Us Congress House Bill HB4821 Latest Draft

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Calendar No. 239 
118THCONGRESS 
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STSESSION H. R. 4821 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
NOVEMBER7, 2023 
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, 
environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 1
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 2
Department of the Interior, environment, and related 3
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, 4
and for other purposes, namely: 5
TITLE I 6
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7
B
UREAU OFLANDMANAGEMENT 8
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES 9
For necessary expenses for protection, use, improve-10
ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classi-11
fication, acquisition of easements and other interests in 12
lands, and performance of other functions, including main-13
tenance of facilities, as authorized by law, in the manage-14
ment of lands and their resources under the jurisdiction 15
of the Bureau of Land Management, including the general 16
administration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral 17
potential of public lands pursuant to section 1010(a) of 18
Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C. 3150(a)), $1,180,645,000, 19
to remain available until September 30, 2025; of which 20
$57,140,250 for annual maintenance and deferred mainte-21
nance programs and $154,787,000 for the wild horse and 22
burro program, as authorized by Public Law 92–195 (16 23
U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), shall remain available until ex-24
pended: Provided, That amounts in the fee account of the 25
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BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund may be used 1
for any bureau-related expenses associated with the proc-2
essing of oil and gas applications for permits to drill and 3
related use of authorizations: Provided further, That of the 4
amounts made available under this heading, up to 5
$3,500,000 may be made available for the purposes de-6
scribed in section 122(e)(1)(A) of division G of Public Law 7
115–31 (43 U.S.C. 1748c(e)(1)(A)). 8
In addition, $35,000,000 is for Mining Law Adminis-9
tration program operations, including the cost of admin-10
istering the mining claim fee program, to remain available 11
until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected by the 12
Bureau and credited to this appropriation from mining 13
claim maintenance fees and location fees that are hereby 14
authorized for fiscal year 2024, so as to result in a final 15
appropriation estimated at not more than $1,170,645,000, 16
and $2,000,000, to remain available until expended, from 17
communication site rental fees established by the Bureau 18
for the cost of administering communication site activities. 19
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS 20
For expenses necessary for management, protection, 21
and development of resources and for construction, oper-22
ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and 23
other improvements on the revested Oregon and California 24
Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Or-25
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egon and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and 1
on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or in-2
terests therein, including existing connecting roads on or 3
adjacent to such grant lands; $60,000,000, to remain 4
available until expended: Provided, That 25 percent of the 5
aggregate of all receipts during the current fiscal year 6
from the revested Oregon and California Railroad grant 7
lands is hereby made a charge against the Oregon and 8
California land-grant fund and shall be transferred to the 9
General Fund in the Treasury in accordance with the sec-10
ond paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of 11
August 28, 1937 (43 U.S.C. 2605). 12
RANGE IMPROVEMENTS 13
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of 14
lands and interests therein, and improvement of Federal 15
rangelands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land 16
Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1751), 17
notwithstanding any other Act, sums equal to 50 percent 18
of all moneys received during the prior fiscal year under 19
sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 20
315b, 315m) and the amount designated for range im-21
provements from grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts 22
from Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the Depart-23
ment of the Interior pursuant to law, but not less than 24
$10,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-25
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vided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall be available for 1
administrative expenses. 2
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES 3
For administrative expenses and other costs related 4
to processing application documents and other authoriza-5
tions for use and disposal of public lands and resources, 6
for costs of providing copies of official public land docu-7
ments, for monitoring construction, operation, and termi-8
nation of facilities in conjunction with use authorizations, 9
and for rehabilitation of damaged property, such amounts 10
as may be collected under Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 11
1701 et seq.), and under section 28 of the Mineral Leasing 12
Act (30 U.S.C. 185), to remain available until expended: 13
Provided, That notwithstanding any provision to the con-14
trary of section 305(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 15
1735(a)), any moneys that have been or will be received 16
pursuant to that section, whether as a result of forfeiture, 17
compromise, or settlement, if not appropriate for refund 18
pursuant to section 305(c) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 19
1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended under 20
the authority of this Act by the Secretary of the Interior 21
to improve, protect, or rehabilitate any public lands ad-22
ministered through the Bureau of Land Management 23
which have been damaged by the action of a resource de-24
veloper, purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized person, 25
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without regard to whether all moneys collected from each 1
such action are used on the exact lands damaged which 2
led to the action: Provided further, That any such moneys 3
that are in excess of amounts needed to repair damage 4
to the exact land for which funds were collected may be 5
used to repair other damaged public lands. 6
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS 7
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended 8
under existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such 9
amounts as may be contributed under section 307 of Pub-10
lic Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1737), and such amounts as 11
may be advanced for administrative costs, surveys, ap-12
praisals, and costs of making conveyances of omitted lands 13
under section 211(b) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1721(b)), to 14
remain available until expended. 15
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 16
The Bureau of Land Management may carry out the 17
operations funded under this Act by direct expenditure, 18
contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and reimburs-19
able agreements with public and private entities, including 20
with States. Appropriations for the Bureau shall be avail-21
able for purchase, erection, and dismantlement of tem-22
porary structures, and alteration and maintenance of nec-23
essary buildings and appurtenant facilities to which the 24
United States has title; up to $100,000 for payments, at 25
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the discretion of the Secretary, for information or evidence 1
concerning violations of laws administered by the Bureau; 2
miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement ac-3
tivities authorized or approved by the Secretary and to be 4
accounted for solely on the Secretary’s certificate, not to 5
exceed $10,000: Provided, That notwithstanding Public 6
Law 90–620 (44 U.S.C. 501), the Bureau may, under co-7
operative cost-sharing and partnership arrangements au-8
thorized by law, procure printing services from cooperators 9
in connection with jointly produced publications for which 10
the cooperators share the cost of printing either in cash 11
or in services, and the Bureau determines the cooperator 12
is capable of meeting accepted quality standards: Provided 13
further, That projects to be funded pursuant to a written 14
commitment by a State government to provide an identi-15
fied amount of money in support of the project may be 16
carried out by the Bureau on a reimbursable basis. 17
U
NITEDSTATESFISH ANDWILDLIFESERVICE 18
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 19
For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and 20
Wildlife Service, as authorized by law, and for scientific 21
and economic studies, general administration, and for the 22
performance of other authorized functions related to such 23
resources, $1,340,019,000 (increased by $1,150,000) (in-24
creased by $2,000,000), to remain available until Sep-25
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tember 30, 2025: Provided, That not to exceed 1
$21,058,200 shall be used for implementing subsections 2
(a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 4 of the Endangered Spe-3
cies Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533) (except for processing 4
petitions, developing and issuing proposed and final regu-5
lations, and taking any other steps to implement actions 6
described in subsection (c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or 7
(c)(2)(B)(ii) of such section). 8
CONSTRUCTION 9
For construction, improvement, acquisition, or re-10
moval of buildings and other facilities required in the con-11
servation, management, investigation, protection, and uti-12
lization of fish and wildlife resources, and the acquisition 13
of lands and interests therein; $15,000,000, to remain 14
available until expended. 15
COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION 16
FUND 17
For expenses necessary to carry out section 6 of the 18
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1535), 19
$22,000,000, to remain available until expended, to be de-20
rived from the Cooperative Endangered Species Conserva-21
tion Fund. 22
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND 23
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-24
ber 17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $13,228,000. 25
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NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND 1
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 2
of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (16 3
U.S.C. 4401 et seq.), $48,500,000, to remain available 4
until expended. 5
NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION 6
For expenses necessary to carry out the Neotropical 7
Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 6101 et 8
seq.), $5,000,000, to remain available until expended. 9
MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND 10
For expenses necessary to carry out the African Ele-11
phant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.), the 12
Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 13
4261 et seq.), the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act 14
of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Great Ape Con-15
servation Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), and the 16
Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004 (16 U.S.C. 6601 17
et seq.), $20,000,000, to remain available until expended. 18
STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS 19
For wildlife conservation grants to States and to the 20
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United 21
States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, 22
American Samoa, and Indian Tribes under the provisions 23
of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 and the Fish and 24
Wildlife Coordination Act, for the development and imple-25
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mentation of programs for the benefit of wildlife and their 1
habitat, including species that are not hunted or fished, 2
$72,612,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-3
vided, That of the amount provided herein, $6,200,000 is 4
for a competitive grant program for Indian Tribes not sub-5
ject to the remaining provisions of this appropriation: Pro-6
vided further, That $7,612,000 is for a competitive grant 7
program to implement approved plans for States, terri-8
tories, and other jurisdictions and at the discretion of af-9
fected States, the regional Associations of fish and wildlife 10
agencies, not subject to the remaining provisions of this 11
appropriation: Provided further, That the Secretary shall, 12
after deducting $13,812,000 and administrative expenses, 13
apportion the amount provided herein in the following 14
manner: (1) to the District of Columbia and to the Com-15
monwealth of Puerto Rico, each a sum equal to not more 16
than one-half of 1 percent thereof; and (2) to Guam, 17
American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and 18
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, each 19
a sum equal to not more than one-fourth of 1 percent 20
thereof: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Inte-21
rior shall apportion the remaining amount in the following 22
manner: (1) one-third of which is based on the ratio to 23
which the land area of such State bears to the total land 24
area of all such States; and (2) two-thirds of which is 25
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based on the ratio to which the population of such State 1
bears to the total population of all such States: Provided 2
further, That the amounts apportioned under this para-3
graph shall be adjusted equitably so that no State shall 4
be apportioned a sum which is less than 1 percent of the 5
amount available for apportionment under this paragraph 6
for any fiscal year or more than 5 percent of such amount: 7
Provided further, That the Federal share of planning 8
grants shall not exceed 75 percent of the total costs of 9
such projects and the Federal share of implementation 10
grants shall not exceed 65 percent of the total costs of 11
such projects: Provided further, That the non-Federal 12
share of such projects may not be derived from Federal 13
grant programs: Provided further, That any amount ap-14
portioned in 2024 to any State, territory, or other jurisdic-15
tion that remains unobligated as of September 30, 2025, 16
shall be reapportioned, together with funds appropriated 17
in 2026, in the manner provided herein. 18
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 19
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service may 20
carry out the operations of Service programs by direct ex-21
penditure, contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and 22
reimbursable agreements with public and private entities. 23
Appropriations and funds available to the United States 24
Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for repair of 25
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damage to public roads within and adjacent to reservation 1
areas caused by operations of the Service; options for the 2
purchase of land at not to exceed one dollar for each op-3
tion; facilities incident to such public recreational uses on 4
conservation areas as are consistent with their primary 5
purpose; and the maintenance and improvement of aquar-6
ia, buildings, and other facilities under the jurisdiction of 7
the Service and to which the United States has title, and 8
which are used pursuant to law in connection with man-9
agement, and investigation of fish and wildlife resources: 10
Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Serv-11
ice may, under cooperative cost sharing and partnership 12
arrangements authorized by law, procure printing services 13
from cooperators in connection with jointly produced pub-14
lications for which the cooperators share at least one-half 15
the cost of printing either in cash or services and the Serv-16
ice determines the cooperator is capable of meeting accept-17
ed quality standards: Provided further, That the Service 18
may accept donated aircraft as replacements for existing 19
aircraft: Provided further, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 20
3302, all fees collected for non-toxic shot review and ap-21
proval shall be deposited under the heading ‘‘United 22
States Fish and Wildlife Service—Resource Management’’ 23
and shall be available to the Secretary, without further 24
appropriation, to be used for expenses of processing of 25
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such non-toxic shot type or coating applications and revis-1
ing regulations as necessary, and shall remain available 2
until expended. 3
N
ATIONALPARKSERVICE 4
OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM 5
For expenses necessary for the management, oper-6
ation, and maintenance of areas and facilities adminis-7
tered by the National Park Service and for the general 8
administration of the National Park Service, 9
$2,654,000,000 (reduced by $3,000,000) (increased by 10
$3,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by 11
$1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by 12
$1,000,000) (increased by $266,124,000) (reduced by 13
$266,124,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by 14
$1,000,000), of which $11,661,000 shall be for planning 15
and interagency coordination in support of Everglades res-16
toration, and $15,000,000 shall be for uses authorized by 17
section 101122 of title 54, United States Code, to remain 18
available until September 30, 2025: Provided, That funds 19
appropriated under this heading are available for the pur-20
poses of section 5 of Public Law 95–348: Provided further, 21
That notwithstanding section 9 of the 400 Years of Afri-22
can-American History Commission Act (36 U.S.C. note 23
prec. 101; Public Law 115–102), $2,500,000 of the funds 24
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provided under this heading shall be made available for 1
the purposes specified by that Act. 2
In addition, for purposes described in section 2404 3
of Public Law 116–9, an amount equal to the amount de-4
posited in this fiscal year into the National Park Medical 5
Services Fund established pursuant to such section of 6
such Act, to remain available until expended, shall be de-7
rived from such Fund. 8
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION 9
For expenses necessary to carry out recreation pro-10
grams, natural programs, cultural programs, heritage 11
partnership programs, environmental compliance and re-12
view, international park affairs, and grant administration, 13
not otherwise provided for, $80,000,000 (reduced by 14
$15,000,000) (increased by $15,000,000) (increased by 15
$2,000,000) (increased by $2,000,000), to remain avail-16
able until September 30, 2025. 17
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND 18
For expenses necessary in carrying out the National 19
Historic Preservation Act (division A of subtitle III of title 20
54, United States Code), $175,400,000 (increased by 21
$1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (reduced by 22
$3,000,000) (increased by $3,000,000), to be derived from 23
the Historic Preservation Fund and to remain available 24
until September 30, 2025, of which $26,500,000 shall be 25
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for Save America’s Treasures grants for preservation of 1
nationally significant sites, structures and artifacts as au-2
thorized by section 7303 of the Omnibus Public Land 3
Management Act of 2009 (54 U.S.C. 3089): Provided, 4
That an individual Save America’s Treasures grant shall 5
be matched by non-Federal funds: Provided further, That 6
individual projects shall only be eligible for one grant: Pro-7
vided further, That all projects to be funded shall be ap-8
proved by the Secretary of the Interior in consultation 9
with the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-10
tions: Provided further, That of the funds provided for the 11
Historic Preservation Fund, $30,250,000 is for the Com-12
petitive Grants Subactivity; $11,000,000 is for grants to 13
Historically Black Colleges and Universities; $12,500,000 14
is for competitive grants for the restoration of historic 15
properties of national, State, and local significance listed 16
on or eligible for inclusion on the National Register of His-17
toric Places, to be made without imposing the usage or 18
direct grant restrictions of section 101(e)(3) (54 U.S.C. 19
302904) of the National Historic Preservation Act; and 20
$10,000,000 is for a competitive grant program to honor 21
the semiquincentennial anniversary of the United States 22
by restoring and preserving sites and structures listed on 23
the National Register of Historic Places that commemo-24
rate the founding of the nation: Provided further, That 25
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such competitive grants shall be made without imposing 1
the matching requirements in section 302902(b)(3) of title 2
54, United States Code, to States and Indian Tribes as 3
defined in chapter 3003 of such title, Native Hawaiian or-4
ganizations, local governments, including Certified Local 5
Governments, and nonprofit organizations. 6
CONSTRUCTION 7
For construction, improvements, repair, or replace-8
ment of physical facilities, and related equipment, and 9
compliance and planning for programs and areas adminis-10
tered by the National Park Service, $114,600,000, to re-11
main available until expended: Provided, That notwith-12
standing any other provision of law, for any project ini-13
tially funded in fiscal year 2024 with a future phase indi-14
cated in the National Park Service 5–Year Line Item Con-15
struction Plan, a single procurement may be issued which 16
includes the full scope of the project: Provided further, 17
That the solicitation and contract shall contain the clause 18
availability of funds found at 48 CFR 52.232–18: Pro-19
vided further, That National Park Service Donations, 20
Park Concessions Franchise Fees, and Recreation Fees 21
may be made available for the cost of adjustments and 22
changes within the original scope of effort for projects 23
funded by the National Park Service Construction appro-24
priation: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Inte-25
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rior shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations, 1
in accordance with current reprogramming thresholds, 2
prior to making any charges authorized under this head-3
ing. 4
CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE 5
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 6
of section 101701 of title 54, United States Code, relating 7
to challenge cost share agreements, $15,000,000, to re-8
main available until expended, for Centennial Challenge 9
projects and programs: Provided, That not less than 50 10
percent of the total cost of each project or program shall 11
be derived from non-Federal sources in the form of do-12
nated cash, assets, or a pledge of donation guaranteed by 13
an irrevocable letter of credit. 14
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 15
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 16
In addition to other uses set forth in section 17
101917(c)(2) of title 54, United States Code, franchise 18
fees credited to a sub-account shall be available for ex-19
penditure by the Secretary, without further appropriation, 20
for use at any unit within the National Park System to 21
extinguish or reduce liability for Possessory Interest or 22
leasehold surrender interest. Such funds may only be used 23
for this purpose to the extent that the benefitting unit an-24
ticipated franchise fee receipts over the term of the con-25
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tract at that unit exceed the amount of funds used to ex-1
tinguish or reduce liability. Franchise fees at the benefit-2
ting unit shall be credited to the sub-account of the origi-3
nating unit over a period not to exceed the term of a single 4
contract at the benefitting unit, in the amount of funds 5
so expended to extinguish or reduce liability. 6
For the costs of administration of the Land and 7
Water Conservation Fund grants authorized by section 8
105(a)(2)(B) of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act 9
of 2006 (Public Law 109–432), the National Park Service 10
may retain up to 3 percent of the amounts which are au-11
thorized to be disbursed under such section, such retained 12
amounts to remain available until expended. 13
National Park Service funds may be transferred to 14
the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Depart-15
ment of Transportation, for purposes authorized under 23 16
U.S.C. 203. Transfers may include a reasonable amount 17
for FHWA administrative support costs. 18
U
NITEDSTATESGEOLOGICALSURVEY 19
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH 20
For expenses necessary for the United States Geo-21
logical Survey to perform surveys, investigations, and re-22
search covering topography, geology, hydrology, biology, 23
and the mineral and water resources of the United States, 24
its territories and possessions, and other areas as author-25
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ized by 43 U.S.C. 31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as 1
to their mineral and water resources; give engineering su-2
pervision to power permittees and Federal Energy Regu-3
latory Commission licensees; administer the minerals ex-4
ploration program (30 U.S.C. 641); conduct inquiries into 5
the economic conditions affecting mining and materials 6
processing industries (30 U.S.C. 3, 21a, and 1603; 50 7
U.S.C. 98g(a)(1)) and related purposes as authorized by 8
law; and to publish and disseminate data relative to the 9
foregoing activities; $1,347,460,000 (increased by 10
$5,000,000) (increased by $2,500,000), to remain avail-11
able until September 30, 2025; of which $84,788,000 shall 12
remain available until expended for satellite operations; 13
and of which $39,030,000 shall be available until ex-14
pended for deferred maintenance and capital improvement 15
projects that exceed $100,000 in cost: Provided, That 16
none of the funds provided for the ecosystem research ac-17
tivity shall be used to conduct new surveys on private 18
property, unless specifically authorized in writing by the 19
property owner: Provided further, That no part of this ap-20
propriation shall be used to pay more than one-half the 21
cost of topographic mapping or water resources data col-22
lection and investigations conducted in cooperation with 23
States and municipalities. 24
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 1
From within the amount appropriated for activities 2
of the United States Geological Survey such sums as are 3
necessary shall be available for contracting for the fur-4
nishing of topographic maps and for the making of geo-5
physical or other specialized surveys when it is administra-6
tively determined that such procedures are in the public 7
interest; construction and maintenance of necessary build-8
ings and appurtenant facilities; acquisition of lands for 9
gauging stations, observation wells, and seismic equip-10
ment; expenses of the United States National Committee 11
for Geological Sciences; and payment of compensation and 12
expenses of persons employed by the Survey duly ap-13
pointed to represent the United States in the negotiation 14
and administration of interstate compacts: Provided, That 15
activities funded by appropriations herein may be accom-16
plished through the use of contracts, grants, or coopera-17
tive agreements (including noncompetitive cooperative 18
agreements with Tribes) as defined in section 6302 of title 19
31, United States Code: Provided further, That the United 20
States Geological Survey may enter into contracts or coop-21
erative agreements directly with individuals or indirectly 22
with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without re-23
gard to 41 U.S.C. 6101, for the temporary or intermittent 24
services of students or recent graduates, who shall be con-25
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sidered employees for the purpose of chapters 57 and 81 1
of title 5, United States Code, relating to compensation 2
for travel and work injuries, and chapter 171 of title 28, 3
United States Code, relating to tort claims, but shall not 4
be considered to be Federal employees for any other pur-5
poses. 6
B
UREAU OFOCEANENERGYMANAGEMENT 7
OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT 8
For expenses necessary for granting and admin-9
istering leases, easements, rights-of-way, and agreements 10
for use for oil and gas, other minerals, energy, and ma-11
rine-related purposes on the Outer Continental Shelf and 12
approving operations related thereto, as authorized by law; 13
for environmental studies, as authorized by law; for imple-14
menting other laws and to the extent provided by Presi-15
dential or Secretarial delegation; and for matching grants 16
or cooperative agreements, $210,000,000 (reduced by 17
$28,000,000), of which $154,000,000 is to remain avail-18
able until September 30, 2025, and of which $56,000,000 19
(reduced by $28,000,000) is to remain available until ex-20
pended: Provided, That this total appropriation shall be 21
reduced by amounts collected by the Secretary of the Inte-22
rior and credited to this appropriation from additions to 23
receipts resulting from increases to lease rental rates in 24
effect on August 5, 1993, and from cost recovery fees from 25
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activities conducted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Man-1
agement pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 2
Act, including studies, assessments, analysis, and miscella-3
neous administrative activities: Provided further, That the 4
sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as such collec-5
tions are received during the fiscal year, so as to result 6
in a final fiscal year 2024 appropriation estimated at not 7
more than $154,000,000: Provided further, That not to 8
exceed $3,000 shall be available for reasonable expenses 9
related to promoting volunteer beach and marine cleanup 10
activities. 11
B
UREAU OFSAFETY ANDENVIRONMENTAL 12
E
NFORCEMENT 13
OFFSHORE SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT 14
For expenses necessary for the regulation of oper-15
ations related to leases, easements, rights-of-way, and 16
agreements for use for oil and gas, other minerals, energy, 17
and marine-related purposes on the Outer Continental 18
Shelf, as authorized by law; for enforcing and imple-19
menting laws and regulations as authorized by law and 20
to the extent provided by Presidential or Secretarial dele-21
gation; and for matching grants or cooperative agree-22
ments, $172,000,000, of which $141,000,000 is to remain 23
available until September 30, 2025, and of which 24
$31,000,000 is to remain available until expended, includ-25
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ing $3,000,000 for offshore decommissioning activities: 1
Provided, That this total appropriation shall be reduced 2
by amounts collected by the Secretary of the Interior and 3
credited to this appropriation from additions to receipts 4
resulting from increases to lease rental rates in effect on 5
August 5, 1993, and from cost recovery fees from activi-6
ties conducted by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental 7
Enforcement pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf 8
Lands Act, including studies, assessments, analysis, and 9
miscellaneous administrative activities: Provided further, 10
That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as such 11
