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(D) recognize State initiatives to produce and use forest 
biomass. 
SMALL REMOTE INCINERATORS 
SEC. 430. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to implement or enforce the regulation issued on March 
21, 2011 at 40 CFR part 60 subparts CCCC and DDDD with 
respect to units in the State of Alaska that are defined as ‘‘small, 
remote incinerator’’ units in those regulations and, until a subse-
quent regulation is issued, the Administrator shall implement the 
law and regulations in effect prior to such date. 
TIMBER SALE REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 431. No timber sale in Alaska’s Region 10 shall be adver-
tised if the indicated rate is deficit (defined as the value of the 
timber is not sufficient to cover all logging and stumpage costs 
and provide a normal profit and risk allowance under the Forest 
Service’s appraisal process) when appraised using a residual value 
appraisal. The western red cedar timber from those sales which 
is surplus to the needs of the domestic processors in Alaska, shall 
be made available to domestic processors in the contiguous 48 
United States at prevailing domestic prices. All additional western 
red cedar volume not sold to Alaska or contiguous 48 United States 
domestic processors may be exported to foreign markets at the 
election of the timber sale holder. All Alaska yellow cedar may 
be sold at prevailing export prices at the election of the timber 
sale holder. 
TRANSFER AUTHORITY TO FEDERAL HIGHWAY 
ADMINISTRATION FOR THE NATIONAL PARKS AND PUBLIC LAND 
LEGACY RESTORATION FUND 
SEC. 432. Funds made available or allocated in this Act to 
the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture 
that are subject to the allocations and limitations in 54 U.S.C. 
200402(e) and prohibitions in 54 U.S.C. 200402(f) may be further 
allocated or reallocated to the Federal Highway Administration 
for transportation projects of the covered agencies defined in 54 
U.S.C. 200401(2). 
PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 433. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds made available in this Act or any other Act may 
be used to promulgate or implement any regulation requiring the 
issuance of permits under title V of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7661 et seq.) for carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or 
methane emissions resulting from biological processes associated 
with livestock production. 
GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING RESTRICTIONS 
SEC. 434. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds made available in this or any other Act may be 
used to implement any provision in a rule, if that provision requires
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mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure 
management systems. 
FUNDING PROHIBITION 
SEC. 435. None of the funds made available by this or any 
other Act may be used to regulate the lead content of ammunition, 
ammunition components, or fishing tackle under the Toxic Sub-
stances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.) or any other law. 
FIREFIGHTER PAY CAP 
SEC. 436. (a) Section 1701 of division B of the Extending 
Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act 
(5 U.S.C. 5547 note), as amended by Public Law 117–103, is further 
amended in subsection (a)(1), by striking the last sentence and 
inserting ‘‘Any Services during a given calendar year that generate 
payments payable in the subsequent calendar year shall be dis-
regarded in applying this subsection’’. 
(b) The waivers of premium and overtime pay authorized in 
subsections (a) through (c) of section 1701 of division B of the 
Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assist-
ance Act (5 U.S.C. 5547 note), as amended by Public Law 117–
103, shall be applied in fiscal year 2026. 
ALASKA NATIVE REGIONAL HEALTH ENTITIES AUTHORIZATION 
EXTENSION 
SEC. 437. Section 424(a) of title IV of division G of the Consoli-
dated Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 113–76) shall be applied 
by substituting ‘‘October 1, 2026’’ for ‘‘December 24, 2022’’. 
LAVA RIDGE WIND PROJECT 
SEC. 438. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be obligated or expended for the purpose of granting, issuing, 
or renewing a right-of-way under section 501 of the Federal Land 
Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1761) for the Lava 
Ridge Wind Project, unless or until the Secretary of the Interior, 
acting through the Bureau of Land Management, has analyzed, 
in consultation with local elected officials and stakeholders, action 
alternatives designed to reduce impacts to wildlife, cultural 
resources, transportation, hunting, wetlands and the connected sur-
face and ground waters. The Secretary shall complete such consulta-
tions, and seek feedback regarding action alternatives, not later 
than September 30, 2026, and no funds made available in this 
Act shall be used for granting, issuing, or renewing a right-of-
way under section 501 of the Federal Land Policy and Management 
Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1761) for the Lava Ridge Wind Project 
while such consultations and efforts are ongoing. 
(b) Prior to granting, issuing, or renewing a right-of-way under 
section 501 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
1976 (43 U.S.C. 1761) for the Lava Ridge Wind Project, the Sec-
retary shall periodically report to the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations on the status of consultations required under 
subsection (a) and, once such consultations are complete, provide 
a briefing to the Committees on the action alternatives and the 
feedback of local elected officials and stakeholders.
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WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION FUNDING AND FOREST MANAGEMENT ACT 
SEC. 439. Section 104 of the Wildfire Suppression Funding 
and Forest Management Activities Act (division O of Public Law 
115–141) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘90’’ and inserting ‘‘180’’; 
and 
(2) in paragraph (4) of subsection (b), by inserting the 
following before the semi-colon: ‘‘, and shall include an 
accounting of any spending in the first two quarters of the 
succeeding fiscal year that is attributable to suppression oper-
ations in the fiscal year for which the report was prepared’’. 
FIVE YEAR CONSTRUCTION PLAN 
SEC. 440. The Department of the Interior and the Forest Service 
are directed to maintain updated 5-year deferred maintenance plans 
that, to the extent practicable, include a list of all outstanding 
deferred maintenance needs, and to provide them to the Committee 
on a quarterly basis. 
