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2007 for competitive sourcing studies and related 
activities by the Forest Service. 
(b) COMPETITIVE SOURCING STUDY DEFINED.—In 
this section, the term ‘‘competitive sourcing study’’ means 
a study on subjecting work performed by Federal Govern-
ment employees or private contractors to public-private 
competition or on converting the Federal Government em-
ployees or the work performed by such employees to pri-
vate contractor performance under the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget Circular A–76 or any other administra-
tive regulation, directive, or policy. 
(c) COMPETITIVE SOURCING EXEMPTION FOR FOR-
EST SERVICE STUDIES CONDUCTED PRIOR TO FISCAL 
YEAR 2006.—The Forest Service is hereby exempted from 
implementing the Letter of Obligation and post-competi-
tion accountability guidelines where a competitive sourcing 
study involved 65 or fewer full-time equivalents, the per-
formance decision was made in favor of the agency pro-
vider, no net savings was achieved by conducting the 
study, and the study was completed prior to the date of 
this Act. 
(d) In preparing any reports to the Committees on 
Appropriations on competitive sourcing activities, agencies 
funded in this Act shall include all costs attributable to 
conducting the competitive sourcing competitions and
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staff work to prepare for competitions or to determine the 
feasibility of starting competitions, including costs attrib-
utable to paying outside consultants and contractors and, 
in accordance with full cost accounting principles, all costs 
attributable
to
developing,
implementing,
supporting, 
managing,
monitoring,
and
reporting
on
competitive 
sourcing, including personnel, consultant, travel, and 
training costs associated with program management. 
(e) In carrying out any competitive sourcing study 
involving Forest Service employees, the Secretary of Agri-
culture shall— 
(1) determine whether any of the employees con-
cerned are also qualified to participate in wildland 
fire management activities; and 
(2) take into consideration the effect that con-
tracting with a private sector source would have on 
the ability of the Forest Service to effectively and ef-
ficiently fight and manage wildfires. 
SEC. 419. None of the funds in this Act or prior Acts 
making appropriations for the Department of the Interior 
and Related Agencies may be provided to the managing 
partners or their agents for the SAFECOM or Disaster 
Management projects. 
SEC. 420. Section 331 of the Department of the Inte-
rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as
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enacted into law by section 1000(a)(3) of Public Law 106– 
113; 113 Stat. 1501A–196; 16 U.S.C. 497 note), as 
amended, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘2006’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2007’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b) by striking ‘‘2006’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2007’’. 
SEC. 421. The Secretary of Agriculture may acquire, 
by exchange or otherwise, a parcel of real property, includ-
ing improvements thereon, of the Inland Valley Develop-
ment Agency of San Bernardino, California, or its succes-
sors and assigns, generally comprising Building No. 3 and 
Building No. 4 of the former Defense Finance and Ac-
counting Services complex located at the southwest corner 
of Tippecanoe Avenue and Mill Street in San Bernardino, 
California, adjacent to the former Norton Air Force Base. 
As full consideration for the property to be acquired, the 
Secretary of Agriculture may terminate the leasehold 
rights of the United States received pursuant to section 
8121(a)(2) of the Department of Defense Appropriations 
Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–287; 118 Stat. 999). The ac-
quisition of the property shall be on such terms and condi-
tions as the Secretary of Agriculture considers appropriate 
and may be carried out without appraisals, environmental
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or administrative surveys, consultations, analyses, or other 
considerations of the condition of the property. 
SEC. 422. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to study, complete a study of, or enter 
into a contract with a private party to carry out, without 
specific authorization in a subsequent Act of Congress, a 
competitive sourcing activity of the Secretary of Agri-
culture or the Secretary of the Interior, including support 
personnel of the Department of Agriculture and the De-
partment of the Interior, relating to wildfire management 
or wildfire suppression programs. 
SEC. 423. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to work on or enter into a contract with 
a private party to carry out, the Fire Program Analysis 
system, unless both the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
Secretary of the Interior certify, in writing to the Comp-
troller General, that this funding will accomplish the exist-
ing work plan, as determined by the Wildland Fire Lead-
ership Council, and that State wildfire agencies will be full 
participants in the use and development of the system. 
SEC. 424. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no officer or employee of the Smithsonian Institution 
or any of its subsidiary organizations shall be compensated 
directly or indirectly at an annual rate of pay in excess
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of the statutorily established rate of pay of the President 
of the United States. 
SEC. 425. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR SALE OR 
SLAUGHTER OF FREE-ROAMING HORSES AND 
BURROS. 
None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used for the sale or slaughter of wild free-roaming 
horses and burros (as defined in Public Law 92–195). 
TITLE V—ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 501. None of the funds made available by this 
Act shall be used in contravention of the Federal buildings 
performance and reporting requirements of Executive 
Order No. 13123, part 3 of title V of the National Energy 
Conservation Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8251 et seq.), or sub-
title A of title I of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (includ-
ing the amendments made thereby). 
SEC. 502. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to issue any new lease that authorizes 
production of oil or natural gas under the Outer Conti-
nental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et. seq.) to any 
lessee under an existing lease issued by the Department 
of the Interior pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf 
Deep Water Royalty Relief Act (43 U.S.C. 1337 note), 
where such existing lease is not subject to limitations on 
royalty relief based on market price.