collections are received during the fiscal year, so as to re-12
sult in a final fiscal year 2024 appropriation estimated 13
at not more than $144,000,000. 14
For an additional amount, $33,000,000, to remain 15
available until expended, to be reduced by amounts col-16
lected by the Secretary and credited to this appropriation, 17
which shall be derived from non-refundable inspection fees 18
collected in fiscal year 2024, as provided in this Act: Pro-19
vided, That to the extent that amounts realized from such 20
inspection fees exceed $33,000,000, the amounts realized 21
in excess of $33,000,000 shall be credited to this appro-22
priation and remain available until expended: Provided 23
further, That for fiscal year 2024, not less than 50 percent 24
of the inspection fees expended by the Bureau of Safety 25
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and Environmental Enforcement will be used to fund per-1
sonnel and mission-related costs to expand capacity and 2
expedite the orderly development, subject to environmental 3
safeguards, of the Outer Continental Shelf pursuant to the 4
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et 5
seq.), including the review of applications for permits to 6
drill. 7
OIL SPILL RESEARCH 8
For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 9
1016; title IV, sections 4202 and 4303; title VII; and title 10
VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 11
$15,099,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-12
ability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended. 13
O
FFICE OFSURFACEMININGRECLAMATION AND 14
E
NFORCEMENT 15
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY 16
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 17
of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 18
1977, Public Law 95–87, $108,923,000, to remain avail-19
able until September 30, 2025, of which $65,000,000 shall 20
be available for State and Tribal regulatory grants: Pro-21
vided, That appropriations for the Office of Surface Min-22
ing Reclamation and Enforcement may provide for the 23
travel and per diem expenses of State and Tribal per-24
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sonnel attending Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 1
and Enforcement sponsored training. 2
In addition, for costs to review, administer, and en-3
force permits issued by the Office pursuant to section 507 4
of Public Law 95–87 (30 U.S.C. 1257), $40,000, to re-5
main available until expended: Provided, That fees as-6
sessed and collected by the Office pursuant to such section 7
507 shall be credited to this account as discretionary off-8
setting collections, to remain available until expended: 9
Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated from 10
the general fund shall be reduced as collections are re-11
ceived during the fiscal year, so as to result in a fiscal 12
year 2024 appropriation estimated at not more than 13
$108,923,000. 14
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND 15
For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the 16
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, 17
Public Law 95–87, $34,000,000, to be derived from re-18
ceipts of the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to 19
remain available until expended: Provided, That pursuant 20
to Public Law 97–365, the Department of the Interior is 21
authorized to use up to 20 percent from the recovery of 22
the delinquent debt owed to the United States Government 23
to pay for contracts to collect these debts: Provided fur-24
ther, That funds made available under title IV of Public 25
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Law 95–87 may be used for any required non-Federal 1
share of the cost of projects funded by the Federal Gov-2
ernment for the purpose of environmental restoration re-3
lated to treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage 4
from abandoned mines: Provided further, That such 5
projects must be consistent with the purposes and prior-6
ities of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act: 7
Provided further, That amounts provided under this head-8
ing may be used for the travel and per diem expenses of 9
State and Tribal personnel attending Office of Surface 10
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored training. 11
In addition, $136,000,000, to remain available until 12
expended, for payments to States and federally recognized 13
Indian Tribes for reclamation of abandoned mine lands 14
and other related activities in accordance with the terms 15
and conditions described in the report accompanying this 16
Act: Provided, That such additional amount shall be used 17
for economic and community development in conjunction 18
with the priorities described in section 403(a) of the Sur-19
face Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 20
U.S.C. 1233(a)): Provided further, That of such additional 21
amount, $89,042,000 shall be distributed in equal 22
amounts to the three Appalachian States with the greatest 23
amount of unfunded needs to meet the priorities described 24
in paragraphs (1) and (2) of such section, $35,218,000 25
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shall be distributed in equal amounts to the three Appa-1
lachian States with the subsequent greatest amount of un-2
funded needs to meet such priorities, and $11,740,000 3
shall be for grants to federally recognized Indian Tribes, 4
without regard to their status as certified or uncertified 5
under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 6
of 1977, for reclamation of abandoned mine lands and 7
other related activities in accordance with the terms and 8
conditions described in the report accompanying this Act 9
and shall be used for economic and community develop-10
ment in conjunction with the priorities in section 403(a) 11
of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 12
1977: Provided further, That such payments shall be made 13
to States and federally recognized Indian Tribes not later 14
than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act: 15
Provided further, That if payments have not been made 16
by the date specified in the preceding proviso, the amount 17
appropriated for salaries and expenses under the heading 18
‘‘Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’’ 19
shall be reduced by $100,000 per day until such payments 20
have been made. 21
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INDIANAFFAIRS 1
B
UREAU OFINDIANAFFAIRS 2
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 3
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 4
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian 5
programs, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act 6
of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13) and the Indian Self- 7
Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 8
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), $2,010,574,000 (increased by 9
$1,500,000), to remain available until September 30, 10
2025, except as otherwise provided herein; of which not 11
to exceed $8,500 may be for official reception and rep-12
resentation expenses; of which not to exceed $78,494,000 13
shall be for welfare assistance payments: Provided, That 14
in cases of designated Federal disasters, the Secretary of 15
the Interior may exceed such cap for welfare payments 16
from the amounts provided herein, to provide for disaster 17
relief to Indian communities affected by the disaster: Pro-18
vided further, That federally recognized Indian Tribes and 19
Tribal organizations of federally recognized Indian Tribes 20
may use their Tribal priority allocations for unmet welfare 21
assistance costs: Provided further, That not to exceed 22
$83,402,000 (increased by $1,500,000) shall remain avail-23
able until expended for housing improvement, road main-24
tenance, land acquisition, attorney fees, litigation support, 25
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land records improvement, hearings and appeals, and the 1
Navajo-Hopi Settlement Program: Provided further, That 2
any forestry funds allocated to a federally recognized 3
Tribe which remain unobligated as of September 30, 2025, 4
may be transferred during fiscal year 2026 to an Indian 5
forest land assistance account established for the benefit 6
of the holder of the funds within the holder’s trust fund 7
account: Provided further, That any such unobligated bal-8
ances not so transferred shall expire on September 30, 9
2026: Provided further, That in order to enhance the safe-10
ty of Bureau field employees, the Bureau may use funds 11
to purchase uniforms or other identifying articles of cloth-12
ing for personnel: Provided further, That not to exceed 13
$7,096,000 in funds for trust, probate, and administrative 14
functions may, as needed, be transferred to the Office of 15
the Secretary, ‘‘Departmental Operations’’ account: Pro-16
vided further, That the Bureau of Indian Affairs may ac-17
cept transfers of funds from United States Customs and 18
Border Protection to supplement any other funding avail-19
able for reconstruction or repair of roads owned by the 20
Bureau of Indian Affairs as identified on the National 21
Tribal Transportation Facility Inventory, 23 U.S.C. 22
202(b)(1). 23
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CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS 1
For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for 2
contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter-3
mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with 4
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian 5
Education for fiscal year 2024, such sums as may be nec-6
essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-7
tember 30, 2025: Provided, That notwithstanding any 8
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 9
this heading shall be available for transfer to another 10
budget account. 11
PAYMENTS FOR TRIBAL LEASES 12
For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for 13
leases pursuant to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Deter-14
mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 15
5324(l)) for fiscal year 2024, such sums as may be nec-16
essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-17
tember 30, 2025: Provided, That notwithstanding any 18
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 19
this heading shall be available for transfer to another 20
budget account. 21
CONSTRUCTION 22
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 23
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-24
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, 25
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and other facilities, including architectural and engineer-1
ing services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests 2
in lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for 3
construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pur-4
suant to Public Law 87–483; $153,309,000, to remain 5
available until expended: Provided, That such amounts as 6
may be available for the construction of the Navajo Indian 7
Irrigation Project may be transferred to the Bureau of 8
Reclamation: Provided further, That any funds provided 9
for the Safety of Dams program pursuant to the Act of 10
November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), shall be made available 11
on a nonreimbursable basis: Provided further, That this 12
appropriation may be reimbursed from the Bureau of 13
Trust Fund Administration appropriation for the appro-14
priate share of construction costs for space expansion 15
needed in agency offices to meet trust reform implementa-16
tion: Provided further, That of the funds made available 17
under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be derived from the 18
Indian Irrigation Fund established by section 3211 of the 19
WIIN Act (Public Law 114–322; 130 Stat. 1749): Pro-20
vided further, That amounts provided under this heading 21
are made available for the modernization of Federal field 22
communication capabilities, in addition to amounts other-23
wise made available for such purpose. 24
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INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 1
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 2
For payments and necessary administrative expenses 3
for implementation of Indian land and water claim settle-4
ments pursuant to Public Laws 99–264 and 116–260, and 5
for implementation of other land and water rights settle-6
ments, $825,000, to remain available until expended. 7
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 8
For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, 9
$11,744,000, to remain available until September 30, 10
2025, of which $2,680,000 is for administrative expenses, 11
as authorized by the Indian Financing Act of 1974: Pro-12
vided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 13
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con-14
gressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That 15
these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, 16
any part of which is to be guaranteed or insured, not to 17
exceed $150,213,551. 18
B
UREAU OFINDIANEDUCATION 19
OPERATION OF INDIAN EDUCATION PROGRAMS 20
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian 21
education programs, as authorized by law, including the 22
Snyder Act of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the In-23
dian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 24
1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Education Amend-25
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ments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001–2019), and the Tribally 1
Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), 2
$1,131,617,000 to remain available until September 30, 3
2025, except as otherwise provided herein: Provided, That 4
federally recognized Indian Tribes and Tribal organiza-5
tions of federally recognized Indian Tribes may use their 6
Tribal priority allocations for unmet welfare assistance 7
costs: Provided further, That not to exceed $833,592,000 8
for school operations costs of Bureau-funded schools and 9
other education programs shall become available on July 10
1, 2024, and shall remain available until September 30, 11
2025: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 12
provision of law, including but not limited to the Indian 13
Self–Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) 14
and section 1128 of the Education Amendments of 1978 15
(25 U.S.C. 2008), not to exceed $95,822,000 within and 16
only from such amounts made available for school oper-17
ations shall be available for administrative cost grants as-18
sociated with grants approved prior to July 1, 2024: Pro-19
vided further, That in order to enhance the safety of Bu-20
reau field employees, the Bureau may use funds to pur-21
chase uniforms or other identifying articles of clothing for 22
personnel. 23
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EDUCATION CONSTRUCTION 1
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-2
nance of buildings, utilities, and other facilities necessary 3
for the operation of Indian education programs, including 4
architectural and engineering services by contract; acquisi-5
tion of lands, and interests in lands; $267,887,000 to re-6
main available until expended: Provided, That in order to 7
ensure timely completion of construction projects, the Sec-8
retary of the Interior may assume control of a project and 9
all funds related to the project, if, not later than 18 10
months after the date of the enactment of this Act, any 11
Public Law 100–297 (25 U.S.C. 2501, et seq.) grantee 12
receiving funds appropriated in this Act or in any prior 13
Act, has not completed the planning and design phase of 14
the project and commenced construction. 15
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 16
The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of In-17
dian Education may carry out the operation of Indian pro-18
grams by direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agree-19
ments, compacts, and grants, either directly or in coopera-20
tion with States and other organizations. 21
Notwithstanding Public Law 87–279 (25 U.S.C. 15), 22
the Bureau of Indian Affairs may contract for services in 23
support of the management, operation, and maintenance 24
of the Power Division of the San Carlos Irrigation Project. 25
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 1
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau 2
of Indian Education for central office oversight and Exec-3
utive Direction and Administrative Services (except Exec-4
utive Direction and Administrative Services funding for 5
Tribal Priority Allocations, regional offices, and facilities 6
operations and maintenance) shall be available for con-7
tracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative agreements with 8
the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau of Indian 9
Education under the provisions of the Indian Self-Deter-10
mination Act or the Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 11
(Public Law 103–413). 12
In the event any Tribe returns appropriations made 13
available by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or 14
the Bureau of Indian Education, this action shall not di-15
minish the Federal Government’s trust responsibility to 16
that Tribe, or the government-to-government relationship 17
between the United States and that Tribe, or that Tribe’s 18
ability to access future appropriations. 19
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 20
available to the Bureau of Indian Education, other than 21
the amounts provided herein for assistance to public 22
schools under 25 U.S.C. 452 et seq., shall be available to 23
support the operation of any elementary or secondary 24
school in the State of Alaska. 25
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No funds available to the Bureau of Indian Edu-1
cation shall be used to support expanded grades for any 2
school or dormitory beyond the grade structure in place 3
or approved by the Secretary of the Interior at each school 4
in the Bureau of Indian Education school system as of 5
October 1, 1995, except that the Secretary of the Interior 6
may waive this prohibition to support expansion of up to 7
one additional grade when the Secretary determines such 8
waiver is needed to support accomplishment of the mission 9
of the Bureau of Indian Education, or more than one 10
grade to expand the elementary grade structure for Bu-11
reau-funded schools with a K–2 grade structure on Octo-12
ber 1, 1996. Appropriations made available in this or any 13
prior Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be avail-14
able, in accordance with the Bureau’s funding formula, 15
only to the schools in the Bureau school system as of Sep-16
tember 1, 1996, and to any school or school program that 17
was reinstated in fiscal year 2012. Funds made available 18
under this Act may not be used to establish a charter 19
school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term is defined 20
in section 1141 of the Education Amendments of 1978 21
(25 U.S.C. 2021)), except that a charter school that is 22
in existence on the date of the enactment of this Act and 23
that has operated at a Bureau-funded school before Sep-24
tember 1, 1999, may continue to operate during that pe-25
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riod, but only if the charter school pays to the Bureau 1
a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau for 2
the use of the real and personal property (including buses 3
and vans), the funds of the charter school are kept sepa-4
rate and apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau does 5
not assume any obligation for charter school programs of 6
the State in which the school is located if the charter 7
school loses such funding. Employees of Bureau-funded 8
schools sharing a campus with a charter school and per-9
forming functions related to the charter school’s operation 10
and employees of a charter school shall not be treated as 11
Federal employees for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, 12
United States Code. 13
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 14
section 113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106– 15
113, if in fiscal year 2003 or 2004 a grantee received indi-16
rect and administrative costs pursuant to a distribution 17
formula based on section 5(f) of Public Law 101–301, the 18
Secretary shall continue to distribute indirect and admin-19
istrative cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) 20
distribution formula. 21
Funds available under this Act may not be used to 22
establish satellite locations of schools in the Bureau school 23
system as of September 1, 1996, except that the Secretary 24
may waive this prohibition in order for an Indian Tribe 25
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to provide language and cultural immersion educational 1
programs for non-public schools located within the juris-2
dictional area of the Tribal government which exclusively 3
serve Tribal members, do not include grades beyond those 4
currently served at the existing Bureau-funded school, 5
provide an educational environment with educator pres-6
ence and academic facilities comparable to the Bureau- 7
funded school, comply with all applicable Tribal, Federal, 8
or State health and safety standards, and the Americans 9
with Disabilities Act, and demonstrate the benefits of es-10
tablishing operations at a satellite location in lieu of incur-11
ring extraordinary costs, such as for transportation or 12
other impacts to students such as those caused by busing 13
students extended distances: Provided, That no funds 14
available under this Act may be used to fund operations, 15
maintenance, rehabilitation, construction, or other facili-16
ties-related costs for such assets that are not owned by 17
the Bureau: Provided further, That the term ‘‘satellite 18
school’’ means a school location physically separated from 19
the existing Bureau school by more than 50 miles but that 20
forms part of the existing school in all other respects. 21
Funds made available for Tribal Priority Allocations 22
within Operation of Indian Programs and Operation of In-23
dian Education Programs may be used to execute re-24
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quested adjustments in Tribal priority allocations initiated 1
by an Indian Tribe. 2
B
UREAU OFTRUSTFUNDSADMINISTRATION 3
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 4
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 5
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by 6
direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, 7
compacts, and grants, $104,176,000, to remain available 8
until expended, of which not to exceed $17,867,000 from 9
this or any other Act, may be available for settlement sup-10
port: Provided, That funds for trust management improve-11
ments and litigation support may, as needed, be trans-12
ferred to or merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 13
‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ and Bureau of Indian 14
Education, ‘‘Operation of Indian Education Programs’’ 15
accounts; the Office of the Solicitor, ‘‘Salaries and Ex-16
penses’’ account; and the Office of the Secretary, ‘‘Depart-17
mental Operations’’ account: Provided further, That funds 18
made available through contracts or grants obligated dur-19
ing fiscal year 2024, as authorized by the Indian Self-De-20
termination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall 21
remain available until expended by the contractor or 22
grantee: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 23
provision of law, the Secretary shall not be required to 24
provide a quarterly statement of performance for any In-25
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dian trust account that has not had activity for at least 1
15 months and has a balance of $15 or less: Provided fur-2
ther, That the Secretary shall issue an annual account 3
statement and maintain a record of any such accounts and 4
shall permit the balance in each such account to be with-5
drawn upon the express written request of the account 6
holder: Provided further, That not to exceed $100,000 is 7
available for the Secretary to make payments to correct 8
administrative errors of either disbursements from or de-9
posits to Individual Indian Money or Tribal accounts after 10
September 30, 2002: Provided further, That erroneous 11
payments that are recovered shall be credited to and re-12
main available in this account for this purpose: Provided 13
further, That the Secretary shall not be required to rec-14
oncile Special Deposit Accounts with a balance of less than 15
$500 unless the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration 16
receives proof of ownership from a Special Deposit Ac-17
counts claimant: Provided further, That notwithstanding 18
section 102 of the American Indian Trust Fund Manage-19
ment Reform Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–412) or any 20
other provision of law, the Secretary may aggregate the 21
trust accounts of individuals whose whereabouts are un-22
known for a continuous period of at least 5 years and shall 23
not be required to generate periodic statements of per-24
formance for the individual accounts: Provided further, 25
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That with respect to the preceding proviso, the Secretary 1
shall continue to maintain sufficient records to determine 2
the balance of the individual accounts, including any ac-3
crued interest and income, and such funds shall remain 4
available to the individual account holders. 5
D
EPARTMENTAL OFFICES 6
O
FFICE OF THESECRETARY 7
DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS 8
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 9
For necessary expenses for management of the De-10
partment of the Interior and for grants and cooperative 11
agreements, as authorized by law, $67,942,000 (reduced 12
by $1,150,000) (reduced by $2,000,000) (reduced by 13
$2,000,000) (reduced by $2,000,000) (reduced by 14
$5,000,000) (reduced by $2,500,000) (reduced by 15
$5,000,000) (reduced by $3,000,000) (increased by 16
$3,000,000) (reduced by $4,000,000) (reduced by 17
$4,000,000) (increased by $2,000,000) (reduced by 18
$2,000,000) (reduced by $12,500,000) (reduced by 19
$15,000), to remain available until September 30, 2025; 20
of which not to exceed $15,000 (reduced by $15,000) may 21
be for official reception and representation expenses; of 22
which up to $1,000,000 shall be available for workers com-23
pensation payments and unemployment compensation pay-24
ments associated with the orderly closure of the United 25
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States Bureau of Mines; and of which $14,958,000 for 1
Indian land, mineral, and resource valuation activities 2
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That 3
funds for Indian land, mineral, and resource valuation ac-4
tivities may, as needed, be transferred to and merged with 5
the Bureau of Indian Affairs ‘‘Operation of Indian Pro-6
grams’’ and Bureau of Indian Education ‘‘Operation of 7
Indian Education Programs’’ accounts and the Bureau of 8
Trust Funds Administration ‘‘Federal Trust Programs’’ 9
account: Provided further, That funds made available 10
through contracts or grants obligated during fiscal year 11
2024, as authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act 12
of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall remain available 13
until expended by the contractor or grantee. 14
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 15
For fiscal year 2024, up to $400,000 of the payments 16
authorized by chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, 17
may be retained for administrative expenses of the Pay-18
ments in Lieu of Taxes Program: Provided, That the 19
amounts provided under this Act specifically for the Pay-20
ments in Lieu of Taxes program are the only amounts 21
available for payments authorized under chapter 69 of 22
title 31, United States Code: Provided further, That in the 23
event the sums appropriated for any fiscal year for pay-24
ments pursuant to this chapter are insufficient to make 25
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the full payments authorized by that chapter to all units 1
of local government, then the payment to each local gov-2
ernment shall be made proportionally: Provided further, 3
That the Secretary may make adjustments to payment to 4
individual units of local government to correct for prior 5
overpayments or underpayments: Provided further, That 6
no payment shall be made pursuant to that chapter to oth-7
erwise eligible units of local government if the computed 8
amount of the payment is less than $100. 9
I
NSULARAFFAIRS 10
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 11
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories 12
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior 13
and other jurisdictions identified in section 104(e) of Pub-14
lic Law 108–188, $107,857,000 (increased by 15
$12,500,000), of which: (1) $97,640,000 (increased by 16
$12,500,000) shall remain available until expended for 17
territorial assistance, including general technical assist-18
ance, maintenance assistance, disaster assistance, coral 19
reef initiative and natural resources activities, and brown 20
tree snake control and research; grants to the judiciary 21
in American Samoa for compensation and expenses, as au-22
thorized by law (48 U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Govern-23
ment of American Samoa, in addition to current local rev-24
enues, for construction and support of governmental func-25
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tions; grants to the Government of the Virgin Islands, as 1
authorized by law; grants to the Government of Guam, 2
as authorized by law; and grants to the Government of 3
the Northern Mariana Islands, as authorized by law (Pub-4
lic Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $10,217,000 shall 5
be available until September 30, 2025, for salaries and 6
expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs: Provided, That 7
all financial transactions of the territorial and local gov-8
ernments herein provided for, including such transactions 9
of all agencies or instrumentalities established or used by 10
such governments, may be audited by the Government Ac-11
countability Office, at its discretion, in accordance with 12
chapter 35 of title 31, United States Code: Provided fur-13
ther, That Northern Mariana Islands Covenant grant 14
funding shall be provided according to those terms of the 15
Agreement of the Special Representatives on Future 16
United States Financial Assistance for the Northern Mar-17
iana Islands approved by Public Law 104–134: Provided 18
further, That the funds for the program of operations and 19
maintenance improvement are appropriated to institu-20
tionalize routine operations and maintenance improvement 21
of capital infrastructure with territorial participation and 22
cost sharing to be determined by the Secretary based on 23
the grantee’s commitment to timely maintenance of its 24
capital assets: Provided further, That any appropriation 25
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for disaster assistance under this heading in this Act or 1
previous appropriations Acts may be used as non–Federal 2
matching funds for the purpose of hazard mitigation 3
grants provided pursuant to section 404 of the Robert T. 4
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 5
(42 U.S.C. 5170c). 6
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 7
For grants and necessary expenses, $1,463,000, to 8
remain available until expended, as provided for in sec-9
tions 221(a)(2) and 233 of the Compact of Free Associa-10
tion for the Republic of Palau; and section 221(a)(2) of 11
the Compacts of Free Association for the Government of 12
the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated 13
States of Micronesia, as authorized by Public Law 99– 14
658 and Public Law 108–188. 15
A
DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 16
