Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010

Bill: 111-hr-2996
Sponsor: Rep. Dicks, Norman D. [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2009-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Advisory bodies
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Agricultural research
Air quality
Alaska
American Samoa
Appropriations
Area studies and international education
Arizona
Art, artists, authorship
Atmospheric science and weather
Birds
Border security and unlawful immigration
California
Caribbean area
Civil actions and liability
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Colorado
Commission of Fine Arts
Congressional oversight
Congressional tributes
Correctional facilities and imprisonment
Cuba
Department of Agriculture
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of the Interior
Detention of persons
Disaster relief and insurance
District of Columbia
Earth sciences
Ecology
Elementary and secondary education
Employment and training programs
Endangered and threatened species
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy revenues and royalties
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental health
Everglades
Executive Office of the President
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal-Indian relations
Fires
Fishes
Florida
Foreign aid and international relief
Forests, forestry, trees
General public lands matters
Government buildings, facilities, and property
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government liability
Government trust funds
Great Lakes
Guam
Hawaii
Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
Health facilities and institutions
Health programs administration and funding
Historic sites and heritage areas
Housing and community development funding
Humanities programs funding
Idaho
Indian claims
Indian lands and resources rights
Indian social and development programs
Infrastructure development
International law and treaties
Kansas
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
Latin America
Legal fees and court costs
Licensing and registrations
Livestock
Mammals
Manufacturing
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marshall Islands
Members of Congress
Metals
Micronesia
Military history
Mining
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Minority health
Mississippi
Missouri
Monuments and memorials
Motor vehicles
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
National Capital Planning Commission
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National and community service
Natural disasters
Nevada
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York City
New York State
North Dakota
Northern Mariana Islands
Oceania
Oil and gas
Oklahoma
Oregon
Palau
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Pest management
Pollution liability
Presidential administrations
Public contracts and procurement
Public participation and lobbying
Puerto Rico
Reptiles
Research administration and funding
Research and development
Roads and highways
Rural conditions and development
Seashores and lakeshores
Small business
Smithsonian Institution
Solid waste and recycling
Tax-exempt organizations
Texas
Travel and tourism
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council
U.S. history
U.S. territories and protectorates
Unemployment
User charges and fees
Utah
Virgin Islands
Washington State
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply
Wetlands
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
Wisconsin
World history
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: 
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations for FY2010 for the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Bureau of Land Management (BLM); (2) the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; (3) the National Park Service (NPS); (4) the U.S. Geological Survey; (5) the Minerals Management Service (MMS); (6) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement; (7) the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) (including transfer of funds); (8) the Office of the Secretary; (9) departmental offices for insular affairs (including transfer of funds); (10) the Office of the Solicitor; (11) the Office of Inspector General; (12) the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians (including transfer of funds); (13) wildland fire management (including transfer of funds); (14) the Central Hazardous Materials Fund; and (15) natural resource damage assessment and restoration. 
 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 for: (1) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (including transfers and rescissions of funds); (2) the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service (including transfers of funds); and (3) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Indian Health Service (IHS). 
 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 for specified related agencies, including: (1) the National Institutes of Health (NIH); (2) the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; (3) the Executive Office of the President; (4) the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (including transfer of funds); (5) the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; (6) the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development; (7) the Smithsonian Institution; (8) the National Gallery of Art; (9) the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (10) the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; (11) the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities; (12) the Commission of Fine Arts; (13) the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (14) the National Capital Planning Commission; (15) the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; (16) Presidio Trust; and (17) the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission. 

action_date: 2009-06-23
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies for FY2010. 
 

Title I: Department of the Interior - 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for: (1) land and resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) Oregon and California grant lands; (5) range improvements; (6) service charges, deposits, and forfeitures with respect to public lands; and (7) miscellaneous trust funds. 
 
 Appropriates funds for FY2010 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for: (1) resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) expenses related to carrying out the Endangered Species Act of 1973; (5) the National Wildlife Refuge Fund; (6) expenses related to carrying out the North American Wetlands Conservation Act; (7) financial assistance for projects to promote the conservation of neotropical migratory birds; (8) expenses related to carrying out, through the Multinational Species Conservation Fund, the African Elephant Conservation Act, the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997, the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994, the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000, and the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004; and (9) wildlife conservation grants to states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and Indian tribes. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the National Park Service (NPS) for: (1) the National Park System (including expenses for carrying out programs of the U.S. Park Police); (2) expenses related to cost share agreements for Park Partnership signature projects and programs; (3) expenses for national recreation and preservation programs; (4) expenses related to carrying out the Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996; (5) construction; (6) land acquisition and state assistance from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 
 
Rescinds specified contract authority to obligate funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for FY2010. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2010 to: (1) the U.S. Geological Survey for surveys, investigations, and research; (2) the Minerals Management Service (MMS) for royalty and offshore minerals management and oil spill research; (3) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for regulation and technology and the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund; (4) the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for operation of Indian programs, (including transfer of funds), construction (including transfer of funds), Indian land and water claim settlements and miscellaneous payments to Indians, Indian guaranteed loans, and for a program to consolidate fractional interests in Indian lands by direct expenditure or cooperative agreement; (5) the Office of the Secretary for departmental offices; (6) provide assistance to U.S. territories and to carry out the Compacts of Free Association with respect to the Marshall Islands, Palau, and Micronesia (including transfer of funds); (6) the Office of the Solicitor; (7) the Office of Inspector General; (8) provide for the operation of trust programs for Indians (including transfer of funds); (9) wildland fire management and the Wildland Fire Suppression Contingency Reserve Fund (including transfers of funds); and (10) the Central Hazardous Materials Fund for expenses of the Department of the Interior and its component offices and bureaus for response action, including associated activities, performed pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA); and (11) the Department of the Interior for natural resource damage assessment and restoration. 
 
Sets forth authorized and prohibited uses of specified funds. 
 
 (Sec. 109) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands, waters, or interests therein for the purpose of operating and maintaining facilities in the support of transportation and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, Governors, and Liberty Islands. 
 
(Sec. 110) Extends through FY2013 the authority of the MMS to accept contributions of money and services to conduct work in support of the orderly exploration and development of Outer Continental Shelf resources, including but not limited to, preparation of environmental documents such as impact statements and assessments, studies, and related research. 
 
(Sec. 111) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with a state or political subdivision or any nonprofit if the agreement will: (1) serve a mutual 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. Bars such agreements from being subject to a competitive process, at the Secretary's discretion. 
 
(Sec. 112) Authorizes funds provided in this Act for federal land acquisition by the NPS for the Ice Age National Scenic Trail to be used for a grant to a state, local government, or any other land management entity for land acquisition, without regard to any restriction on the use of federal land acquisition funds provided through the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. 
 
(Sec. 113) Makes certain civil and criminal penalties under the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act applicable to leases authorizing exploration for or development of coal, any other solid mineral, or any geothermal resource on federal or Indian lands and leases, easements, right of ways, or other agreements for use of the Outer Continental Shelf or certain of its mineral, oil, and natural gas resources to the same extent as if such lease, easement, right of way, or other agreement was an oil and gas lease. 
 
(Sec. 114) Directs the MMS, in FY2010, to collect a non-refundable inspection fee as prescribed by this section, to be deposited in the Royalties and Offshore Minerals Management account, from the designated operator for specified facilities on the Outer Continental Shelf that are subject to inspection by the MMS that are above the waterline, except mobile offshore drilling units, and are in place at the start of such fiscal year. 
 
(Sec. 115) Amends Public Law 89-565 (relating to the establishment of the San Juan Island National Historical Park in the state of Washington) to increase the amount authorized for the acquisition of lands and interests on San Juan Island in Puget Sound and for the development of the Park. 
 
(Sec. 116) Amends Public Law 109-441 (relating to the preservation of historic confinement sites where Japanese-Americans were detained during World War II) to authorize the: (1) Secretary of the Interior to accept a donation of specified land or interest in land acquired with federal funds provided under such law as an addition to the Minidoka National Historic Site in Idaho; and (2) use of such federal funds for the acquisition of Heart Mountain. 
 

Title II: Environmental Protection Agency 
- Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the EPA for: (1) science and technology; (2) environmental programs and management; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) buildings and facilities; (5) the Hazardous Substance Superfund (including transfers of funds); (6) the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program; (7) expenses to carry out the EPA's responsibilities under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 concerning oil spill response; and (8) state and tribal assistance grants for environmental programs and infrastructure assistance. 
 
Rescinds permanently a specified amount from unobligated balances to carry out projects and activities funded through the State and Tribal Assistance Grants account. Prohibits any amounts from being canceled from amounts designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
 

Title III: Related Agencies 
- Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service for: (1) forest and rangeland research; (2) state and private forestry; (3) the National Forest System (including transfers of funds); (4) land acquisitions, including specified National Forest areas in Utah, Nevada, and California; (5) range rehabilitation, protection, and improvement; (6) gifts, donations, and bequests for forest and rangeland research; (7) federal land management in Alaska; (8) wildland fire management (including transfers of funds); and (9) the Wildland Fire Suppression Contingency Reserve Fund (including transfer of funds). 
 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Indian Health Service (IHS) and Indian health facilities; and (2) the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. 
 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 in specified amounts for various purposes to the: (1) Executive Office of the President; (2) Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (including transfer of funds); (3) Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; (4) Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development; (5) Smithsonian Institution; (6) National Gallery of Art; (7) John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (8) Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; (9) National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, including the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); (10) Commission of Fine Arts, including expenses for National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs; (11) Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (12) National Capital Planning Commission; (13) U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; (14) Presidio Trust; and (15) Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission. 
 

Title IV: General Provisions 
- Sets forth limitations on the use of funds under this Act.
 
(Sec. 405) Requires: (1) estimated overhead charges, deductions, reserves or holdbacks from programs, projects, activities and subactivities to support governmentwide, departmental, agency or bureau administrative functions or headquarters, regional or central operations to be presented in annual budget justifications and subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; and (2) changes to such estimates to be presented to such Committees for approval. 
 
(Sec. 411) Permits the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to make reciprocal agreements in which the individuals furnished under such agreements to provide fire management services are considered, for tort liability, employees of the foreign country receiving the services when the individuals are engaged in fire suppression or presuppression. Prohibits the Secretaries from making any agreement in which a foreign country does not assume any and all responsibility for acts or omissions of American firefighters who are firefighting in such foreign country.
 
(Sec. 412) Allows the Secretaries, in awarding a federal contract for any of specified purposes with funds made available by this Act to give consideration to local contractors who are from economically disadvantaged rural communities and who provide employment and training for dislocated and displaced workers. Allows the Secretaries to award contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements in certain areas to various entities, including local non-profits and the Youth Conservation Corps. Includes in such areas habitat restoration or management and forest hazardous fuels reduction. 
 
(Sec. 413) Prohibits, unless otherwise provided in this Act, any funds appropriated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or interests in lands from being spent for the filing of declarations of taking or complaints in condemnation without the approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
 
(Sec. 414) Keeps in effect for FY2010 the terms and conditions of section 325 of Public Law 108-108 (Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004) regarding the renewal of certain National Forest System lands grazing permits that have expired, were transferred or waived, during FY2004-FY2008. 
 
(Sec. 415) Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to increase the number of members of the National Council on the Arts who shall: (1) serve on the Council; and (2) constitute a quorum. 
 
(Sec. 416) Amends the item relating to National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986 to increase the: (1) annual amount authorized to provide grants for general operating support for eligible arts organizations in the District of Columbia; and (2) the maximum amount such an organization can receive as a grant in a single year. 
 
(Sec. 417) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 concerning a pilot program for the sale of forest botanical products by the Forest Service, to extend the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to collect fees until September 30, 2014, from persons who harvest such products on National Forest System lands.
 
(Sec. 418) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act relating to coal bonus bids to make non-applicable for FY2010 the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate at fair market value the sale of coal the removal of which is necessary and incidental to the exercise of a right-of-way permit issued pursuant to title V (Rights-of-Way) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. 
 
(Sec. 419) Requires the disposal of all monies received by the United States in FY2010 from sales, bonuses, rentals, and royalties under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 as provided by such Act, as in effect immediately before enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and without regard to the amendments contained in that Act.
 
(Sec. 420) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 to extend the authority of the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to enter into cooperative forestry agreements and contracts for watershed restoration and protection services in Colorado until September 30, 2013. 
 
(Sec. 421) Prohibits the use of funds in this or any other Act for the deposit of funds from any federal royalties, rents, and bonuses derived from federal onshore and offshore oil and gas leases issued under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the Mineral Leasing Act into the Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Research Fund. 
 
(Sec. 422) Amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to provide for a participating county to use its county funds to reimburse all or part of the costs it incurred to pay the salaries and benefits of county employees who supervise adults or juveniles performing mandatory community services on federal lands. 
 
(Sec. 423) Allocates funding, within amounts appropriated in this Act, in the amounts specified for those projects and purposes delineated in the table titled &quot; Congressionally Directed Spending&quot; included in the explanatory statement accompanying this Act, in addition to the allocation requirements specified in this Act under the heading &quot;National Park Service-Historic Preservation Fund&quot; for Save America's Treasures and under the heading &quot;Environmental Protection Agency-State and Tribal Assistance Grants&quot; for special project grants for the construction of drinking water, wastewater, and storm infrastructure and for water quality protection. 
 
(Sec. 424) Directs the President, within 120 days of the submission of the President's Fiscal Year 2011 budget request to Congress, to submit a report to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations that describes all federal agency obligations and expenditures, domestic and international, for climate change programs and activities in FY2008- FY2010. 
 
(Sec. 425) Prohibits the use of any funds in this or any other Act to implement any rule requiring mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure management systems.
 
(Sec. 426) Prohibits the use of funds in this or any prior Act to release an individual detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, (detainee) into any of the U.S. territories of Guam, American Samoa (AS), U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). 
 
Prohibits funds in this or any prior Act from being used to transfer such a detainee into any of those territories to detain or prosecute such detainee, until two months after the President submits a specified comprehensive plan to Congress regarding the proposed disposition of each detainee. 
 
Bars the use of any of the funds in this or any prior Act to transfer or release a detainee to the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or Palau, unless the President submits specified information to Congress 30 days prior to such transfer or release.
 
(Sec. 427) Prohibits funds in this Act or any other Act from being used to promulgate or implement any regulation requiring the issuance of permits under title V of the Clean Air Act for carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions resulting from biological processes associated with livestock production. 

action_date: 2009-06-26
text: 
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies for FY2010. 
 

