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management, heritage site rehabilitation, and wildlife and fish 
habitat management and restoration: Provided further, That the 
costs of implementing any cooperative agreement between the Fed-
eral 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 
management activities and for training or monitoring associated 
with such hazardous fuels management activities on Federal land 
or on non-Federal land if the Secretary determines such activities 
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 authorities made available 
to the Forest Service under the ‘‘State and Private Forestry’’ appro-
priation: Provided further, That the Secretary 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 management, not to exceed $15,000,000 may 
be used to make grants, 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 System lands: 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 management, up to 
$24,000,000 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, $342,000,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That such amounts 
are only available for transfer to the ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ 
account following a declaration by the Secretary in accordance 
with section 502 of the FLAME Act of 2009 (43 U.S.C. 1748a): 
Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FOREST SERVICE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS AND RESCISSIONS 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
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acquisition of aircraft 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 replacement 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) purchase, 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 pursuant to the Volunteers 
in the National Forest Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 558a, 558d, and 
558a note); (6) the cost of uniforms as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902; and (7) for debt collection contracts in accordance with 
31 U.S.C. 3718(c). 
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service 
may be transferred to the Wildland Fire Management appropriation 
for forest firefighting, emergency rehabilitation of burned-over or 
damaged lands or waters under its jurisdiction, and fire prepared-
ness due to severe burning conditions upon the Secretary’s notifica-
tion of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations that 
all fire suppression funds appropriated under the headings 
‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ and ‘‘FLAME Wildfire Suppression 
Reserve Fund’’ will be obligated within 30 days: Provided, That 
all funds used pursuant to this paragraph must be replenished 
by a supplemental appropriation which must be requested as 
promptly as possible. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Forest 
Service may transfer unobligated balances of discretionary funds 
appropriated to the Forest Service by this Act to or within the 
Wildland Fire Management Account, or reprogram funds within 
the Wildland Fire Management Account, to be used for the purposes 
of hazardous fuels management and emergency rehabilitation of 
burned-over National Forest System lands and water, such trans-
ferred funds shall remain available through September 30, 2020: 
Provided, That none of the funds transferred pursuant to this 
section shall be available for obligation without written notification 
to and the prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations 
of both Houses of Congress: Provided further, That this section 
does not apply to funds appropriated to the FLAME Wildfire 
Suppression Reserve Fund or funds derived from the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available 
for assistance to or through the Agency for International Develop-
ment in connection with forest and rangeland research, technical 
information, and assistance in foreign countries, and shall be avail-
able to support forestry and related natural resource activities 
outside the United States and its territories and possessions, 
including technical assistance, education and training, and coopera-
tion with United States, private, and international organizations. 
The Forest Service, acting for the International Program, may sign 
direct funding agreements with foreign governments and institu-
tions as well as other domestic agencies (including the United 
States Agency for International Development, the Department of 
State, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation), United States 
private sector firms, institutions and organizations to provide tech-
nical assistance and training programs overseas on forestry and 
rangeland management.
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Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available 
for expenditure or transfer to the Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Land Management, for removal, preparation, and adop-
tion of excess wild horses and burros from National Forest System 
lands, and for the performance of cadastral surveys to designate 
the boundaries of such lands. 
None of the funds made available to the Forest Service in 
this Act or any other Act with respect to any fiscal year shall 
be subject to transfer under the provisions of section 702(b) of 
the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257), 
section 442 of Public Law 106–224 (7 U.S.C. 7772), or section 
10417(b) of Public Law 107–171 (7 U.S.C. 8316(b)). 
None of the funds available to the Forest Service may be 
reprogrammed without the advance approval of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the re-
programming procedures contained in the explanatory statement 
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this 
consolidated Act). 