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 17
At the request of the Governor of Guam, the Sec-18
retary may transfer discretionary funds or mandatory 19
funds provided under section 104(e) of Public Law 108– 20
188 and Public Law 104–134, that are allocated for 21
Guam, to the Secretary of Agriculture for the subsidy cost 22
of direct or guaranteed loans, plus not to exceed three per-23
cent of the amount of the subsidy transferred for the cost 24
of loan administration, for the purposes authorized by the 25
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Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) 1
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act for 2
construction and repair projects in Guam, and such funds 3
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That such 4
costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be 5
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 6
of 1974: Provided further, That such loans or loan guaran-7
tees may be made without regard to the population of the 8
area, credit elsewhere requirements, and restrictions on 9
the types of eligible entities under the Rural Electrifica-10
tion Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated 11
Farm and Rural Development Act: Provided further, That 12
any funds transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture shall 13
be in addition to funds otherwise made available to make 14
or guarantee loans under such authorities. 15
O
FFICE OF THESOLICITOR 16
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 17
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 18
$90,945,000, to remain available until September 30, 19
2025. 20
O
FFICE OFINSPECTORGENERAL 21
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 22
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 23
General, $64,000,000, to remain available until September 24
30, 2025. 25
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DEPARTMENT-WIDEPROGRAMS 1
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 3
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, fire 4
suppression operations, fire science and research, emer-5
gency rehabilitation, fuels management activities, and 6
rural fire assistance by the Department of the Interior, 7
$1,097,443,000 (increased by $2,000,000) (reduced by 8
$575,000,000) (increased by $575,000,000) (increased by 9
$5,000,000), to remain available until expended, of which 10
not to exceed $12,000,000 shall be for the renovation or 11
construction of fire facilities: Provided, That such funds 12
are also available for repayment of advances to other ap-13
propriation accounts from which funds were previously 14
transferred for such purposes: Provided further, That of 15
the funds provided $247,000,000 (increased by 16
$5,000,000) is for fuels management activities: Provided 17
further, That persons hired pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 18
may be furnished subsistence and lodging without cost 19
from funds available from this appropriation: Provided 20
further, That notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 1856d, sums re-21
ceived by a bureau or office of the Department of the Inte-22
rior for fire protection rendered pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 23
1856 et seq., protection of United States property, may 24
be credited to the appropriation from which funds were 25
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expended to provide that protection, and are available 1
without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, That using 2
the amounts designated under this title of this Act, the 3
Secretary of the Interior may enter into procurement con-4
tracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, for fuels man-5
agement activities, and for training and monitoring associ-6
ated with such fuels management activities on Federal 7
land, or on adjacent non-Federal land for activities that 8
benefit resources on Federal land: Provided further, That 9
the costs of implementing any cooperative agreement be-10
tween the Federal Government and any non-Federal entity 11
may be shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected par-12
ties: Provided further, That notwithstanding requirements 13
of the Competition in Contracting Act, the Secretary, for 14
purposes of fuels management activities, may obtain max-15
imum practicable competition among: (1) local private, 16
nonprofit, or cooperative entities; (2) Youth Conservation 17
Corps crews, Public Lands Corps (Public Law 109–154), 18
or related partnerships with State, local, or nonprofit 19
youth groups; (3) small or micro-businesses; or (4) other 20
entities that will hire or train locally a significant percent-21
age, defined as 50 percent or more, of the project work-22
force to complete such contracts: Provided further, That 23
in implementing this section, the Secretary shall develop 24
written guidance to field units to ensure accountability 25
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and consistent application of the authorities provided here-1
in: Provided further, That funds appropriated under this 2
heading may be used to reimburse the United States Fish 3
and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries 4
Service for the costs of carrying out their responsibilities 5
under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 6
1531 et seq.) to consult and conference, as required by 7
section 7 of such Act, in connection with wildland fire 8
management activities: Provided further, That the Sec-9
retary of the Interior may use wildland fire appropriations 10
to enter into leases of real property with local govern-11
ments, at or below fair market value, to construct capital-12
ized improvements for fire facilities on such leased prop-13
erties, including but not limited to fire guard stations, re-14
tardant stations, and other initial attack and fire support 15
facilities, and to make advance payments for any such 16
lease or for construction activity associated with the lease: 17
Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior and 18
the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the transfer 19
of funds appropriated for wildland fire management, in 20
an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000,000 between 21
the Departments when such transfers would facilitate and 22
expedite wildland fire management programs and projects: 23
Provided further, That funds provided for wildfire suppres-24
sion shall be available for support of Federal emergency 25
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response actions: Provided further, That funds appro-1
priated under this heading shall be available for assistance 2
to or through the Department of State in connection with 3
forest and rangeland research, technical information, and 4
assistance in foreign countries, and, with the concurrence 5
of the Secretary of State, shall be available to support for-6
estry, wildland fire management, and related natural re-7
source activities outside the United States and its terri-8
tories and possessions, including technical assistance, edu-9
cation and training, and cooperation with United States 10
and international organizations: Provided further, That of 11
the funds provided under this heading, $383,657,000 shall 12
be available for wildfire suppression operations, and is pro-13
vided to meet the terms of section 251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of 14
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 15
of 1985. 16
WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 17
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 18
In addition to the amounts provided under the head-19
ing ‘‘Department of the Interior—Department-Wide Pro-20
grams—Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppres-21
sion operations, $350,000,000, to remain available until 22
transferred, is additional new budget authority specified 23
for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced 24
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Pro-25
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vided, That such amounts may be transferred to and 1
merged with amounts made available under the headings 2
‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Service—Wildland 3
Fire Management’’ and ‘‘Department of the Interior—De-4
partment-Wide Programs—Wildland Fire Management’’ 5
for wildfire suppression operations in the fiscal year in 6
which such amounts are transferred: Provided further, 7
That amounts may be transferred to the ‘‘Wildland Fire 8
Management’’ accounts in the Department of Agriculture 9
or the Department of the Interior only upon the notifica-10
tion of the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-11
tions that all wildfire suppression operations funds appro-12
priated under that heading in this and prior appropria-13
tions Acts to the agency to which the funds will be trans-14
ferred will be obligated within 30 days: Provided further, 15
That the transfer authority provided under this heading 16
is in addition to any other transfer authority provided by 17
law: Provided further, That, in determining whether all 18
wildfire suppression operations funds appropriated under 19
the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ in this and 20
prior appropriations Acts to either the Department of Ag-21
riculture or the Department of the Interior will be obli-22
gated within 30 days pursuant to the preceding proviso, 23
any funds transferred or permitted to be transferred pur-24
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suant to any other transfer authority provided by law shall 1
be excluded. 2
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 3
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-4
terior and any of its component offices and bureaus for 5
the response action, including associated activities, per-6
formed pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Re-7
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 8
et seq.), $9,000,000, to remain available until expended. 9
ENERGY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROGRAM 10
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 11
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-12
terior to inventory, assess, decommission, reclaim, respond 13
to hazardous substance releases, remediate lands pursuant 14
to section 40704 of Public Law 117–58 (30 U.S.C. 1245), 15
and carry out the purposes of section 349 of the Energy 16
Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15907), as amended, 17
$5,000,000 (reduced by $5,000,000) (increased by 18
$5,000,000), to remain available until expended: Provided, 19
That such amount shall be in addition to amounts other-20
wise available for such purposes: Provided further, That 21
amounts appropriated under this heading are available for 22
program management and oversight of these activities: 23
Provided further, That the Secretary may transfer the 24
funds provided under this heading in this Act to any other 25
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account in the Department to carry out such purposes, 1
and may expend such funds directly, or through grants: 2
Provided further, That these amounts are not available to 3
fulfill Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com-4
pensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) obli-5
gations agreed to in settlement or imposed by a court, 6
whether for payment of funds or for work to be performed. 7
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND 8
RESTORATION 9
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 10
To conduct natural resource damage assessment, res-11
toration activities, and onshore oil spill preparedness by 12
the Department of the Interior necessary to carry out the 13
provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 14
Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), 15
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 16
et seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 17
et seq.), and 54 U.S.C. 100721 et seq., $7,750,000, to 18
remain available until expended. 19
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 20
For the operation and maintenance of a departmental 21
financial and business management system, data manage-22
ment, information technology improvements of general 23
benefit to the Department, cybersecurity, and the consoli-24
dation of facilities and operations throughout the Depart-25
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ment, $89,758,000, to remain available until expended: 1
Provided, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act 2
or any other Act may be used to establish reserves in the 3
Working Capital Fund account other than for accrued an-4
nual leave and depreciation of equipment without prior ap-5
proval of the Committees on Appropriations of the House 6
of Representatives and the Senate: Provided further, That 7
the Secretary of the Interior may assess reasonable 8
charges to State, local, and Tribal government employees 9
for training services provided by the National Indian Pro-10
gram Training Center, other than training related to Pub-11
lic Law 93–638: Provided further, That the Secretary may 12
lease or otherwise provide space and related facilities, 13
equipment, or professional services of the National Indian 14
Program Training Center to State, local and Tribal gov-15
ernment employees or persons or organizations engaged 16
in cultural, educational, or recreational activities (as de-17
fined in section 3306(a) of title 40, United States Code) 18
at the prevailing rate for similar space, facilities, equip-19
ment, or services in the vicinity of the National Indian 20
Program Training Center: Provided further, That all funds 21
received pursuant to the two preceding provisos shall be 22
credited to this account, shall be available until expended, 23
and shall be used by the Secretary for necessary expenses 24
of the National Indian Program Training Center: Provided 25
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further, That the Secretary may enter into grants and co-1
operative agreements to support the Office of Natural Re-2
source Revenue’s collection and disbursement of royalties, 3
fees, and other mineral revenue proceeds, as authorized 4
by law. 5
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 6
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from avail-7
able resources within the Working Capital Fund, aircraft 8
which may be obtained by donation, purchase, or through 9
available excess surplus property: Provided, That existing 10
aircraft being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived 11
or trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the 12
replacement aircraft. 13
OFFICE OF NATURAL RESOURCES REVENUE 14
For necessary expenses for management of the collec-15
tion and disbursement of royalties, fees, and other mineral 16
revenue proceeds, and for grants and cooperative agree-17
ments, as authorized by law, $157,440,000, to remain 18
available until September 30, 2025; of which $71,251,000 19
shall remain available until expended for the purpose of 20
mineral revenue management activities: Provided, That 21
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $15,000 shall 22
be available for refunds of overpayments in connection 23
with certain Indian leases in which the Secretary of the 24
Interior concurred with the claimed refund due, to pay 25
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amounts owed to Indian allottees or Tribes, or to correct 1
prior unrecoverable erroneous payments. 2
G
ENERALPROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 3
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 4
EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY —INTRA-BUREAU 5
S
EC. 101. Appropriations made in this title shall be 6
available for expenditure or transfer (within each bureau 7
or office), with the approval of the Secretary of the Inte-8
rior, for the emergency reconstruction, replacement, or re-9
pair of aircraft, buildings, utilities, or other facilities or 10
equipment damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or 11
other unavoidable causes: Provided, That no funds shall 12
be made available under this authority until funds specifi-13
cally made available to the Department of the Interior for 14
emergencies have been exhausted: Provided further, That 15
all funds used pursuant to this section must be replenished 16
by a supplemental appropriation, which must be requested 17
as promptly as possible. 18
EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY —DEPARTMENT-WIDE 19
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EC. 102. The Secretary of the Interior may author-20
ize the expenditure or transfer of any no year appropria-21
tion in this title, in addition to the amounts included in 22
the budget programs of the several agencies, for the sup-23
pression or emergency prevention of wildland fires on or 24
threatening lands under the jurisdiction of the Depart-25
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ment of the Interior; for the emergency rehabilitation of 1
burned-over lands under its jurisdiction; for emergency ac-2
tions related to potential or actual earthquakes, floods, 3
volcanoes, storms, or other unavoidable causes; for contin-4
gency planning subsequent to actual oil spills; for response 5
and natural resource damage assessment activities related 6
to actual oil spills or releases of hazardous substances into 7
the environment; for the prevention, suppression, and con-8
trol of actual or potential grasshopper and Mormon cricket 9
outbreaks on lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, 10
pursuant to the authority in section 417(b) of Public Law 11
106–224 (7 U.S.C. 7717(b)); for emergency reclamation 12
projects under section 410 of Public Law 95–87; and shall 13
transfer, from any no year funds available to the Office 14
of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, such 15
funds as may be necessary to permit assumption of regu-16
latory authority in the event a primacy State is not car-17
rying out the regulatory provisions of the Surface Mining 18
Act: Provided, That appropriations made in this title for 19
wildland fire operations shall be available for the payment 20
of obligations incurred during the preceding fiscal year, 21
and for reimbursement to other Federal agencies for de-22
struction of vehicles, aircraft, or other equipment in con-23
nection with their use for wildland fire operations, with 24
such reimbursement to be credited to appropriations cur-25
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rently available at the time of receipt thereof: Provided 1
further, That for wildland fire operations, no funds shall 2
be made available under this authority until the Secretary 3
determines that funds appropriated for ‘‘wildland fire sup-4
pression’’ shall be exhausted within 30 days: Provided fur-5
ther, That all funds used pursuant to this section must 6
be replenished by a supplemental appropriation, which 7
must be requested as promptly as possible: Provided fur-8
ther, That such replenishment funds shall be used to reim-9
burse, on a pro rata basis, accounts from which emergency 10
funds were transferred. 11
AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS 12
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EC. 103. Appropriations made to the Department 13
of the Interior in this title shall be available for services 14
as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States 15
Code, when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, 16
in total amount not to exceed $500,000; purchase and re-17
placement of motor vehicles, including specially equipped 18
law enforcement vehicles; hire, maintenance, and oper-19
ation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles; pur-20
chase of reprints; payment for telephone service in private 21
residences in the field, when authorized under regulations 22
approved by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, when 23
authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in so-24
cieties or associations which issue publications to members 25
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only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers 1
who are not members. 2
AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS , INDIAN TRUST 3
MANAGEMENT 4
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EC. 104. Appropriations made in this Act under the 5
headings ‘‘Bureau of Indian Affairs,’’ ‘‘Bureau of Indian 6
Education,’’ and ‘‘Bureau of Trust Funds Administra-7
tion’’ and any unobligated balances from prior appropria-8
tions Acts made under the same headings shall be avail-9
able for expenditure or transfer for Indian trust manage-10
ment and reform activities. Total funding for settlement 11
support activities shall not exceed amounts specifically 12
designated in this Act for such purpose. The Secretary 13
shall notify the House and Senate Committees on Appro-14
priations within 60 days of the expenditure or transfer of 15
any funds under this section, including the amount ex-16
pended or transferred and how the funds will be used. 17
REDISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS , BUREAU OF INDIAN 18
AFFAIRS 19
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EC. 105. Notwithstanding any other provision of 20
law, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redis-21
tribute any Tribal Priority Allocation funds, including 22
Tribal base funds, to alleviate Tribal funding inequities 23
by transferring funds to address identified, unmet needs, 24
dual enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate 25
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distribution methodologies. No Tribe shall receive a reduc-1
tion in Tribal Priority Allocation funds of more than 10 2
percent in fiscal year 2024. Under circumstances of dual 3
enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate dis-4
tribution methodologies, the 10 percent limitation does not 5
apply. 6
OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF INSPECTION FEES 7
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EC. 106. (a) In fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of 8
the Interior shall collect a nonrefundable inspection fee, 9
which shall be deposited in the ‘‘Offshore Safety and Envi-10
ronmental Enforcement’’ account, from the designated op-11
erator for facilities subject to inspection under 43 U.S.C. 12
1348(c). 13
(b) Annual fees shall be collected for facilities that 14
are above the waterline, excluding drilling rigs, and are 15
in place at the start of the fiscal year. Fees for fiscal year 16
2024 shall be— 17
(1) $10,500 for facilities with no wells, but with 18
processing equipment or gathering lines; 19
(2) $17,000 for facilities with 1 to 10 wells, 20
with any combination of active or inactive wells; and 21
(3) $31,500 for facilities with more than 10 22
wells, with any combination of active or inactive 23
wells. 24
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(c) Fees for drilling rigs shall be assessed for all in-1
spections completed in fiscal year 2024. Fees for fiscal 2
year 2024 shall be— 3
(1) $30,500 per inspection for rigs operating in 4
water depths of 500 feet or more; and 5
(2) $16,700 per inspection for rigs operating in 6
water depths of less than 500 feet. 7
(d) Fees for inspection of well operations conducted 8
via non-rig units as outlined in title 30 CFR 250 subparts 9
D, E, F, and Q shall be assessed for all inspections com-10
pleted in fiscal year 2024. Fees for fiscal year 2024 shall 11
be— 12
(1) $13,260 per inspection for non-rig units op-13
erating in water depths of 2,500 feet or more; 14
(2) $11,530 per inspection for non-rig units op-15
erating in water depths between 500 and 2,499 feet; 16
and 17
(3) $4,470 per inspection for non-rig units op-18
erating in water depths of less than 500 feet. 19
(e) The Secretary shall bill designated operators 20
under subsection (b) quarterly, with payment required 21
within 30 days of billing. The Secretary shall bill des-22
ignated operators under subsection (c) within 30 days of 23
the end of the month in which the inspection occurred, 24
with payment required within 30 days of billing. The Sec-25
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retary shall bill designated operators under subsection (d) 1
with payment required by the end of the following quarter. 2
CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS FOR WILD HORSE AND 3
BURRO HOLDING FACILITIES 4
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EC. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of 5
this Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into 6
multiyear cooperative agreements with nonprofit organiza-7
tions and other appropriate entities, and may enter into 8
multiyear contracts in accordance with the provisions of 9
section 3903 of title 41, United States Code (except that 10
the 5-year term restriction in subsection (a) shall not 11
apply), for the long-term care and maintenance of excess 12
wild free-roaming horses and burros by such organizations 13
or entities on private land. Such cooperative agreements 14
and contracts may not exceed 10 years, subject to renewal 15
at the discretion of the Secretary. 16
MASS MARKING OF SALMONIDS 17
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EC. 108. The United States Fish and Wildlife Serv-18
ice shall, in carrying out its responsibilities to protect 19
threatened and endangered species of salmon, implement 20
a system of mass marking of salmonid stocks, intended 21
for harvest, that are released from federally operated or 22
federally financed hatcheries including but not limited to 23
fish releases of coho, chinook, and steelhead species. 24
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Marked fish must have a visible mark that can be readily 1
identified by commercial and recreational fishers. 2
CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS WITH INDIAN AFFAIRS 3
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EC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of 4
law, during fiscal year 2024, in carrying out work involv-5
ing cooperation with State, local, and Tribal governments 6
or any political subdivision thereof, Indian Affairs may 7
record obligations against accounts receivable from any 8
such entities, except that total obligations at the end of 9
the fiscal year shall not exceed total budgetary resources 10
available at the end of the fiscal year. 11
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR EXPERIENCED SERVICES 12
PROGRAM 13
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EC. 110. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 14
of law relating to Federal grants and cooperative agree-15
ments, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make 16
grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements with, pri-17
vate nonprofit organizations designated by the Secretary 18
of Labor under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 19
to utilize the talents of older Americans in programs au-20
thorized by other provisions of law administered by the 21
Secretary and consistent with such provisions of law. 22
(b) Prior to awarding any grant or agreement under 23
subsection (a), the Secretary shall ensure that the agree-24
ment would not— 25
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(1) result in the displacement of individuals 1
currently employed by the Department, including 2
partial displacement through reduction of non-over-3
time hours, wages, or employment benefits; 4
(2) result in the use of an individual under the 5
Department of the Interior Experienced Services 6
Program for a job or function in a case in which a 7
Federal employee is in a layoff status from the same 8
or substantially equivalent job within the Depart-9
ment; or 10
(3) affect existing contracts for services. 11
OBLIGATION OF FUNDS 12
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EC. 111. Amounts appropriated by this Act to the 13
Department of the Interior shall be available for obligation 14
and expenditure not later than 60 days after the date of 15
enactment of this Act. 16
SEPARATION OF ACCOUNTS 17
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EC. 112. The Secretary of the Interior, in order to 18
implement an orderly transition to separate accounts of 19
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian 20
Education, may transfer funds among and between the 21
successor offices and bureaus affected by the reorganiza-22
tion only in conformance with the reprogramming guide-23
lines described in this Act. 24
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PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES (PILT) 1
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EC. 113. Section 6906 of title 31, United States 2
Code, shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’ 3
for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’. 4
INTERAGENCY MOTOR POOL 5
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EC. 114. Notwithstanding any other provision of law 6
or Federal regulation, federally recognized Indian Tribes 7
or authorized Tribal organizations that receive Tribally- 8
Controlled School Grants pursuant to Public Law 100– 9
297 may obtain interagency motor vehicles and related 10
services for performance of any activities carried out 11
under such grants to the same extent as if they were con-12
tracting under the Indian Self-Determination and Edu-13
cation Assistance Act. 14
APPRAISER PAY AUTHORITY 15
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EC. 115. For fiscal year 2024, funds made available 16
in this or any other Act or otherwise made available to 17
the Department of the Interior for the Appraisal and 18
Valuation Services Office may be used by the Secretary 19
of the Interior to establish higher minimum rates of basic 20
pay for employees of the Department of the Interior in 21
the Appraiser (GS–1171) job series at grades 11 through 22
15 carrying out appraisals of real property and appraisal 23
reviews conducted in support of the Department’s realty 24
programs at rates no greater than 15 percent above the 25
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minimum rates of basic pay normally scheduled, and such 1
higher rates shall be consistent with subsections (e) 2
through (h) of section 5305 of title 5, United States Code. 3
SAGE-GROUSE 4
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EC. 116. None of the funds made available by this 5
or any other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Inte-6
rior pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 7
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.)— 8
(1) to write or issue a proposed or final rule 9
with regard to— 10
(A) the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus 11
urophasianus); 12
(B) the Columbia Basin Distinct Popu-13
lation Segment of greater sage-grouse; or 14
(C) the Bi-State Distinct Population Seg-15
ment of greater sage-grouse; or 16
(2) to implement, administer, or enforce— 17
(A) the rule submitted by the United 18
States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to 19
‘‘Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and 20
Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the 21
Bi-State Distinct Population Segment of Great-22
er Sage-Grouse’’ (78 Fed. Reg. 64327; pub-23
lished October 28, 2013); 24
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(B) the rule submitted by the United 1
States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to 2
‘‘Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and 3
Plants; Threatened Status for the Bi-State Dis-4
tinct Population Segment of Greater Sage- 5
Grouse With Special Rule’’ (78 Fed. Reg. 6
64357; published October 28, 2013); or 7
(C) the rule submitted by the United 8
States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to 9
‘‘Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and 10
Plants; Threatened Status for the Bi-State Dis-11
tinct Population Segment of Greater Sage- 12
Grouse With Section 4(d) Rule and Designation 13