Title I: Department of the Interior - 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for: (1) land and resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) Oregon and California grant lands; (5) range improvements; (6) service charges, deposits, and forfeitures with respect to public lands; and (7) miscellaneous trust funds. 
 
 Appropriates funds for FY2010 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for: (1) resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) expenses related to carrying out the Endangered Species Act of 1973; (5) the National Wildlife Refuge Fund; (6) expenses related to carrying out the North American Wetlands Conservation Act; (7) financial assistance for projects to promote the conservation of neotropical migratory birds; (8) expenses related to carrying out, through the Multinational Species Conservation Fund, the African Elephant Conservation Act, the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997, the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994, the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000, and the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004; and (9) wildlife conservation grants to states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and Indian tribes. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the National Park Service (NPS) for: (1) the National Park System (including expenses for carrying out programs of the U.S. Park Police); (2) expenses related to cost share agreements for Park Partnership signature projects and programs; (3) expenses for national recreation and preservation programs; (4) expenses related to carrying out the Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996; (5) construction; (6) land acquisition and state assistance from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 
 
Rescinds specified contract authority to obligate funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for FY2010. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2010 to: (1) the U.S. Geological Survey for surveys, investigations, and research; (2) the Minerals Management Service (MMS) for royalty and offshore minerals management and oil spill research; (3) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for regulation and technology and the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund; (4) the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for operation of Indian programs, (including transfer of funds), construction (including transfer of funds), Indian land and water claim settlements and miscellaneous payments to Indians, Indian guaranteed loans, and for a program to consolidate fractional interests in Indian lands by direct expenditure or cooperative agreement; (5) the Office of the Secretary for departmental offices; (6) provide assistance to U.S. territories and to carry out the Compacts of Free Association with respect to the Marshall Islands, Palau, and Micronesia (including transfer of funds); (6) the Office of the Solicitor; (7) the Office of Inspector General; (8) provide for the operation of trust programs for Indians (including transfer of funds); (9) wildland fire management and the Wildland Fire Suppression Contingency Reserve Fund (including transfers of funds); and (10) the Central Hazardous Materials Fund for expenses of the Department of the Interior and its component offices and bureaus for response action, including associated activities, performed pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA); and (11) the Department for natural resource damage assessment and restoration. 
 
Sets forth authorized and prohibited uses of specified funds. 
 
Authorizes the use of funds available under title IV (Abandoned Mine Reclamation) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 for any required non-federal share of the cost of projects funded by the federal government for the purpose of environmental restoration related to the treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage from abandoned mines. 
 
 (Sec. 109) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands, waters, or interests therein for the purpose of operating and maintaining facilities in the support of transportation and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, Governors, and Liberty Islands. 
 
(Sec. 110) Extends through FY2013 the authority of the MMS to accept contributions of money and services to conduct work in support of the orderly exploration and development of Outer Continental Shelf resources, including but not limited to, preparation of environmental documents such as impact statements and assessments, studies, and related research. 
 
(Sec. 111) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with a state or political subdivision or any nonprofit if the agreement will: (1) serve a mutual 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. Bars such agreements from being subject to a competitive process, at the Secretary's discretion. 
 
(Sec. 112) Authorizes funds provided in this Act for federal land acquisition by the NPS for the Ice Age National Scenic Trail to be used for a grant to a state, local government, or any other land management entity for land acquisition, without regard to any restriction on the use of federal land acquisition funds provided through the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. 
 
(Sec. 113) Makes certain civil and criminal penalties under the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act applicable to leases authorizing exploration for or development of coal, any other solid mineral, or any geothermal resource on federal or Indian lands and leases, easements, rights-of-way, or other agreements for use of the Outer Continental Shelf or certain of its mineral, oil, and natural gas resources to the same extent as if such lease, easement, right of way, or other agreement was an oil and gas lease. 
 
(Sec. 114) Directs the MMS, in FY2010, to collect a non-refundable inspection fee as prescribed by this section, to be deposited in the Royalties and Offshore Minerals Management account, from the designated operator for specified facilities on the Outer Continental Shelf that are subject to inspection by the MMS that are above the waterline, except mobile offshore drilling units, and are in place at the start of such fiscal year. 
 
(Sec. 115) Amends Public Law 89-565 (relating to the establishment of the San Juan Island National Historical Park in the state of Washington) to increase the amount authorized for the acquisition of lands and interests on San Juan Island in Puget Sound and for the development of the Park. 
 
(Sec. 116) Amends Public Law 109-441 (relating to the preservation of historic confinement sites where Japanese-Americans were detained during World War II) to authorize the: (1) Secretary of the Interior to accept a donation of specified land or interest in land acquired with federal funds provided under such law as an addition to the Minidoka National Historic Site in Idaho; and (2) use of such federal funds for the acquisition of Heart Mountain. 
 

Title II: Environmental Protection Agency 
- Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the EPA for: (1) science and technology; (2) environmental programs and management; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) buildings and facilities; (5) the Hazardous Substance Superfund (including transfers of funds); (6) the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program; (7) expenses to carry out the EPA's responsibilities under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 concerning oil spill response; and (8) state and tribal assistance grants for environmental programs and infrastructure assistance. 
 
Rescinds permanently a specified amount from unobligated balances to carry out projects and activities funded through the State and Tribal Assistance Grants account. Prohibits any amounts from being canceled from amounts designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
 

Title III: Related Agencies 
- Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service for: (1) forest and rangeland research; (2) state and private forestry; (3) the National Forest System (including transfers of funds); (4) land acquisitions, including specified National Forest areas in Utah, Nevada, and California; (5) range rehabilitation, protection, and improvement; (6) gifts, donations, and bequests for forest and rangeland research; (7) federal land management in Alaska; (8) wildland fire management (including transfers of funds); and (9) the Wildland Fire Suppression Contingency Reserve Fund (including transfer of funds). 
 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Indian Health Service (IHS) and Indian health facilities; and (2) the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. 
 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 in specified amounts for various purposes to the: (1) Executive Office of the President; (2) Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (including transfer of funds); (3) Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; (4) Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development; (5) Smithsonian Institution; (6) National Gallery of Art; (7) John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (8) Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; (9) National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, including the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); (10) Commission of Fine Arts, including expenses for National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs; (11) Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (12) National Capital Planning Commission; (13) U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; (14) Presidio Trust; and (15) Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission. 
 

Title IV: General Provisions 
- Sets forth limitations on the use of funds under this Act.
 
(Sec. 405) Requires: (1) estimated overhead charges, deductions, reserves or holdbacks from programs, projects, activities and subactivities to support governmentwide, departmental, agency or bureau administrative functions or headquarters, regional or central operations to be presented in annual budget justifications and subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; and (2) changes to such estimates to be presented to such Committees for approval. 
 
(Sec. 411) Permits the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to make reciprocal agreements in which the individuals furnished under such agreements to provide fire management services are considered, for tort liability, employees of the foreign country receiving the services when the individuals are engaged in fire suppression or presuppression. Prohibits the Secretaries from making any agreement in which a foreign country does not assume any and all responsibility for acts or omissions of American firefighters who are firefighting in such foreign country.
 
(Sec. 412) Allows the Secretaries, in awarding a federal contract for any of specified purposes with funds made available by this Act to give consideration to local contractors who are from economically disadvantaged rural communities and who provide employment and training for dislocated and displaced workers. Allows the Secretaries to award contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements in certain areas to various entities, including local non-profits and the Youth Conservation Corps. Includes in such areas habitat restoration or management and forest hazardous fuels reduction. 
 
(Sec. 413) Prohibits, unless otherwise provided in this Act, any funds appropriated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or interests in lands from being spent for the filing of declarations of taking or complaints in condemnation without the approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
 
(Sec. 414) Keeps in effect for FY2010 the terms and conditions of section 325 of Public Law 108-108 (Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004) regarding the renewal of certain National Forest System lands grazing permits that have expired or were transferred or waived during FY2004-FY2008. 
 
(Sec. 415) Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to increase the number of members of the National Council on the Arts who shall: (1) serve on the Council; and (2) constitute a quorum. 
 
(Sec. 416) Amends the item relating to National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986 to increase: (1) the annual amount authorized to provide grants for general operating support for eligible arts organizations in the District of Columbia; and (2) the maximum amount such an organization can receive as a grant in a single year. 
 
(Sec. 417) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 concerning a pilot program for the sale of forest botanical products by the Forest Service, to extend the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to collect fees until September 30, 2014, from persons who harvest such products on National Forest System lands.
 
(Sec. 418) Amends the Mineral Leasing Act relating to coal bonus bids to make non-applicable for FY2010 the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate at fair market value the sale of coal the removal of which is necessary and incidental to the exercise of a right-of-way permit issued pursuant to title V (Rights-of-Way) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. 
 
(Sec. 419) Requires the disposal of all monies received by the United States in FY2010 from sales, bonuses, rentals, and royalties under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 as provided by such Act, as in effect immediately before enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and without regard to the amendments contained in that Act.
 
(Sec. 420) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 to extend the authority of the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to enter into cooperative forestry agreements and contracts for watershed restoration and protection services in Colorado until September 30, 2013. 
 
(Sec. 421) Prohibits the use of funds in this or any other Act for the deposit of funds from any federal royalties, rents, and bonuses derived from federal onshore and offshore oil and gas leases issued under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the Mineral Leasing Act into the Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Research Fund. 
 
(Sec. 422) Amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to provide for use by a participating county of its funds to reimburse all or part of the costs it incurred to pay the salaries and benefits of county employees who supervise adults or juveniles performing mandatory community services on federal lands. 
 
(Sec. 423) Allocates funding, within amounts appropriated in this Act, in the amounts specified for those projects and purposes delineated in the table titled &quot;Congressionally Directed Spending&quot; included in the explanatory statement accompanying this Act, in addition to the allocation requirements specified in this Act under the heading &quot;National Park Service-Historic Preservation Fund&quot; for Save America's Treasures and under the heading &quot;Environmental Protection Agency-State and Tribal Assistance Grants&quot; for special project grants for the construction of drinking water, wastewater, and storm infrastructure and for water quality protection. 
 
(Sec. 424) Directs the President, within 120 days of the submission of the President's Fiscal Year 2011 budget request to Congress, to submit a report to the Appropriations committees that describes all federal agency obligations and expenditures, domestic and international, for climate change programs and activities in FY2008- FY2010. 
 
(Sec. 425) Prohibits the use of any funds in this or any other Act to implement any rule requiring mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure management systems.
 
(Sec. 426) Prohibits the use of funds in this or any prior Act to release an individual detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (detainee), into any of the U.S. territories of Guam, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). 
 
Prohibits funds in this or any prior Act from being used to transfer such a detainee into any of those territories to detain or prosecute such detainee, until two months after the President submits a specified comprehensive plan to Congress regarding the proposed disposition of each detainee. 
 
Bars the use of any of the funds in this or any prior Act to transfer or release a detainee to the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or Palau, unless the President submits specified information to Congress 30 days prior to such transfer or release.
 
(Sec. 427) Prohibits funds in this Act or any other Act from being used to promulgate or implement any regulation requiring the issuance of permits under title V of the Clean Air Act for carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions resulting from biological processes associated with livestock production. 

action_date: 2009-07-07
text: 
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies for FY2010. 
 

Title I: Department of the Interior - 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for: (1) land and resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) Oregon and California grant lands; (5) range improvements; (6) service charges, deposits, and forfeitures with respect to public lands; and (7) miscellaneous trust funds. 
 
 Appropriates funds for FY2010 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for: (1) resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) expenses related to carrying out the Endangered Species Act of 1973; (5) the National Wildlife Refuge Fund; (6) expenses related to carrying out the North American Wetlands Conservation Act; (7) financial assistance for projects to promote the conservation of neotropical migratory birds; (8) expenses related to carrying out, through the Multinational Species Conservation Fund, the African Elephant Conservation Act, the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997, the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994, the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000, and the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004; and (9) wildlife conservation grants to states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and Indian tribes. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the National Park Service (NPS) for: (1) the National Park System (including expenses for carrying out programs of the U.S. Park Police); (2) expenses for national recreation and preservation programs; (3) expenses related to carrying out the Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996; (4) construction; and (5) land acquisition and state assistance from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 
 
Rescinds specified contract authority to obligate funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for FY2010. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2010 to: (1) the U.S. Geological Survey for surveys, investigations, and research; (2) the Minerals Management Service (MMS) for royalty and offshore minerals management and oil spill research; (3) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for regulation and technology and the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund; (4) the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for operation of Indian programs, (including transfer of funds), construction (including transfer of funds), Indian land and water claim settlements and miscellaneous payments to Indians, a program to consolidate fractional interests in Indian lands by direct expenditure or cooperative agreement, and for Indian guaranteed loans; (5) the Office of the Secretary for departmental offices; (6) provide assistance to U.S. territories and to carry out the Compacts of Free Association with respect to the Marshall Islands, Palau, and Micronesia (including transfer of funds); (6) the Office of the Solicitor; (7) the Office of Inspector General; (8) provide for the operation of trust programs for Indians (including transfer of funds); (9) wildland fire management, including for wildfire suppression to support federal emergency response actions (including transfers of funds); and (10) the Central Hazardous Materials Fund for expenses of the Department of the Interior and its component offices and bureaus for response action, including associated activities, performed pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA); and (11) the Department of the Interior for natural resource damage assessment and restoration. 
 
Sets forth authorized and prohibited uses of specified funds. 
 
Authorizes the use of funds available under title IV (Abandoned Mine Reclamation) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 for any required non-federal share of the cost of projects funded by the federal government for the purpose of environmental restoration related to the treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage from abandoned mines. 
 
 (Sec. 108) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands, waters, or interests therein for the purpose of operating and maintaining facilities in the support of transportation and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, Governors, and Liberty Islands. 
 
(Sec. 109) Bars any proposed new use of the Arizona & California Railroad Company's right-of-way for the conveyance of water from proceeding unless the Secretary of the Interior certifies that such use is within the scope of the right-of-way. 
 
 Prohibits any funds to the Department of the Interior from being used, in relation to any proposal to store water underground for the purpose of export, for approval of any right-of-way or similar authorization on the Mojave National Preserve or lands managed by the Needles Field Office of the BLM, or for carrying out any activities associated with such right-of-way or similar approval.
 
 (Sec. 110) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with a state or political subdivision or any nonprofit if the agreement will: (1) serve a mutual 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. Bars such agreements from being subject to a competitive process, at the Secretary's discretion. 
 