Not more than $82,000,000 of funds available to the Forest 
Service shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund of the 
Department of Agriculture and not more than $14,500,000 of funds 
available to the Forest Service shall be transferred to the Depart-
ment of Agriculture for Department Reimbursable Programs, com-
monly referred to as Greenbook charges. Nothing in this paragraph 
shall prohibit or limit the use of reimbursable agreements requested 
by the Forest Service in order to obtain services from the Depart-
ment of Agriculture’s National Information Technology Center and 
the Department of Agriculture’s International Technology Service. 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, up to $5,000,000 
shall be available for priority projects within the scope of the 
approved budget, which shall be carried out by the Youth Conserva-
tion Corps and shall be carried out under the authority of the 
Public Lands Corps Act of 1993, Public Law 103–82, as amended 
by Public Lands Corps Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2005, 
Public Law 109–154. 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $4,000 is available 
to the Chief of the Forest Service for official reception and represen-
tation expenses. 
Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public Law 101– 
593, of the funds available to the Forest Service, up to $3,000,000 
may be advanced in a lump sum to the National Forest Foundation 
to aid conservation partnership projects in support of the Forest 
Service mission, without regard to when the Foundation incurs 
expenses, for projects on or benefitting National Forest System 
lands or related to Forest Service programs: Provided, That of 
the Federal funds made available to the Foundation, no more than 
$300,000 shall be available for administrative expenses: Provided 
further, That the Foundation shall obtain, by the end of the period 
of Federal financial assistance, private contributions to match on 
at least one-for-one basis funds made available by the Forest 
Service: Provided further, That the Foundation may transfer Fed-
eral funds to a Federal or a non-Federal recipient for a project 
at the same rate that the recipient has obtained the non-Federal 
matching funds. 
Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98–244, up to 
$3,000,000 of the funds available to the Forest Service may be 
advanced to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in a lump
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sum to aid cost-share conservation projects, without regard to when 
expenses are incurred, on or benefitting National Forest System 
lands or related to Forest Service programs: Provided, That such 
funds shall be matched on at least a one-for-one basis by the 
Foundation or its sub-recipients: Provided further, That the Founda-
tion may transfer Federal funds to a Federal or non-Federal 
recipient for a project at the same rate that the recipient has 
obtained the non-Federal matching funds. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available 
for interactions with and providing technical assistance to rural 
communities and natural resource-based businesses for sustainable 
rural development purposes. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available 
for payments to counties within the Columbia River Gorge National 
Scenic Area, pursuant to section 14(c)(1) and (2), and section 16(a)(2) 
of Public Law 99–663. 
Any funds appropriated to the Forest Service may be used 
to meet the non-Federal share requirement in section 502(c) of 
the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3056(c)(2)). 
Funds available to the Forest Service, not to exceed 
$65,000,000, shall be assessed for the purpose of performing fire, 
administrative and other facilities maintenance and decommis-
sioning. Such assessments shall occur using a square foot rate 
charged on the same basis the agency uses to assess programs 
for payment of rent, utilities, and other support services. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any appropriations 
or funds available to the Forest Service not to exceed $500,000 
may be used to reimburse the Office of the General Counsel (OGC), 
Department of Agriculture, for travel and related expenses incurred 
as a result of OGC assistance or participation requested by the 
Forest Service at meetings, training sessions, management reviews, 
land purchase negotiations and similar nonlitigation-related mat-
ters. Future budget justifications for both the Forest Service and 
the Department of Agriculture should clearly display the sums 
previously transferred and the requested funding transfers. 
An eligible individual who is employed in any project funded 
under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3056 
et seq.) and administered by the Forest Service shall be considered 
to be a Federal employee for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, 
United States Code. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, through the 
Office of Budget and Program Analysis, the Forest Service shall 
report no later than 30 business days following the close of each 
fiscal quarter all current and prior year unobligated balances, by 
fiscal year, budget line item and account, to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations. 
The following unobligated balances identified by the following 
accounts are hereby rescinded: Forest and Rangeland Research, 
$815,000; National Forest System, $2,000,000; and State and Pri-
vate Forestry, $3,500,000.