of Critical Habitat’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 25613; pub-14
lished April 27, 2023). 15
STATE CONSERVATION GRANTS 16
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EC. 117. For expenses necessary to carry out section 17
200305 of title 54, United States Code, the National Park 18
Service may retain up to 7 percent of the State Conserva-19
tion Grants program to provide to States, the District of 20
Columbia, and insular areas, as matching grants to sup-21
port State program administrative costs. 22
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TITLE II 1
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 2
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CIENCE ANDTECHNOLOGY 3
For science and technology, including research and 4
development activities, which shall include research and 5
development activities under the Comprehensive Environ-6
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 7
1980; necessary expenses for personnel and related costs 8
and travel expenses; procurement of laboratory equipment 9
and supplies; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; 10
and other operating expenses in support of research and 11
development, $560,707,000 (increased by $1,000,000) 12
(reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000) (re-13
duced by $1,000,000), to remain available until September 14
30, 2025: Provided, That of the funds included under this 15
heading, $19,475,000 shall be for Research: National Pri-16
orities as specified in the report accompanying this Act. 17
E
NVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS ANDMANAGEMENT 18
For environmental programs and management, in-19
cluding necessary expenses not otherwise provided for, for 20
personnel and related costs and travel expenses; hire of 21
passenger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and oper-22
ation of aircraft; purchase of reprints; library member-23
ships in societies or associations which issue publications 24
to members only or at a price to members lower than to 25
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subscribers who are not members; administrative costs of 1
the brownfields program under the Small Business Liabil-2
ity Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002; im-3
plementation of a coal combustion residual permit pro-4
gram under section 2301 of the Water and Waste Act of 5
2016; and not to exceed $9,000 for official reception and 6
representation expenses, $2,428,959,000 (reduced by 7
$1,750,000) (increased by $4,000,000) (increased by 8
$3,000,000) (reduced by $3,000,000) (reduced by 9
$3,000,000) (increased by $1) (reduced by $1) (reduced 10
by $12,000,000) (increased by $12,000,000) (reduced by 11
$5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000) (reduced by 12
$17,000,000), to remain available until September 30, 13
2025: Provided further, That of the funds included under 14
this heading— 15
(1) $35,000,000 (increased by $4,000,000) 16
shall be for Environmental Protection: National Pri-17
orities as specified in the report accompanying this 18
Act; 19
(2) $651,226,000 shall be for Geographic Pro-20
grams as specified in the report accompanying this 21
Act. 22
In addition, $9,000,000, to remain available until ex-23
pended, for necessary expenses of activities described in 24
section 26(b)(1) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 25
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U.S.C. 2625(b)(1)): Provided, That fees collected pursu-1
ant to that section of that Act and deposited in the ‘‘TSCA 2
Service Fee Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting receipts in 3
fiscal year 2024 shall be retained and used for necessary 4
salaries and expenses in this appropriation and shall re-5
main available until expended: Provided further, That the 6
sum herein appropriated in this paragraph from the gen-7
eral fund for fiscal year 2024 shall be reduced by the 8
amount of discretionary offsetting receipts received during 9
fiscal year 2024, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2024 10
appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more 11
than $0: Provided further, That to the extent that amounts 12
realized from such receipts exceed $9,000,000, those 13
amounts in excess of $9,000,000 shall be deposited in the 14
‘‘TSCA Service Fee Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting re-15
ceipts in fiscal year 2024, shall be retained and used for 16
necessary salaries and expenses in this account, and shall 17
remain available until expended: Provided further, That of 18
the funds included in the first paragraph under this head-19
ing, the Chemical Risk Review and Reduction program 20
project shall be allocated for this fiscal year, excluding the 21
amount of any fees appropriated, not less than the amount 22
of appropriations for that program project for fiscal year 23
2014. 24
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OFFICE OFINSPECTORGENERAL 1
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 2
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 3
General Act of 1978, $44,030,000 (increased by 4
$10,000,000), to remain available until September 30, 5
2025. 6
B
UILDINGS ANDFACILITIES 7
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-8
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, 9
or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency, 10
$24,000,000, to remain available until expended. 11
H
AZARDOUSSUBSTANCESUPERFUND 12
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 13
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehen-14
sive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil-15
ity Act of 1980 (CERCLA), including sections 111(c)(3), 16
(c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and hire, 17
maintenance, and operation of aircraft, $355,856,000 (re-18
duced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000), to re-19
main available until expended, consisting of such sums as 20
are available in the Trust Fund on September 30, 2023, 21
and not otherwise appropriated from the Trust Fund, as 22
authorized by section 517(a) of the Superfund Amend-23
ments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) and up 24
to $355,856,000 as a payment from general revenues to 25
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the Hazardous Substance Superfund for purposes as au-1
thorized by section 517(b) of SARA: Provided, That funds 2
appropriated under this heading may be allocated to other 3
Federal agencies in accordance with section 111(a) of 4
CERCLA: Provided further, That of the funds appro-5
priated under this heading, $13,847,000 shall be paid to 6
the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ appropriation to remain 7
available until September 30, 2025, and $31,928,000 shall 8
be paid to the ‘‘Science and Technology’’ appropriation to 9
remain available until September 30, 2025. 10
L
EAKINGUNDERGROUND STORAGETANKTRUSTFUND 11
P
ROGRAM 12
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-13
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sub-14
title I of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $83,885,000, to 15
remain available until expended, of which $60,691,000 16
shall be for carrying out leaking underground storage tank 17
cleanup activities authorized by section 9003(h) of the 18
Solid Waste Disposal Act; and $23,194,000 shall be for 19
carrying out the other provisions of the Solid Waste Dis-20
posal Act specified in section 9508(c) of the Internal Rev-21
enue Code: Provided, That the Administrator is authorized 22
to use appropriations made available under this heading 23
to implement section 9013 of the Solid Waste Disposal 24
Act to provide financial assistance to federally recognized 25
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Indian Tribes for the development and implementation of 1
programs to manage underground storage tanks. 2
I
NLANDOILSPILLPROGRAMS 3
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environ-4
mental Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil 5
Pollution Act of 1990, including hire, maintenance, and 6
operation of aircraft, $19,865,000, to be derived from the 7
Oil Spill Liability trust fund, to remain available until ex-8
pended. 9
S
TATE ANDTRIBALASSISTANCEGRANTS 10
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-11
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolv-12
ing funds and performance partnership grants, 13
$2,583,858,000 (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by 14
$1,000,000) (increased by $1,769,351,000) (reduced by 15
$1,769,351,000), to remain available until expended, of 16
which— 17
(1) $535,000,000 (increased by 18
$1,103,861,000) (reduced by $1,103,861,000) (in-19
creased by $100,000,000) (reduced by 20
$100,000,000) shall be for making capitalization 21
grants for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds 22
under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Con-23
trol Act; and of which $460,611,000 (increased by 24
$665,490,000) (reduced by $665,490,000) (in-25
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creased by $100,000,000) (reduced by 1
$100,000,000) shall be for making capitalization 2
grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving 3
Funds under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking 4
Water Act: Provided, That $470,139,492 (increased 5
by $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) of the 6
funds made available for capitalization grants for 7
the Clean Water State Revolving Funds and 8
$410,309,777 of the funds made available for cap-9
italization grants for the Drinking Water State Re-10
volving Funds shall be for the construction of drink-11
ing water, wastewater, and storm water infrastruc-12
ture and for water quality protection in accordance 13
with the terms and conditions specified for such 14
grants in the report accompanying this Act for 15
projects specified for ‘‘STAG—Drinking Water 16
State Revolving Fund’’ and ‘‘STAG—Clean Water 17
State Revolving Fund’’ in the table titled ‘‘Interior 18
and Environment Incorporation of Community 19
Project Funding Items’’ included in the report ac-20
companying this Act, and, for purposes of these 21
grants, each grantee shall contribute not less than 22
20 percent of the cost of the project unless the 23
grantee is approved for a waiver by the Agency: Pro-24
vided further, That the Administrator is authorized 25
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to use up to $1,500,000 of funds made available for 1
the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under this 2
heading under title VI of the Federal Water Pollu-3
tion Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1381) to conduct the 4
Clean Watersheds Needs Survey: Provided further, 5
That notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) of the Fed-6
eral Water Pollution Control Act, the limitation on 7
the amounts in a State water pollution control re-8
volving fund that may be used by a State to admin-9
ister the fund shall not apply to amounts included 10
as principal in loans made by such fund in fiscal 11
year 2024 and prior years where such amounts rep-12
resent costs of administering the fund to the extent 13
that such amounts are or were deemed reasonable by 14
the Administrator, accounted for separately from 15
other assets in the fund, and used for eligible pur-16
poses of the fund, including administration: Provided 17
further, That for fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding 18
the provisions of subsections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of 19
section 201 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 20
Act, grants made under title II of such Act for 21
American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the 22
Northern Marianas, the United States Virgin Is-23
lands, and the District of Columbia may also be 24
made for the purpose of providing assistance: (1) 25
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solely for facility plans, design activities, or plans, 1
specifications, and estimates for any proposed 2
project for the construction of treatment works; and 3
(2) for the construction, repair, or replacement of 4
privately owned treatment works serving one or 5
more principal residences or small commercial estab-6
lishments: Provided further, That for fiscal year 7
2024, notwithstanding the provisions of such sub-8
sections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of section 201 and sec-9
tion 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 10
Act, funds reserved by the Administrator for grants 11
under section 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution 12
Control Act may also be used to provide assistance: 13
(1) solely for facility plans, design activities, or 14
plans, specifications, and estimates for any proposed 15
project for the construction of treatment works; and 16
(2) for the construction, repair, or replacement of 17
privately owned treatment works serving one or 18
more principal residences or small commercial estab-19
lishments: Provided further, That for fiscal year 20
2024, notwithstanding any provision of the Federal 21
Water Pollution Control Act and regulations issued 22
pursuant thereof, up to a total of $2,000,000 of the 23
funds reserved by the Administrator for grants 24
under section 518(c) of such Act may also be used 25
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for grants for training, technical assistance, and 1
educational programs relating to the operation and 2
management of the treatment works specified in sec-3
tion 518(c) of such Act: Provided further, That for 4
fiscal year 2024, funds reserved under section 5
518(c) of such Act shall be available for grants only 6
to Indian Tribes, as defined in section 518(h) of 7
such Act and former Indian reservations in Okla-8
homa (as determined by the Secretary of the Inte-9
rior) and Native Villages as defined in Public Law 10
92–203: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024, 11
notwithstanding the limitation on amounts in section 12
518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 13
up to a total of 2 percent of the funds appropriated, 14
or $30,000,000, and notwithstanding the limitation 15
on amounts in section 1452(i) of the Safe Drinking 16
Water Act, up to a total of 2 percent of the funds 17
appropriated, or $20,000,000, for State Revolving 18
Funds under such Acts may be reserved by the Ad-19
ministrator for grants under section 518(c) and sec-20
tion 1452(i) of such Acts: Provided further, That for 21
fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding the amounts speci-22
fied in section 205(c) of the Federal Water Pollution 23
Control Act, up to 2 percent of the aggregate funds 24
appropriated for the Clean Water State Revolving 25
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Fund program under the Act less any sums reserved 1
under section 518(c) of the Act, may be reserved by 2
the Administrator for grants made under title II of 3
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act for Amer-4
ican Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the 5
Northern Marianas, and United States Virgin Is-6
lands: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024, 7
notwithstanding the limitations on amounts specified 8
in section 1452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, 9
up to 1.5 percent of the funds appropriated for the 10
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs 11
under the Safe Drinking Water Act may be reserved 12
by the Administrator for grants made under section 13
1452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water Act: Provided 14
further, That 10 percent of the funds made available 15
under this title to each State for Clean Water State 16
Revolving Fund capitalization grants and 14 percent 17
of the funds made available under this title to each 18
State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund cap-19
italization grants shall be used by the State to pro-20
vide additional subsidy to eligible recipients in the 21
form of forgiveness of principal, negative interest 22
loans, or grants (or any combination of these), and 23
shall be so used by the State only where such funds 24
are provided as initial financing for an eligible re-25
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cipient or to buy, refinance, or restructure the debt 1
obligations of eligible recipients only where such debt 2
was incurred on or after the date of enactment of 3
this Act, or where such debt was incurred prior to 4
the date of enactment of this Act if the State, with 5
concurrence from the Administrator, determines that 6
such funds could be used to help address a threat 7
to public health from heightened exposure to lead in 8
drinking water or if a Federal or State emergency 9
declaration has been issued due to a threat to public 10
health from heightened exposure to lead in a munic-11
ipal drinking water supply before the date of enact-12
ment of this Act: Provided further, That in a State 13
in which such an emergency declaration has been 14
issued, the State may use more than 14 percent of 15
the funds made available under this title to the 16
State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund cap-17
italization grants to provide additional subsidy to eli-18
gible recipients: Provided further, That notwith-19
standing section 1452(o) of the Safe Drinking Water 20
Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(o)), the Administrator shall 21
reserve up to $12,000,000 of the amounts made 22
available for fiscal year 2024 for making capitaliza-23
tion grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving 24
Funds to pay the costs of monitoring for unregu-25
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lated contaminants under section 1445(a)(2)(C) of 1
such Act; 2
(2) $29,000,000 (increased by $5,000,000) (re-3
duced by $5,000,000) shall be for architectural, en-4
gineering, planning, design, construction and related 5
activities in connection with the construction of high 6
priority water and wastewater facilities in the area 7
of the southwestern United States, after consultation 8
with the appropriate commission: Provided, That no 9
funds made available by this Act to address the 10
water, wastewater and other critical infrastructure 11
needs of the colonias in the United States located in 12
the southwestern United States shall be made avail-13
able to a county or municipal government unless 14
that government has established an enforceable local 15
ordinance, or other zoning rule, which prevents in 16
that jurisdiction the development or construction of 17
any additional colonia areas, or the development 18
within an existing colonia the construction of any 19
new home, business, or other structure which lacks 20
water, wastewater, or other necessary infrastructure; 21
(3) $30,558,000 shall be for grants to the State 22
of Alaska to address drinking water and wastewater 23
infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska Native Vil-24
lages: Provided, That of these funds: (A) the State 25
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of Alaska shall provide a match of 25 percent; (B) 1
no more than 5 percent of the funds may be used 2
for administrative and overhead expenses; and (C) 3
the State of Alaska shall make awards consistent 4
with the Statewide priority list established in con-5
junction with the Agency and the U.S. Department 6
of Agriculture for all water, sewer, waste disposal, 7
and similar projects carried out by the State of Alas-8
ka that are funded under section 221 of the Federal 9
Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) or 10
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act 11
(7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) which shall allocate not less 12
than 25 percent of the funds provided for projects 13
in regional hub communities; 14
(4) $80,000,000 (increased by $20,000,000) 15
(reduced by $20,000,000) shall be to carry out sec-16
tion 104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental 17
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 18
(CERCLA) (42 U.S.C. 9604(k)), including grants, 19
interagency agreements, and associated program 20
support costs: Provided, That at least 10 percent 21
shall be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty 22
counties: Provided further, That for purposes of this 23
section, the term ‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ 24
means any county that has had 20 percent or more 25
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of its population living in poverty over the past 30 1
years, as measured by the 1993 Small Area Income 2
and Poverty Estimates, the 2000 decennial census, 3
and the most recent Small Area Income and Poverty 4
Estimates, or any territory or possession of the 5
United States; 6
(5) $105,000,000 shall be for grants under title 7
VII, subtitle G of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; 8
(6) $69,927,000 shall be for targeted airshed 9
grants in accordance with the terms and conditions 10
in the report accompanying this Act; 11
(7) $23,221,000 shall be for grants under sub-12
sections (a) through (j) of section 1459A of the Safe 13
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–19a); 14
(8) $30,500,000 (increased by $6,500,000) (re-15
duced by $6,500,000) shall be for grants under sec-16
tion 1464(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 17
U.S.C. 300j–24(d)); 18
(9) $25,011,000 shall be for grants under sec-19
tion 1459B of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 20
U.S.C. 300j–19b); 21
(10) $7,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-22
tion 1459A(l) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 23
U.S.C. 300j–19a(l)); 24
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(11) $27,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-1
tion 104(b)(8) of the Federal Water Pollution Con-2
trol Act (33 U.S.C. 1254(b)(8)); 3
(12) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-4
tion 224 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 5
(33 U.S.C. 1302b); 6
(13) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-7
tion 226 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 8
(33 U.S.C. 1302d); 9
(14) $3,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-10
tion 227 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 11
(33 U.S.C. 1302e); 12
(15) $3,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-13
tion 220 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 14
(33 U.S.C. 1300); 15
(16) $50,000,000 (increased by $230,000,000) 16
(reduced by $230,000,000) shall be for grants under 17
section 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 18
Act (33 U.S.C. 1301); 19
(17) $2,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-20
tion 4304(b) of the America’s Water Infrastructure 21
Act of 2018 (42 U.S.C. 300j-19e); 22
(18) $3,000,000 shall be for carrying out sec-23
tion 302(a) of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (33 U.S.C. 24
4282(a)), of which not more than 2 percent shall be 25
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for administrative costs to carry out such section: 1
Provided, That notwithstanding section 302(a) of 2
such Act, the Administrator may also provide grants 3
pursuant to such authority to Intertribal consortia 4
consistent with the requirements in 40 CFR 5
35.504(a), to former Indian reservations in Okla-6
homa (as determined by the Secretary of the Inte-7
rior), and Alaska Native Villages as defined in Pub-8
lic Law 92–203; 9
(19) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-10
tion 1459F of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 11
U.S.C. 300j–19g); 12
(20) $2,000,000 shall be for carrying out sec-13
tion 2001 of the America’s Water Infrastructure Act 14
of 2018 (Public Law 115–270, 42 U.S.C. 300j–3c 15
note): Provided, That the Administrator may award 16
grants to and enter into contracts with Tribes, 17
Intertribal consortia, public or private agencies, in-18
stitutions, organizations, and individuals, without re-19
gard to section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and sec-20
tion 6101 of title 41, United States Code, and enter 21
into interagency agreements as appropriate; 22
(21) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-23
tion 50217(b) of the Infrastructure Investment and 24
Jobs Act (33 U.S.C. 1302f(b); Public Law 117–58); 25
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(22) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-1
tion 124 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 2
(33 U.S.C. 1276); and 3
(23) $1,073,030,000 shall be for grants, includ-4
ing associated program support costs, to States, fed-5
erally recognized Tribes, interstate agencies, Tribal 6
consortia, and air pollution control agencies for 7
multi-media or single media pollution prevention, 8
control and abatement, and related activities, includ-9
ing activities pursuant to the provisions set forth 10
under this heading in Public Law 104–134, and for 11
making grants under section 103 of the Clean Air 12
Act for particulate matter monitoring and data col-13
lection activities subject to terms and conditions 14
specified by the Administrator, and under section 15
2301 of the Water and Waste Act of 2016 to assist 16
States in developing and implementing programs for 17
control of coal combustion residuals, of which: 18
$36,340,000 shall be for carrying out section 128 of 19
CERCLA; $1,505,000 shall be for grants to States 20
under section 2007(f)(2) of the Solid Waste Disposal 21
Act, which shall be in addition to funds appropriated 22
under the heading ‘‘Leaking Underground Storage 23
Tank Trust Fund Program’’ to carry out the provi-24
sions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act specified in 25
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section 9508(c) of the Internal Revenue Code other 1
than section 9003(h) of the Solid Waste Disposal 2
Act; $18,512,000 of the funds available for grants 3
under section 106 of the Federal Water Pollution 4
Control Act shall be for State participation in 5
national- and State-level statistical surveys of water 6
resources and enhancements to State monitoring 7
programs. 8
W
ATERINFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE ANDINNOVATION 9
P
ROGRAMACCOUNT 10
For the cost of direct loans and for the cost of guar-11
anteed loans, as authorized by the Water Infrastructure 12
Finance and Innovation Act of 2014, $65,974,000 (re-13
duced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000), to re-14
main available until expended: Provided, That such costs, 15
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-16
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 17
1974: Provided further, That these funds are available to 18
subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of di-19
rect loans, including capitalized interest, and total loan 20
principal, including capitalized interest, any part of which 21
is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $12,500,000,000: Pro-22
vided further, That of the funds made available under this 23
heading, $5,000,000 shall be used solely for the cost of 24
direct loans and for the cost of guaranteed loans for 25
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projects described in section 5026(9) of the Water Infra-1
structure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 to State 2
infrastructure financing authorities, as authorized by sec-3
tion 5033(e) of such Act: Provided further, That the use 4
of direct loans or loan guarantee authority under this 5
heading for direct loans or commitments to guarantee 6
loans for any project shall be in accordance with the cri-7
teria published in the Federal Register on June 30, 2020 8
(85 FR 39189) pursuant to the fourth proviso under the 9
heading ‘‘Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation 10
Program Account’’ in division D of the Further Consoli-11
dated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94): 12
Provided further, That none of the direct loans or loan 13
guarantee authority made available under this heading 14
shall be available for any project unless the Administrator 15
and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 16
have certified in advance in writing that the direct loan 17
or loan guarantee, as applicable, and the project comply 18
with the criteria referenced in the previous proviso: Pro-19
vided further, That, for the purposes of carrying out the 20
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Director of the 21
Congressional Budget Office may request, and the Admin-22
istrator shall promptly provide, documentation and infor-23
mation relating to a project identified in a Letter of Inter-24
est submitted to the Administrator pursuant to a Notice 25
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of Funding Availability for applications for credit assist-1
ance under the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innova-2
tion Act Program, including with respect to a project that 3
was initiated or completed before the date of enactment 4
of this Act. 5
In addition, fees authorized to be collected pursuant 6
to sections 5029 and 5030 of the Water Infrastructure 7
Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 shall be deposited 8
in this account, to remain available until expended. 9
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 10
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, notwithstanding 11
section 5033 of the Water Infrastructure Finance and In-12
novation Act of 2014, $6,026,000, to remain available 13
until September 30, 2025. 14
A
DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS—ENVIRONMENTAL 15
P
ROTECTIONAGENCY 16
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 17
For fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 18
6303(1) and 6305(1), the Administrator of the Environ-19
mental Protection Agency, in carrying out the Agency’s 20
function to implement directly Federal environmental pro-21
grams required or authorized by law in the absence of an 22
acceptable Tribal program, may award cooperative agree-23
ments to federally recognized Indian Tribes or Intertribal 24
consortia, if authorized by their member Tribes, to assist 25
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the Administrator in implementing Federal environmental 1
programs for Indian Tribes required or authorized by law, 2
except that no such cooperative agreements may be award-3
ed from funds designated for State financial assistance 4
agreements. 5
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 6
Agency is authorized to collect and obligate pesticide reg-7
istration service fees in accordance with section 33 of the 8
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 9
U.S.C. 136w–8), to remain available until expended. 10
Notwithstanding section 33(d)(2) of the Federal In-11
secticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 12
U.S.C. 136w–8(d)(2)), the Administrator of the Environ-13
mental Protection Agency may assess fees under section 14
33 of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136w–8) for fiscal year 2024. 15
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 16
Agency is authorized to collect and obligate fees in accord-17
ance with section 3024 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act 18
(42 U.S.C. 6939g) for fiscal year 2024, to remain avail-19
able until expended. 20
The Administrator is authorized to transfer up to 21
$368,000,000 of the funds appropriated for the Great 22
Lakes Restoration Initiative under the heading ‘‘Environ-23
mental Programs and Management’’ to the head of any 24
Federal department or agency, with the concurrence of 25
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such head, to carry out activities that would support the 1
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and Great Lakes 2
Water Quality Agreement programs, projects, or activities; 3
to enter into an interagency agreement with the head of 4
such Federal department or agency to carry out these ac-5
tivities; and to make grants to governmental entities, non-6
profit organizations, institutions, and individuals for plan-7
ning, research, monitoring, outreach, and implementation 8