 (Sec. 111) Makes certain civil and criminal penalties under the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act applicable to leases authorizing exploration for or development of coal, any other solid mineral, or any geothermal resource on federal or Indian lands and leases, easements, right of ways, or other agreements for use of the Outer Continental Shelf or certain of its mineral, oil, and natural gas resources to the same extent as if such lease, easement, right of way, or other agreement was an oil and gas lease. 
 
(Sec. 112) Prohibits funds from being used to further reduce the number of axis or fallow deer at Point Reyes National Seashore in California. 
 
 (Sec. 113) Directs the MMS, in FY2010, to collect a non-refundable inspection fee as prescribed by this section, to be deposited in the Royalties and Offshore Minerals Management account, from the designated operator for specified facilities on the Outer Continental Shelf that are subject to inspection by the MMS that are above the waterline, except mobile offshore drilling units, and are in place at the start of such fiscal year.
 
(Sec. 114) Amends Public Law 109-131 (relating to payments to provide for educational services for students attending schools within Yosemite National Park in California) to extend the authorization for the Secretary of the Interior to provide payments to the Bass Lake Joint Union Elementary School District and the Mariposa Unified School District for such services through FY2013.
 
(Sec. 115) Amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to bar any privately owned property from being preserved, conserved, or promoted by the management plan for the Northern Plains National Heritage Area in North Dakota until the later of the date on which: (1) the management entity of the Heritage Area notifies the owner of the proposed preservation, conservation, or promotion; and (2) the owner provides consent for such preservation, conservation, or promotion. Requires private property included within the boundary of the Heritage Area to be immediately withdrawn when the owner notifies the management entity of the owner's decision to have the property withdrawn.
 
(Sec. 116) Sets forth provisions regarding the admission of visitors to historic attractions within the Pearl Harbor Naval Complex, including the Battleship Missouri Memorial. 
 
Requires the proceeds of any amounts collected as fees to be used for the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in Hawaii. 
 
Prohibits anything in this section from: (1) regulating or approving rates for admission to a historic attraction; (2) regulating or managing visitor services within the Complex, other than services managed by the NPS as part of the Monument; or (3) charging an entrance fee for admission to the Monument. 
 
Prohibits anything in this section from authorizing the Secretary or any organization that administers or manages a historic attraction to take any action in derogation of the preservation and protection of the values and resources of the Monument. 
 
(Sec. 117) Provides for FY2010 assistance levels to Palau.
 
Limits assistance to FY2009 levels. Withholds such assistance if trust fund withdrawals exceed $5 million. 
 
(Sec. 118) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000 to remove the requirement that Fort Baker, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California, remain under exclusive federal jurisdiction. 
 
(Sec. 119) Bars the use of funds in this Act for the establishment or implementation of a plan for the reduction in the number of elk in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota, unless certain residents are licensed to cull such elk. 
 
(Sec. 120) Extends, for 10 years, the Drake's Bay Oyster Company's Reservation of Use and Occupancy and associated special use permit within Drake's Estero at Point Reyes National Seashore, California, subject to specified conditions.
 
(Sec. 121) Extends through FY2010 the authority of the MMS to accept contributions of money and services to conduct work in support of the orderly exploration and development of Outer Continental Shelf resources. 
 
(Sec. 122) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the national significance, suitability, and feasibility of including the Honouliuli Gulch and associated sites within Hawaii in the National Park System. 
 
Requires such study to evaluate the Honouliuli Gulch, associated sites on Oahu, and other islands in Hawaii respecting: (1) their significance as a component of World War II; (2) their significance as related to the forcible internment of Japanese Americans, European Americans, and other individuals; and (3) historic resources at those sites. 
 

Title II: Environmental Protection Agency 
- Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the EPA for: (1) science and technology; (2) environmental programs and management; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) buildings and facilities; (5) the Hazardous Substance Superfund (including transfers of funds); (6) the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program; (7) expenses to carry out the EPA's responsibilities under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 concerning oil spill response; and (8) state and tribal assistance grants for environmental programs and infrastructure assistance. 
 
Rescinds permanently a specified amount from unobligated balances to carry out projects and activities funded through the State and Tribal Assistance Grants account. Prohibits any amounts from being rescinded from amounts designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
 

Title III: Related Agencies 
- Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service for: (1) forest and rangeland research; (2) state and private forestry; (3) the National Forest System (including transfers of funds); (4) land acquisitions, including specified National Forest areas in Utah, Nevada, and California; (5) range rehabilitation, protection, and improvement; (6) gifts, donations, and bequests for forest and rangeland research; (7) federal land management in Alaska; and (8) wildland fire management (including transfers of funds). 
 
Prohibits reprogramming of any of the funds available to the Forest Service without the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, in accordance with the reprogramming procedures contained in title IV of this Act. 
 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Indian Health Service (IHS) and Indian health facilities; and (2) the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. 
 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 in specified amounts for various purposes to the: (1) Executive Office of the President; (2) Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (including transfer of funds); (3) Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; (4) Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development; (5) Smithsonian Institution; (6) National Gallery of Art; (7) John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (8) Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; (9) National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, including the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); (10) Commission of Fine Arts, including expenses for National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs; (11) Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (12) National Capital Planning Commission; (13) U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; (14) Presidio Trust; and (15) Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission. 
 

Title IV: General Provisions 
- Sets forth limitations on the use of funds under this Act.
 
(Sec. 403) Prohibits funds from being used to provide specified personal services.
 
 (Sec. 404) Requires: (1) estimated overhead charges, deductions, reserves or holdbacks from programs, projects, activities and subactivities to support governmentwide, departmental, agency or bureau administrative functions or headquarters, regional or central operations to be presented in annual budget justifications and subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; and (2) changes to such estimates to be presented to such Committees for approval. 
 
(Sec. 405) Prohibits funds from being used to plan, prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classified as giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which are located on National Forest System or BLM lands in a manner different than such sales were conducted in FY2009.
 
(Sec. 406) Prohibits funds from being used to accept or process applications for a patent for any mining or mill site claim, subject to exception. Requires a report.
 
(Sec. 407) Regulates contract support costs.
 
(Sec. 409) Prohibits funds provided in this Act from being used to conduct preleasing, leasing, and related activities under either the Mineral Leasing Act or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act within the boundaries of a National Monument as such boundary existed on January 20, 2001, except where such activities are allowed under the presidential proclamation establishing the monument.
 
 
 (Sec. 410) Permits the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to make reciprocal agreements in which the individuals furnished under such agreements to provide fire management services are considered, for tort liability, employees of the foreign country receiving the services when the individuals are engaged in fire suppression. Prohibits the Secretaries from making any agreement in which a foreign country does not assume any and all responsibility for acts or omissions of American firefighters who are firefighting in such foreign country. 
 
 (Sec. 411) Allows the Secretaries, in awarding a federal contract for any of specified purposes with funds made available by this Act, to give consideration to local contractors who are from economically disadvantaged rural communities and who provide employment and training for dislocated and displaced workers. 
 
(Sec. 412) Prohibits funds available by this or any other Act from being used in FY2010 for competitive sourcing studies and related activities involving Forest Service personnel. 
 
(Sec. 413) Prohibits: (1) unless otherwise provided in this Act, any funds appropriated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or interests in lands from being spent for the filing of declarations of taking or complaints in condemnation without the approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; and (2) applying this provision to funds appropriated to implement the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, or to funds appropriated for federal assistance to the state of Florida to acquire lands for Everglades restoration. 
 
(Sec. 414) Provides a specified amount to the EPA for transfer to the Department of the Navy for clean-up activities at Treasure Island Naval Station--Hunters Point Annex, California, in addition to the amounts otherwise provided to the EPA in this Act. 
 
 (Sec. 415) Requires the renewal of certain National Forest System lands grazing permits that expired, were transferred, or were waived during FY2010. 
 
(Sec. 416) Bars the IHS, until October 1, 2011, from disbursing funds for the provision of health care services pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to any Alaska Native village or Alaska Native village corporation located within an area served by an Alaska Native regional health entity. Treats Eastern Aleutian Tribes Inc. the Council of Athabasean Tribal Governments, and the Native Village of Eyak as such entities to which funds may be disbursed. 
 
(Sec. 417) Regulates specified Alaskan timber sales.
 
(Sec. 418) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 to extend the authority of the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to enter into cooperative forestry agreements and contracts for watershed restoration and protection services in Colorado until September 30, 2014. 
 
 (Sec. 419) Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to increase the number of members of the National Council on the Arts who shall: (1) serve on the Council; and (2) constitute a quorum. 
 
 (Sec. 420) Prohibits funds in this Act or any other Act from being used to promulgate or implement any regulation requiring the issuance of permits under the Clean Air Act for carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions resulting from biological processes associated with livestock production. 
 
 (Sec. 421) Prohibits funds from being used to implement any rule requiring mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure management systems emitting less than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year. 
 
(Sec. 422) Allocates, within the amounts appropriated in this Act, funding in the amounts specified for those projects and purposes delineated in the table titled &quot;Congressionally Directed Spending&quot; included in the committee report accompanying this Act. 

action_date: 2009-09-24
text: 
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - Makes appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies for FY2010. 
 

Title I: Department of the Interior - 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for: (1) land and resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) Oregon and California grant lands; (5) range improvements; (6) service charges, deposits, and forfeitures with respect to public lands; and (7) miscellaneous trust funds. 
 
 Appropriates funds for FY2010 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for: (1) resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) expenses related to carrying out the Endangered Species Act of 1973; (5) the National Wildlife Refuge Fund; (6) expenses related to carrying out the North American Wetlands Conservation Act; (7) financial assistance for projects to promote the conservation of neotropical migratory birds; (8) expenses related to carrying out, through the Multinational Species Conservation Fund, the African Elephant Conservation Act, the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997, the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994, the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000, and the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004; and (9) wildlife conservation grants to states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and Indian tribes. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the National Park Service (NPS) for: (1) the National Park System (including expenses for carrying out programs of the U.S. Park Police); (2) expenses for national recreation and preservation programs; (3) expenses related to carrying out the Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996, including for the development of a program to catalogue, preserve, provide research, develop curricula and courses, and conduct forums on the important works and papers of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; (4) construction; and (5) land acquisition and state assistance from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 
 
Rescinds specified contract authority to obligate funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for FY2010. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2010 to: (1) the U.S. Geological Survey for surveys, investigations, and research; (2) the Minerals Management Service (MMS) for royalty and offshore minerals management and oil spill research; (3) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for regulation and technology and the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund; (4) the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for operation of Indian programs, (including transfer of funds), construction (including transfer of funds), Indian land and water claim settlements and miscellaneous payments to Indians, a program to consolidate fractional interests in Indian lands by direct expenditure or cooperative agreement, and for Indian guaranteed loans; (5) the Office of the Secretary for departmental offices; (6) provide assistance to U.S. territories and to carry out the Compacts of Free Association with respect to the Marshall Islands, Palau, and Micronesia (including transfer of funds); (6) the Office of the Solicitor; (7) the Office of Inspector General; (8) provide for the operation of trust programs for Indians (including transfer of funds), including the estate planning assistance program provided under the Indian Land Consolidation Act; (9) wildland fire management, including for wildfire suppression to support federal emergency response actions (including transfers of funds); and (10) the Central Hazardous Materials Fund for expenses of the Department of the Interior and its component offices and bureaus for response action, including associated activities, performed pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA); and (11) the Department of the Interior for natural resource damage assessment and restoration. 
 
Sets forth authorized and prohibited uses of specified funds. 
 
Authorizes the use of funds available under title IV (Abandoned Mine Reclamation) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 for any required non-federal share of the cost of projects funded by the federal government for the purpose of environmental restoration related to the treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage from abandoned mines. 
 
 (Sec. 108) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands, waters, or interests therein for the purpose of operating and maintaining facilities in the support of transportation and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, Governors, and Liberty Islands. 
 
(Sec. 109) Bars any proposed new use of the Arizona & California Railroad Company's right-of-way for the conveyance of water from proceeding unless the Secretary of the Interior certifies that such use is within the scope of the right-of-way. 
 
 Prohibits funds made available to the Department of the Interior from being used, in relation to any proposal to store water underground for the purpose of export, for approval of any right-of-way or similar authorization on the Mojave National Preserve or lands managed by the Needles Field Office of the BLM, or for carrying out any activities associated with such right-of-way or similar approval.
 
 (Sec. 110) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with a state or political subdivision or any nonprofit if the agreement will: (1) serve a mutual 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. Bars such agreements from being subject to a competitive process, at the Secretary's discretion. 
 
 (Sec. 111) Makes certain civil and criminal penalties under the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act applicable to leases authorizing exploration for or development of coal, any other solid mineral, or any geothermal resource on federal or Indian lands and leases, easements, right of ways, or other agreements for use of the Outer Continental Shelf or certain of its mineral, oil, and natural gas resources to the same extent as if such lease, easement, right of way, or other agreement was an oil and gas lease. 
 
(Sec. 112) Prohibits funds from being used to further reduce the number of axis or fallow deer at Point Reyes National Seashore in California. 
 
 (Sec. 113) Directs the MMS, in FY2010, to collect a non-refundable inspection fee as prescribed by this section, to be deposited in the Royalties and Offshore Minerals Management account, from the designated operator for specified facilities on the Outer Continental Shelf that are subject to inspection by the MMS that are above the waterline, except mobile offshore drilling units, and are in place at the start of such fiscal year.
 
(Sec. 114) Amends Public Law 109-131 (relating to payments to provide for educational services for students attending schools within Yosemite National Park in California) to extend the authorization for the Secretary of the Interior to provide payments to the Bass Lake Joint Union Elementary School District and the Mariposa Unified School District for such services through FY2013.
 
(Sec. 115) Amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to bar any privately owned property from being included in the Northern Plains National Heritage Area in North Dakota unless the owner of the property provides a request to the management entity for such inclusion. Requires private property included in the Heritage Area to be immediately withdrawn when the owner provides a notice to the management entity requesting removal. Requires public property included in the Heritage Area to be immediately withdrawn upon notification from the appropriate state or local government entity. 
 
(Sec. 116) Sets forth provisions regarding the admission of visitors to historic attractions within the Pearl Harbor Naval Complex, including the Battleship Missouri Memorial. 
 
Requires the proceeds of any amounts collected as fees to be used for the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in Hawaii. 
 
Prohibits anything in this section from: (1) regulating or approving rates for admission to a historic attraction; (2) regulating or managing visitor services within the Complex, other than services managed by the NPS as part of the Monument; or (3) charging an entrance fee for admission to the Monument. 
 
Prohibits anything in this section from authorizing the Secretary or any organization that administers or manages a historic attraction to take any action in derogation of the preservation and protection of the values and resources of the Monument. 
 
(Sec. 117) Provides for FY2010 assistance levels to Palau.
 
