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SEC. 503. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to plan, design, study, or construct, for 
the purpose of harvesting timber by private entities or in-
dividuals, a forest development road in the Tongass Na-
tional Forest. 
SEC. 504. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attend-
ance of more than 50 employees from a Federal depart-
ment or agency at any single conference occurring outside 
the United States. 
SEC. 505. No funds made available by this Act may 
be obligated or expended to conduct the San Gabriel Wa-
tershed and Mountains Special Resource Study (author-
ized by the San Gabriel River Watershed Study Act (Pub-
lic Law 108–42)) in the cities of Diamond Bar, La Habra, 
Industry, Chino Hills, and the community of Rowland 
Heights in Los Angeles County, California (as defined by 
the following boundaries: the City of Industry on the 
north, Orange County on the south, the City of Diamond 
Bar and California State Route 57 on the east, and the 
City of La Habra Heights and Schabarum Regional Park 
on the west.). 
SEC. 506. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to eliminate or restrict programs that 
are for the reforestation of urban areas.
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SEC. 507. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to limit outreach programs administered 
by the Smithsonian Institution. 
SEC. 508. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency to implement or enforce the Joint Memorandum 
published in the Federal Register on January 15, 2003 
(68 Fed. Reg. 1995). 
SEC. 509. No funds provided in title I may be ex-
pended by the Department of the Interior— 
(1) for the conduct of offshore natural gas 
preleasing, leasing, and related activities placed 
under restriction in the President’s moratorium 
statement of June 12, 1998, in the areas of north-
ern, central, and southern California; the North At-
lantic; Washington and Oregon; and the eastern 
Gulf of Mexico south of 26 degrees north latitude 
and east of 86 degrees west longitude; 
(2) to conduct offshore natural gas preleasing, 
leasing, and related activities in the eastern Gulf of 
Mexico planning area for any lands located outside 
Sale 181, as identified in the final Outer Continental 
Shelf 5-Year Oil and Gas Leasing Program, 1997– 
2002; or
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(3) to conduct natural gas preleasing, leasing, 
and related activities in the Mid-Atlantic and South 
Atlantic planning areas. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2007’’. 
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
Department of the Interior, environment, and related agen-
cies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for 
other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES 
For necessary expenses for protection, use, improve-
ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classifica-
tion, acquisition of easements and other interests in lands, 
and performance of other functions, including maintenance 
of facilities, as authorized by law, in the management of 
lands and their resources under the jurisdiction of the Bu-
reau of Land Management, including the general adminis-
tration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral potential 
of public lands pursuant to Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C. 
3150(a)), $876,872,000, to remain available until expended,
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of which $1,250,000 is for high priority projects, to be car-
ried out by the Youth Conservation Corps; and of which 
$3,000,000 shall be available in fiscal year 2007 subject to 
a match by at least an equal amount by the National Fish 
and Wildlife Foundation for cost-shared projects supporting 
conservation of Bureau lands; and such funds shall be ad-
vanced to the Foundation as a lump sum grant without 
regard to when expenses are incurred. 
In addition, $32,696,000 is for Mining Law Adminis-
tration program operations, including the cost of admin-
istering the mining claim fee program; to remain available 
until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected by the 
Bureau and credited to this appropriation from annual 
mining claim fees so as to result in a final appropriation 
estimated at not more than $876,872,000, and $2,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, from communication 
site rental fees established by the Bureau for the cost of ad-
ministering communication site activities. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, suppres-
sion operations, fire science and research, emergency reha-
bilitation, hazardous fuels reduction, and rural fire assist-
ance by the Department of the Interior, $776,649,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 
$7,734,000 shall be for the renovation or construction of fire
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facilities: Provided, That such funds are also available for 
repayment of advances to other appropriation accounts 
from which funds were previously transferred for such pur-
poses: Provided further, That persons hired pursuant to 43 
U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence and lodging with-
out cost from funds available from this appropriation: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 1856d, sums 
received by a bureau or office of the Department of the Inte-
rior for fire protection rendered pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1856 
et seq., protection of United States property, may be cred-
ited to the appropriation from which funds were expended 
to provide that protection, and are available without fiscal 
year limitation: Provided further, That using the amounts 
designated under this title of this Act, the Secretary of the 
Interior may enter into procurement contracts, grants, or 
cooperative agreements, for hazardous fuels reduction ac-
tivities, and for training and monitoring associated with 
such hazardous fuels reduction activities, on Federal land, 
or on adjacent non-Federal land for activities that benefit 
resources on Federal land: 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: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding requirements of the 
Competition in Contracting Act, the Secretary, for purposes