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sideration), or by exchange; and the Secretary is author-
ized to negotiate and enter into leases, subleases, conces-
sion contracts or other agreements for the use of such fa-
cilities on such terms and conditions as the Secretary may 
determine reasonable. 
SEC. 111. Title 43 U.S.C. 1473, as amended by Pub-
lic Law 110–161, is further amended by deleting the 
phrase ‘‘in fiscal year 2008 only’’ and inserting in lieu 
thereof ‘‘in fiscal years 2008 and 2009 only’’. 
SEC. 112. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available to the Department of the Interior may be used, 
in relation to any proposal to store water for the purpose 
of export, for approval of any right-of-way or similar au-
thorization on the Mojave National Preserve or lands man-
aged by the Needles Field Office of the Bureau of Land 
Management, or for carrying out any activities associated 
with such right-of-way or similar approval. 
SEC. 113. The Secretary of the Interior may enter 
into cooperative agreements with a State or political sub-
division (including any agency thereof), or any not-for- 
profit organization if the agreement will: (1) serve a mu-
tual interest of the parties to the agreement in carrying 
out the programs administered by the Department of the 
Interior; and (2) all parties will contribute resources to 
the accomplishment of these objectives. At the discretion 
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of the Secretary, such agreements shall not be subject to 
a competitive process. 
SEC. 114. Funds provided in this Act for Federal 
land acquisition by the National Park Service for Shen-
andoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District and 
Ice Age National Scenic Trail may be used for a grant 
to a State, a local government, or any other land manage-
ment entity for the acquisition of lands without regard to 
any restriction on the use of Federal land acquisition 
funds provided through the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund Act of 1965 as amended. 
SEC. 115. Sections 109 and 110 of the Federal Oil 
and Gas Royalty Management Act (30 U.S.C. 1719 and 
1720) shall apply to any lease authorizing exploration for 
or development of coal, any other solid mineral, or any 
geothermal resource on any Federal or Indian lands and 
any lease, easement, right of way, or other agreement, re-
gardless of form, for use of the Outer Continental Shelf 
or any of its resources under sections 8(k) or 8(p) of the 
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337(k) 
and 1337(p)) to the same extent as if such lease, ease-
ment, right of way, or other agreement, regardless of 
form, were an oil and gas lease, except that in such cases 
the term ‘‘royalty payment’’ shall include any payment re-
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quired by such lease, easement, right of way or other 
agreement, regardless of form, or by applicable regulation. 
SEC. 116. The Pittsford National Fish Hatchery in 
Chittenden, Vermont is hereby renamed the Dwight D. Ei-
senhower National Fish Hatchery. 
SEC. 117. Section 6 of the Great Sand Dunes Na-
tional Park and Preserve Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 410hhh– 
4) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
(1) When’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSE.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—When’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘(2) 
Such establishment’’ and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(B) EFFECTIVE
DATE.—The establish-
ment of the refuge under subparagraph (A)’’; 
and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the Baca Na-
tional Wildlife Refuge shall be to restore, enhance, 
and maintain wetland, upland, riparian, and other 
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