mental Protection Agency may assess fees under section 
33 of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136w–8) for fiscal year 2019. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addi-
tion to the activities specified in section 33 of the Federal 
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 
U.S.C. 136w–8), fees collected in this and prior fiscal 
years under such section shall be available for the fol-
lowing activities as they relate to pesticide licensing: proc-
essing and review of data submitted in association with 
a registration, information submitted pursuant to section 
6(a)(2) of FIFRA, supplemental distributor labels, trans-
fers of registrations and data compensation rights, addi-
tional uses registered by States under section 24(c) of 
FIFRA, data compensation petitions, review of minor 
amendments, and notifications; laboratory support and 
audits; administrative support; development of policy and 
guidance; rulemaking support; information collection ac-
tivities; and the portions of salaries related to work in 
these areas. 
The Administrator is authorized to transfer up to 
$300,000,000 of the funds appropriated for the Great 
Lakes Restoration Initiative under the heading ‘‘Environ-
mental Programs and Management’’ to the head of any 
Federal department or agency, with the concurrence of 
such head, to carry out activities that would support the 
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Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and Great Lakes 
Water Quality Agreement programs, projects, or activities; 
to enter into an interagency agreement with the head of 
such Federal department or agency to carry out these ac-
tivities; and to make grants to governmental entities, non-
profit organizations, institutions, and individuals for plan-
ning, research, monitoring, outreach, and implementation 
in furtherance of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative 
and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. 
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency is authorized to collect and obligate fees in accord-
ance with section 26(b) of the Toxic Substances Control 
Act (15 U.S.C. 2625(b)) for fiscal year 2019. 
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency is authorized to collect and obligate fees in accord-
ance with section 3204 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act 
(42 U.S.C. 6939g) for fiscal year 2019. 
The Science and Technology, Environmental Pro-
grams and Management, Office of Inspector General, Haz-
ardous Substance Superfund, and Leaking Underground 
Storage Tank Trust Fund Program Accounts, are avail-
able for the construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, 
and renovation of facilities, provided that the cost does 
not exceed $150,000 per project. 
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For fiscal year 2019, and notwithstanding section 
518(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1377(f)), the Administrator is authorized to use 
the amounts appropriated for any fiscal year under section 
319 of the Act to make grants to Indian tribes pursuant 
to sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act. 
Of the unobligated balances available for the ‘‘State 
and Tribal Assistance Grants’’ account, $75,000,000 are 
hereby permanently rescinded: Provided, That no amounts 
may be rescinded from amounts that were designated by 
the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
Notwithstanding the limitations on amounts in sec-
tion 320(i)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act, not less than $1,500,000 of the funds made available 
under this title for the National Estuary Program shall 
be for making competitive awards described in section 
320(g)(4). 
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency is not authorized to obligate or expend more than 
$50 of the funds made available under this title for the 
purchase of any individual fountain pen. 
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TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR NATURAL 
RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under 
Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, 
$875,000: Provided, That funds made available by this 
Act to any agency in the Natural Resources and Environ-
ment mission area for salaries and expenses are available 
to fund up to one administrative support staff for the of-
fice. 
FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-
search as authorized by law, $297,000,000, to remain 
available through September 30, 2020: Provided, That of 
the funds provided, $77,000,000 is for the forest inventory 
and analysis program. 
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY 
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-
tories, possessions, and others, and for forest health man-
agement, and conducting an international program as au-
thorized, $334,945,000, to remain available through Sep-
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tember 30, 2020, as authorized by law; of which 
$48,445,000 is to be derived from the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund to be used for the Forest Legacy Pro-
gram, to remain available until expended. 
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 
otherwise provided for, for management, protection, im-
provement, and utilization of the National Forest System, 
and for hazardous fuels management on or adjacent to 
such lands, $1,972,000,000, to remain available through 
September 30, 2020: Provided, That of the funds pro-
vided, $40,000,000 shall be deposited in the Collaborative 
Forest Landscape Restoration Fund for ecological restora-
tion treatments as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 7303(f): Pro-
vided further, That of the funds provided, $380,000,000 
shall be for forest products: Provided further, That of the 
funds provided, $450,000,000 shall be for hazardous fuels 
management 
activities, 
of 
which 
not 
to 
exceed 
$15,000,000 may be used to make grants, using any au-
thorities available to the Forest Service under the ‘‘State 
and Private Forestry’’ appropriation, for the purpose of 
creating incentives for increased use of biomass from Na-
tional Forest System lands: Provided further, That 
$15,000,000 may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture 
to enter into procurement contracts or cooperative agree-
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ments 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 Com-
munity Forestry 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 For-
est Service under the ‘‘State and Private Forestry’’ appro-
priations. 
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 
otherwise provided for, $499,000,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2020, for construction, capital im-
provement, maintenance and acquisition of buildings and 
other facilities and infrastructure; and for construction, 
reconstruction, decommissioning of roads that are no 
longer needed, including unauthorized roads that are not 
part of the transportation system, and maintenance of for-
est roads and trails by the Forest Service as authorized 
by 16 U.S.C. 532–538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205: Pro-
vided, That funds becoming available in fiscal year 2019 
under the Act of March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501) shall 
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be transferred to the General Fund of the Treasury and 
shall not be available for transfer or obligation for any 
other purpose unless the funds are appropriated. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 
of chapter 2003 of title 54, United States Code, including 
administrative expenses, and for acquisition of land or 
waters, or interest therein, in accordance with statutory 
authority applicable to the Forest Service, $34,761,000, 
to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund and to remain available until expended. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL 
ACTS 
For acquisition of lands within the exterior bound-
aries of the Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, 
Utah; the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada; and the An-
geles, San Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland National 
Forests, California; and the Ozark-St. Francis and 
Ouachita National Forests, Arkansas; as authorized by 
law, $700,000, to be derived from forest receipts. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES 
For acquisition of lands, such sums, to be derived 
from funds deposited by State, county, or municipal gov-
ernments, public school districts, or other public school au-
thorities, and for authorized expenditures from funds de-
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posited by non-Federal parties pursuant to Land Sale and 
Exchange Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 4, 1967 
(16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available through September 
30, 2020, (16 U.S.C. 516–617a, 555a; Public Law 96– 
586; Public Law 76–589, 76–591; and Public Law 78– 
310). 
