Interior is directed to sell property within the 
Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge and the Dungeness 
National Wildlife Refuge to the Washington State Department of 
Transportation. 
SEC. 119. No funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
to the Department of the Interior may be used, in relation to 
any proposal to store water for the purpose of export, for approval
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of any right-of-way or similar authorization on the Mojave National 
Preserve or lands managed by the Needles Field Office of the 
Bureau of Land Management, or for carrying out any activities 
associated with such right-of-way or similar approval. 
SEC. 120. Section 460ccc–4 of the Red Rock Canyon National 
Conservation Area Establishment Act authorization (16 U.S.C. 
460ccc) is amended— 
(1) in section (a)(1), by striking ‘‘with donated or appro-
priated funds’’; 
(2) by striking section (a)(2); 
(3) in section (a)(3), by striking ‘‘(3)’’ and replacing with 
‘‘(2)’’; and 
(4) in section (a)(4), by striking ‘‘(4)’’ and replacing with 
‘‘(3)’’. 
SEC. 121. Title 43 U.S.C. 1473 is amended by inserting at 
the end of that section before the period the following: ‘‘, including, 
in fiscal year 2008 only, contributions of money and services to 
conduct work in support of the orderly exploration and development 
of Outer Continental Shelf resources, including but not limited 
to, preparation of environmental documents such as impact state-
ments and assessments, studies, and related research’’. 
SEC. 122. Section 1077(c) of Public Law 109–364 is repealed. 
SEC. 123. Section 144 of division E of Public Law 108–447, 
as amended, is amended in paragraph (b)(2) by striking ‘‘November 
12, 2004’’ and inserting ‘‘May 4, 2005.’’ 
SEC. 124. Section 105(f)(1)(B) of the Compact of Free Association 
Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921d(f)(1)(B)) is amended 
in clause (ix) by— 
(1) striking ‘‘Republic’’ both places it appears and inserting 
‘‘government, institutions, and people’’; 
(2) striking ‘‘2007’’ and inserting ‘‘2009’’; and 
(3) striking ‘‘was’’ and inserting ‘‘were’’. 
SEC. 125. The Secretary of the Interior may enter into coopera-
tive agreements with a State or political subdivision (including 
any agency thereof), or any not-for-profit organization if the agree-
ment will: (1) serve a mutual interest of the parties to the agreement 
in carrying out the programs administered by the Department 
of the Interior; and (2) all parties will contribute resources to 
the accomplishment of these objectives. At the discretion of the 
Secretary, such agreements shall not be subject to a competitive 
process. 
SEC. 126. The Federal properties commonly referred to as the 
Barnes Ranch and Agency Lake Ranch (the properties) in Klamath 
County, Oregon, managed by the Bureau of Reclamation shall be 
transferred to the Upper Klamath National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) 
in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding between 
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Klamath Basin National Wildlife 
Refuge Complex and the Bureau of Reclamation Klamath Basin 
Area Office and The Nature Conservancy dated March 2, 2007, 
as expeditiously as possible and no later than December 2008: 
Provided, That these Federal properties and all Federal refuge 
lands within the adjusted boundary area for the Refuge, as approved 
by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) in June 2005 under 
the Land Protection Plan of 2005, shall be made a part of the 
Refuge and shall be managed by the Service as such: Provided 
further, That each year after the properties become part of the 
Refuge, those increments of water passively stored on the properties