QUARTERLY DISASTER ESTIMATES 
SEC. 441. The Department of the Interior, the United States 
Forest Service, and the Environmental Protection agency shall pro-
vide quarterly estimates to the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate within 30 days of 
a quarter closing detailing the costs to repair, restore, or otherwise 
remediate damages to Federal lands and infrastructure caused by 
disasters and, for the Environmental Protection Agency, the costs 
to repair and improve the resiliency of drinking water and waste-
water infrastructure damaged in states, territories, and on tribal 
lands. 
AMERICAN WOMEN’S HISTORY MUSEUM AND NATIONAL MUSEUM OF 
THE AMERICAN LATINO 
SEC. 442. None of the funds made available by this or any 
other Act may be used to close, halt development of, merge with 
or transfer to another function or program, reduce funding, or 
otherwise diminish the operations of the Smithsonian American 
Women’s History Museum or the National Museum of the American 
Latino established by Public Law 116–260 on December 27, 2020. 
PROGRAM FUNDING INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE 
SEC. 443. Amounts provided in this Act shall be allocated 
in the amounts specified for the programs, projects and activities 
specified in the tables in the explanatory statement described in 
section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act) titled: 
(1) Program Funding for Management of Lands and 
Resources; 
(2) Program Funding for Resource Management; 
(3) Program Funding for Operation of the National Park 
System; 
(4) Program Funding for National Recreation and Preserva-
tion;
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(5) Program Funding for National Heritage Areas; 
(6) Program Funding for Surveys, Investigations, and 
Research; 
(7) Program Funding for Operation of Indian Programs; 
(8) Program Funding for Science and Technology Programs; 
(9) Program Funding for Environmental Programs and 
Management; 
(10) Program Funding for National Estuary Program; 
(11) Program Funding for Forest and Rangeland Research; 
(12) Program Funding for State, Private, and Tribal For-
estry; and 
(13) Program Funding for National Forest System. 
REPURPOSING 
SEC. 444. (a) Of the amounts made available under the heading 
‘‘Department of the Interior—Departmental Offices—Department-
Wide Programs—Wildland Fire Management’’, $763,514,000 shall 
be derived by transfer from the unobligated balances of amounts 
previously appropriated in division J of the Infrastructure Invest-
ment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117–58) as follows: (1) $125,000,000 
from the unobligated balances under the heading ‘‘Environmental 
Protection Agency—State and Tribal Assistance Grants’’ from 
amounts that will become available for fiscal year 2026 in paragraph 
(3); (2) $353,514,000 from the unobligated balances under the 
heading ‘‘Department of the Interior—Office of Surface Mining Rec-
lamation and Enforcement—Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund’’; 
(3) $285,000,000 from the unobligated balances under the heading 
‘‘Department of the Interior—Methane Reduction Infrastructure’’: 
Provided, That amounts derived by transfer pursuant to this sub-
section shall continue to be treated as amounts specified in section 
103(b) of division A of Public Law 118–5: Provided further, That 
amounts derived by transfer pursuant to this subsection shall not 
be available for wildfire suppression operations. 
(b) Of the amounts made available under the heading ‘‘Depart-
ment of the Interior—Departmental Offices—Office of Inspector 
General’’, $65,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from the unobli-
gated balances of amounts previously appropriated in division J 
of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117–
58), including amounts that will become available for fiscal year 
2026, that have been or will be transferred to the Office of Inspector 
General of the Department of the Interior for oversight of funding 
provided to the Department of the Interior in title VI of division 
J of that Act: Provided, That amounts derived by transfer pursuant 
to this subsection shall continue to be treated as amounts specified 
in section 103(b) of division A of Public Law 118–5. 
(c) Of the amounts made available under the heading ‘‘Depart-
ment of Agriculture—Forest Service—Forest Service Operations’’, 
$146,486,000 shall be derived by transfer from the unobligated 
balances of amounts previously appropriated under the heading 
‘‘Department of the Interior—Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 
and Enforcement—Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund’’ in division 
J of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117–
58): Provided, That amounts derived by transfer pursuant to this 
subsection shall continue to be treated as amounts specified in 
section 103(b) of division A of Public Law 118–5.
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BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT ACTIONS REGARDING GRAZING ON 
PUBLIC LANDS 
SEC. 445. Paragraph (1) of section 122(a) of division E of Public 
Law 112–74 (125 Stat. 1013) is amended by striking ‘‘through 
2024.’’ in the first sentence and inserting ‘‘through 2027,’’. 
TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS 
SEC. 446. The contents in the ‘‘Senate’’ sub column of the 
‘‘Requestor(s)’’ column in the table titled ‘‘Community Project 
Funding/Congressional Directed Spending’’ under the heading 
‘‘Disclosure of Earmarks and Congressionally Directed Spending 
Items’’ in the explanatory statement for the Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agency 
Appropriations Act, 2026 (division B of Public Law 119–37) 
described in section 4 in the matter preceding division A of such 
Act are deemed to be amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘Schiff’’ for the project identified as the 
‘‘Forest and Watershed Management Plan’’ for the recipient 
‘‘McKinleyville Community Services District’’; 
(2) by inserting ‘‘Schatz’’ for the project identified as 
‘‘Facility Improvements and Purchase of Equipment’’ for the 
recipient ‘‘The Queens Health System’’; and 
(3) by inserting ‘‘Cantwell’’ for the project identified as 
the ‘‘Chewelah Expansion and Regional Workforce Development 
Center’’ for the recipient ‘‘NEW Health Programs Association’’. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the Interior, 
Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026’’.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.