in furtherance of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative 9
and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. 10
The Science and Technology, Environmental Pro-11
grams and Management, Office of Inspector General, Haz-12
ardous Substance Superfund, and Leaking Underground 13
Storage Tank Trust Fund Program Accounts, are avail-14
able for the construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, 15
and renovation of facilities, provided that the cost does 16
not exceed $300,000 per project. 17
For fiscal year 2024, and notwithstanding section 18
518(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 19
U.S.C. 1377(f)), the Administrator is authorized to use 20
the amounts appropriated for any fiscal year under section 21
319 of the Act to make grants to Indian Tribes pursuant 22
to sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act. 23
The Administrator is authorized to use the amounts 24
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Environmental Pro-25
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grams and Management’’ for fiscal year 2024 to provide 1
grants to implement the Southeast New England Water-2
shed Restoration Program. 3
Notwithstanding the limitations on amounts in sec-4
tion 320(i)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 5
Act, not less than $2,800,000 of the funds made available 6
under this title for the National Estuary Program shall 7
be for making competitive awards described in section 8
320(g)(4). 9
For fiscal year 2024, the Office of Chemical Safety 10
and Pollution Prevention and the Office of Water may, 11
using funds appropriated under the headings ‘‘Environ-12
mental Programs and Management’’ and ‘‘Science and 13
Technology’’, contract directly with individuals or indi-14
rectly with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without 15
regard to 41 U.S.C. 5, for the temporary or intermittent 16
personal services of students or recent graduates, who 17
shall be considered employees for the purposes of chapters 18
57 and 81 of title 5, United States Code, relating to com-19
pensation for travel and work injuries, and chapter 171 20
of title 28, United States Code, relating to tort claims, 21
but shall not be considered to be Federal employees for 22
any other purpose: Provided, That amounts used for this 23
purpose by the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution 24
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Prevention and the Office of Water collectively may not 1
exceed $2,000,000. 2
TITLE III 3
RELATED AGENCIES 4
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 5
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR NATURAL 6
RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT 7
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under 8
Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, 9
$1,000,000: Provided, That funds made available by this 10
Act to any agency in the Natural Resources and Environ-11
ment mission area for salaries and expenses are available 12
to fund up to one administrative support staff for the of-13
fice. 14
F
ORESTSERVICE 15
FOREST SERVICE OPERATIONS 16
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 17
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 18
otherwise provided for, $1,069,086,000 (reduced by 19
$2,000,000), to remain available through September 30, 20
2027: Provided, That a portion of the funds made avail-21
able under this heading shall be for the base salary and 22
expenses of employees in the Chief’s Office, the Work En-23
vironment and Performance Office, the Business Oper-24
ations Deputy Area, and the Chief Financial Officer’s Of-25
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fice to carry out administrative and general management 1
support functions: Provided further, That funds provided 2
under this heading shall be available for the costs of facil-3
ity maintenance, repairs, and leases for buildings and sites 4
where these administrative, general management and 5
other Forest Service support functions take place; the 6
costs of all utility and telecommunication expenses of the 7
Forest Service, as well as business services; and, for infor-8
mation technology, including cybersecurity requirements: 9
Provided further, That funds provided under this heading 10
may be used for necessary expenses to carry out adminis-11
trative and general management support functions of the 12
Forest Service not otherwise provided for and necessary 13
for its operation. 14
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 15
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-16
search as authorized by law, $275,000,000 (increased by 17
$1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000), to remain available 18
through September 30, 2027: Provided, That of the funds 19
provided, $32,197,000 is for the forest inventory and anal-20
ysis program: Provided further, That all authorities for the 21
use of funds, including the use of contracts, grants, and 22
cooperative agreements, available to execute the Forest 23
and Rangeland Research appropriation, are also available 24
in the utilization of these funds for Fire Science Research. 25
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STATE, PRIVATE, AND TRIBAL FORESTRY 1
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-2
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-3
tories, possessions, Tribes, and others, and for forest 4
health management, including for invasive plants, and 5
conducting an international program and trade compliance 6
activities as authorized, $305,198,000, to remain available 7
through September 30, 2027. 8
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 9
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 10
otherwise provided for, for management, protection, im-11
provement, and utilization of the National Forest System, 12
and for hazardous fuels management on or adjacent to 13
such lands, $1,816,437,000 (increased by $2,000,000) 14
(increased by $409,843,000) (reduced by $409,843,000) 15
(increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000), to re-16
main available through September 30, 2027: Provided, 17
That of the funds provided, $32,000,000 shall be depos-18
ited in the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration 19
Fund for ecological restoration treatments as authorized 20
by section 4003(f) of the Omnibus Public Land Manage-21
ment Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 7303(f)): Provided further, 22
That of the funds provided, $41,600,000 shall be for for-23
est products: Provided further, That of the funds provided, 24
$207,000,000 shall be for hazardous fuels management 25
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activities, of which not to exceed $20,000,000 may be used 1
to make grants, using any authorities available to the For-2
est Service under the ‘‘State, Private, and Tribal For-3
estry’’ appropriation, for the purpose of creating incen-4
tives for increased use of biomass from National Forest 5
System lands: Provided further, That $20,000,000 may be 6
used by the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into procure-7
ment contracts or cooperative agreements or to issue 8
grants for hazardous fuels management activities, and for 9
training or monitoring associated with such hazardous 10
fuels management activities on Federal land, or on non- 11
Federal land if the Secretary determines such activities 12
benefit resources on Federal land: Provided further, That 13
funds made available to implement the Community Forest 14
Restoration Act, Public Law 106–393, title VI, shall be 15
available for use on non-Federal lands in accordance with 16
authorities made available to the Forest Service under the 17
‘‘State, Private, and Tribal Forestry’’ appropriation: Pro-18
vided further, That notwithstanding section 33 of the 19
Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1012), the 20
Secretary of Agriculture, in calculating a fee for grazing 21
on a National Grassland, may provide a credit of up to 22
50 percent of the calculated fee to a Grazing Association 23
or direct permittee for a conservation practice approved 24
by the Secretary in advance of the fiscal year in which 25
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the cost of the conservation practice is incurred, and that 1
the amount credited shall remain available to the Grazing 2
Association or the direct permittee, as appropriate, in the 3
fiscal year in which the credit is made and each fiscal year 4
thereafter for use on the project for conservation practices 5
approved by the Secretary: Provided further, That funds 6
appropriated to this account shall be available for the base 7
salary and expenses of employees that carry out the func-8
tions funded by the ‘‘Capital Improvement and Mainte-9
nance’’ account, the ‘‘Range Betterment Fund’’ account, 10
and the ‘‘Management of National Forest Lands for Sub-11
sistence Uses’’ account. 12
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 13
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 14
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 15
otherwise provided for, $152,243,000, to remain available 16
through September 30, 2027, for construction, capital im-17
provement, maintenance, and acquisition of buildings and 18
other facilities and infrastructure; for construction, recon-19
struction, and decommissioning of roads that are no 20
longer needed, including unauthorized roads that are not 21
part of the transportation system; and for maintenance 22
of forest roads and trails by the Forest Service as author-23
ized by 16 U.S.C. 532–538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205: 24
Provided, That $10,000,000 shall be for activities author-25
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ized by 16 U.S.C. 538(a): Provided further, That funds 1
becoming available in fiscal year 2024 under the Act of 2
March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501) shall be transferred to 3
the General Fund of the Treasury and shall not be avail-4
able for transfer or obligation for any other purpose unless 5
the funds are appropriated. 6
ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL 7
ACTS 8
For acquisition of lands within the exterior bound-9
aries of the Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, 10
Utah; the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada; and the An-11
geles, San Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland National 12
Forests, California; and the Ozark-St. Francis and 13
Ouachita National Forests, Arkansas; as authorized by 14
law, $664,000, to be derived from forest receipts. 15
ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES 16
For acquisition of lands, such sums, to be derived 17
from funds deposited by State, county, or municipal gov-18
ernments, public school districts, or other public school au-19
thorities, and for authorized expenditures from funds de-20
posited by non-Federal parties pursuant to Land Sale and 21
Exchange Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 4, 1967 22
(16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available through September 23
30, 2027, (16 U.S.C. 516–617a, 555a; Public Law 96– 24
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586; Public Law 76–589, Public Law 76–591; and Public 1
Law 78–310). 2
RANGE BETTERMENT FUND 3
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, pro-4
tection, and improvement, 50 percent of all moneys re-5
ceived during the prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing do-6
mestic livestock on lands in National Forests in the 16 7
Western States, pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of Public 8
Law 94–579, to remain available through September 30, 9
2027, of which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available 10
for administrative expenses associated with on-the-ground 11
range rehabilitation, protection, and improvements. 12
GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND 13
RANGELAND RESEARCH 14
For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), 15
$45,000, to remain available through September 30, 2027, 16
to be derived from the fund established pursuant to the 17
above Act. 18
MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR 19
SUBSISTENCE USES 20
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service to man-21
age Federal lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under 22
title VIII of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conserva-23
tion Act (16 U.S.C. 3111 et seq.), $1,099,000, to remain 24
available through September 30, 2027. 25
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WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 1
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 2
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression 3
activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency 4
wildland fire suppression on or adjacent to such lands or 5
other lands under fire protection agreement, and for emer-6
gency rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest Sys-7
tem lands and water, $2,116,956,000 (increased by 8
$2,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000), to remain avail-9
able until expended: Provided, That such funds, including 10
unobligated balances under this heading, are available for 11
repayment of advances from other appropriations accounts 12
previously transferred for such purposes: Provided further, 13
That any unobligated funds appropriated in a previous fis-14
cal year for hazardous fuels management may be trans-15
ferred to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account: Provided 16
further, That such funds shall be available to reimburse 17
State and other cooperating entities for services provided 18
in response to wildfire and other emergencies or disasters 19
to the extent such reimbursements by the Forest Service 20
for non-fire emergencies are fully repaid by the responsible 21
emergency management agency: Provided further, That 22
funds provided shall be available for support to Federal 23
emergency response: Provided further, That the costs of 24
implementing any cooperative agreement between the Fed-25
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eral Government and any non-Federal entity may be 1
shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected parties: Pro-2
vided further, That of the funds provided under this head-3
ing, $1,011,000,000 shall be available for wildfire suppres-4
sion operations, and is provided to meet the terms of sec-5
tion 251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of the Balanced Budget and 6
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 7
WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 8
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 9
In addition to the amounts provided under the head-10
ing ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Service— 11
Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppression oper-12
ations, $2,300,000,000, to remain available until trans-13
ferred, is additional new budget authority specified for 14
purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget 15
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided, 16
That such amounts may be transferred to and merged 17
with amounts made available under the headings ‘‘Depart-18
ment of the Interior—Department-Wide Programs— 19
Wildland Fire Management’’ and ‘‘Department of Agri-20
culture—Forest Service—Wildland Fire Management’’ for 21
wildfire suppression operations in the fiscal year in which 22
such amounts are transferred: Provided further, That 23
amounts may be transferred to the ‘‘Wildland Fire Man-24
agement’’ accounts in the Department of the Interior or 25
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the Department of Agriculture only upon the notification 1
of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 2
that all wildfire suppression operations funds appropriated 3
under that heading in this and prior appropriations Acts 4
to the agency to which the funds will be transferred will 5
be obligated within 30 days: Provided further, That the 6
transfer authority provided under this heading is in addi-7
tion to any other transfer authority provided by law: Pro-8
vided further, That, in determining whether all wildfire 9
suppression operations funds appropriated under the 10
heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ in this and prior 11
appropriations Acts to either the Department of Agri-12
culture or the Department of the Interior will be obligated 13
within 30 days pursuant to the preceding proviso, any 14
funds transferred or permitted to be transferred pursuant 15
to any other transfer authority provided by law shall be 16
excluded. 17
COMMUNICATIONS SITE ADMINISTRATION 18
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 19
Amounts collected in this fiscal year pursuant to sec-20
tion 8705(f)(2) of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 21
2018 (Public Law 115–334), shall be deposited in the spe-22
cial account established by section 8705(f)(1) of such Act, 23
shall be available to cover the costs described in subsection 24
(c)(3) of such section of such Act, and shall remain avail-25
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able until expended: Provided, That such amounts shall 1
be transferred to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account. 2
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —FOREST SERVICE 3
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 4
Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current 5
fiscal year shall be available for: (1) purchase of passenger 6
motor vehicles; acquisition of passenger motor vehicles 7
from excess sources, and hire of such vehicles; purchase, 8
lease, operation, maintenance, and acquisition of aircraft 9
to maintain the operable fleet for use in Forest Service 10
wildland fire programs and other Forest Service programs; 11
notwithstanding other provisions of law, existing aircraft 12
being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or 13
trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the 14
replacement aircraft; (2) services pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 15
2225, and not to exceed $100,000 for employment under 16
5 U.S.C. 3109; (3) purchase, erection, and alteration of 17
buildings and other public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); 18
(4) acquisition of land, waters, and interests therein pur-19
suant to 7 U.S.C. 2268a; (5) for expenses pursuant to 20
the Volunteers in the National Forest Act of 1972 (16 21
U.S.C. 558a, 558d, and 558a note); (6) the cost of uni-22
forms as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; and (7) for 23
debt collection contracts in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 24
3718(c). 25
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Funds made available to the Forest Service in this 1
Act may be transferred between accounts affected by the 2
Forest Service budget restructure outlined in section 435 3
of division D of the Further Consolidated Appropriations 4
Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94): Provided, That any 5
transfer of funds pursuant to this paragraph shall not in-6
crease or decrease the funds appropriated to any account 7
in this fiscal year by more than ten percent: Provided fur-8
ther, That such transfer authority is in addition to any 9
other transfer authority provided by law. 10
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest 11
Service may be transferred to the Wildland Fire Manage-12
ment appropriation for forest firefighting, emergency re-13
habilitation of burned-over or damaged lands or waters 14
under its jurisdiction, and fire preparedness due to severe 15
burning conditions upon the Secretary of Agriculture’s no-16
tification of the House and Senate Committees on Appro-17
priations that all fire suppression funds appropriated 18
under the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ will be 19
obligated within 30 days: Provided, That all funds used 20
pursuant to this paragraph must be replenished by a sup-21
plemental appropriation which must be requested as 22
promptly as possible. 23
Not more than $50,000,000 of funds appropriated to 24
the Forest Service shall be available for expenditure or 25
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transfer to the Department of the Interior for wildland 1
fire management, hazardous fuels management, and State 2
fire assistance when such transfers would facilitate and 3
expedite wildland fire management programs and projects. 4
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 5
Forest Service may transfer unobligated balances of dis-6
cretionary funds appropriated to the Forest Service by 7
this Act to or within the National Forest System Account, 8
or reprogram funds to be used for the purposes of haz-9
ardous fuels management and urgent rehabilitation of 10
burned-over National Forest System lands and water: Pro-11
vided, That such transferred funds shall remain available 12
through September 30, 2027: Provided further, That none 13
of the funds transferred pursuant to this paragraph shall 14
be available for obligation without written notification to 15
and the prior approval of the Committees on Appropria-16
tions of both Houses of Congress. 17
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 18
available for assistance to or through the Agency for Inter-19
national Development in connection with forest and range-20
land research, technical information, and assistance in for-21
eign countries, and shall be available to support forestry 22
and related natural resource activities outside the United 23
States and its territories and possessions, including tech-24
nical assistance, education and training, and cooperation 25
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with United States government, private sector, and inter-1
national organizations: Provided, That the Forest Service, 2
acting for the International Program, may sign direct 3
funding agreements with foreign governments and institu-4
tions as well as other domestic agencies (including the 5
U.S. Agency for International Development, the Depart-6
ment of State, and the Millennium Challenge Corpora-7
tion), United States private sector firms, institutions and 8
organizations to provide technical assistance and training 9
programs on forestry and rangeland management: Pro-10
vided further, That to maximize effectiveness of domestic 11
and international research and cooperation, the Inter-12
national Program may utilize all authorities related to for-13
estry, research, and cooperative assistance regardless of 14
program designations. 15
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 16
available to enter into a cooperative agreement with the 17
section 509(a)(3) Supporting Organization, ‘‘Forest Serv-18
ice International Foundation’’ to assist the Foundation in 19
meeting administrative, project, and other expenses, and 20
may provide for the Foundation’s use of Forest Service 21
personnel and facilities. 22
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 23
available for expenditure or transfer to the Department 24
of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, for removal, 25
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preparation, and adoption of excess wild horses and burros 1
from National Forest System lands, and for the perform-2
ance of cadastral surveys to designate the boundaries of 3
such lands. 4
None of the funds made available to the Forest Serv-5
ice in this Act or any other Act with respect to any fiscal 6
year shall be subject to transfer under the provisions of 7
section 702(b) of the Department of Agriculture Organic 8
Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257), section 442 of Public Law 9
106–224 (7 U.S.C. 7772), or section 10417(b) of Public 10
Law 107–171 (7 U.S.C. 8316(b)). 11
Not more than $82,000,000 of funds available to the 12
Forest Service shall be transferred to the Working Capital 13
Fund of the Department of Agriculture and not more than 14
$14,500,000 of funds available to the Forest Service shall 15
be transferred to the Department of Agriculture for De-16
partment Reimbursable Programs, commonly referred to 17
as Greenbook charges: Provided, That nothing in this 18
paragraph shall prohibit or limit the use of reimbursable 19
agreements requested by the Forest Service in order to 20
obtain information technology services, including tele-21
communications and system modifications or enhance-22
ments, from the Working Capital Fund of the Department 23
of Agriculture. 24
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Of the funds available to the Forest Service, up to 1
$5,000,000 shall be available for priority projects within 2
the scope of the approved budget, which shall be carried 3
out by the Youth Conservation Corps and shall be carried 4
out under the authority of the Public Lands Corps Act 5
of 1993 (16 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.). 6
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $4,000 7
is available to the Chief of the Forest Service for official 8
reception and representation expenses. 9
Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public 10
Law 101–593, of the funds available to the Forest Service, 11
up to $3,000,000 may be advanced in a lump sum to the 12
National Forest Foundation to aid conservation partner-13
ship projects in support of the Forest Service mission, 14
without regard to when the Foundation incurs expenses, 15
for projects on or benefitting National Forest System 16
lands or related to Forest Service programs: Provided, 17
That of the Federal funds made available to the Founda-18
tion, no more than $300,000 shall be available for admin-19
istrative expenses: Provided further, That the Foundation 20
shall obtain, by the end of the period of Federal financial 21
assistance, private contributions to match funds made 22
available by the Forest Service on at least a one-for-one 23
basis: Provided further, That the Foundation may transfer 24
Federal funds to a Federal or a non-Federal recipient for 25
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a project at the same rate that the recipient has obtained 1
the non-Federal matching funds. 2
Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98–244, 3
up to $1,500,000 of the funds available to the Forest 4
Service may be advanced to the National Fish and Wildlife 5
Foundation in a lump sum to aid cost-share conservation 6
projects, without regard to when expenses are incurred, 7
on or benefitting National Forest System lands or related 8
to Forest Service programs: Provided, That such funds 9
shall be matched on at least a one-for-one basis by the 10
Foundation or its sub-recipients: Provided further, That 11
the Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a Federal 12
or non-Federal recipient for a project at the same rate 13
that the recipient has obtained the non-Federal matching 14
funds. 15
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service under the 16
National Forest System heading shall be available for the 17
Secretary of Agriculture to enter into cooperative agree-18
ments with other Federal agencies, Tribes, States, local 19
governments, private and nonprofit entities, and edu-20
cational institutions to support the work of forest or grass-21
land collaboratives on activities benefitting Federal lands 22
and adjacent non-Federal lands, including for technical 23
assistance, administrative functions or costs, and other ca-24
pacity support needs identified by the Forest Service. 25
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Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 1
available for interactions with and providing technical as-2
sistance to rural communities and natural resource-based 3
businesses for sustainable rural development purposes. 4
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 5
available for payments to counties within the Columbia 6
River Gorge National Scenic Area, pursuant to section 7
14(c)(1) and (2), and section 16(a)(2) of Public Law 99– 8
663. 9
Any funds appropriated to the Forest Service may 10
be used to meet the non-Federal share requirement in sec-11
tion 502(c) of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 12
U.S.C. 3056(c)(2)). 13
The Forest Service shall not assess funds for the pur-14
pose of performing fire, administrative, and other facilities 15
maintenance and decommissioning. 16
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of any 17
appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service, 18
not to exceed $500,000 may be used to reimburse the Of-19
fice of the General Counsel (OGC), Department of Agri-20
culture, for travel and related expenses incurred as a re-21
sult of OGC assistance or participation requested by the 22
Forest Service at meetings, training sessions, management 23
reviews, land purchase negotiations, and similar matters 24
unrelated to civil litigation: Provided, That future budget 25
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justifications for both the Forest Service and the Depart-1
ment of Agriculture should clearly display the sums pre-2
viously transferred and the sums requested for transfer. 3
An eligible individual who is employed in any project 4
funded under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 5
(42 U.S.C. 3056 et seq.) and administered by the Forest 6
Service shall be considered to be a Federal employee for 7
purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code. 8
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 9
available to pay, from a single account, the base salary 10
and expenses of employees who carry out functions funded 11
by other accounts for Enterprise Program, Geospatial 12
Technology and Applications Center, remnant Natural Re-13
source Manager, Job Corps, and National Technology and 14
Development Program. 15
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 16
SERVICES 17
I
NDIANHEALTHSERVICE 18
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES 19
For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of Au-20
gust 5, 1954 (68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determina-21
tion and Education Assistance Act, the Indian Health 22
Care Improvement Act, and titles II and III of the Public 23
Health Service Act with respect to the Indian Health Serv-24
ice, $273,556,000, to remain available until September 30, 25
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2025, except as otherwise provided herein; and shall be 1
in addition to funds previously appropriated under this 2
heading that became available on October 1, 2023, and 3
in addition, $4,901,524,000, which shall become available 4
on October 1, 2024, and remain available through Sep-5
tember 30, 2026, except as otherwise provided herein; to-6
gether with payments received during each fiscal year pur-7
suant to sections 231(b) and 233 of the Public Health 8
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 238(b) and 238b), for services fur-9
nished by the Indian Health Service: Provided, That funds 10
made available to Tribes and Tribal organizations through 11
contracts, grant agreements, or any other agreements or 12
compacts authorized by the Indian Self-Determination and 13
Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301), shall 14
be deemed to be obligated at the time of the grant or con-15
tract award and thereafter shall remain available to the 16
Tribe or Tribal organization without fiscal year limitation: 17
Provided further, That $2,500,000 shall be available for 18
fiscal year 2025 for grants or contracts with public or pri-19
vate institutions to provide alcohol or drug treatment serv-20
ices to Indians, including alcohol detoxification services: 21
Provided further, That $996,755,000 shall remain avail-22
able until expended for fiscal year 2025 for Purchased/ 23
Referred Care: Provided further, That of the total amount 24
specified in the preceding proviso for Purchased/Referred 25
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Care, $54,000,000 shall be for the Indian Catastrophic 1
Health Emergency Fund: Provided further, That 2