Limits assistance to FY2009 levels. Withholds such assistance if trust fund withdrawals exceed $5 million. 
 
(Sec. 118) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000 to remove the requirement that Fort Baker, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California, remain under exclusive federal jurisdiction. 
 
(Sec. 119) Bars the use of funds in this Act for the establishment or implementation of a plan for the reduction in the number of elk in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota, unless certain residents are licensed to cull such elk. 
 
(Sec. 120) Extends, for 10 years, the Drake's Bay Oyster Company's Reservation of Use and Occupancy and associated special use permit within Drake's Estero at Point Reyes National Seashore in California. Makes such extended authorization subject to annual payments to the United States based on the market value of use of the federal property for the duration of such renewal. Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to take into consideration recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Report pertaining to shellfish agriculture in the Seashore before modifying any terms and conditions of the extended authorization. 
 
(Sec. 121) Extends through FY2010 the authority of the MMS to accept contributions of money and services to conduct work in support of the orderly exploration and development of Outer Continental Shelf resources. 
 
(Sec. 122) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the national significance, suitability, and feasibility of including the Honouliuli Gulch and associated sites within Hawaii in the National Park System. 
 
Requires such study to evaluate the Honouliuli Gulch, associated sites on Oahu, and other islands in Hawaii respecting: (1) their significance as a component of World War II; (2) their significance as related to the forcible internment of Japanese Americans, European Americans, and other individuals; and (3) historic resources at those sites. 
 
(Sec. 123) Prohibits the use of any funds in this Act to impede, prohibit, or restrict activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security on public lands for achieving operational control, as defined under the Secure Fence Act of 2006, over the international land and maritime borders of the United States. 
 
(Sec. 124) Permits any private property owner within an existing or new National Heritage Area to opt out of participating in any plan, project, program, or activity conducted within that Heritage Area when the owner provides a notice to the local coordinating entity of the owner's decision to opt out of participation in such plan, project, program, or activity. 
 

Title II: Environmental Protection Agency 
- Makes appropriations for FY2010 to EPA for: (1) science and technology; (2) environmental programs and management; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) buildings and facilities; (5) the Hazardous Substance Superfund (including transfers of funds); (6) the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program; (7) expenses to carry out EPA's responsibilities under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 concerning oil spill response; and (8) state and tribal assistance grants for environmental programs and infrastructure assistance. 
 
Rescinds permanently a specified amount from unobligated balances to carry out projects and activities funded through the State and Tribal Assistance Grants account. Prohibits any amounts from being rescinded from amounts designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
 
(Sec. 201) Authorizes the EPA Administrator to carry out and submit to Congress the results of a study defining black carbon, assess its impacts on global and regional climate, and identify the most cost-effective ways of reducing black carbon emissions in order to improve global and domestic public health and to mitigate the climate impacts of black carbon. 
 
Provides from amounts under this title under the heading &quot;Environmental Programs and Management&quot; for operations and administration, up to a specified amount to be: (1) transferred to the account used to fund the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards; and (2) used by the Administrator to carry out this section. 
 

Title III: Related Agencies 
- Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service for: (1) forest and rangeland research; (2) state and private forestry; (3) the National Forest System (including transfers of funds); (4) land acquisitions, including specified National Forest areas in Utah, Nevada, and California; (5) range rehabilitation, protection, and improvement; (6) gifts, donations, and bequests for forest and rangeland research; (7) federal land management in Alaska; (8) wildland fire management (including transfers of funds); and (9) the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Fund. 
 
Prohibits reprogramming of any of the funds available to the Forest Service without the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, in accordance with the reprogramming procedures contained in title IV of this Act. 
 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Indian Health Service (IHS) and Indian health facilities; and (2) the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. 
 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 in specified amounts for various purposes to the: (1) Executive Office of the President; (2) Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (including transfer of funds); (3) Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; (4) Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development; (5) Smithsonian Institution, including for carrying out activities under the Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009; (6) National Gallery of Art; (7) John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (8) Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; (9) National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, including the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); (10) Commission of Fine Arts, including expenses for National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs; (11) Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (12) National Capital Planning Commission; (13) U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; (14) Presidio Trust; and (15) Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission. 
 

Title IV: General Provisions 
- Sets forth limitations on the use of funds under this Act.
 
(Sec. 403) Prohibits funds from being used to provide specified personal services.
 
 (Sec. 404) Requires: (1) estimated overhead charges, deductions, reserves or holdbacks from programs, projects, activities and subactivities to support governmentwide, departmental, agency or bureau administrative functions or headquarters, regional or central operations to be presented in annual budget justifications and subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; and (2) changes to such estimates to be presented to such Committees for approval. 
 
(Sec. 405) Prohibits funds from being used to plan, prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classified as giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which are located on National Forest System or BLM lands in a manner different than such sales were conducted in FY2009.
 
(Sec. 406) Prohibits funds from being used to accept or process applications for a patent for any mining or mill site claim, subject to exception. Requires a report.
 
(Sec. 407) Regulates contract support costs.
 
(Sec. 409) Prohibits funds provided in this Act from being used to conduct preleasing, leasing, and related activities under either the Mineral Leasing Act or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act within the boundaries of a National Monument as such boundary existed on January 20, 2001, except where such activities are allowed under the presidential proclamation establishing the monument.
 
 
 (Sec. 410) Permits the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to make reciprocal agreements in which the individuals furnished under such agreements to provide fire management services are considered, for tort liability, employees of the foreign country receiving the services when the individuals are engaged in fire suppression. Prohibits the Secretaries from making any agreement in which a foreign country does not assume any and all responsibility for acts or omissions of American firefighters who are firefighting in such foreign country. 
 
 (Sec. 411) Allows the Secretaries, in awarding a federal contract for any of specified purposes with funds made available by this Act, to give consideration to local contractors who are from economically disadvantaged rural communities and who provide employment and training for dislocated and displaced workers. 
 
(Sec. 412) Prohibits funds available by this or any other Act from being used in FY2010 for competitive sourcing studies and related activities involving Forest Service personnel. 
 
(Sec. 413) Prohibits: (1) unless otherwise provided in this Act, any funds appropriated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or interests in lands from being spent for the filing of declarations of taking or complaints in condemnation without the approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; and (2) applying this provision to funds appropriated to implement the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, or to funds appropriated for federal assistance to the state of Florida to acquire lands for Everglades restoration. 
 
(Sec. 414) Provides a specified amount to EPA for transfer to the Department of the Navy for clean-up activities at Treasure Island Naval Station--Hunters Point Annex, California, in addition to the amounts otherwise provided to EPA in this Act. 
 
 (Sec. 415) Requires the renewal of certain National Forest System lands grazing permits that expired, were transferred, or were waived during FY2010. 
 
(Sec. 416) Bars the IHS, until October 1, 2011, from disbursing funds for the provision of health care services pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to any Alaska Native village or Alaska Native village corporation located within an area served by an Alaska Native regional health entity. Treats Eastern Aleutian Tribes Inc. the Council of Athabasean Tribal Governments, and the Native Village of Eyak as such entities to which funds may be disbursed. 
 
(Sec. 417) Regulates specified Alaskan timber sales.
 
(Sec. 418) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 to extend the authority of the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to enter into cooperative forestry agreements and contracts for watershed restoration and protection services in Colorado until September 30, 2014. 
 
 (Sec. 419) Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to increase the number of members of the National Council on the Arts who shall: (1) serve on the Council; and (2) constitute a quorum. 
 
 (Sec. 420) Prohibits funds in this Act or any other Act from being used to promulgate or implement any regulation requiring the issuance of permits under the Clean Air Act for carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions resulting from biological processes associated with livestock production. 
 
 (Sec. 421) Prohibits funds from being used to implement any rule requiring mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure management systems emitting less than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year. 
 
(Sec. 422) Allocates, within the amounts appropriated in this Act, funding in the amounts specified for those projects and purposes delineated in the table titled &quot;Congressionally Directed Spending&quot; included in the committee report accompanying this Act. 
 
(Sec. 423) Prohibits the distribution of any funds under this Act to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidiaries. 
 
(Sec. 424) Prohibits the use of any funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for wildland fire management in the District of Columbia. 
 
(Sec. 425) Authorizes the Director of the Geological Survey, using funds under this Act, to conduct a specified evaluation of the aquifers in the area of the Jungo Disposal Site in Humboldt County, Nevada. 
 
(Sec. 426) Encourages the EPA Administrator to consider all appropriate criteria relating to the buyout and relocation of residents of properties in Treece, Kansas, who are subject to risks related to chat (waste material formed in the course of milling operations employed to recover lead and zinc from metal-bearing ore minerals in the Tri-State Mining District of Southwest Missouri, Southeast Kansas and Northeast Oklahoma). Prohibits, for the purpose of the remedial action under CERCLA that includes permanent relocation of residents of Treece, any such relocation from being subject to the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. 
 
(Sec. 427) Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) enter into cooperative agreements with certain private entities, as described in that Act, under which the facilities and technical expertise of the Department of Agriculture (under current law, the Agricultural Research Service) shall be made available for the operation of pilot plants and other large-scale preparation facilities in bringing technologies necessary for the development and commercialization of new biobased products to the point of practical application; and (2) rent equipment to such entities. 
 
(Sec. 428) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Senate: (1) supports the National Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery Program as an effective way of reducing mercury pollution from electric arc furnaces used by the steel industry to melt scrap metal from old vehicles; and (2) urges the Program's founders to secure private sector financial support so that the successful efforts of the Program in reducing mercury pollution may continue. 
 
(Sec. 429) Amends the National Forest Foundation Act to increase the number of members of the governing Board of Directors of the National Forest Foundation from 15 to up to 30 Directors. 
 
(Sec. 430) Prohibits the use of any funds made available by this Act to increase the amount of cabin user fees under the Cabin User Fee Fairness Act of 2000 to an amount beyond the amount levied on December 31, 2009. 
 
(Sec. 431) Establishes in the Treasury the Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Fund (Flame Fund). 
 
Authorizes appropriations for the Flame Fund. Expresses the intent of Congress with respect to the expenditure of amounts appropriated to the Flame Fund. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that further amounts appropriated to the Flame Fund should be designated as necessary to meet emergency needs. 
 
Instructs the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture (the Secretaries) to notify specified congressional committees (the committees) whenever only an estimated 60 days worth of funding remains in the Flame Fund. 
 
Requires the transfer of unobligated wildland fire suppression funds into the Flame Fund. 
 
Requires amounts in the Flame Fund to be made available to the Secretaries to pay the costs of catastrophic emergency wildland fire suppression activities that are separate from amounts annually appropriated for routine wildfire suppression activities. 
 
Makes amounts in the Flame Fund available to the Secretaries only after such Secretaries issue a declaration that a wildland fire suppression activity is eligible for funding from the Fund. Permits such a declaration to be issued only if certain conditions are met with respect to the fire's size and severity, or the costs of suppression have exceeded specified appropriated amounts. 
 
Continues funding for anticipated and predicted wildland fire suppression activities within appropriate agency budgets. Expresses the intent of Congress that funding made available through the Flame Fund be used only for purposes and in instances consistent with this section. 
 
Requires obligating any amounts in the Flame Fund and any funds appropriated for wildfire suppression on federal land before the transfer of funds from non-fire accounts for wildfire suppression. 
 
Directs the Secretaries to establish an accounting and reporting system for the Flame Fund compatible with existing National Fire Plan reporting procedures. 
 
 Requires the Secretaries to report annually to the committees on the use of amounts from the Flame Fund, and recommendations to improve administrative control and oversight of the Fund. Requires such report to be made available to the public. Requires the Secretaries to submit estimates of anticipated wildfire suppression costs in order to improve budgeting and funding. Subjects the methodology for the development of the estimates to peer review to ensure that they were developed using the best available climate, weather, and other relevant data and models and other analytic tools. Prescribes a schedule for submission of such estimates. 
 
 (Sec. 432) Requires the Secretaries to submit a report to Congress that contains a cohesive wildland fire management strategy, consistent with the recommendations of recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports regarding management strategies. 
 
Sets forth required elements of the strategy, including that the strategy provide for: (1) the reinvestment by the Secretaries in non-fire programs; (2) the allocation of hazardous fuels reduction funds based on the priority of hazardous fuels reduction projects; (3) assessing the impacts of climate change on the frequency and severity of wildland fire; and (4) studying the effects of invasive species on wildfire risk. 
 
Directs the Secretaries, at least once during every five-year period beginning on the date of submission of the strategy, to revise it to address any changes affecting it, including changes respecting landscape, vegetation, climate, and weather. 
 
(Sec. 433) Prohibits any funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act from being: (1) used to make any payments in connection with civilian and military contracts not awarded using competitive procedures; or (2) awarded by grants not subject to merit-based competitive procedures, needs-based criteria, or other procedures specifically authorized by law to select the grantee or award recipient. Makes such prohibition non-applicable to the awarding of specified contracts and grants. 
 
(Sec. 434) Provides for the posting of reports required to be submitted by federal agencies or departments to the House or Senate appropriations committee on the public website of those agencies upon receipt by the committee concerned. Makes such requirement non-applicable to a report if the public posting of such report compromises national security or the report contains proprietary information. 
 
(Sec. 436) Requires any purchases of chat from the Tar Creek Superfund Site to be: (1) counted at twice their purchase price; and (2) eligible to be counted toward meeting the federally required disadvantaged business enterprise set-aside on federally funded projects in order to expedite the cleanup of federal and Indian land at the Site. Makes such requirement applicable only if the purchase of chat is made from at least one restricted Indian owner or an Indian tribe. 

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Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - 
Division A 
- Makes appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies for FY2010. 
 

Title I: Department of the Interior - 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for: (1) land and resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) Oregon and California grant lands; (5) range improvements; (6) service charges, deposits, and forfeitures with respect to public lands; and (7) miscellaneous trust funds. 
 
Rescinds an amount made available to BLM for the shipment and storage of oil shale core samples in Colorado, as specified in the table titled &quot;Congressionally Designated Spending&quot; contained in the joint explanatory statement. 
 
