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NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, for management, protection, improvement, and utiliza-
tion of the National Forest System, $1,556,628,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That of the funds provided, 
$336,049,000 shall be for forest products: Provided further, That 
of the funds provided, $40,000,000 shall be deposited in the Collabo-
rative Forest Landscape Restoration Fund for ecological restoration 
treatments as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 7303(f): Provided further, 
That of the funds provided, up to $68,000,000 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 $44,585,000 may be transferred to support the 
Integrated Resource Restoration pilot program in the preceding 
proviso. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, $394,721,000, to remain available until expended, 
for construction, capital improvement, maintenance and acquisition 
of buildings and other facilities and infrastructure; and for construc-
tion, reconstruction, decommissioning (including decommissioning 
unauthorized roads 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 $45,000,000 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 threat-
ened, endangered, or sensitive species or community water sources: 
Provided further, That funds becoming available in fiscal year 2012 
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 $13,000,000 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 the Land 
and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 
460l–4 through 11), including administrative expenses, and for 
acquisition of land or waters, or interest therein, in accordance 
with statutory authority applicable to the Forest Service, 
$52,605,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation 
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
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National Forest, Nevada; and the Angeles, San Bernardino, Sequoia, 
and Cleveland National Forests, California, as authorized by law, 
$955,000, 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, as amended (16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available until 
expended (16 U.S.C. 460l–516–617a, 555a; Public Law 96–586; 
Public Law 76–589, 76–591; and Public Law 78–310). 
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, as amended, to remain available 
until expended, 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 until expended, to be derived from the fund estab-
lished 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), 
$2,577,000, to remain available until expended. 
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 reduction on or adjacent to such lands, 
and for emergency rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest 
System lands and water, $1,737,631,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That such funds including unobligated balances 
under this heading, are available for repayment of advances from 
other appropriations accounts previously transferred for such pur-
poses: 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
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agency: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, $7,262,000 of funds appropriated under this appropriation 
shall be available for the Forest Service in support of fire science 
research authorized by the Joint Fire Science Program, including 
all Forest Service authorities for the use of funds, such as contracts, 
grants, research joint venture agreements, and cooperative agree-
ments: Provided further, That all authorities for the use of funds, 
including the use of contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements, 
available to execute the Forest and Rangeland Research appropria-
tion, are also available in the utilization of these funds for Fire 
Science Research: Provided further, That funds provided shall be 
available for emergency rehabilitation and restoration, hazardous 
fuels reduction activities in the urban-wildland interface, support 
to Federal emergency response, and wildfire suppression activities 
of the Forest Service: Provided further, That of the funds provided, 
$317,584,000 is for hazardous fuels reduction activities, $21,734,000 
is for research activities and to make competitive research grants 
pursuant to the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources 
Research Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1641 et seq.), $55,564,000 
is for State fire assistance, $6,366,000 is for volunteer fire assist-
ance, $15,983,000 is for forest health activities on Federal lands 
and $8,366,000 is for forest health activities on State and private 
lands: Provided further, That amounts in this paragraph may be 
transferred to the ‘‘State and Private Forestry’’, ‘‘National Forest 
System’’, and ‘‘Forest and Rangeland Research’’ accounts to fund 
State fire assistance, volunteer fire assistance, forest health 
management, forest and rangeland research, the Joint Fire Science 
Program, vegetation and watershed management, heritage site 
rehabilitation, and wildlife and fish habitat management and res-
toration: Provided further, That the costs of implementing any 
cooperative agreement between the Federal Government and any 
non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutually agreed on by the 
affected parties: Provided further, That up to $15,000,000 of the 
funds provided herein may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture 
to enter into procurement contracts or cooperative agreements or 
to issue grants for hazardous fuels reduction and for training or 
monitoring associated with such hazardous fuels reduction activities 
on Federal land or on non-Federal land if the Secretary determines 
such activities implement a community wildfire protection plan 
(or equivalent) and benefit resources on Federal land: Provided 
further, That funds made available to implement the Community 
Forest Restoration Act, Public Law 106–393, title VI, shall be 
available for use on non-Federal lands in accordance with authori-
ties made available to the Forest Service under the ‘‘State and 
Private Forestry’’ appropriation: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize 
the transfer of funds appropriated for wildland fire management, 
in an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000,000, between the 
Departments when such transfers would facilitate and expedite 
wildland fire management programs and projects: Provided further, 
That of the funds provided for hazardous fuels reduction, not to 
exceed $5,000,000 may be used to make grants, using any authori-
ties available to the Forest Service under the ‘‘State and Private 
Forestry’’ appropriation, for the purpose of creating incentives for 
increased use of biomass from National Forest System lands: Pro-
vided further, That no amounts may be cancelled from amounts 
that were designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
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pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 
amended: Provided further, That before obligating any of the funds 
provided herein for wildland fire suppression, the Secretary of Agri-
culture shall obligate all unobligated balances previously made 
available under this heading (including the unobligated balances 
transferred to Forest Service accounts under this heading by divi-
sion B of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Con-
tinuing Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public Law 110–329, 122 Stat. 
3594)) that, when appropriated, were designated by Congress as 
an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution 
on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 and notify the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate in writing of the 
imminent need to begin obligating funds provided herein for 
wildland fire suppression: Provided further, That funds designated 
for wildfire suppression, including funds transferred from the 
‘‘FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund’’, shall be assessed 
for cost pools on the same basis as such assessments are calculated 
against other agency programs: Provided further, That of the funds 
for hazardous fuels reduction, up to $21,000,000 may be transferred 
to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ to support the Integrated Resource 
Restoration pilot program. 
FLAME WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION RESERVE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for large fire suppression operations 
of the Department of Agriculture and as a reserve fund for suppres-
sion and Federal emergency response activities, $315,886,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That such amounts 
are available only for transfer to the ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ 
account and only following a declaration by the Secretary that 
either (1) a wildland fire suppression event meets certain previously 
established risk-based written criteria for significant complexity, 
severity, or threat posed by the fire or (2) funds in the ‘‘Wildland 
Fire Management’’ account will be exhausted within 30 days. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FOREST SERVICE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current fiscal year 
shall be available for: (1) purchase of passenger motor vehicles; 
acquisition of passenger motor vehicles from excess sources, and 
hire of such vehicles; purchase, lease, operation, maintenance, and 
acquisition of aircraft from excess sources to maintain the operable 
fleet for use in Forest Service wildland fire programs and other 
Forest Service programs; notwithstanding other provisions of law, 
existing aircraft being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived 
or trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the replace-
ment aircraft; (2) services pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2225, and not 
to exceed $100,000 for employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; (3) pur-
chase, erection, and alteration of buildings and other public 
improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); (4) acquisition of land, waters, and 
interests therein pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 428a; (5) for expenses pursu-
ant to the Volunteers in the National Forest Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C.