$51,000,000 shall remain available until expended for fis-3
cal year 2025 for implementation of the loan repayment 4
program under section 108 of the Indian Health Care Im-5
provement Act: Provided further, That $58,000,000 for 6
fiscal year 2025 shall be for costs related to or resulting 7
from accreditation emergencies, including supplementing 8
activities funded under the heading ‘‘Indian Health Facili-9
ties’’, of which up to $4,000,000 may be used to supple-10
ment amounts otherwise available for Purchased/Referred 11
Care: Provided further, That the amounts collected by the 12
Federal Government as authorized by sections 104 and 13
108 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 14
U.S.C. 1613a and 1616a) during the preceding fiscal year 15
for breach of contracts shall be deposited in the Fund au-16
thorized by section 108A of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a– 17
1) and shall remain available until expended and, notwith-18
standing section 108A(c) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a– 19
1(c)), funds shall be available to make new awards under 20
the loan repayment and scholarship programs under sec-21
tions 104 and 108 of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1613a and 22
1616a): Provided further, That the amounts made avail-23
able within this account for the Substance Abuse and Sui-24
cide Prevention Program, for Opioid Prevention, Treat-25
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ment and Recovery Services, for the Domestic Violence 1
Prevention Program, for the Zero Suicide Initiative, for 2
the housing subsidy authority for civilian employees, for 3
Aftercare Pilot Programs at Youth Regional Treatment 4
Centers, for transformation and modernization costs of 5
the Indian Health Service Electronic Health Record sys-6
tem, for national quality and oversight activities, for im-7
proving collections from public and private insurance at 8
Indian Health Service and Tribally-operated facilities, for 9
an initiative to treat or reduce the transmission of HIV 10
and HCV, for a maternal health initiative, for the 11
Telebehaviorial Health Center of Excellence, for Alz-12
heimer’s activities, for Village Built Clinics, for a produce 13
prescription pilot, and for accreditation emergencies shall 14
be allocated at the discretion of the Director of the Indian 15
Health Service and shall remain available until expended: 16
Provided further, That funds provided in this Act that are 17
available for two fiscal years may be used in their second 18
year of availability for annual contracts and grants that 19
fall within 2 fiscal years, provided the total obligation is 20
recorded in such second year of availability: Provided fur-21
ther, That the amounts collected by the Secretary of 22
Health and Human Services under the authority of title 23
IV of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 24
1613) shall remain available until expended for the pur-25
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pose of achieving compliance with the applicable condi-1
tions and requirements of titles XVIII and XIX of the So-2
cial Security Act, except for those related to the planning, 3
design, or construction of new facilities: Provided further, 4
That funding contained herein for scholarship programs 5
under the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 6
U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available until expended: Pro-7
vided further, That amounts received by Tribes and Tribal 8
organizations under title IV of the Indian Health Care Im-9
provement Act shall be reported and accounted for and 10
available to the receiving Tribes and Tribal organizations 11
until expended: Provided further, That the Bureau of In-12
dian Affairs may collect from the Indian Health Service, 13
and from Tribes and Tribal organizations operating health 14
facilities pursuant to Public Law 93–638, such individ-15
ually identifiable health information relating to disabled 16
children as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying 17
out its functions under the Individuals with Disabilities 18
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.): Provided further, 19
That of the funds provided for fiscal year 2025, 20
$74,138,000 is for the Indian Health Care Improvement 21
Fund and may be used, as needed, to carry out activities 22
typically funded under the Indian Health Facilities ac-23
count: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-24
priated by this Act, or any other Act, to the Indian Health 25
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Service for the Electronic Health Record system shall be 1
available for obligation or expenditure for the selection or 2
implementation of a new Information Technology infra-3
structure system, unless the Committees on Appropria-4
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate are 5
consulted 90 days in advance of such obligation. 6
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS 7
For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for 8
contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter-9
mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with 10
the Indian Health Service for fiscal year 2024, such sums 11
as may be necessary: Provided, That notwithstanding any 12
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 13
this heading shall be available for transfer to another 14
budget account: Provided further, That amounts obligated 15
but not expended by a Tribe or Tribal organization for 16
contract support costs for such agreements for the current 17
fiscal year shall be applied to contract support costs due 18
for such agreements for subsequent fiscal years. 19
PAYMENTS FOR TRIBAL LEASES 20
For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for 21
leases pursuant to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Deter-22
mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 23
5324(l)) for fiscal year 2024, such sums as may be nec-24
essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-25
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tember 30, 2025: Provided, That notwithstanding any 1
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 2
this heading shall be available for transfer to another 3
budget account. 4
INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES 5
For construction, repair, maintenance, demolition, 6
improvement, and equipment of health and related auxil-7
iary facilities, including quarters for personnel; prepara-8
tion of plans, specifications, and drawings; acquisition of 9
sites, purchase and erection of modular buildings, and 10
purchases of trailers; and for provision of domestic and 11
community sanitation facilities for Indians, as authorized 12
by section 7 of the Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 13
2004a), the Indian Self-Determination Act, and the In-14
dian Health Care Improvement Act, and for expenses nec-15
essary to carry out such Acts and titles II and III of the 16
Public Health Service Act with respect to environmental 17
health and facilities support activities of the Indian Health 18
Service, $475,209,000, which shall remain available until 19
expended and shall be in addition to funds previously ap-20
propriated under this heading that became available on 21
October 1, 2023; and, in addition, $976,699,000, which 22
shall become available on October 1, 2024, and remain 23
available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding 24
any other provision of law, funds appropriated for the 25
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planning, design, construction, renovation, or expansion of 1
health facilities for the benefit of an Indian Tribe or 2
Tribes may be used to purchase land on which such facili-3
ties will be located: Provided further, That not to exceed 4
$500,000 may be used for fiscal year 2025 by the Indian 5
Health Service to purchase TRANSAM equipment from 6
the Department of Defense for distribution to the Indian 7
Health Service and Tribal facilities: Provided further, That 8
none of the funds appropriated to the Indian Health Serv-9
ice may be used for sanitation facilities construction for 10
new homes funded with grants by the housing programs 11
of the United States Department of Housing and Urban 12
Development. 13
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 14
Appropriations provided in this Act to the Indian 15
Health Service shall be available for services as authorized 16
by 5 U.S.C. 3109 at rates not to exceed the per diem rate 17
equivalent to the maximum rate payable for senior-level 18
positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger motor 19
vehicles and aircraft; purchase of medical equipment; pur-20
chase of reprints; purchase, renovation, and erection of 21
modular buildings and renovation of existing facilities; 22
payments for telephone service in private residences in the 23
field, when authorized under regulations approved by the 24
Secretary of Health and Human Services; uniforms, or al-25
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lowances therefor as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; 1
and for expenses of attendance at meetings that relate to 2
the functions or activities of the Indian Health Service: 3
Provided, That in accordance with the provisions of the 4
Indian Health Care Improvement Act, non-Indian patients 5
may be extended health care at all Tribally administered 6
or Indian Health Service facilities, subject to charges, and 7
the proceeds along with funds recovered under the Federal 8
Medical Care Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 2651–2653) shall 9
be credited to the account of the facility providing the 10
service and shall be available without fiscal year limitation: 11
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other law or 12
regulation, funds transferred from the Department of 13
Housing and Urban Development to the Indian Health 14
Service shall be administered under Public Law 86–121, 15
the Indian Sanitation Facilities Act and Public Law 93– 16
638: Provided further, That funds appropriated to the In-17
dian Health Service in this Act, except those used for ad-18
ministrative and program direction purposes, shall not be 19
subject to limitations directed at curtailing Federal travel 20
and transportation: Provided further, That none of the 21
funds made available to the Indian Health Service in this 22
Act shall be used for any assessments or charges by the 23
Department of Health and Human Services unless such 24
assessments or charges are identified in the budget jus-25
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tification and provided in this Act, or approved by the 1
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations through 2
the reprogramming process: Provided further, That not-3
withstanding any other provision of law, funds previously 4
or herein made available to a Tribe or Tribal organization 5
through a contract, grant, or agreement authorized by 6
title I or title V of the Indian Self-Determination and 7
Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et 8
seq.), may be deobligated and reobligated to a self-deter-9
mination contract under title I, or a self-governance agree-10
ment under title V of such Act and thereafter shall remain 11
available to the Tribe or Tribal organization without fiscal 12
year limitation: Provided further, That none of the funds 13
made available to the Indian Health Service in this Act 14
shall be used to implement the final rule published in the 15
Federal Register on September 16, 1987, by the Depart-16
ment of Health and Human Services, relating to the eligi-17
bility for the health care services of the Indian Health 18
Service until the Indian Health Service has submitted a 19
budget request reflecting the increased costs associated 20
with the proposed final rule, and such request has been 21
included in an appropriations Act and enacted into law: 22
Provided further, That with respect to functions trans-23
ferred by the Indian Health Service to Tribes or Tribal 24
organizations, the Indian Health Service is authorized to 25
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provide goods and services to those entities on a reimburs-1
able basis, including payments in advance with subsequent 2
adjustment, and the reimbursements received therefrom, 3
along with the funds received from those entities pursuant 4
to the Indian Self-Determination Act, may be credited to 5
the same or subsequent appropriation account from which 6
the funds were originally derived, with such amounts to 7
remain available until expended: Provided further, That re-8
imbursements for training, technical assistance, or serv-9
ices provided by the Indian Health Service will contain 10
total costs, including direct, administrative, and overhead 11
costs associated with the provision of goods, services, or 12
technical assistance: Provided further, That the Indian 13
Health Service may provide to civilian medical personnel 14
serving in hospitals operated by the Indian Health Service 15
housing allowances equivalent to those that would be pro-16
vided to members of the Commissioned Corps of the 17
United States Public Health Service serving in similar po-18
sitions at such hospitals: Provided further, That the appro-19
priation structure for the Indian Health Service may not 20
be altered without advance notification to the House and 21
Senate Committees on Appropriations. 22
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NATIONALINSTITUTES OFHEALTH 1
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 2
SCIENCES 3
For necessary expenses for the National Institute of 4
Environmental Health Sciences in carrying out activities 5
set forth in section 311(a) of the Comprehensive Environ-6
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 7
1980 (42 U.S.C. 9660(a)) and section 126(g) of the 8
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, 9
$75,000,000. 10
A
GENCY FORTOXICSUBSTANCES ANDDISEASE 11
R
EGISTRY 12
TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC 13
HEALTH 14
For necessary expenses for the Agency for Toxic Sub-15
stances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in carrying out 16
activities set forth in sections 104(i) and 111(c)(4) of the 17
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, 18
and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and section 3019 19
of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $76,000,000: Provided, 20
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, in lieu 21
of performing a health assessment under section 104(i)(6) 22
of CERCLA, the Administrator of ATSDR may conduct 23
other appropriate health studies, evaluations, or activities, 24
including, without limitation, biomedical testing, clinical 25
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evaluations, medical monitoring, and referral to accredited 1
healthcare providers: Provided further, That in performing 2
any such health assessment or health study, evaluation, 3
or activity, the Administrator of ATSDR shall not be 4
bound by the deadlines in section 104(i)(6)(A) of 5
CERCLA: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-6
priated under this heading shall be available for ATSDR 7
to issue in excess of 40 toxicological profiles pursuant to 8
section 104(i) of CERCLA during fiscal year 2024, and 9
existing profiles may be updated as necessary. 10
OTHER RELATED AGENCIES 11
E
XECUTIVEOFFICE OF THEPRESIDENT 12
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF 13
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 14
For necessary expenses to continue functions as-15
signed to the Council on Environmental Quality and Office 16
of Environmental Quality pursuant to the National Envi-17
ronmental Policy Act of 1969, the Environmental Quality 18
Improvement Act of 1970, and Reorganization Plan No. 19
1 of 1977, and not to exceed $750 for official reception 20
and representation expenses, $3,750,000 (increased by 21
$1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (reduced by 22
$2,750,000): Provided, That notwithstanding section 202 23
of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1970, the 24
Council shall consist of one member, appointed by the 25
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President, by and with the advice and consent of the Sen-1
ate, serving as chairman and exercising all powers, func-2
tions, and duties of the Council. 3
C
HEMICALSAFETY ANDHAZARDINVESTIGATIONBOARD 4
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 5
For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pur-6
suant to section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, including 7
hire of passenger vehicles, uniforms or allowances there-8
for, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, and for serv-9
ices authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates for individ-10
uals not to exceed the per diem equivalent to the maximum 11
rate payable for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 12
5376, $12,960,000: Provided, That the Chemical Safety 13
and Hazard Investigation Board (Board) shall have not 14
more than three career Senior Executive Service positions: 15
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provi-16
sion of law, the individual appointed to the position of In-17
spector General of the Environmental Protection Agency 18
(EPA) shall, by virtue of such appointment, also hold the 19
position of Inspector General of the Board: Provided fur-20
ther, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 21
Inspector General of the Board shall utilize personnel of 22
the Office of Inspector General of EPA in performing the 23
duties of the Inspector General of the Board, and shall 24
not appoint any individuals to positions within the Board. 25
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OFFICE OFNAVAJO ANDHOPIINDIANRELOCATION 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and 3
Hopi Indian Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93– 4
531, $3,060,000, to remain available until expended, 5
which shall be derived from unobligated balances from 6
prior year appropriations available under this heading: 7
Provided, That funds provided in this or any other appro-8
priations Act are to be used to relocate eligible individuals 9
and groups including evictees from District 6, Hopi-parti-10
tioned lands residents, those in significantly substandard 11
housing, and all others certified as eligible and not in-12
cluded in the preceding categories: Provided further, That 13
none of the funds contained in this or any other Act may 14
be used by the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Reloca-15
tion to evict any single Navajo or Navajo family who, as 16
of November 30, 1985, was physically domiciled on the 17
lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe unless a new or re-18
placement home is provided for such household: Provided 19
further, That no relocatee will be provided with more than 20
one new or replacement home: Provided further, That the 21
Office shall relocate any certified eligible relocatees who 22
have selected and received an approved homesite on the 23
Navajo reservation or selected a replacement residence off 24
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the Navajo reservation or on the land acquired pursuant 1
to section 11 of Public Law 93–531 (88 Stat. 1716). 2
I
NSTITUTE OFAMERICANINDIAN ANDALASKANATIVE 3
C
ULTURE ANDARTSDEVELOPMENT 4
PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE 5
For payment to the Institute of American Indian and 6
Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, as author-7
ized by part A of title XV of Public Law 99–498 (20 8
U.S.C. 4411 et seq.), $13,000,000, which shall become 9
available on July 1, 2024, and shall remain available until 10
September 30, 2025. 11
S
MITHSONIANINSTITUTION 12
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 13
For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institu-14
tion, as authorized by law, including research in the fields 15
of art, science, and history; development, preservation, and 16
documentation of the National Collections; presentation of 17
public exhibits and performances; collection, preparation, 18
dissemination, and exchange of information and publica-19
tions; conduct of education, training, and museum assist-20
ance programs; maintenance, alteration, operation, lease 21
agreements of no more than 30 years, and protection of 22
buildings, facilities, and approaches; not to exceed 23
$100,000 for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and 24
purchase, rental, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for em-25
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ployees, $852,215,000, to remain available until Sep-1
tember 30, 2025, except as otherwise provided herein; of 2
which not to exceed $16,938,000 for the instrumentation 3
program, collections acquisition, exhibition reinstallation, 4
Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, and 5
the repatriation of skeletal remains program shall remain 6
available until expended; and including such funds as may 7
be necessary to support American overseas research cen-8
ters: Provided, That funds appropriated herein are avail-9
able for advance payments to independent contractors per-10
forming research services or participating in official 11
Smithsonian presentations: Provided further, That the 12
Smithsonian Institution may expend Federal appropria-13
tions designated in this Act for lease or rent payments, 14
as rent payable to the Smithsonian Institution, and such 15
rent payments may be deposited into the general trust 16
funds of the Institution to be available as trust funds for 17
expenses associated with the purchase of a portion of the 18
building at 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, 19
to the extent that federally supported activities will be 20
housed there: Provided further, That the use of such 21
amounts in the general trust funds of the Institution for 22
such purpose shall not be construed as Federal debt serv-23
ice for, a Federal guarantee of, a transfer of risk to, or 24
an obligation of the Federal Government: Provided further, 25
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That no appropriated funds may be used directly to serv-1
ice debt which is incurred to finance the costs of acquiring 2
a portion of the building at 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, 3
Washington, DC, or of planning, designing, and con-4
structing improvements to such building: Provided further, 5
That any agreement entered into by the Smithsonian In-6
stitution for the sale of its ownership interest, or any por-7
tion thereof, in such building so acquired may not take 8
effect until the expiration of a 30 day period which begins 9
on the date on which the Secretary of the Smithsonian 10
submits to the Committees on Appropriations of the 11
House of Representatives and Senate, the Committees on 12
House Administration and Transportation and Infrastruc-13
ture of the House of Representatives, and the Committee 14
on Rules and Administration of the Senate a report, as 15
outlined in the explanatory statement described in section 16
4 of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 17
(Public Law 116–94; 133 Stat. 2536) on the intended 18
sale. 19
FACILITIES CAPITAL 20
For necessary expenses of repair, revitalization, and 21
alteration of facilities owned or occupied by the Smithso-22
nian Institution, by contract or otherwise, as authorized 23
by section 2 of the Act of August 22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623), 24
and for construction, including necessary personnel, 25
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$107,500,000, to remain available until expended, of 1
which not to exceed $10,000 shall be for services as au-2
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 3
N
ATIONALGALLERY OFART 4
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 5
For the upkeep and operations of the National Gal-6
lery of Art, the protection and care of the works of art 7
therein, and administrative expenses incident thereto, as 8
authorized by the Act of March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), 9
as amended by the public resolution of April 13, 1939 10
(Public Resolution 9, 76th Congress), including services 11
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in advance when 12
authorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for membership 13
in library, museum, and art associations or societies whose 14
publications or services are available to members only, or 15
to members at a price lower than to the general public; 16
purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards, and 17
uniforms, or allowances therefor, for other employees as 18
authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); purchase or 19
rental of devices and services for protecting buildings and 20
contents thereof, and maintenance, alteration, improve-21
ment, and repair of buildings, approaches, and grounds; 22
and purchase of services for restoration and repair of 23
works of art for the National Gallery of Art by contracts 24
made, without advertising, with individuals, firms, or or-25
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ganizations at such rates or prices and under such terms 1
and conditions as the Gallery may deem proper, 2
$160,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 3
2025. 4
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS 5
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 6
For necessary expenses of repair, restoration, and 7
renovation of buildings, grounds and facilities owned or 8
occupied by the National Gallery of Art, by contract or 9
otherwise, for operating lease agreements of no more than 10
10 years, that address space needs created by the ongoing 11
renovations in the Master Facilities Plan, as authorized, 12
$18,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-13
vided, That such funds may be obligated for design and 14
construction of an off-site art storage facility in partner-15
ship with the Smithsonian Institution and may be trans-16
ferred to the Smithsonian Institution for such purposes: 17
Provided further, That contracts awarded for environ-18
mental systems, protection systems, and exterior repair or 19
renovation of buildings of the National Gallery of Art may 20
be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded on 21
the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price. 22
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JOHN F. KENNEDYCENTER FOR THEPERFORMING 1
A
RTS 2
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 3
For necessary expenses for the operation, mainte-4
nance, and security of the John F. Kennedy Center for 5
the Performing Arts, $20,000,000, to remain available 6
until September, 30, 2025. 7
CAPITAL REPAIR AND RESTORATION 8
For necessary expenses for capital repair and restora-9
tion of the existing features of the building and site of 10
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 11
$10,000,000, to remain available until expended. 12
W
OODROWWILSONINTERNATIONALCENTER FOR 13
S
CHOLARS 14
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 15
For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions 16
of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 17
1356) including hire of passenger vehicles and services as 18
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $12,000,000, to remain 19
available until September 30, 2025. 20
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NATIONALFOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE 1
H
UMANITIES 2
N
ATIONALENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 3
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 4
For necessary expenses to carry out the National 5
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 6
$186,300,000 shall be available to the National Endow-7
ment for the Arts for the support of projects and produc-8
tions in the arts, including arts education and public out-9
reach activities, through assistance to organizations and 10
individuals pursuant to section 5 of the Act, for program 11
support, and for administering the functions of the Act, 12
to remain available until expended. 13
N
ATIONALENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 14
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 15
For necessary expenses to carry out the National 16
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 17
$186,300,000 to remain available until expended: Pro-18
vided, That appropriations for carrying out section 19
10(a)(2) of such Act shall be available for obligation only 20
in such amounts as may be equal to the total amounts 21
of gifts, bequests, devises of money, and other property 22
accepted by the chairman or by grantees of the National 23
Endowment for the Humanities under the provisions of 24
sections 11(a)(2)(B) and 11(a)(3)(B) of such Act during 25
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the current and preceding fiscal years for which equal 1
amounts have not previously been appropriated. 2
A
DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 3
None of the funds appropriated to the National 4
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities may be used 5
to process any grant or contract documents which do not 6
include the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided, That none 7
of the funds appropriated to the National Foundation on 8
the Arts and the Humanities may be used for official re-9
ception and representation expenses: Provided further, 10
That funds from nonappropriated sources may be used as 11
necessary for official reception and representation ex-12
penses: Provided further, That the Chairperson of the Na-13
tional Endowment for the Arts may approve grants of up 14
to $10,000, if in the aggregate the amount of such grants 15
does not exceed 5 percent of the sums appropriated for 16
grantmaking purposes per year: Provided further, That 17
such small grant actions are taken pursuant to the terms 18
of an expressed and direct delegation of authority from 19
the National Council on the Arts to the Chairperson. 20
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OMMISSION OFFINEARTS 21
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 22
For expenses of the Commission of Fine Arts under 23
chapter 91 of title 40, United States Code, $3,464,000: 24
Provided, That the Commission is authorized to charge 25
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fees to cover the full costs of its publications, and such 1
fees shall be credited to this account as an offsetting col-2
lection, to remain available until expended without further 3
appropriation: Provided further, That the Commission is 4
authorized to accept gifts, including objects, papers, art-5
work, drawings and artifacts, that pertain to the history 6
and design of the Nation’s Capital or the history and ac-7
tivities of the Commission of Fine Arts, for the purpose 8
of artistic display, study, or education: Provided further, 9
That one-tenth of one percent of the funds provided under 10
this heading may be used for official reception and rep-11
resentation expenses. 12
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 13
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 14
99–190 (20 U.S.C. 956a), $4,750,000: Provided, That the 15
item relating to ‘‘National Capital Arts and Cultural Af-16
fairs’’ in the Department of the Interior and Related 17
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986, as enacted into law 18
by section 101(d) of Public Law 99–190 (20 U.S.C. 19
956a), shall be applied in fiscal year 2024 in the second 20
paragraph by inserting ‘‘, calendar year 2020 excluded’’ 21
before the first period. 22
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ADVISORYCOUNCIL ONHISTORICPRESERVATION 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on 3
Historic Preservation (Public Law 89–665), $8,285,000. 4
N
ATIONALCAPITALPLANNINGCOMMISSION 5
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 6
For necessary expenses of the National Capital Plan-7
ning Commission under chapter 87 of title 40, United 8