Appropriates funds for FY2010 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for: (1) resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) expenses related to carrying out the Endangered Species Act of 1973; (5) the National Wildlife Refuge Fund; (6) expenses related to carrying out the North American Wetlands Conservation Act; (7) financial assistance for projects to promote the conservation of neotropical migratory birds; (8) expenses related to carrying out, through the Multinational Species Conservation Fund, the African Elephant Conservation Act, the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997, the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994, the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000, and the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004; and (9) wildlife conservation grants to states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and Indian tribes. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the National Park Service (NPS) for: (1) the National Park System (including expenses for carrying out programs of the U.S. Park Police); (2) expenses related to cost share agreements for Park Partnership signature projects and programs; (3) expenses for national recreation and preservation programs; (4) expenses related to carrying out the Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996; (5) construction; and (6) land acquisition and state assistance from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 
 
Rescinds specified contract authority to obligate funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for FY2010. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2010 to: (1) the U.S. Geological Survey for surveys, investigations, and research; (2) the Minerals Management Service (MMS) for royalty and offshore minerals management and oil spill research; (3) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for regulation and technology and the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund; (4) the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for operation of Indian programs, (including transfer of funds), construction (including transfer of funds), Indian land and water claim settlements and miscellaneous payments to Indians, a program to consolidate fractional interests in Indian lands by direct expenditure or cooperative agreement, and for Indian guaranteed loans; (5) the Office of the Secretary for departmental offices; (6) provide assistance to U.S. territories and to carry out the Compacts of Free Association with respect to the Marshall Islands, Palau, and Micronesia; (7) the Office of the Solicitor; (8) the Office of Inspector General; (9) provide for the operation of trust programs for Indians (including transfer of funds); (10) wildland fire management, including for wildfire suppression to support federal emergency response actions (including transfers of funds); (11) the FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund created in title V of this Act (including transfers of funds); (12) the Central Hazardous Materials Fund for expenses of the Department of the Interior and its component offices and bureaus for response action, including associated activities, performed pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA); and (13) the Department of the Interior for natural resource damage assessment and restoration. 
 
Sets forth authorized and prohibited uses of specified funds. 
 
Authorizes the use of funds available under title IV (Abandoned Mine Reclamation) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 for any required non-federal share of the cost of projects funded by the federal government for the purpose of environmental restoration related to the treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage from abandoned mines. 
 
(Sec. 108) Directs the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in carrying out responsibilities to protect threatened and endangered species of salmon, to implement a system of mass marketing of salmonid stocks, intended for harvest, that are released from federally operated or financed hatcheries. 
 
 (Sec. 109) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands, waters, or interests therein for the purpose of operating and maintaining facilities in the support of transportation and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, Governors, and Liberty Islands. 
 
 (Sec. 110) Bars any proposed new use of the Arizona & California Railroad Company's right-of-way for the conveyance of water from proceeding unless the Secretary of the Interior certifies that such use is within the scope of the right-of-way. 
 
 Prohibits funds made available to the Department of the Interior from being used, in relation to any proposal to store water underground for the purpose of export, for approval of any right-of-way or similar authorization on the Mojave National Preserve or lands managed by the Needles Field Office of the BLM, or for carrying out any activities associated with such right-of-way or similar approval. 
 
(Sec. 111) Extends through FY2013 the authority of the MMS to accept contributions of money and services to conduct work in support of the orderly exploration and development of Outer Continental Shelf resources. 
 
 (Sec. 112) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with a state or political subdivision or any not-for-profit organization if the agreement will: (1) serve a mutual 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. Bars such agreements from being subject to a competitive process, at the Secretary's discretion. 
 
(Sec. 113) Authorizes funds provided in this Act for federal land acquisition by the NPS for the Ice Age National Scenic Trail to be used for a grant to a state, local government, or any other land management entity for land acquisition, without regard to any restriction on the use of federal land acquisition funds provided through the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. 
 
 (Sec. 114) Makes certain civil and criminal penalties under the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act applicable to leases authorizing exploration for or development of coal, any other solid mineral, or any geothermal resource on federal or Indian lands and leases, easements, right of ways, or other agreements for use of the Outer Continental Shelf or certain of its mineral, oil, and natural gas resources to the same extent as if such lease, easement, right of way, or other agreement was an oil and gas lease. 
 
 (Sec. 115) Directs the MMS, in FY2010, to collect a non-refundable inspection fee as prescribed by this section, to be deposited in the Royalties and Offshore Minerals Management account, from the designated operator for specified facilities on the Outer Continental Shelf that are subject to inspection by the MMS that are above the waterline, except mobile offshore drilling units, and are in place at the start of such fiscal year. 
 
 (Sec. 116) Prohibits funds from being used to further reduce the number of axis or fallow deer at Point Reyes National Seashore in California. 
 
 (Sec. 117) Amends Public Law 109-131 (relating to payments to provide for educational services for students attending schools within Yosemite National Park in California) to extend the authorization for the Secretary of the Interior to provide payments to the Bass Lake Joint Union Elementary School District and the Mariposa Unified School District for such services through FY2013. 
 
 (Sec. 118) Amends Public Law 89-565 (relating to the establishment of the San Juan Island National Historical Park in the state of Washington) to increase the amount authorized for the acquisition of lands and interests on San Juan Island in Puget Sound and for the development of the Park. 
 
 (Sec. 119) Amends Public Law 109-441 (relating to the preservation of historic confinement sites where Japanese-Americans were detained during World War II) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to use federal funds made available under such law to acquire Heart Mountain. 
 
 (Sec. 120) Amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to bar any privately owned property from being included in the Northern Plains National Heritage Area in North Dakota unless the owner of the property provides a request to the management entity for such inclusion. Requires private property included in the Heritage Area to be immediately withdrawn when the owner provides a notice to the management entity requesting removal. Requires public property included in the Heritage Area to be immediately withdrawn upon notification from the appropriate state or local government entity. 
 
 (Sec. 121) Sets forth provisions regarding the admission of visitors to historic attractions within the Pearl Harbor Naval Complex, including the Battleship Missouri Memorial. 
 
Requires the proceeds of any amounts collected as fees to be used for the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in Hawaii. 
 
Prohibits anything in this section from: (1) regulating or approving rates for admission to a historic attraction; (2) regulating or managing visitor services within the Complex, other than services managed by the NPS as part of the Monument; or (3) charging an entrance fee for admission to the Monument. 
 
Prohibits anything in this section from authorizing the Secretary or any organization that administers or manages a historic attraction to take any action in derogation of the preservation and protection of the values and resources of the Monument. 
 
 (Sec. 122) Provides for FY2010 assistance levels to Palau. 
 
Limits assistance to FY2009 levels. Withholds such assistance if trust fund withdrawals exceed $5 million. 
 
 (Sec. 123) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000 to remove the requirement that Fort Baker, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California, remain under exclusive federal jurisdiction. 
 
 (Sec. 124) Extends, for 10 years, the Drake's Bay Oyster Company's Reservation of Use and Occupancy and associated special use permit within Drake's Estero at Point Reyes National Seashore in California. Makes such extended authorization subject to annual payments to the United States based on the market value of use of the federal property for the duration of such renewal. Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to take into consideration recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Report pertaining to shellfish agriculture in the Seashore before modifying any terms and conditions of the extended authorization. Prohibits anything in this section from being: (1) construed as having any application to any location other than the Seashore; or (2) cited as precedent for the management of any potential wilderness outside the Seashore. 
 
 (Sec. 125) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the national significance, suitability, and feasibility of including the Honouliuli Gulch and associated sites within Hawaii in the National Park System. 
 
Requires such study to evaluate the Honouliuli Gulch, associated sites on Oahu, and other islands in Hawaii respecting: (1) their significance as a component of World War II; (2) their significance as related to the forcible internment of Japanese Americans, European Americans, and other individuals; and (3) historic resources at those sites. 
 
 (Sec. 126) Prohibits the use of any funds in this Act to impede, prohibit, or restrict activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security on public lands for achieving operational control, as defined under the Secure Fence Act of 2006, over the international land and maritime borders of the United States with respect to the construction of additional fencing and road improvements along the southwest border, as described in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Reponsibility Act of 1996. 
 
 (Sec. 127) Permits any private property owner within an existing or new National Heritage Area to opt out of participating in any plan, project, program, or activity conducted within that Heritage Area when the owner provides a notice to the local coordinating entity of the owner's decision to opt out of participation in such plan, project, program, or activity. 
 
(Sec. 128) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to install a plaque in the area of the World War II Memorial in the District of Columbia to commemorate the leadership of former U.S. Senator Robert J. Dole in making the Memorial a reality on the National Mall. 
 
(Sec. 129) Amends the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to extend until September 30, 2010, the authority to permit the establishment of a memorial in the District of Columbia to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. 
 
(Sec. 130) Extends the legislative authority relating to the establishment and location of a commemorative work on federal land in the District of Columbia in honor of President John Adams and his family's legacy through September 30, 2010. 
 

Title II: Environmental Protection Agency 
- Makes appropriations for FY2010 to EPA for: (1) science and technology; (2) environmental programs and management; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) buildings and facilities; (5) the Hazardous Substance Superfund (including transfers of funds); (6) the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program; (7) expenses to carry out EPA's responsibilities under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 concerning oil spill response; and (8) state and tribal assistance grants for environmental programs and infrastructure assistance. 
 
Extends until FY2015 the authority of the EPA Administrator to employ up to 30 persons at any one time in the Office of Research and Development under the authority provided respecting the appointment of personnel to the Regular and Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service. 
 
Authorizes the EPA Administrator to: (1) transfer a specified amount from funds appropriated for the Great Lakes Initiative (1995) under the heading Environmental Programs and Management to any federal department or agency for carrying out activities that would support the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (proposed in the FY2010 budget submission of the President) and Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement programs. projects, or activities; (2) enter into an interagency agreement with the head of such department or agency to carry out these activities; and (3) make grants to specified entities for planning, research, monitoring, outreach, and implementation to further the Restoration Initiative and the Agreement. 
 
Rescinds permanently a specified amount from unobligated balances to carry out projects and activities funded through the State and Tribal Assistance Grants and Hazardous Substance Superfund accounts. Prohibits any amounts from being rescinded from amounts designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
 
 Authorizes the EPA Administrator to carry out and submit to Congress the results of a study on domestic and international black carbon emissions, including an inventory of the major sources of black carbon, assessments on its impacts on global and regional climate and potential metrics and approaches for quantifying the climatic effects of black carbon emissions (including its radiative forcing and warming effects) and comparing those effects to the effects of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, an identification of the cost-effective approaches to reducing such emissions, and an analysis of the climatic effects and other environmental and public health benefits of those approaches. 
 

Title III: Related Agencies 
- Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service for: (1) forest and rangeland research; (2) state and private forestry; (3) the National Forest System (including transfers of funds); (4) land acquisitions, including specified National Forest areas in Utah, Nevada, and California; (5) range rehabilitation, protection, and improvement; (6) gifts, donations, and bequests for forest and rangeland research; (7) federal land management in Alaska; (8) wildland fire management (including transfers of funds); and (9) the FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund (including transfers of funds). 
 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Indian Health Service (IHS) and Indian health facilities; and (2) the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. 
 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 in specified amounts for various purposes to the: (1) Executive Office of the President; (2) Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; (3) Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; (4) Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development; (5) Smithsonian Institution, including for carrying out activities under the Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009; (6) National Gallery of Art; (7) John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (8) Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; (9) National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, including the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); (10) Commission of Fine Arts, including expenses for National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs; (11) Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (12) National Capital Planning Commission; (13) U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; (14) Presidio Trust; and (15) Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission. 
 

Title IV: General Provisions 
- Sets forth limitations on the use of funds under this Act. 
 
 (Sec. 404) Prohibits funds from being used to provide specified personal services. 
 
 (Sec. 405) Requires: (1) estimated overhead charges, deductions, reserves or holdbacks from programs, projects, activities and subactivities to support governmentwide, departmental, agency or bureau administrative functions or headquarters, regional or central operations to be presented in annual budget justifications and subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; and (2) changes to such estimates to be presented to such Committees for approval. 
 
 (Sec. 406) Prohibits funds from being used to plan, prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classified as giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which are located on National Forest System or BLM lands in a manner different than such sales were conducted in FY2009. 
 
 (Sec. 408) Prohibits funds from being used to accept or process applications for a patent for any mining or mill site claim, subject to exception. Requires a report. 
 
 (Sec. 409) Regulates contract support costs. 
 
 (Sec. 411) Prohibits funds provided in this Act from being used to conduct preleasing, leasing, and related activities under either the Mineral Leasing Act or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act within the boundaries of a National Monument as such boundary existed on January 20, 2001, except where such activities are allowed under the presidential proclamation establishing the monument. 
 
 
 (Sec. 412) Permits the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to make reciprocal agreements with foreign fire organizations in which the individuals furnished under such agreements to provide fire management services are considered, for tort liability, employees of the foreign country receiving the services when the individuals are engaged in fire suppression or presuppression. Prohibits the Secretaries from making any agreement in which a foreign country does not assume any and all responsibility for acts or omissions of American firefighters who are firefighting in such foreign country. 
 
 (Sec. 413) Allows the Secretaries, in awarding a federal contract for any of specified purposes with funds made available by this Act, to give consideration to local contractors who are from economically disadvantaged rural communities and who provide employment and training for dislocated and displaced workers. 
 
 (Sec. 414) Prohibits: (1) unless otherwise provided in this Act, any funds appropriated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or interests in lands from being spent for the filing of declarations of taking or complaints in condemnation without the approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; and (2) applying this provision to funds appropriated to implement the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, or to funds appropriated for federal assistance to the state of Florida to acquire lands for Everglades restoration. 
 
 (Sec. 415) Provides a specified amount to EPA for transfer to the Department of the Navy for clean-up activities at Treasure Island Naval Station--Hunters Point Annex, California, in addition to the amounts otherwise provided to EPA in this Act. 
 
 (Sec. 416) Keeps in effect for FY2010 the terms and conditions of section 325 of P.L. 108-108 (Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004) regarding the renewal of certain National Forest System lands grazing permits that have expired or were transferred or waived during FY2004-FY2008. 
 
 (Sec. 417) Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to increase the number of members of the National Council on the Arts who shall: (1) serve on the Council; and (2) constitute a quorum. 
 
 (Sec. 418) Amends the item relating to National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986 to increase: (1) the annual amount authorized to provide grants for general operating support for eligible arts organizations in the District of Columbia; and (2) the maximum amount such an organization can receive as a grant in a single year. 
 
 (Sec. 419) Bars the IHS, until October 1, 2011, from disbursing funds for the provision of health care services pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to any Alaska Native village or Alaska Native village corporation located within an area served by an Alaska Native regional health entity. Treats Eastern Aleutian Tribes Inc. the Council of Athabasan Tribal Governments, and the Native Village of Eyak as such entities to which funds may be disbursed. 
 
 (Sec. 420) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 concerning a pilot program for the sale of forest botanical products by the Forest Service, to extend the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to collect fees until September 30, 2014, from persons who harvest such products on National Forest System lands.
 
