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Municipal Wastewater Treatment During Wet Weather Conditions’’, 
dated November 3, 2003 (68 Fed. Reg. 63042). 
SEC. 204. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used in contravention of 15 U.S.C. 2682(c)(3) or to delay the 
implementation of that section. 
SEC. 205. None of the funds provided in this Act or any other 
Act may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 
to publish proposed or final regulations pursuant to the require-
ments of section 428(b) of division G of Public Law 108–199 until 
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in 
coordination with other appropriate Federal agencies, has completed 
and published a technical study to look at safety issues, including 
the risk of fire and burn to consumers in use, associated with 
compliance with the regulations. Not later than 6 months after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall complete 
and publish the technical study. 
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, $283,094,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That of the funds provided, $60,267,000 is 
for the forest inventory and analysis program. 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
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, 
$283,577,000, to remain available until expended, as authorized 
by law of which $57,380,000 is to be derived from the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund: Provided, That none of the funds pro-
vided under this heading for the acquisition of lands or interests 
in lands shall be available until the Forest Service notifies the 
House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee 
on Appropriations, in writing, of specific contractual and grant 
details including the non-Federal cost share: Provided further, That 
of the funds provided herein, $1,000,000 shall be provided to Custer 
County, Idaho, for economic development in accordance with the 
Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act, subject 
to authorization: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, of the funds provided under this heading, an 
advance lump sum payment of $1,000,000 shall be made available 
to Madison County, North Carolina, for a forest recreation center, 
and a similar $500,000 payment shall be made available to 
Folkmoot USA in Haywood County, North Carolina, for Appalachian 
folk programs including forest crafts.
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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, $1,424,348,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, which shall include 50 percent of all moneys 
received during prior fiscal years as fees collected under the Land 
and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended, in accord-
ance with section 4 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 460l–6a(i)): Provided, 
That unobligated balances under this heading available at the 
start of fiscal year 2006 shall be displayed by budget line item 
in the fiscal year 2007 budget justification: Provided further, That 
of the funds provided under this heading for Forest Products, 
$5,000,000 shall be allocated to the Alaska Region, in addition 
to its normal allocation for the purposes of preparing additional 
timber for sale, to establish a 3-year timber supply and such funds 
may be transferred to other appropriations accounts as necessary 
to maximize accomplishment: Provided further, That within funds 
available for the purpose of implementing the Valles Caldera 
Preservation Act, notwithstanding the limitations of section 
107(e)(2) of the Valles Caldera Preservation Act (Public Law 106–
248), for fiscal year 2006, the Chair of the Board of Trustees 
of the Valles Caldera Trust may receive, upon request, compensation 
for each day (including travel time) that the Chair is engaged 
in the performance of the functions of the Board, except that com-
pensation shall not exceed the daily equivalent of the annual rate 
in effect for members of the Senior Executive Service at the ES–
1 level, and shall be in addition to any reimbursement for travel, 
subsistence and other necessary expenses incurred by the Chair 
in the performance of the Chair’s duties. 
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, $1,779,395,000, 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 
agency: Provided further, That not less than 50 percent of any 
unobligated balances remaining (exclusive of amounts for hazardous 
fuels reduction) at the end of fiscal year 2005 shall be transferred 
to the fund established pursuant to section 3 of Public Law 71–
319 (16 U.S.C. 576 et seq.) if necessary to reimburse the fund 
for unpaid past advances: Provided further, That, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, $8,000,000 of funds appropriated under
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this appropriation shall be used for Fire Science Research in support 
of the Joint Fire Science Program: 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 appropriation, are also available in the 
utilization of these funds for Fire Science Research: Provided fur-
ther, 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, $286,000,000 is for 
hazardous fuels reduction activities, $6,281,000 is for rehabilitation 
and restoration, $23,219,000 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.), $46,500,000 is for State fire assistance, $7,889,000 is for 
volunteer fire assistance, $15,000,000 is for forest health activities 
on Federal lands and $10,000,000 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 For-
estry’’, ‘‘National Forest System’’, and ‘‘Forest and Rangeland 
Research’’ accounts to fund State fire assistance, volunteer fire 
assistance, forest health management, forest and rangeland 
research, vegetation and watershed management, heritage site 
rehabilitation, and wildlife and fish habitat management and res-
toration: Provided further, That transfers of any amounts in excess 
of those authorized in this paragraph, shall require approval of 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in compliance 
with reprogramming procedures contained in the report accom-
panying this Act: Provided further, That funds provided under 
this heading for hazardous fuels treatments may be transferred 
to and made a part of the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account at 
the sole discretion of the Chief of the Forest Service thirty days 
after notifying the House and the Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions: Provided further, That the costs of implementing any coopera-
tive agreement between the Federal Government and any non-
Federal entity may be shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected 
parties: Provided further, That in addition to funds provided for 
State Fire Assistance programs, and subject to all authorities avail-
able to the Forest Service under the State and Private Forestry 
Appropriation, up to $15,000,000 may be used on adjacent non-
Federal lands for the purpose of protecting communities when 
hazard reduction activities are planned on national forest lands 
that have the potential to place such communities at risk: Provided 
further, That included in funding for hazardous fuel reduction is 
$5,000,000 for implementing the Community Forest Restoration 
Act, Public Law 106–393, title VI, and any portion of such funds 
shall be available for use on non-Federal lands in accordance with 
authorities 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 $9,000,000, between the 
Departments when such transfers would facilitate and expedite 
jointly funded 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,
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using any authorities 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 lands: 
Provided further, That funds designated for wildfire suppression 
shall be assessed for indirect costs on the same basis as such 
assessments are calculated against other agency programs. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, $441,178,000, to remain available until expended for 
construction, reconstruction, maintenance and acquisition of 
buildings and other facilities, and for construction, reconstruction, 
repair, decommissioning, 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 up to $15,000,000 of the 
funds provided herein for road maintenance shall be available for 
the decommissioning of roads, including unauthorized roads not 
part of the transportation system, which are no longer needed: 
Provided further, That no funds shall be expended to decommission 
any system road until notice and an opportunity for public comment 
has been provided on each decommissioning project: Provided fur-
ther, That of funds provided, $3,000,000 is provided for needed 
rehabilitation and restoration work at Jarbidge Canyon, Nevada: 
Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize 
the transfer of up to $1,350,000 as necessary to the Department 
of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management and Fish and Wildlife 
Service when such transfers would facilitate and expedite needed 
rehabilitation work on Bureau of Land Management lands, and 
for the Fish and Wildlife Service to implement terms and conditions 
identified in the Biological Opinion. 
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, 
$42,500,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund and to remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That, subject to valid existing rights, all land and interests in 
land acquired in the Thunder Mountain area of the Payette National 
Forest (including patented claims and land that are encumbered 
by unpatented claims or previously appropriated funds under this 
section, or otherwise relinquished by a private party) are withdrawn 
from mineral entry or appropriation under Federal mining laws, 
and from leasing claims under Federal mineral and geothermal 
leasing laws. 
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, 
$1,069,000, to be derived from forest receipts.