RANGE BETTERMENT FUND 
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, pro-
tection, and improvement, 50 percent of all moneys re-
ceived during the prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing do-
mestic livestock on lands in National Forests in the 16 
Western States, pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of Public 
Law 94–579, to remain available through September 30, 
2020, of which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available 
for administrative expenses associated with on-the-ground 
range rehabilitation, protection, and improvements. 
GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND 
RANGELAND RESEARCH 
For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), 
$45,000, to remain available through September 30, 2020, 
to be derived from the fund established pursuant to the 
above Act. 
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MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR 
SUBSISTENCE USES 
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service to man-
age Federal lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under 
title VIII of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conserva-
tion Act (16 U.S.C. 3111 et seq.), $1,850,000, to remain 
available through September 30, 2020. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression 
activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency 
wildland fire suppression on or adjacent to such lands or 
other lands under fire protection agreement, and for emer-
gency rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest Sys-
tem lands and water, $3,004,986,000, to remain available 
through September 30, 2020: Provided, That such funds 
including unobligated balances under this heading, are 
available for repayment of advances from other appropria-
tions accounts previously transferred for such purposes: 
Provided further, That any unobligated funds appropriated 
in a previous fiscal year for hazardous fuels management 
may be transferred to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ ac-
count: Provided further, That such funds shall be available 
to reimburse State and other cooperating entities for serv-
ices provided in response to wildfire and other emergencies 
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or disasters to the extent such reimbursements by the For-
est Service for non-fire emergencies are fully repaid by the 
responsible emergency management agency: Provided fur-
ther, That funds provided shall be available for support 
to Federal emergency response: 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: 
Provided further, That funds designated for wildfire sup-
pression shall be assessed for cost pools on the same basis 
as such assessments are calculated against other agency 
programs. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FOREST SERVICE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS 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 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. 
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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 pur-
suant 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 col-
lection 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 Manage-
ment appropriation for forest firefighting, emergency re-
habilitation of burned-over or damaged lands or waters 
under its jurisdiction, and fire preparedness due to severe 
burning conditions upon the Secretary’s notification of the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations that all 
fire suppression funds appropriated under the heading 
‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ will be obligated within 30 
days: Provided, That all funds used pursuant to this para-
graph must be replenished by a supplemental appropria-
tion which must be requested as promptly as possible. 
Not more than $50,000,000 of funds appropriated to 
the Forest Service shall be available for expenditure or 
transfer to the Department of the Interior for wildland 
fire management, hazardous fuels management, and State 
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fire assistance when such transfers would facilitate and 
expedite wildland fire management programs and projects. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 
Forest Service may transfer unobligated balances of dis-
cretionary funds appropriated to the Forest Service by 
this Act to or within the National Forest System Account, 
or reprogram funds to be used for the purposes of haz-
ardous fuels management and urgent rehabilitation of 
burned-over National Forest System lands and water, 
such transferred funds shall remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2020: Provided, That none of the funds trans-
ferred pursuant to this section shall be available for obli-
gation without written notification to and the prior ap-
proval of the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress: Provided further, That this section 
does not apply to 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 Inter-
national Development in connection with forest and range-
land research, technical information, and assistance in for-
eign countries, and shall be available to support forestry 
and related natural resource activities outside the United 
States and its territories and possessions, including tech-
nical assistance, education and training, and cooperation 
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with U.S., private, and international organizations. The 
Forest Service, acting for the International Program, may 
sign direct funding agreements with foreign governments 
and institutions as well as other domestic agencies (includ-
ing the U.S. Agency for International Development, the 
Department of State, and the Millennium Challenge Cor-
poration), U.S. private sector firms, institutions and orga-
nizations to provide technical assistance and training pro-
grams overseas on forestry and rangeland management. 
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 adoption of excess wild horses and burros 
from National Forest System lands, and for the perform-
ance of cadastral surveys to designate the boundaries of 
such lands. 
None of the funds made available to the Forest Serv-
ice 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 
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House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in ac-
cordance with the reprogramming procedures contained in 
the report accompanying this 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 Department of Agriculture for De-
partment Reimbursable Programs, commonly referred to 
as Greenbook charges. Nothing in this paragraph shall 
prohibit or limit the use of reimbursable agreements re-
quested by the Forest Service in order to obtain services 
from the Department of Agriculture’s National Informa-
tion Technology Center and the Department of Agri-
culture’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 Conservation Corps and shall be carried 
out under the authority of the Public Lands Corps Act 
of 1993 (16 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.). 
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $4,000 
is available to the Chief of the Forest Service for official 
reception and representation expenses. 
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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 partner-
ship 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 Founda-
tion, no more than $300,000 shall be available for admin-
istrative expenses: Provided further, That the Foundation 
shall obtain, by the end of the period of Federal financial 
assistance, private contributions to match funds made 
available by the Forest Service on at least a one-for-one 
basis: Provided further, That the Foundation may transfer 
Federal 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. 
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 
available for interactions with and providing technical as-
sistance 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 
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