(Sec. 421) Regulates specified Alaskan timber sales. 
 
 (Sec. 422) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 to extend the authority of the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to enter into cooperative forestry agreements and contracts for watershed restoration and protection services in Colorado until September 30, 2014. 
 
 (Sec. 423) Requires the disposal of all monies received by the United States in FY2010 from sales, bonuses, rentals, and royalties under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 as provided by such Act, as in effect immediately before enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and without regard to the amendments contained in that Act. 
 
 (Sec. 424) Prohibits funds in this Act or any other Act from being used to promulgate or implement any regulation requiring the issuance of permits under the Clean Air Act for carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions resulting from biological processes associated with livestock production. 
 
 (Sec. 425) Prohibits the use of any funds in this or any other Act to implement any provision in a rule if such provision requires mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure management systems. 
 
(Sec. 426) Directs the President, within 120 days of submission of the President's FY2011 budget to Congress, to submit a report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees detailing all federal agency obligations and expenditures, domestic, and international, for climate change programs and activities in FY2009-FY2010, including an accounting of expenditures identifying climate change activities and associated costs. 
 
 (Sec. 427) Prohibits the distribution of any funds under this Act to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidiaries. 
 
 (Sec. 428) Prohibits the use of funds in this or any prior Act to release an individual detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (detainee), into the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, or the District of Columbia, into any of the U.S. territories of Guam, American Samoa (AS), U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). 
 
Prohibits funds in this or any prior Act from being used to transfer such a detainee into the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, or the District of Columbia, into any of those territories to prosecute such detainee or detain them during legal proceedings, until 45 days after the President submits a specified comprehensive plan to Congress regarding the proposed disposition of any such detainee. 
 
Prohibits funds in this or any other Act from being used to transfer or release a detainee to the country of such individual's nationality or last habitual residence or to any other country other than the United States or to the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), or the Republic of Palau, unless the President submits classified, specified information to Congress at least 15 days proir to such transfer or release. 
 
Directs the President to submit to Congress a classified report on the disposition or legal status of each individual detained at the Naval Station prior to the termination of detention operations there. 
 
 (Sec. 429) Authorizes the Director of the Geological Survey, using funds under this Act, to conduct a specified evaluation of the aquifers in the area of the Jungo Disposal Site in Humboldt County, Nevada. 
 
 (Sec. 430) Encourages the EPA Administrator to consider all appropriate criteria relating to the buyout and relocation of residents of properties in Treece, Kansas, subject to risks related to chat (waste material formed in the course of milling operations employed to recover lead and zinc from metal-bearing ore minerals in the Tri-State Mining District of Southwest Missouri, Southeast Kansas and Northeast Oklahoma). Prohibits, for the purpose of the remedial action under CERCLA that includes permanent relocation of residents of Treece, any such relocation from being subject to the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. 
 
 (Sec. 431) Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) enter into cooperative agreements with certain private entities, as described in that Act, under which the facilities and technical expertise of the Agricultural Research Service and the Forest Service (under current law, the Agricultural Research Service) shall be made available for the operation of pilot plants and other large-scale preparation facilities in bringing technologies necessary for the development and commercialization of new biobased products to the point of practical application; and (2) rent equipment to such entities. 
 
 (Sec. 432) Amends the National Forest Foundation Act to increase the number of members of the governing Board of Directors of the National Forest Foundation from 15 to up to 30 Directors. 
 
 (Sec. 433) Prohibits the use of any funds made available by this Act or any other Act to increase recreation residence user fees by more than 25% in 2010. 
 
(Sec. 434) Prohibits any funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act to executive agencies from being used to enter into a federal contract unless the contract is entered into in accordance with provisions and regulations relating to civilian and military contracts, except when: (1) federal law specifically authorizes a contract to be entered into without regard to such provisions and regulations, including formula grants for states or federally recognized Indian tribes; (2) such contract is authorized by the Indian Self-Determination and Education and Assistance Act or by any other federal laws that specifically authorize a contract within a tribe; or (3) the contract was awarded prior to enactment of this Act. 
 
(Sec. 435) Requires agencies receiving funds in this Act to post on their public websites any report required to be submitted by Congress in this or any other Act if it shall serve the national interest. Makes such requirement non-applicable to a report if the public posting of such report compromises national security or the report contains proprietary information. 
 
 (Sec. 437) Requires any purchases of chat from the Tar Creek Superfund Site to be: (1) counted at twice their purchase price; and (2) eligible to be counted toward meeting the federally required disadvantaged business enterprise set-aside on federally funded projects in order to expedite the cleanup of federal and Indian land at the Site. Makes such requirement applicable only if the purchase of chat is made from at least one restricted Indian owner or an Indian tribe. 
 
(Sec. 441) Requires specific projects contained in the report of the House Committee on Appropriations accompanying this Act (H. Report 111-180) that are considered congressional earmarks, when intended to be awarded to a for-profit entity, to be awarded under a full and open competition. 
 
(Sec. 442) Prohibits funds made available for the EPA in this Act from being used by the EPA Administrator to issue a final rule that includes fuel sulfur standards applicable to existing steamships that operate exclusively within the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters. 
 
(Sec. 443) Authorizes the EPA Administrator to allow the state of Mississippi to refinance the Clean Water State Revolving Loans made to the Hancock Water and Sewer District and the Hancock Utility Authority for a period of up to one year. 
 
(Sec. 444) Allocates funding, within amounts appropriated in this Act, in the amounts specified for those projects and purposes delineated in the table titled &quot;Incorporation of Congressionally Requested Projects&quot; included in the joint explanatory statement of the managers accompanying this Act, with the exception of permitting, if approved by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, such funding appropriated for: (1) land acquisition, construction, and capital improvement and maintenance to be reallocated to other projects in that table funded by the same appropriation account; and (2) National Park Service--Historic Preservation Fund for Save America's Treasures grants to be reallocated for use for competitive grants under the Save America's Treasures program. 
 
 
Title V: FLAME Act of 2009 
- Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 or FLAME Act of 2009 - (Sec. 502) Establishes in the Treasury separate FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Funds for the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture to be available to cover the costs of large or complex wildfires and as a reserve when amounts for wildfire suppression and federal emergency response in the Wildland Fire Management appropriation accounts are exhausted. 
 
Authorizes appropriations for the Flame Funds. Expresses the intent of Congress with respect to the expenditure of amounts appropriated to the Flame Funds. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) amounts appropriated to a FLAME Fund in excess of the amount estimated as necessary for a fiscal year for wildfire suppression activities that meet the declaration criteria specified in this title should be designated as necessary to meet emergency needs; (2) the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture (the Secretaries) should promptly make a supplemental request for additional funds to replenish their FLAME Funds when it will be exhausted within 30 days; and (3) funding through the FLAME Funds should be used to supplement the funding otherwise appropriated for wildfire suppression and federal emergency response in the Wildland Fire Management appropriation accounts.
 
Instructs the Secretaries to notify the relevant congressional committees whenever only an estimated 60 days worth of funding remains in their Flame Funds. 
 
 Permits the transfer of amounts between the Flame Funds whenever such a Fund has insufficient funds. Limits the amount that may be transferred from a FLAME Fund during any fiscal year under this authority. 
 
Requires amounts in the Flame Funds to be made available to the Secretaries for transfer to their Wildland Fire Management appropriations accounts to pay the costs of wildfire suppression activities that are separate from amounts annually appropriated for such activities under those accounts. 
 
Makes amounts in a Flame Fund available to the Secretary concerned only after that Secretary issues a declaration that a wildland fire suppression event is eligible for funding from such Fund. Permits a declaration to be issued only if certain conditions are met with respect to the fire's size and severity, or the costs of suppression and federal emergency response will exceed, within 30 days, specified appropriated amounts, including amounts appropriated under an emergency designation. 
 
Instructs the Secretaries to request annually funds for their Wildland Fire Management appropriation accounts for regular wildfire suppression activities that do not meet certain of the criteria specified above in order for such a declaration to be issued. 
 
 Bars the Secretaries from transferring funds from non-fire accounts to their Wildland Fire Management appropriation accounts unless amounts in their Flame Funds and any amounts appropriated for wildfire suppression will be exhausted within 30 days. 
 
Requires the Secretaries to account and report on amounts transferred from their respective FLAME Funds in a manner consistent with existing National Fire Plan reporting procedures. 
 
 Requires the Secretaries to report annually to the relevant committees on the use of amounts transferred from the Flame Funds, and recommendations to improve administrative control and oversight of their Funds. Requires such report to be made available to the public. Requires the Secretaries to submit estimates of anticipated wildfire suppression costs in order to improve budgeting and funding. Subjects the methodology for the development of the estimates to independent review to ensure that they were developed using the best available climate, weather, and other relevant data and models and other analytic tools. Prescribes a schedule for submission of such estimates. 
 
 (Sec. 503) Requires the Secretaries to submit a report to Congress that contains a cohesive wildfire management strategy, consistent with the recommendations of recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports regarding management strategies. 
 
Sets forth required elements of the strategy, including that the strategy provide for: (1) the identification of the most cost-effective means for allocating fire management budget resources; (2) the reinvestment by the Secretaries in non-fire programs; (3) the allocation of hazardous fuels reduction funds based on the priority of hazardous fuels reduction projects; (3) assessing the impacts of climate change on the frequency and severity of wildfire; and (4) studying the effects of invasive species on wildfire risk. 
 
Directs the Secretaries, at least once during every five-year period beginning on the date of submission of the strategy, to revise it to address any changes affecting it, including changes respecting landscape, vegetation, climate, and weather. 
 

Division B: Further Continuing Appropriations, 2010
 - (Sec. 101) Amends the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2010 (Division B of P.L. 111-68) to extend until December 18, 2009, specified continuing appropriations for FY2010.
 
(Sec. 102) Amends the Resolution to continue through December 18, 2009, the authority of the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to issue notes or other obligations to carry out the flood insurance program. Extends the program through such date.
 
(Sec. 103) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through December 18, 2009, authority to make expenditures from the Highway Trust Fund (including the Mass Transit Account), the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund, the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, and the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act.
 
(Sec. 104) Amends the Resolution to: (1) provide additional appropriations for the purpose of guaranteed loans as authorized by section 7(a) of the Small Business Act, at a rate for operations of $80 million; (2) maintain current Federal Housing Authority (FHA), Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac mortgage loan limits; (3) limit reverse mortgage insurance benefits to 150% of the loan maximum; and (4) allow up to $200 million of funds provided by the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 that are available on October 1, 2009, in the Tenant-Based Rental Assistance account to be available to adjust allocations for public housing agencies to prevent termination of assistance to families.
 

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(This measure has not been amended since the Conference Report was filed in the House on October 28, 2009. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - 
Division A 
- Makes appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies for FY2010. 
 

Title I: Department of the Interior - 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for: (1) land and resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) Oregon and California grant lands; (5) range improvements; (6) service charges, deposits, and forfeitures with respect to public lands; and (7) miscellaneous trust funds. 
 
Rescinds an amount made available to BLM for the shipment and storage of oil shale core samples in Colorado, as specified in the table titled &quot;Congressionally Designated Spending&quot; contained in the joint explanatory statement. 
 
Appropriates funds for FY2010 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for: (1) resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) expenses related to carrying out the Endangered Species Act of 1973; (5) the National Wildlife Refuge Fund; (6) expenses related to carrying out the North American Wetlands Conservation Act; (7) financial assistance for projects to promote the conservation of neotropical migratory birds; (8) expenses related to carrying out, through the Multinational Species Conservation Fund, the African Elephant Conservation Act, the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997, the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994, the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000, and the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004; and (9) wildlife conservation grants to states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and Indian tribes. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the National Park Service (NPS) for: (1) the National Park System (including expenses for carrying out programs of the U.S. Park Police); (2) expenses related to cost share agreements for Park Partnership signature projects and programs; (3) expenses for national recreation and preservation programs; (4) expenses related to carrying out the Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996; (5) construction; and (6) land acquisition and state assistance from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. 
 
Rescinds specified contract authority to obligate funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for FY2010. 
 
 Makes appropriations for FY2010 to: (1) the U.S. Geological Survey for surveys, investigations, and research; (2) the Minerals Management Service (MMS) for royalty and offshore minerals management and oil spill research; (3) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for regulation and technology and the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund; (4) the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for operation of Indian programs, (including transfer of funds), construction (including transfer of funds), Indian land and water claim settlements and miscellaneous payments to Indians, a program to consolidate fractional interests in Indian lands by direct expenditure or cooperative agreement, and for Indian guaranteed loans; (5) the Office of the Secretary for departmental offices; (6) provide assistance to U.S. territories and to carry out the Compacts of Free Association with respect to the Marshall Islands, Palau, and Micronesia; (7) the Office of the Solicitor; (8) the Office of Inspector General; (9) provide for the operation of trust programs for Indians (including transfer of funds); (10) wildland fire management, including for wildfire suppression to support federal emergency response actions (including transfers of funds); (11) the FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund created in title V of this Act (including transfers of funds); (12) the Central Hazardous Materials Fund for expenses of the Department of the Interior and its component offices and bureaus for response action, including associated activities, performed pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA); and (13) the Department of the Interior for natural resource damage assessment and restoration. 
 
Sets forth authorized and prohibited uses of specified funds. 
 
Authorizes the use of funds available under title IV (Abandoned Mine Reclamation) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 for any required non-federal share of the cost of projects funded by the federal government for the purpose of environmental restoration related to the treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage from abandoned mines. 
 
(Sec. 108) Directs the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in carrying out responsibilities to protect threatened and endangered species of salmon, to implement a system of mass marketing of salmonid stocks, intended for harvest, that are released from federally operated or financed hatcheries. 
 
 (Sec. 109) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands, waters, or interests therein for the purpose of operating and maintaining facilities in the support of transportation and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, Governors, and Liberty Islands. 
 
 (Sec. 110) Bars any proposed new use of the Arizona & California Railroad Company's right-of-way for the conveyance of water from proceeding unless the Secretary of the Interior certifies that such use is within the scope of the right-of-way. 
 
 Prohibits funds made available to the Department of the Interior from being used, in relation to any proposal to store water underground for the purpose of export, for approval of any right-of-way or similar authorization on the Mojave National Preserve or lands managed by the Needles Field Office of the BLM, or for carrying out any activities associated with such right-of-way or similar approval. 
 
(Sec. 111) Extends through FY2013 the authority of the MMS to accept contributions of money and services to conduct work in support of the orderly exploration and development of Outer Continental Shelf resources. 
 