States Code, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 9
3109, $8,500,000: Provided, That one-quarter of 1 per-10
cent of the funds provided under this heading may be used 11
for official reception and representational expenses associ-12
ated with hosting international visitors engaged in the 13
planning and physical development of world capitals. 14
U
NITEDSTATESHOLOCAUSTMEMORIALMUSEUM 15
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 16
For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, as 17
authorized by Public Law 106–292 (36 U.S.C. 2301– 18
2310), $67,000,000 (increased by $5,000,000) (increased 19
by $2,000,000), to remain available until September 30, 20
2025, of which $1,000,000 shall remain available until 21
September 30, 2026, for the Museum’s equipment replace-22
ment program; and of which $4,000,000 for the Museum’s 23
repair and rehabilitation program and $1,264,000 for the 24
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Museum’s outreach initiatives program shall remain avail-1
able until expended. 2
W
ORLDWARI CENTENNIALCOMMISSION 3
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
Notwithstanding section 9 of the World War I Cen-5
tennial Commission Act, as authorized by the World War 6
I Centennial Commission Act (Public Law 112–272) and 7
the Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘‘Buck’’ McKeon National 8
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public 9
Law 113–291), for necessary expenses of the World War 10
I Centennial Commission, $1,500,000, to remain available 11
until expended: Provided, That in addition to the authority 12
provided by section 6(g) of such Act, the World War I 13
Commission may accept money, in-kind personnel services, 14
contractual support, or any appropriate support from any 15
executive branch agency for activities of the Commission. 16
U
NITEDSTATESSEMIQUINCENTENNIAL COMMISSION 17
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 18
For necessary expenses of the United States 19
Semiquincentennial Commission to plan and coordinate 20
observances and activities associated with the 250th anni-21
versary of the founding of the United States, as authorized 22
by Public Law 116–282, the technical amendments to 23
Public Law 114–196, $15,000,000, to remain available 24
until September 30, 2025. 25
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TITLE IV 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 3
RESTRICTION ON USE OF FUNDS 4
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EC. 401. No part of any appropriation contained in 5
this Act shall be available for any activity or the publica-6
tion or distribution of literature that in any way tends to 7
promote public support or opposition to any legislative 8
proposal on which Congressional action is not complete 9
other than to communicate to Members of Congress as 10
described in 18 U.S.C. 1913. 11
OBLIGATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 12
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EC. 402. No part of any appropriation contained in 13
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 14
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. 15
DISCLOSURE OF ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 16
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EC. 403. The amount and basis of estimated over-17
head charges, deductions, reserves, or holdbacks, including 18
working capital fund charges, from programs, projects, ac-19
tivities and subactivities to support government-wide, de-20
partmental, agency, or bureau administrative functions or 21
headquarters, regional, or central operations shall be pre-22
sented in annual budget justifications and subject to ap-23
proval by the Committees on Appropriations of the House 24
of Representatives and the Senate. Changes to such esti-25
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mates shall be presented to the Committees on Appropria-1
tions for approval. 2
MINING APPLICATIONS 3
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EC. 404. (a) LIMITATION OFFUNDS.—None of the 4
funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant 5
to this Act shall be obligated or expended to accept or 6
process applications for a patent for any mining or mill 7
site claim located under the general mining laws. 8
(b) E
XCEPTIONS.—Subsection (a) shall not apply if 9
the Secretary of the Interior determines that, for the claim 10
concerned: (1) a patent application was filed with the Sec-11
retary on or before September 30, 1994; and (2) all re-12
quirements established under sections 2325 and 2326 of 13
the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) for vein or 14
lode claims, sections 2329, 2330, 2331, and 2333 of the 15
Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, and 37) for placer 16
claims, and section 2337 of the Revised Statutes (30 17
U.S.C. 42) for mill site claims, as the case may be, were 18
fully complied with by the applicant by that date. 19
(c) R
EPORT.—On September 30, 2025, the Secretary 20
of the Interior shall file with the House and Senate Com-21
mittees on Appropriations and the Committee on Natural 22
Resources of the House and the Committee on Energy and 23
Natural Resources of the Senate a report on actions taken 24
by the Department under the plan submitted pursuant to 25
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section 314(c) of the Department of the Interior and Re-1
lated Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 (Public Law 2
104–208). 3
(d) M
INERALEXAMINATIONS.—In order to process 4
patent applications in a timely and responsible manner, 5
upon the request of a patent applicant, the Secretary of 6
the Interior shall allow the applicant to fund a qualified 7
third-party contractor to be selected by the Director of the 8
Bureau of Land Management to conduct a mineral exam-9
ination of the mining claims or mill sites contained in a 10
patent application as set forth in subsection (b). The Bu-11
reau of Land Management shall have the sole responsi-12
bility to choose and pay the third-party contractor in ac-13
cordance with the standard procedures employed by the 14
Bureau of Land Management in the retention of third- 15
party contractors. 16
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS , PRIOR YEAR LIMITATION 17
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EC. 405. Sections 405 and 406 of division F of the 18
Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 19
2015 (Public Law 113–235) shall continue in effect in fis-20
cal year 2024. 21
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS , FISCAL YEAR 2024 22
LIMITATION 23
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EC. 406. Amounts provided by this Act for fiscal 24
year 2024 under the headings ‘‘Department of Health and 25
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Human Services, Indian Health Service, Contract Support 1
Costs’’ and ‘‘Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian 2
Affairs, Contract Support Costs’’ are the only amounts 3
available for contract support costs arising out of self-de-4
termination or self-governance contracts, grants, com-5
pacts, or annual funding agreements for fiscal year 2024 6
with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Edu-7
cation, and the Indian Health Service: Provided, That 8
such amounts provided by this Act are not available for 9
payment of claims for contract support costs for prior 10
years, or for repayments of payments for settlements or 11
judgments awarding contract support costs for prior 12
years. 13
FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS 14
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EC. 407. The Secretary of Agriculture shall not be 15
considered to be in violation of section 6(f)(5)(A) of the 16
Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act 17
of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604(f)(5)(A)) solely because more 18
than 15 years have passed without revision of the plan 19
for a unit of the National Forest System. Nothing in this 20
section exempts the Secretary from any other requirement 21
of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Plan-22
ning Act (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.) or any other law: Pro-23
vided, That if the Secretary is not acting expeditiously and 24
in good faith, within the funding available, to revise a plan 25
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for a unit of the National Forest System, this section shall 1
be void with respect to such plan and a court of proper 2
jurisdiction may order completion of the plan on an accel-3
erated basis. 4
PROHIBITION WITHIN NATIONAL MONUMENTS 5
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EC. 408. No funds provided in this Act may be ex-6
pended to conduct preleasing, leasing and related activities 7
under either the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et 8
seq.) or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 9
1331 et seq.) within the boundaries of a National Monu-10
ment established pursuant to the Act of June 8, 1906 (16 11
U.S.C. 431 et seq.) as such boundary existed on January 12
20, 2001, except where such activities are allowed under 13
the Presidential proclamation establishing such monu-14
ment. 15
LIMITATION ON TAKINGS 16
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EC. 409. Unless otherwise provided herein, no funds 17
appropriated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or 18
interests in lands may be expended for the filing of dec-19
larations of taking or complaints in condemnation without 20
the approval of the House and Senate Committees on Ap-21
propriations: Provided, That this provision shall not apply 22
to funds appropriated to implement the Everglades Na-23
tional Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, or to 24
funds appropriated for Federal assistance to the State of 25
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Florida to acquire lands for Everglades restoration pur-1
poses. 2
PROHIBITION ON NO-BID CONTRACTS 3
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EC. 410. None of the funds appropriated or other-4
wise made available by this Act to executive branch agen-5
cies may be used to enter into any Federal contract unless 6
such contract is entered into in accordance with the re-7
quirements of Chapter 33 of title 41, United States Code, 8
or Chapter 137 of title 10, United States Code, and the 9
Federal Acquisition Regulation, unless— 10
(1) Federal law specifically authorizes a con-11
tract to be entered into without regard for these re-12
quirements, including formula grants for States, or 13
federally recognized Indian Tribes; 14
(2) such contract is authorized by the Indian 15
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act 16
(Public Law 93–638, 25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) or by 17
any other Federal laws that specifically authorize a 18
contract within an Indian Tribe as defined in section 19
4(e) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 5304(e)); or 20
(3) such contract was awarded prior to the date 21
of enactment of this Act. 22
POSTING OF REPORTS 23
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EC. 411. (a) Any agency receiving funds made avail-24
able in this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), 25
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post on the public website of that agency any report re-1
quired to be submitted by the Congress in this or any 2
other Act, upon the determination by the head of the agen-3
cy that it shall serve the national interest. 4
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if— 5
(1) the public posting of the report com-6
promises national security; or 7
(2) the report contains proprietary information. 8
(c) The head of the agency posting such report shall 9
do so only after such report has been made available to 10
the requesting Committee or Committees of Congress for 11
no less than 45 days. 12
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS GRANT 13
GUIDELINES 14
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EC. 412. Of the funds provided to the National En-15
dowment for the Arts— 16
(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant 17
to an individual if such grant is awarded to such in-18
dividual for a literature fellowship, National Herit-19
age Fellowship, or American Jazz Masters Fellow-20
ship. 21
(2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures 22
to ensure that no funding provided through a grant, 23
except a grant made to a State or local arts agency, 24
or regional group, may be used to make a grant to 25
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any other organization or individual to conduct ac-1
tivity independent of the direct grant recipient. 2
Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit payments 3
made in exchange for goods and services. 4
(3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support 5
to a group, unless the application is specific to the 6
contents of the season, including identified programs 7
or projects. 8
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS PROGRAM 9
PRIORITIES 10
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EC. 413. (a) In providing services or awarding fi-11
nancial assistance under the National Foundation on the 12
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 from funds appro-13
priated under this Act, the Chairperson of the National 14
Endowment for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given 15
to providing services or awarding financial assistance for 16
projects, productions, workshops, or programs that serve 17
underserved populations. 18
(b) In this section: 19
(1) The term ‘‘underserved population’’ means 20
a population of individuals, including urban minori-21
ties, who have historically been outside the purview 22
of arts and humanities programs due to factors such 23
as a high incidence of income below the poverty line 24
or to geographic isolation. 25
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(2) The term ‘‘poverty line’’ means the poverty 1
line (as defined by the Office of Management and 2
Budget, and revised annually in accordance with sec-3
tion 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant 4
Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2))) applicable to a family of 5
the size involved. 6
(c) In providing services and awarding financial as-7
sistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and 8
Humanities Act of 1965 with funds appropriated by this 9
Act, the Chairperson of the National Endowment for the 10
Arts shall ensure that priority is given to providing serv-11
ices or awarding financial assistance for projects, produc-12
tions, workshops, or programs that will encourage public 13
knowledge, education, understanding, and appreciation of 14
the arts. 15
(d) With funds appropriated by this Act to carry out 16
section 5 of the National Foundation on the Arts and Hu-17
manities Act of 1965— 18
(1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant cat-19
egory for projects, productions, workshops, or pro-20
grams that are of national impact or availability or 21
are able to tour several States; 22
(2) the Chairperson shall not make grants ex-23
ceeding 15 percent, in the aggregate, of such funds 24
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to any single State, excluding grants made under the 1
authority of paragraph (1); 2
(3) the Chairperson shall report to the Con-3
gress annually and by State, on grants awarded by 4
the Chairperson in each grant category under sec-5
tion 5 of such Act; and 6
(4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of 7
grants to improve and support community-based 8
music performance and education. 9
STATUS OF BALANCES OF APPROPRIATIONS 10
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EC. 414. The Department of the Interior, the Envi-11
ronmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the 12
Indian Health Service shall provide the Committees on 13
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Sen-14
ate quarterly reports on the status of balances of appro-15
priations including all uncommitted, committed, and unob-16
ligated funds in each program and activity within 60 days 17
of enactment of this Act. 18
EXTENSION OF GRAZING PERMITS 19
S
EC. 415. The terms and conditions of section 325 20
of Public Law 108–108 (117 Stat. 1307), regarding graz-21
ing permits issued by the Forest Service on any lands not 22
subject to administration under section 402 of the Federal 23
Lands Policy and Management Act (43 U.S.C. 1752), 24
shall remain in effect for fiscal year 2024. 25
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FUNDING PROHIBITION 1
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EC. 416. (a) None of the funds made available in 2
this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 3
network unless such network is designed to block access 4
to pornography websites. 5
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 6
funds necessary for any Federal, State, Tribal, or local 7
law enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out 8
criminal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activi-9
ties. 10
HUMANE TRANSFER AND TREATMENT OF ANIMALS 11
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EC. 417. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 12
of law, the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to land 13
administered by the Bureau of Land Management, or the 14
Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to land adminis-15
tered by the Forest Service (referred to in this section as 16
the ‘‘Secretary concerned’’), may transfer excess wild 17
horses and burros that have been removed from land ad-18
ministered by the Secretary concerned to other Federal, 19
State, and local government agencies for use as work ani-20
mals. 21
(b) The Secretary concerned may make a transfer 22
under subsection (a) immediately on the request of a Fed-23
eral, State, or local government agency. 24
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(c) An excess wild horse or burro transferred under 1
subsection (a) shall lose status as a wild free-roaming 2
horse or burro (as defined in section 2 of Public Law 92– 3
195 (commonly known as the ‘‘Wild Free-Roaming Horses 4
and Burros Act’’) (16 U.S.C. 1332)). 5
(d) A Federal, State, or local government agency re-6
ceiving an excess wild horse or burro pursuant to sub-7
section (a) shall not— 8
(1) destroy the horse or burro in a manner that 9
results in the destruction of the horse or burro into 10
a commercial product; 11
(2) sell or otherwise transfer the horse or burro 12
in a manner that results in the destruction of the 13
horse or burro for processing into a commercial 14
product; or 15
(3) euthanize the horse or burro, except on the 16
recommendation of a licensed veterinarian in a case 17
of severe injury, illness, or advanced age. 18
(e) Amounts appropriated by this Act shall not be 19
available for— 20
(1) the destruction of any healthy, unadopted, 21
and wild horse or burro under the jurisdiction of the 22
Secretary concerned (including a contractor); or 23
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(2) the sale of a wild horse or burro that results 1
in the destruction of the wild horse or burro for 2
processing into a commercial product. 3
FOREST SERVICE FACILITY REALIGNMENT AND 4
ENHANCEMENT AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 5
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EC. 418. Section 503(f) of Public Law 109–54 (16 6
U.S.C. 580d note) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘Sep-7
tember 30, 2024’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2019’’. 8
USE OF AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL 9
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EC. 419. (a)(1) None of the funds made available 10
by a State water pollution control revolving fund as au-11
thorized by section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act 12
(42 U.S.C. 300j–12) shall be used for a project for the 13
construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public 14
water system or treatment works unless all of the iron and 15
steel products used in the project are produced in the 16
United States. 17
(2) In this section, the term ‘‘iron and steel’’ products 18
means the following products made primarily of iron or 19
steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers 20
and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, 21
pipe clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, rein-22
forced precast concrete, and construction materials. 23
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or cat-24
egory of cases in which the Administrator of the Environ-25
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mental Protection Agency (in this section referred to as 1
the ‘‘Administrator’’) finds that— 2
(1) applying subsection (a) would be incon-3
sistent with the public interest; 4
(2) iron and steel products are not produced in 5
the United States in sufficient and reasonably avail-6
able quantities and of a satisfactory quality; or 7
(3) inclusion of iron and steel products pro-8
duced in the United States will increase the cost of 9
the overall project by more than 25 percent. 10
(c) If the Administrator receives a request for a waiv-11
er under this section, the Administrator shall make avail-12
able to the public on an informal basis a copy of the re-13
quest and information available to the Administrator con-14
cerning the request, and shall allow for informal public 15
input on the request for at least 15 days prior to making 16
a finding based on the request. The Administrator shall 17
make the request and accompanying information available 18
by electronic means, including on the official public Inter-19
net Web site of the Environmental Protection Agency. 20
(d) This section shall be applied in a manner con-21
sistent with United States obligations under international 22
agreements. 23
(e) The Administrator may retain up to 0.25 percent 24
of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Clean and 25
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Drinking Water State Revolving Funds for carrying out 1
the provisions described in subsection (a)(1) for manage-2
ment and oversight of the requirements of this section. 3
LOCAL COOPERATOR TRAINING AGREEMENTS AND TRANS -4
FERS OF EXCESS EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES FOR 5
WILDFIRES 6
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EC. 420. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized 7
to enter into grants and cooperative agreements with vol-8
unteer fire departments, rural fire departments, rangeland 9
fire protection associations, and similar organizations to 10
provide for wildland fire training and equipment, including 11
supplies and communication devices. Notwithstanding sec-12
tion 121(c) of title 40, United States Code, or section 521 13
of title 40, United States Code, the Secretary is further 14
authorized to transfer title to excess Department of the 15
Interior firefighting equipment no longer needed to carry 16
out the functions of the Department’s wildland fire man-17
agement program to such organizations. 18
RECREATION FEES 19
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EC. 421. Section 810 of the Federal Lands Recre-20
ation Enhancement Act (16 U.S.C. 6809) shall be applied 21
by substituting ‘‘October 1, 2025’’ for ‘‘September 30, 22
2019’’. 23
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REPROGRAMMING GUIDELINES 1
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EC. 422. None of the funds made available in this 2
Act, in this and prior fiscal years, may be reprogrammed 3
without the advance approval of the House and Senate 4
Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the re-5
programming procedures contained in the report accom-6
panying this Act. 7
LOCAL CONTRACTORS 8
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EC. 423. Section 412 of division E of Public Law 9
112–74 shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’ 10
for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’. 11
INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 12
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EC. 424. Section 426 of division G of Public Law 13
113–76 (16 U.S.C. 565a–1 note) shall be applied by sub-14
stituting ‘‘September 30, 2024’’ for ‘‘September 30, 15
2019’’. 16
PUERTO RICO SCHOOLING AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 17
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EC. 425. The authority provided by the 19th un-18
numbered paragraph under heading ‘‘Administrative Pro-19
visions, Forest Service’’ in title III of Public Law 109– 20
54, as amended, shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal 21
year 2024’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’. 22
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FOREST BOTANICAL PRODUCTS FEE COLLECTION 1
AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 2
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EC. 426. Section 339 of the Department of the Inte-3
rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as 4
enacted into law by Public Law 106–113; 16 U.S.C. 528 5
note), as amended by section 335(6) of Public Law 108– 6
108 and section 432 of Public Law 113–76, shall be ap-7
plied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 8
2019’’. 9
TRIBAL LEASES 10
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EC. 427. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 11
of law, in the case of any lease under section 105(l) of 12
the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance 13
Act (25 U.S.C. 5324(l)), the initial lease term shall com-14
mence no earlier than the date of receipt of the lease pro-15
posal. 16
(b) The Secretaries of the Interior and Health and 17
Human Services shall, jointly or separately, during fiscal 18
year 2024 consult with Tribes and Tribal organizations 19
through public solicitation and other means regarding the 20
requirements for leases under section 105(l) of the Indian 21
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 22
U.S.C. 5324(l)) on how to implement a consistent and 23
transparent process for the payment of such leases. 24
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EC. 428. The authority provided under the heading 2
‘‘Forest Ecosystem Health and Recovery Fund’’ in title 3
I of Public Law 111–88, as amended by section 117 of 4
division F of Public Law 113–235, shall be applied by sub-5
stituting ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2020’’ each 6
place it appears. 7
ALLOCATION OF PROJECTS , NATIONAL PARKS AND PUB -8
LIC LAND LEGACY RESTORATION FUND AND LAND 9
AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND 10
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EC. 429. (a)(1) Within 45 days of enactment of this 11
Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall allocate amounts 12
made available from the National Parks and Public Land 13
Legacy Restoration Fund for fiscal year 2024 pursuant 14
to subsection (c) of section 200402 of title 54, United 15
States Code, and as provided in subsection (e) of such sec-16
tion of such title, to the agencies of the Department of 17
the Interior and the Department of Agriculture specified, 18
in the amounts specified, for the stations and unit names 19
specified, and for the projects and activities specified in 20
the table titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: National Parks and 21
Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund Fiscal Year 2024’’ 22
in the report accompanying this Act. 23
(2) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Sec-24
retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, 25
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as appropriate, shall allocate amounts made available for 1
expenditure from the Land and Water Conservation Fund 2
for fiscal year 2024 pursuant to subsection (a) of section 3
200303 of title 54, United States Code, to the agencies 4
and accounts specified, in the amounts specified, and for 5
the projects and activities specified in the table titled ‘‘Al-6
location of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund 7
Fiscal Year 2024’’ in the report accompanying this Act. 8
(b) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (c) 9
of this section, neither the President nor his designee may 10
allocate any amounts that are made available for any fiscal 11
year under subsection (c) of section 200402 of title 54, 12
United States Code, or subsection (a) of section 200303 13
of title 54, United States Code, other than in amounts 14
and for projects and activities that are allocated by sub-15
sections (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section: Provided, That 16
in any fiscal year, the matter preceding this proviso shall 17
not apply to the allocation of amounts for continuing ad-18
ministration of programs allocated funds from the Na-19
tional Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund 20
or the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which may 21
be allocated only in amounts that are no more than the 22
allocation for such purposes in subsections (a)(1) and 23
(a)(2) of this section. 24
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(c) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary 1
of Agriculture may reallocate amounts from each agency’s 2
‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line in the table titled ‘‘Allocation 3
of Funds: National Parks and Public Land Legacy Res-4
toration Fund Fiscal Year 2024’’ to any project funded 5
by the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora-6
tion Fund within the same agency, from any fiscal year, 7
that experienced a funding deficiency due to unforeseen 8
cost overruns, in accordance with the following require-9
ments— 10
(1) ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ amounts may only be 11
reallocated if there is a risk to project completion re-12
sulting from unforeseen cost overruns; 13
(2) ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ amounts may only be 14
reallocated for cost of adjustments and changes 15
within the original scope of effort for projects fund-16
ed by the National Parks and Public Land Legacy 17
Restoration Fund; and 18
(3) the Secretary of the Interior or the Sec-19
retary of Agriculture must provide written notifica-20
tion to the Committees on Appropriations of the 21
House of Representatives and Senate 30 days before 22
taking any actions authorized by this subsection if 23
the amount reallocated from the ‘‘Contingency 24
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Fund’’ line for a project is projected to be 10 per-1
cent or greater than the following, as applicable— 2
(A) the amount allocated to that project in 3
the table titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: National 4
Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration 5
Fund Fiscal Year 2024’’ in the report accom-6
panying this Act; or 7
(B) the initial estimate in the most recent 8
report submitted, prior to enactment of this 9
Act, to the Committees on Appropriations pur-10
suant to section 431(e) of division G of the 11
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public 12
Law 117–328). 13
(d)(1) Concurrent with the annual budget submission 14
of the President for fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of the 15
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each sub-16
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 17
of Representatives and the Senate project data sheets for 18
the projects in the ‘‘Submission of Annual List of Projects 19
to Congress’’ required by section 200402(h) of title 54, 20
United States Code: Provided, That the ‘‘Submission of 21
Annual List of Projects to Congress’’ must include a 22
‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line for each agency within the allo-23
cations defined in subsection (e) of section 200402 of title 24
54, United States Code: Provided further, That in the 25