 (Sec. 112) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with a state or political subdivision or any not-for-profit organization if the agreement will: (1) serve a mutual 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. Bars such agreements from being subject to a competitive process, at the Secretary's discretion. 
 
(Sec. 113) Authorizes funds provided in this Act for federal land acquisition by the NPS for the Ice Age National Scenic Trail to be used for a grant to a state, local government, or any other land management entity for land acquisition, without regard to any restriction on the use of federal land acquisition funds provided through the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. 
 
 (Sec. 114) Makes certain civil and criminal penalties under the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act applicable to leases authorizing exploration for or development of coal, any other solid mineral, or any geothermal resource on federal or Indian lands and leases, easements, right of ways, or other agreements for use of the Outer Continental Shelf or certain of its mineral, oil, and natural gas resources to the same extent as if such lease, easement, right of way, or other agreement was an oil and gas lease. 
 
 (Sec. 115) Directs the MMS, in FY2010, to collect a non-refundable inspection fee as prescribed by this section, to be deposited in the Royalties and Offshore Minerals Management account, from the designated operator for specified facilities on the Outer Continental Shelf that are subject to inspection by the MMS that are above the waterline, except mobile offshore drilling units, and are in place at the start of such fiscal year. 
 
 (Sec. 116) Prohibits funds from being used to further reduce the number of axis or fallow deer at Point Reyes National Seashore in California. 
 
 (Sec. 117) Amends Public Law 109-131 (relating to payments to provide for educational services for students attending schools within Yosemite National Park in California) to extend the authorization for the Secretary of the Interior to provide payments to the Bass Lake Joint Union Elementary School District and the Mariposa Unified School District for such services through FY2013. 
 
 (Sec. 118) Amends Public Law 89-565 (relating to the establishment of the San Juan Island National Historical Park in the state of Washington) to increase the amount authorized for the acquisition of lands and interests on San Juan Island in Puget Sound and for the development of the Park. 
 
 (Sec. 119) Amends Public Law 109-441 (relating to the preservation of historic confinement sites where Japanese-Americans were detained during World War II) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to use federal funds made available under such law to acquire Heart Mountain. 
 
 (Sec. 120) Amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to bar any privately owned property from being included in the Northern Plains National Heritage Area in North Dakota unless the owner of the property provides a request to the management entity for such inclusion. Requires private property included in the Heritage Area to be immediately withdrawn when the owner provides a notice to the management entity requesting removal. Requires public property included in the Heritage Area to be immediately withdrawn upon notification from the appropriate state or local government entity. 
 
 (Sec. 121) Sets forth provisions regarding the admission of visitors to historic attractions within the Pearl Harbor Naval Complex, including the Battleship Missouri Memorial. 
 
Requires the proceeds of any amounts collected as fees to be used for the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in Hawaii. 
 
Prohibits anything in this section from: (1) regulating or approving rates for admission to a historic attraction; (2) regulating or managing visitor services within the Complex, other than services managed by the NPS as part of the Monument; or (3) charging an entrance fee for admission to the Monument. 
 
Prohibits anything in this section from authorizing the Secretary or any organization that administers or manages a historic attraction to take any action in derogation of the preservation and protection of the values and resources of the Monument. 
 
 (Sec. 122) Provides for FY2010 assistance levels to Palau. 
 
Limits assistance to FY2009 levels. Withholds such assistance if trust fund withdrawals exceed $5 million. 
 
 (Sec. 123) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000 to remove the requirement that Fort Baker, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California, remain under exclusive federal jurisdiction. 
 
 (Sec. 124) Extends, for 10 years, the Drake's Bay Oyster Company's Reservation of Use and Occupancy and associated special use permit within Drake's Estero at Point Reyes National Seashore in California. Makes such extended authorization subject to annual payments to the United States based on the market value of use of the federal property for the duration of such renewal. Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to take into consideration recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Report pertaining to shellfish agriculture in the Seashore before modifying any terms and conditions of the extended authorization. Prohibits anything in this section from being: (1) construed as having any application to any location other than the Seashore; or (2) cited as precedent for the management of any potential wilderness outside the Seashore. 
 
 (Sec. 125) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the national significance, suitability, and feasibility of including the Honouliuli Gulch and associated sites within Hawaii in the National Park System. 
 
Requires such study to evaluate the Honouliuli Gulch, associated sites on Oahu, and other islands in Hawaii respecting: (1) their significance as a component of World War II; (2) their significance as related to the forcible internment of Japanese Americans, European Americans, and other individuals; and (3) historic resources at those sites. 
 
 (Sec. 126) Prohibits the use of any funds in this Act to impede, prohibit, or restrict activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security on public lands for achieving operational control, as defined under the Secure Fence Act of 2006, over the international land and maritime borders of the United States with respect to the construction of additional fencing and road improvements along the southwest border, as described in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Reponsibility Act of 1996. 
 
 (Sec. 127) Permits any private property owner within an existing or new National Heritage Area to opt out of participating in any plan, project, program, or activity conducted within that Heritage Area when the owner provides a notice to the local coordinating entity of the owner's decision to opt out of participation in such plan, project, program, or activity. 
 
(Sec. 128) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to install a plaque in the area of the World War II Memorial in the District of Columbia to commemorate the leadership of former U.S. Senator Robert J. Dole in making the Memorial a reality on the National Mall. 
 
(Sec. 129) Amends the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to extend until September 30, 2010, the authority to permit the establishment of a memorial in the District of Columbia to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. 
 
(Sec. 130) Extends the legislative authority relating to the establishment and location of a commemorative work on federal land in the District of Columbia in honor of President John Adams and his family's legacy through September 30, 2010. 
 

Title II: Environmental Protection Agency 
- Makes appropriations for FY2010 to EPA for: (1) science and technology; (2) environmental programs and management; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) buildings and facilities; (5) the Hazardous Substance Superfund (including transfers of funds); (6) the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program; (7) expenses to carry out EPA's responsibilities under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 concerning oil spill response; and (8) state and tribal assistance grants for environmental programs and infrastructure assistance. 
 
Extends until FY2015 the authority of the EPA Administrator to employ up to 30 persons at any one time in the Office of Research and Development under the authority provided respecting the appointment of personnel to the Regular and Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service. 
 
Authorizes the EPA Administrator to: (1) transfer a specified amount from funds appropriated for the Great Lakes Initiative (1995) under the heading Environmental Programs and Management to any federal department or agency for carrying out activities that would support the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (proposed in the FY2010 budget submission of the President) and Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement programs. projects, or activities; (2) enter into an interagency agreement with the head of such department or agency to carry out these activities; and (3) make grants to specified entities for planning, research, monitoring, outreach, and implementation to further the Restoration Initiative and the Agreement. 
 
Rescinds permanently a specified amount from unobligated balances to carry out projects and activities funded through the State and Tribal Assistance Grants and Hazardous Substance Superfund accounts. Prohibits any amounts from being rescinded from amounts designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
 
 Authorizes the EPA Administrator to carry out and submit to Congress the results of a study on domestic and international black carbon emissions, including an inventory of the major sources of black carbon, assessments on its impacts on global and regional climate and potential metrics and approaches for quantifying the climatic effects of black carbon emissions (including its radiative forcing and warming effects) and comparing those effects to the effects of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, an identification of the cost-effective approaches to reducing such emissions, and an analysis of the climatic effects and other environmental and public health benefits of those approaches. 
 

Title III: Related Agencies 
- Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service for: (1) forest and rangeland research; (2) state and private forestry; (3) the National Forest System (including transfers of funds); (4) land acquisitions, including specified National Forest areas in Utah, Nevada, and California; (5) range rehabilitation, protection, and improvement; (6) gifts, donations, and bequests for forest and rangeland research; (7) federal land management in Alaska; (8) wildland fire management (including transfers of funds); and (9) the FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund (including transfers of funds). 
 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Indian Health Service (IHS) and Indian health facilities; and (2) the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. 
 
Makes appropriations for FY2010 in specified amounts for various purposes to the: (1) Executive Office of the President; (2) Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; (3) Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; (4) Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development; (5) Smithsonian Institution, including for carrying out activities under the Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009; (6) National Gallery of Art; (7) John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (8) Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; (9) National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, including the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); (10) Commission of Fine Arts, including expenses for National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs; (11) Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (12) National Capital Planning Commission; (13) U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; (14) Presidio Trust; and (15) Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission. 
 

Title IV: General Provisions 
- Sets forth limitations on the use of funds under this Act. 
 
 (Sec. 404) Prohibits funds from being used to provide specified personal services. 
 
 (Sec. 405) Requires: (1) estimated overhead charges, deductions, reserves or holdbacks from programs, projects, activities and subactivities to support governmentwide, departmental, agency or bureau administrative functions or headquarters, regional or central operations to be presented in annual budget justifications and subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; and (2) changes to such estimates to be presented to such Committees for approval. 
 
 (Sec. 406) Prohibits funds from being used to plan, prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classified as giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which are located on National Forest System or BLM lands in a manner different than such sales were conducted in FY2009. 
 
 (Sec. 408) Prohibits funds from being used to accept or process applications for a patent for any mining or mill site claim, subject to exception. Requires a report. 
 
 (Sec. 409) Regulates contract support costs. 
 
 (Sec. 411) Prohibits funds provided in this Act from being used to conduct preleasing, leasing, and related activities under either the Mineral Leasing Act or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act within the boundaries of a National Monument as such boundary existed on January 20, 2001, except where such activities are allowed under the presidential proclamation establishing the monument. 
 
 
 (Sec. 412) Permits the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to make reciprocal agreements with foreign fire organizations in which the individuals furnished under such agreements to provide fire management services are considered, for tort liability, employees of the foreign country receiving the services when the individuals are engaged in fire suppression or presuppression. Prohibits the Secretaries from making any agreement in which a foreign country does not assume any and all responsibility for acts or omissions of American firefighters who are firefighting in such foreign country. 
 
 (Sec. 413) Allows the Secretaries, in awarding a federal contract for any of specified purposes with funds made available by this Act, to give consideration to local contractors who are from economically disadvantaged rural communities and who provide employment and training for dislocated and displaced workers. 
 
 (Sec. 414) Prohibits: (1) unless otherwise provided in this Act, any funds appropriated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or interests in lands from being spent for the filing of declarations of taking or complaints in condemnation without the approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; and (2) applying this provision to funds appropriated to implement the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, or to funds appropriated for federal assistance to the state of Florida to acquire lands for Everglades restoration. 
 
 (Sec. 415) Provides a specified amount to EPA for transfer to the Department of the Navy for clean-up activities at Treasure Island Naval Station--Hunters Point Annex, California, in addition to the amounts otherwise provided to EPA in this Act. 
 
 (Sec. 416) Keeps in effect for FY2010 the terms and conditions of section 325 of P.L. 108-108 (Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004) regarding the renewal of certain National Forest System lands grazing permits that have expired or were transferred or waived during FY2004-FY2008. 
 
 (Sec. 417) Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to increase the number of members of the National Council on the Arts who shall: (1) serve on the Council; and (2) constitute a quorum. 
 
 (Sec. 418) Amends the item relating to National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986 to increase: (1) the annual amount authorized to provide grants for general operating support for eligible arts organizations in the District of Columbia; and (2) the maximum amount such an organization can receive as a grant in a single year. 
 
 (Sec. 419) Bars the IHS, until October 1, 2011, from disbursing funds for the provision of health care services pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to any Alaska Native village or Alaska Native village corporation located within an area served by an Alaska Native regional health entity. Treats Eastern Aleutian Tribes Inc. the Council of Athabasan Tribal Governments, and the Native Village of Eyak as such entities to which funds may be disbursed. 
 
 (Sec. 420) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 concerning a pilot program for the sale of forest botanical products by the Forest Service, to extend the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to collect fees until September 30, 2014, from persons who harvest such products on National Forest System lands.
 
(Sec. 421) Regulates specified Alaskan timber sales. 
 
 (Sec. 422) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 to extend the authority of the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to enter into cooperative forestry agreements and contracts for watershed restoration and protection services in Colorado until September 30, 2014. 
 
 (Sec. 423) Requires the disposal of all monies received by the United States in FY2010 from sales, bonuses, rentals, and royalties under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 as provided by such Act, as in effect immediately before enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and without regard to the amendments contained in that Act. 
 
 (Sec. 424) Prohibits funds in this Act or any other Act from being used to promulgate or implement any regulation requiring the issuance of permits under the Clean Air Act for carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions resulting from biological processes associated with livestock production. 
 
 (Sec. 425) Prohibits the use of any funds in this or any other Act to implement any provision in a rule if such provision requires mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure management systems. 
 
(Sec. 426) Directs the President, within 120 days of submission of the President's FY2011 budget to Congress, to submit a report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees detailing all federal agency obligations and expenditures, domestic, and international, for climate change programs and activities in FY2009-FY2010, including an accounting of expenditures identifying climate change activities and associated costs. 
 
 (Sec. 427) Prohibits the distribution of any funds under this Act to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidiaries. 
 
 (Sec. 428) Prohibits the use of funds in this or any prior Act to release an individual detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (detainee), into the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, or the District of Columbia, into any of the U.S. territories of Guam, American Samoa (AS), U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). 
 
Prohibits funds in this or any prior Act from being used to transfer such a detainee into the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, or the District of Columbia, into any of those territories to prosecute such detainee or detain them during legal proceedings, until 45 days after the President submits a specified comprehensive plan to Congress regarding the proposed disposition of any such detainee. 
 
Prohibits funds in this or any other Act from being used to transfer or release a detainee to the country of such individual's nationality or last habitual residence or to any other country other than the United States or to the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), or the Republic of Palau, unless the President submits classified, specified information to Congress at least 15 days proir to such transfer or release. 
 
Directs the President to submit to Congress a classified report on the disposition or legal status of each individual detained at the Naval Station prior to the termination of detention operations there. 
 
 (Sec. 429) Authorizes the Director of the Geological Survey, using funds under this Act, to conduct a specified evaluation of the aquifers in the area of the Jungo Disposal Site in Humboldt County, Nevada. 
 
 (Sec. 430) Encourages the EPA Administrator to consider all appropriate criteria relating to the buyout and relocation of residents of properties in Treece, Kansas, subject to risks related to chat (waste material formed in the course of milling operations employed to recover lead and zinc from metal-bearing ore minerals in the Tri-State Mining District of Southwest Missouri, Southeast Kansas and Northeast Oklahoma). Prohibits, for the purpose of the remedial action under CERCLA that includes permanent relocation of residents of Treece, any such relocation from being subject to the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. 
 
 (Sec. 431) Amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) enter into cooperative agreements with certain private entities, as described in that Act, under which the facilities and technical expertise of the Agricultural Research Service and the Forest Service (under current law, the Agricultural Research Service) shall be made available for the operation of pilot plants and other large-scale preparation facilities in bringing technologies necessary for the development and commercialization of new biobased products to the point of practical application; and (2) rent equipment to such entities. 
 
 (Sec. 432) Amends the National Forest Foundation Act to increase the number of members of the governing Board of Directors of the National Forest Foundation from 15 to up to 30 Directors. 
 
 (Sec. 433) Prohibits the use of any funds made available by this Act or any other Act to increase recreation residence user fees by more than 25% in 2010. 
 
(Sec. 434) Prohibits any funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act to executive agencies from being used to enter into a federal contract unless the contract is entered into in accordance with provisions and regulations relating to civilian and military contracts, except when: (1) federal law specifically authorizes a contract to be entered into without regard to such provisions and regulations, including formula grants for states or federally recognized Indian tribes; (2) such contract is authorized by the Indian Self-Determination and Education and Assistance Act or by any other federal laws that specifically authorize a contract within a tribe; or (3) the contract was awarded prior to enactment of this Act. 
 
(Sec. 435) Requires agencies receiving funds in this Act to post on their public websites any report required to be submitted by Congress in this or any other Act if it shall serve the national interest. Makes such requirement non-applicable to a report if the public posting of such report compromises national security or the report contains proprietary information. 
 
 (Sec. 437) Requires any purchases of chat from the Tar Creek Superfund Site to be: (1) counted at twice their purchase price; and (2) eligible to be counted toward meeting the federally required disadvantaged business enterprise set-aside on federally funded projects in order to expedite the cleanup of federal and Indian land at the Site. Makes such requirement applicable only if the purchase of chat is made from at least one restricted Indian owner or an Indian tribe. 
 
(Sec. 441) Requires specific projects contained in the report of the House Committee on Appropriations accompanying this Act (H. Report 111-180) that are considered congressional earmarks, when intended to be awarded to a for-profit entity, to be awarded under a full and open competition. 
 
(Sec. 442) Prohibits funds made available for the EPA in this Act from being used by the EPA Administrator to issue a final rule that includes fuel sulfur standards applicable to existing steamships that operate exclusively within the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters. 
 
(Sec. 443) Authorizes the EPA Administrator to allow the state of Mississippi to refinance the Clean Water State Revolving Loans made to the Hancock Water and Sewer District and the Hancock Utility Authority for a period of up to one year. 
 
(Sec. 444) Allocates funding, within amounts appropriated in this Act, in the amounts specified for those projects and purposes delineated in the table titled &quot;Incorporation of Congressionally Requested Projects&quot; included in the joint explanatory statement of the managers accompanying this Act, with the exception of permitting, if approved by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, such funding appropriated for: (1) land acquisition, construction, and capital improvement and maintenance to be reallocated to other projects in that table funded by the same appropriation account; and (2) National Park Service--Historic Preservation Fund for Save America's Treasures grants to be reallocated for use for competitive grants under the Save America's Treasures program. 
 
 
Title V: FLAME Act of 2009 
- Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 or FLAME Act of 2009 - (Sec. 502) Establishes in the Treasury separate FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Funds for the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture to be available to cover the costs of large or complex wildfires and as a reserve when amounts for wildfire suppression and federal emergency response in the Wildland Fire Management appropriation accounts are exhausted. 
 
Authorizes appropriations for the Flame Funds. Expresses the intent of Congress with respect to the expenditure of amounts appropriated to the Flame Funds. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) amounts appropriated to a FLAME Fund in excess of the amount estimated as necessary for a fiscal year for wildfire suppression activities that meet the declaration criteria specified in this title should be designated as necessary to meet emergency needs; (2) the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture (the Secretaries) should promptly make a supplemental request for additional funds to replenish their FLAME Funds when it will be exhausted within 30 days; and (3) funding through the FLAME Funds should be used to supplement the funding otherwise appropriated for wildfire suppression and federal emergency response in the Wildland Fire Management appropriation accounts.
 
Instructs the Secretaries to notify the relevant congressional committees whenever only an estimated 60 days worth of funding remains in their Flame Funds. 
 
 Permits the transfer of amounts between the Flame Funds whenever such a Fund has insufficient funds. Limits the amount that may be transferred from a FLAME Fund during any fiscal year under this authority. 
 
Requires amounts in the Flame Funds to be made available to the Secretaries for transfer to their Wildland Fire Management appropriations accounts to pay the costs of wildfire suppression activities that are separate from amounts annually appropriated for such activities under those accounts. 
 
Makes amounts in a Flame Fund available to the Secretary concerned only after that Secretary issues a declaration that a wildland fire suppression event is eligible for funding from such Fund. Permits a declaration to be issued only if certain conditions are met with respect to the fire's size and severity, or the costs of suppression and federal emergency response will exceed, within 30 days, specified appropriated amounts, including amounts appropriated under an emergency designation. 
 
Instructs the Secretaries to request annually funds for their Wildland Fire Management appropriation accounts for regular wildfire suppression activities that do not meet certain of the criteria specified above in order for such a declaration to be issued. 
 
 Bars the Secretaries from transferring funds from non-fire accounts to their Wildland Fire Management appropriation accounts unless amounts in their Flame Funds and any amounts appropriated for wildfire suppression will be exhausted within 30 days. 
 
Requires the Secretaries to account and report on amounts transferred from their respective FLAME Funds in a manner consistent with existing National Fire Plan reporting procedures. 
 
 Requires the Secretaries to report annually to the relevant committees on the use of amounts transferred from the Flame Funds, and recommendations to improve administrative control and oversight of their Funds. Requires such report to be made available to the public. Requires the Secretaries to submit estimates of anticipated wildfire suppression costs in order to improve budgeting and funding. Subjects the methodology for the development of the estimates to independent review to ensure that they were developed using the best available climate, weather, and other relevant data and models and other analytic tools. Prescribes a schedule for submission of such estimates. 
 
 (Sec. 503) Requires the Secretaries to submit a report to Congress that contains a cohesive wildfire management strategy, consistent with the recommendations of recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports regarding management strategies. 
 
Sets forth required elements of the strategy, including that the strategy provide for: (1) the identification of the most cost-effective means for allocating fire management budget resources; (2) the reinvestment by the Secretaries in non-fire programs; (3) the allocation of hazardous fuels reduction funds based on the priority of hazardous fuels reduction projects; (3) assessing the impacts of climate change on the frequency and severity of wildfire; and (4) studying the effects of invasive species on wildfire risk. 
 
Directs the Secretaries, at least once during every five-year period beginning on the date of submission of the strategy, to revise it to address any changes affecting it, including changes respecting landscape, vegetation, climate, and weather. 
 

Division B: Further Continuing Appropriations, 2010
 - (Sec. 101) Amends the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2010 (Division B of P.L. 111-68) to extend until December 18, 2009, specified continuing appropriations for FY2010.
 
(Sec. 102) Amends the Resolution to continue through December 18, 2009, the authority of the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to issue notes or other obligations to carry out the flood insurance program. Extends the program through such date.
 
(Sec. 103) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through December 18, 2009, authority to make expenditures from the Highway Trust Fund (including the Mass Transit Account), the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund, the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, and the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act.
 
(Sec. 104) Amends the Resolution to: (1) provide additional appropriations for the purpose of guaranteed loans as authorized by section 7(a) of the Small Business Act, at a rate for operations of $80 million; (2) maintain current Federal Housing Authority (FHA), Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac mortgage loan limits; (3) limit reverse mortgage insurance benefits to 150% of the loan maximum; and (4) allow up to $200 million of funds provided by the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 that are available on October 1, 2009, in the Tenant-Based Rental Assistance account to be available to adjust allocations for public housing agencies to prevent termination of assistance to families.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-10-30
text: Became Public Law No: 111-88.
action_date: 2009-10-30
text: Became Public Law No: 111-88.
action_date: 2009-10-30
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2009-10-30
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2009-10-30
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2009-10-30
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 72 - 28. Record Vote Number: 331.
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 72 - 28. Record Vote Number: 331.
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: Motion to waive Rule XXVIII with respect to the conference report agreed to by Yea-Nay Vote. 60 - 40. Record Vote Number: 330.
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: Motion to waive Rule XXVIII with respect to the conference report raised in Senate.
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: Point of order that the conference report violates Rule XXVIII raised in Senate.
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: Conference report considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S10893-10908)
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: Conference papers: message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 247 - 178 (Roll no. 826).
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 247 - 178 (Roll no. 826).
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H12068)
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 2996.
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: Mr. Dicks brought up conference report H. Rept. 111-316 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 876. (consideration: CR H12057-12068)
action_date: 2009-10-29
text: Rule H. Res. 876 passed House.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 876 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 2996 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit. The conference report shall be considered as read. All points of order against theconference report arewaived.
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Conference report H. Rept. 111-316 filed. (text of conference report: CR H11871-11983)
action_date: 2009-10-28
text: Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 111-316 filed.(text of conference report: CR H11871-11983)
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: The Speaker appointed conferees: Dicks, Moran (VA), Mollohan, Chandler, Hinchey, Olver, Pastor (AZ), Price (NC), Obey, Simpson, Calvert, LaTourette, Cole, and Lewis (CA). (consideration: CR H11826)
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-10-27
text: On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 267 - 147 (Roll no. 816). (consideration: CR H11824, H11826)
action_date: 2009-10-26
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2996, the Chair put the question on adoption of the motion to instruct conferees and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Simpson demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2996 until a time to be announced.
action_date: 2009-10-26
text: The previous question was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H11759)
action_date: 2009-10-26
text: The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Simpson motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2996. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to insist on section 425 of the House bill and to not record their approval of the final conference agreement unless text of such agreement has been available to the managers in an electronic, searchable, and downloadable form for at least 72 hours prior to the time described in such clause.
action_date: 2009-10-26
text: Mr. Simpson moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H11756-11759; text: CR H11756)
action_date: 2009-10-26
text: On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2009-10-26
text: Mr. Dicks moved that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference. (consideration: CR H11756-11759)
action_date: 2009-09-29
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Senate insists on its amendment, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Feinstein; Byrd; Leahy; Dorgan; Mikulski; Kohl; Johnson; Reed; Nelson NE; Tester; Inouye; Alexander; Cochran; Bennett; Gregg; Murkowski; Collins; Bond. (consideration: CR S9812)
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 77 - 21. Record Vote Number: 298. (text: CR 9/25/2009 S9873-9889)
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 77 - 21. Record Vote Number: 298.(text: CR 9/25/2009 S9873-9889)
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Motion by Senator Ensign to recommit to Senate Committee on Appropriations with instructions tabled in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 64 - 34. Record Vote Number: 296. (consideration: CR S9806)
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Cloture motion on the bill withdrawn by unanimous consent in Senate. (consideration: CR S9769)
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Cloture motion on the committee substitute amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent in Senate. (consideration: CR S9769)
action_date: 2009-09-24
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S9769-9812)
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Motion by Senator Vitter to recommit to Senate Committee on Appropriations tabled in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 56 - 42. Record Vote Number: 293. (consideration: CR S9706, S9724)
action_date: 2009-09-23
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S9706-9727)
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Cloture motion on the bill presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S9690; text: CR S9690)
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Cloture motion on the committee substitute amendment presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S9690)
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Motion by Senator Vitter to recommit to Senate Committee on Appropriations with instructions to report back forthwith with the following amendment (SA 2508) made in Senate. (consideration: CR S9646)
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Motion by Senator DeMint to recommit to Senate Committee on Appropriations with instructions that the committee report back forthwith with the following amendment (SA 2500) tabled in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 61 - 36. Record Vote Number: 292.
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Motion by Senator DeMint to recommit to Senate Committee on Appropriations with instructions that the commitee report back forthwith the following amendment (SA2500) made in Senate. (consideration: CR S9641; text: CR S9641)
action_date: 2009-09-22
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S9634-9635, S9635-9648, S9690)
action_date: 2009-09-21
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S9578-9583)
action_date: 2009-09-17
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S9499-9520, S9541-9545; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S9500-9514)
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 98.
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Senator Feinstein with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 111-38.
action_date: 2009-07-07
text: Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Senator Feinstein with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 111-38.
action_date: 2009-07-06
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 254 - 173 (Roll no. 475).
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 254 - 173 (Roll no. 475).
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: The House adopted the amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H7470-7471)
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2996.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Mr. Simpson asked unanimous consent that the demand for a recorded vote on the Dicks amendment be withdrawn. Agreed to without objection and the Dicks amendment was adopted based upon the previous voice vote.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
action_date: 2009-06-26
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H7463-7471)
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 2996 as unfinished business.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: On motion that the Committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Mr. Dicks moved that the Committee rise.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Campbell amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Campbell demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 578, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Campbell of California amendment.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Campbell amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Campbell demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 578, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Campbell amendment.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Campbell amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Campbell demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 578, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Campbell of California amendment.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Campbell amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Campbell demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 578, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Campbell of California Part D amendment No. 3.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Campbell (CA) amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Campbell (CA) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 578, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Campbell amendment.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Stearns amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Stearns demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 578, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Stearns amendment.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Jordan amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Jordan demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 578, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Jordan amendment.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Heller amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Heller demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 578, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Heller amendment.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 578, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Smith (TX) amendment.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 578, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Gerrett (NJ) amendment.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Dicks amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Simpson demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until a time to be announced.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 578, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Dicks amendment.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 2996.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: The Speaker designated the Honorable Gerald E. "Gerry" Connolly to act as Chairman of the Committee.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 578 and Rule XVIII.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2996 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by paragraph. Specified amendments are in order. The resolution waives all points of order against consideration of the bill except for clauses 9 an 10 of rule XXI. The resolution waives all points of order against provisions in the bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI.
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 578. (consideration: CR H7401-7437; text of Title I as reported in House: CR H7410, H7411-7412, H7413-7418; text of Title II as reported in House: CR H7418-7420; text of Title III as reported in House: CR H7420, H742-7427, CR 6/26/2009 H7470)
action_date: 2009-06-25
text: Rule H. Res. 578 passed House.
action_date: 2009-06-24
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 578 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2996 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by paragraph. Specified amendments are in order. The resolution waives all points of order against consideration of the bill except for clauses 9 an 10 of rule XXI. The resolution waives all points of order against provisions in the bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule XXI.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 97.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 111-180, by Mr. Dicks.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 111-180, by Mr. Dicks.
action_date: 2009-06-23
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 111-88