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event amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act for 1
the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration 2
Fund are no longer needed to complete a specified project, 3
such amounts may be reallocated in such submission to 4
that agency’s ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line: Provided further, 5
That any proposals to change the scope of or terminate 6
a previously approved project must be clearly identified 7
in such submission. 8
(2)(A) Concurrent with the annual budget submission 9
of the President for fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of the 10
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each sub-11
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 12
of Representatives and the Senate a list of supplementary 13
allocations for Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy 14
Projects at the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and 15
Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and 16
the U.S. Forest Service that are in addition to the ‘‘Sub-17
mission of Cost Estimates’’ required by section 18
200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, that are 19
prioritized and detailed by account, program, and project, 20
and that total no less than half the full amount allocated 21
to each account for that land management Agency under 22
the allocations submitted under section 200303(c)(1) of 23
title 54, United States Code: Provided, That in the event 24
amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act pursuant 25
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to subsection (a) of section 200303 of title 54, United 1
States Code are no longer needed because a project has 2
been completed or can no longer be executed, such 3
amounts must be clearly identified if proposed for realloca-4
tion in the annual budget submission. 5
(B) The Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy 6
projects in the ‘‘Submission of Cost Estimates’’ required 7
by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, 8
and on the list of supplementary allocations required by 9
subparagraph (A) shall be comprised only of projects for 10
which a willing seller has been identified and for which 11
an appraisal or market research has been initiated. 12
(C) Concurrent with the annual budget submission 13
of the President for fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of the 14
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each sub-15
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 16
of Representatives and the Senate project data sheets in 17
the same format and containing the same level of detailed 18
information that is found on such sheets in the Budget 19
Justifications annually submitted by the Department of 20
the Interior with the President’s Budget for the projects 21
in the ‘‘Submission of Cost Estimates’’ required by section 22
200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, and in the 23
same format and containing the same level of detailed in-24
formation that is found on such sheets submitted to the 25
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Committees pursuant to section 427 of division D of the 1
Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public 2
Law 116–94) for the list of supplementary allocations re-3
quired by subparagraph (A). 4
(e) The Department of the Interior and the Depart-5
ment of Agriculture shall provide the Committees on Ap-6
propriations of the House of Representatives and Senate 7
quarterly reports on the status of balances of projects and 8
activities funded by the National Parks and Public Land 9
Legacy Restoration Fund for amounts allocated pursuant 10
to subsection (a)(1) of this section and the status of bal-11
ances of projects and activities funded by the Land and 12
Water Conservation Fund for amounts allocated pursuant 13
to subsection (a)(2) of this section, including all uncom-14
mitted, committed, and unobligated funds, and, for 15
amounts allocated pursuant to subsection (a)(1) of this 16
section, National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora-17
tion Fund amounts reallocated pursuant to subsection (c) 18
of this section. 19
POLICIES RELATING TO BIOMASS ENERGY 20
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EC. 430. To support the key role that forests in the 21
United States can play in addressing the energy needs of 22
the United States, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary 23
of Agriculture, and the Administrator of the Environ-24
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mental Protection Agency shall, consistent with their mis-1
sions, jointly— 2
(1) ensure that Federal policy relating to forest 3
bioenergy— 4
(A) is consistent across all Federal depart-5
ments and agencies; and 6
(B) recognizes the full benefits of the use 7
of forest biomass for energy, conservation, and 8
responsible forest management; and 9
(2) establish clear and simple policies for the 10
use of forest biomass as an energy solution, includ-11
ing policies that— 12
(A) reflect the carbon neutrality of forest 13
bioenergy and recognize biomass as a renewable 14
energy source, provided the use of forest bio-15
mass for energy production does not cause con-16
version of forests to non-forest use; 17
(B) encourage private investment through-18
out the forest biomass supply chain, including 19
in— 20
(i) working forests; 21
(ii) harvesting operations; 22
(iii) forest improvement operations; 23
(iv) forest bioenergy production; 24
(v) wood products manufacturing; or 25
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(vi) paper manufacturing; 1
(C) encourage forest management to im-2
prove forest health; and 3
(D) recognize State initiatives to produce 4
and use forest biomass. 5
SMALL REMOTE INCINERATORS 6
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EC. 431. None of the funds made available in this 7
Act may be used to implement or enforce the regulation 8
issued on March 21, 2011 at 40 CFR part 60 subparts 9
CCCC and DDDD with respect to units in the State of 10
Alaska that are defined as ‘‘small, remote incinerator’’ 11
units in those regulations and, until a subsequent regula-12
tion is issued, the Administrator shall implement the law 13
and regulations in effect prior to such date. 14
TIMBER SALE REQUIREMENTS 15
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EC. 432. No timber sale in Alaska’s Region 10 shall 16
be advertised if the indicated rate is deficit (defined as 17
the value of the timber is not sufficient to cover all logging 18
and stumpage costs and provide a normal profit and risk 19
allowance under the Forest Service’s appraisal process) 20
when appraised using a residual value appraisal. The west-21
ern red cedar timber from those sales which is surplus 22
to the needs of the domestic processors in Alaska, shall 23
be made available to domestic processors in the contiguous 24
48 United States at prevailing domestic prices. All addi-25
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tional western red cedar volume not sold to Alaska or con-1
tiguous 48 United States domestic processors may be ex-2
ported to foreign markets at the election of the timber sale 3
holder. All Alaska yellow cedar may be sold at prevailing 4
export prices at the election of the timber sale holder. 5
TRANSFER AUTHORITY TO FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINIS -6
TRATION FOR THE NATIONAL PARKS AND PUBLIC 7
LAND LEGACY RESTORATION FUND 8
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EC. 433. Funds made available or allocated in this 9
Act to the Department of the Interior or the Department 10
of Agriculture that are subject to the allocations and limi-11
tations in 54 U.S.C. 200402(e) and prohibitions in 54 12
U.S.C. 200402(f) may be further allocated or reallocated 13
to the Federal Highway Administration for transportation 14
projects of the covered agencies defined in 54 U.S.C. 15
200401(2). 16
PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS 17
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EC. 434. Notwithstanding any other provision of 18
law, none of the funds made available in this Act or any 19
other Act may be used to promulgate or implement any 20
regulation requiring the issuance of permits under title V 21
of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7661 et seq.) for carbon 22
dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions 23
resulting from biological processes associated with live-24
stock production. 25
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GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING RESTRICTIONS 1
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EC. 435. Notwithstanding any other provision of 2
law, none of the funds made available in this or any other 3
Act may be used to implement any provision in a rule, 4
if that provision requires mandatory reporting of green-5
house gas emissions from manure management systems. 6
FUNDING PROHIBITION 7
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EC. 436. None of the funds made available by this 8
or any other Act may be used to regulate the lead content 9
of ammunition, ammunition components, or fishing tackle 10
under the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2601 11
et seq.) or any other law. 12
ALASKA NATIVE REGIONAL HEALTH ENTITIES 13
AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 14
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EC. 437. Section 424(a) of title IV of division G of 15
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 16
113–76) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘October 1, 17
2024’’ for ‘‘December 24, 2022’’. 18
RESCISSION OF GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION FUND 19
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EC. 438. Of the unobligated balances of amounts ap-20
propriated or otherwise made available for activities of the 21
Environmental Protection Agency by subsection (a) of sec-22
tion 134 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7434(a)), 23
$7,765,000,000 are permanently rescinded. 24
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RESCISSION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE 1
GRANTS 2
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EC. 439. Of the unobligated balances of amounts ap-3
propriated or otherwise made available for activities of the 4
Environmental Protection Agency by section 138(a) of the 5
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7438(a)), $1,353,000,000 are 6
hereby permanently rescinded. 7
HUNTING, FISHING, AND RECREATIONAL SHOOTING ON 8
FEDERAL LAND 9
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EC. 440. (a) None of the funds made available by 10
this or any other Act for any fiscal year may be used to 11
prohibit the use of or access to Federal land (as such term 12
is defined in section 3 of the Healthy Forests Restoration 13
Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6502)) for hunting, fishing, or 14
recreational shooting if such use or access— 15
(1) was not prohibited on such Federal land as 16
of January 1, 2013; and 17
(2) was conducted in compliance with the re-18
source management plan (as defined in section 101 19
of such Act (16 U.S.C. 6511)) applicable to such 20
Federal land as of January 1, 2013. 21
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary of 22
the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture may tempo-23
rarily close, for a period not to exceed 30 days, Federal 24
land managed by the Secretary to hunting, fishing, or rec-25
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reational shooting if the Secretary determines that the 1
temporary closure is necessary to accommodate a special 2
event or for public safety reasons. The Secretary may ex-3
tend a temporary closure for one additional 90-day period 4
only if the Secretary determines the extension is necessary 5
because of extraordinary weather conditions or for public 6
safety reasons. 7
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed as af-8
fecting the authority, jurisdiction, or responsibility of the 9
several States to manage, control, or regulate fish and 10
resident wildlife under State law or regulations. 11
WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES 12
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EC. 441. The rule submitted by the Department of 13
the Army, Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense 14
and the Environmental Protection Agency relating to ‘‘Re-15
vised Definition of ‘Waters of the United States’’’ (88 16
Fed. Reg. 3004 (January 18, 2023)) shall have no force 17
or effect. 18
LIMITATION 19
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EC. 442. None of the funds appropriated or other-20
wise made available by this Act may be obligated to en-21
force Public Land Order 7917 (88 Fed. Reg. 6308 (Janu-22
ary 31, 2023)). 23
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MINERAL LEASES 1
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EC. 443. Notwithstanding any other provision of law 2
and not subject to further judicial review, not later than 3
30 days after the date of enactment of this Act the Sec-4
retary of the Interior shall reinstate the hardrock mineral 5
leases in the Superior National Forest in the State of Min-6
nesota issued in 2019 and identified as MNES-01352 and 7
MNES-01353. 8
USE OF MINING CLAIMS FOR ANCILLARY ACTIVITIES 9
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EC. 444. Section 10101 of the Omnibus Budget 10
Reconciliation Act of 1993 (30 U.S.C. 28f) is amended 11
by adding at the end the following: 12
‘‘(e) S
ECURITY OFTENURE.— 13
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.— 14
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—A claimant shall have 15
the right to use, occupy, and conduct operations 16
on public land, with or without the discovery of 17
a valuable mineral deposit, if— 18
‘‘(i) such claimant makes a timely 19
payment of the location fee required by 20
section 10102 and the claim maintenance 21
fee required by subsection (a); or 22
‘‘(ii) in the case of a claimant who 23
qualifies for a waiver under subsection (d), 24
such claimant makes a timely payment of 25
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the location fee and complies with the re-1
quired assessment work under the general 2
mining laws. 3
‘‘(B) O
PERATIONS DEFINED .—For the 4
purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘oper-5
ations’ means— 6
‘‘(i) any activity or work carried out 7
in connection with prospecting, exploration, 8
processing, discovery and assessment, de-9
velopment, or extraction with respect to a 10
locatable mineral; 11
‘‘(ii) the reclamation of any disturbed 12
areas; and 13
‘‘(iii) any other reasonably incident 14
uses, whether on a mining claim or not, in-15
cluding the construction and maintenance 16
of facilities, roads, transmission lines, pipe-17
lines, and any other necessary infrastruc-18
ture or means of access on public land for 19
support facilities. 20
‘‘(2) F
ULFILLMENT OF FEDERAL LAND POLICY 21
AND MANAGEMENT ACT .—A claimant that fulfills 22
the requirements of this section and section 10102 23
shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements of any 24
provision of the Federal Land Policy and Manage-25
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ment Act that requires the payment of fair market 1
value to the United States for use of public lands 2
and resources relating to use of such lands and re-3
sources authorized by the general mining laws. 4
‘‘(3) S
AVINGS CLAUSE.—Nothing in this sub-5
section may be construed to diminish the rights of 6
entry, use, and occupancy, or any other right, of a 7
claimant under the general mining laws.’’. 8
CHARLES M. RUSSELL NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 9
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EC. 445. None of the funds made available by this 10
or any other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Inte-11
rior to facilitate or allow for the introduction of American 12
bison (Bison bison) on the Charles M. Russell National 13
Wildlife Refuge (as originally established in Executive 14
Order No. 7509, renamed in Public Land Order 2951, and 15
redesignated in Public Land Order 5635). 16
COTTONWOOD 17
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EC. 446. No later than 60 days after the date of 18
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall 19
issue the final rule entitled ‘‘Endangered and Threatened 20
Wildlife and Plants; Regulations for Interagency Coopera-21
tion’’ (86 Fed. Reg. 2373 (January 12, 2021)). 22
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EC. 447. None of the funds made available by this 2
Act may be used to consider or incorporate the social cost 3
of carbon— 4
(1) as part of any cost-benefit analysis required 5
or performed pursuant to— 6
(A) any law; 7
(B) Executive Order No. 13990 (86 Fed. 8
Reg. 7037; relating to protecting public health 9
and the environment and restoring science to 10
tackle the climate crisis); 11
(C) Executive Order No. 14094 (88 Fed. 12
Reg. 21879; relating to modernizing regulatory 13
review); 14
(D) the Presidential Memorandum entitled 15
‘‘Modernizing Regulatory Review’’ issued by the 16
President on January 20, 2021; 17
(E) any revisions to Office of Management 18
and Budget Circular A-4 proposed or finalized 19
under Executive Order No. 14094; or 20
(F) ‘‘Technical Support Document: Social 21
Cost of Carbon, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide 22
Interim Estimates under Executive Order 23
13990,’’ published under the Interagency Work-24
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ing Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse 1
Gases, in February of 2021; 2
(2) in any rulemaking; 3
(3) in the issuance of any guidance; 4
(4) in taking any other agency action; or 5
(5) as a justification for any rulemaking, guid-6
ance document, or agency action. 7
LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN 8
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EC. 448. None of the funds made available in this 9
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 10
or enforce the rule entitled ‘‘Endangered and Threatened 11
Wildlife and Plants; Lesser Prairie-Chicken; Threatened 12
Status With Section 4(d) Rule for the Northern Distinct 13
Population Segment and Endangered Status for the 14
Southern Distinct Population Segment’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 15
72674 (November 25, 2022)). 16
ECOGRIEF 17
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EC. 449. None of the funds made available by this 18
or any other Act may be obligated or expended to carry 19
out the program for Federal employees at the Department 20
of the Interior entitled ‘‘Acknowledging Ecogrief and De-21
veloping Resistance’’ or any counseling sessions, work-22
shop, or any other meeting pertaining to ecological grief, 23
ecogrief, or eco-resilience. 24
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NORTH CASCADES ECOSYSTEM GRIZZLY BEAR 1
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EC. 450. None of the funds made available by this 2
Act may be obligated or expended to prepare an environ-3
mental impact statement for, or to implement, administer, 4
or enforce, the North Cascades Ecosystem Grizzly Bear 5
Restoration Plan (87 Fed. Reg. 68190). 6
WATER RIGHTS 7
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EC. 451. None of the funds made available in this 8
or any other Act may be obligated to require or request, 9
as a condition of the issuance, renewal, or extension of 10
any Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management per-11
mit, lease, allotment, easement, or other land use and oc-12
cupancy, arrangement, the transfer, or relinquishment of 13
any water right, in whole, or in part, granted under State 14
law. 15
GRAY WOLF 16
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EC. 452. Not later than 60 days after the date of 17
enactment of this section, the Secretary of the Interior 18
shall reissue the final rule entitled ‘‘Endangered and 19
Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Gray Wolf 20
(Canis lupus) From the List of Endangered and Threat-21
ened Wildlife’’ (85 Fed. Reg. 69778 (November 3, 2020)). 22
COST RECOVERY 23
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EC. 453. (a) Any regulation promulgated by the Sec-24
retary of the Interior to establish fees to recover the costs 25
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of processing an application for a special recreation permit 1
or monitoring an authorization under a special recreation 2
permit for competitive or organized group or event use 3
shall include an exemption providing that fee may not be 4
recovered for not less than the first 100 hours of work 5
necessary in any 1 year to process the application or mon-6
itor the authorization. 7
(b) Not later than 30 days after the date of enact-8
ment of this section, the Secretary of the Interior shall 9
revise section 2932.31(e) of title 43, Code of Federal Reg-10
ulations, to be consistent with subsection (a) of this sec-11
tion. 12
EXECUTIVE ORDER FUNDING PROHIBITION 13
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EC. 454. None of the funds appropriated or other-14
wise made available by this Act may be made available 15
to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out Ex-16
ecutive Order No. 13985 of January 20, 2021 (86 Fed. 17
Reg. 7009, relating to advancing racial equity and support 18
for underserved communities through the Federal Govern-19
ment), Executive Order No. 14035 of June 25, 2021 (86 20
Fed. Reg. 34593, relating to diversity, equity, inclusion, 21
and accessibility in the Federal workforce), or Executive 22
Order No. 14091 of February 16, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 23
10825, relating to further advancing racial equity and 24
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support for underserved communities through the Federal 1
Government). 2
LIMITATION 3
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EC. 455. None of the funds made available by this 4
Act may be used to carry out any program, project, or 5
activity that promotes or advances Critical Race Theory 6
or any concept associated with Critical Race Theory. 7
WUHAN INSTITUTE LIMITATION 8
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EC. 456. None of the funds made available by this 9
Act may be made available to support, directly or indi-10
rectly, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any laboratory 11
owned or controlled by the governments of the People’s 12
Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Islamic Re-13
public of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 14
the Russian Federation, the Bolivarian Republic of Ven-15
ezuela under the regime of Nicola´s Maduro Moros, or any 16
other country determined by the Secretary of State to be 17
a foreign adversary. 18
NORTHERN LONG-EARED BAT 19
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EC. 457. None of the funds made available by this 20
Act may be used to implement the final rule ‘‘Endangered 21
and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species 22
Status for Northern Long-Eared Bat’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 23
73488 (November 30, 2020)). 24
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EXEMPTION TO COASTAL BARRIER RESTRICTIONS FOR 1
SHORELINE BORROW SOURCES 2
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EC. 458. Section 6 of the Coastal Barrier Resources 3
Act (16 U.S.C. 3505) is amended by adding at the end 4
the following new subsection: 5
‘‘(e) B
ORROWSOURCE.—Section 5 shall not apply to 6
Federal expenditures or financial assistance for the use 7
of a borrow source located within the System if such bor-8
row source, or a portion thereof, has been used as a bor-9
row source by a coastal storm risk management project 10
at least once prior to December 31, 2008.’’. 11
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 12
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EC. 459. None of the funds made available by this 13
Act shall be obligated for the planning, design, or con-14
struction of the National Museum of the American Latino 15
or the operation of the Molina Family Latino Gallery. 16
GAO ANALYSIS 17
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EC. 460. Notwithstanding any provision of law, none 18
of the funds made available by this Act may be obligated 19
or expended for the purpose of pre-leasing, leasing, or the 20
conveyance of leases for onshore wind energy activities in 21
Idaho, unless or until the Comptroller General of the 22
United States completes a report identifying potential ad-23
verse effects of wind energy development including with 24
respect to, wildlife, cultural resources, transportation, 25
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hunting, wetlands and the connected surface and ground 1
waters. 2
PESTICIDES 3
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EC. 461. None of the funds made available by this 4
or any other Act may be obligated or expended to issue 5
or adopt any guidance or any policy, take any regulatory 6
action, or approve any labeling or change to such labeling 7
that is inconsistent with or in any respect different from 8
the conclusion of— 9
(a) a human health assessment performed pursuant 10
to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 11
(7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.); or 12
(b) a carcinogenicity classification for a pesticide. 13
STEAM RULE 14
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EC. 462. None of the funds made available by this 15
or any other Act may be obligated to finalize, administer, 16
or enforce the proposed rule titled ‘‘Supplemental Effluent 17
Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Steam Elec-18
tric Power Generating Point Source Category’’ published 19
on March 29, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 18824). 20
WAIVER 21
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EC. 463. None of the funds made available by this 22
Act or any other Act may be used to approve a waiver 23
submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency by the 24
State of California, pursuant to section 209(e) of the 25
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Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7543(e)), for the State of Cali-1
fornia’s amendments to its rule titled ‘‘Small Off-Road 2
Engine Regulations: Transition to Zero Emissions’’. 3
5-YEAR PLAN 4
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EC. 464. Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf 5
Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344) is amended— 6
(1) in subsection (a)— 7
(A) by striking ‘‘subsections (c) and (d) of 8
this section, shall prepare and periodically re-9
vise,’’ and inserting ‘‘this section, shall issue 10
every five years’’; 11
(B) by adding at the end the following: 12
‘‘(5) Each five-year program shall include at 13
least two Gulf of Mexico region-wide lease sales per 14
year.’’. 15
(C) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘domes-16
tic energy security,’’ after ‘‘between’’; 17
(2) by redesignating subsections (f) through (i) 18
as subsections (h) through (k), respectively; and 19
(3) by inserting after subsection (e) the fol-20
lowing: 21
‘‘(f) Five-Year Program for 2023–2028.—The Sec-22
retary shall issue the five-year oil and gas leasing program 23
for 2023 through 2028 and issue the Record of Decision 24
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on the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact State-1
ment by not later than 60 days of enactment of this Act. 2
‘‘(g) Subsequent Leasing Programs.— 3
‘‘(1) In General.—Not later than 36 months 4
after conducting the first lease sale under an oil and 5
gas leasing program prepared pursuant to this sec-6
tion, the Secretary shall begin preparing the subse-7
quent oil and gas leasing program under this sec-8
tion. 9
‘‘(2) Requirement.—Each subsequent oil and 10
gas leasing program under this section shall be ap-11
proved by not later than 180 days before the expira-12
tion of the previous oil and gas leasing program.’’. 13
TRANSPARENCY 14
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EC. 465. (a) Not later than 60 days after the date 15
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior 16
shall reissue and implement Order No. 3368 ‘‘Promoting 17
Transparency and Accountability in Consent Decrees and 18
Settlement Agreements’’ dated September 11, 2018. 19
(b) None of the funds made available by this Act shall 20
be available to rescind the Order reissued under subsection 21
(a), reissue, enforce, administer, or implement Order No. 22
3408 ‘‘Rescission of Secretary’s Order 3368’’ dated June 23
17, 2022, or to issue, enforce, administer, or implement 24
any substantially similar order. 25
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EC. 466. None of the funds made available by this 2
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce 3
Public Land Order No. 7921 (relating to the withdrawal 4
of public land for satellite calibration in Railroad Valley; 5
Nye County, Nevada), published by the Bureau of Land 6
Management in the Federal Register on April 27, 2023 7
(88 Fed. Reg. 25682). 8
OZONE 9
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EC. 467. None of the funds made available by this 10
or any other Act may be made available to implement, ad-11
minister, or enforce the final rule titled ‘‘Federal ‘Good 12
Neighbor Plan’ for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air 13
Quality Standards’’ published by the Environmental Pro-14
tection Agency in the Federal Register on June 5, 2023 15
(88 Fed. Reg. 36654). 16
OFFSHORE WIND 17
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EC. 468. (a) None of the funds made available by 18
this Act may be obligated or expended for the purpose of 19
pre-leasing, leasing, or the conveyance of leases for off-20
shore wind energy activity in the Florida administrative 21
boundary until the Comptroller General of the United 22
States submits, to the appropriate Congressional Commit-23
tees, a study regarding the potential impact of offshore 24
wind development and associated infrastructure in the 25
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Florida administrative boundary on military readiness and 1
training, marine environment and ecology, tourism, and 2
other uses of the Outer Continental Shelf. 3
(b) In this section, the term ‘‘administrative bound-4
ary’’ means the offshore administrative boundary for a 5
State depicted in ‘‘Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) 6
Administrative Boundaries Extending from the Sub-7
merged Lands Act Boundary seaward to the Limit of the 8
United States Outer Continental Shelf’’ published Janu-9
ary 3, 2006 (71 Fed. Reg. 127). 10
(c) In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate Congres-11
sional Committees’’ means the Committees on Appropria-12
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the 13
Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Rep-14
resentatives, and the Committee on Energy and Natural 15
Resources of the Senate. 16
RECORD OF DECISION 17
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EC. 469. Notwithstanding any other provision of 18
law, not later than September 30, 2024, the Secretary of 19
the Interior shall issue a new Record of Decision for the 20
Caldwell Canyon Mine project that addresses the defi-21
ciencies identified by the United States District Court for 22
the District of Idaho in its decisions and orders issued 23
in Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. United States 24
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Bureau of Land Management, et al. (Case Number 4:21- 1
CV-00182-BLW) on January 24, 2023, and June 2, 2023. 2
EPA OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 3
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EC. 470. Beginning on October 1, 2023, of the 4
amounts made available to the Environmental Protection 5
Agency under each of sections 60101, 60102, 60104, 6
60105, 60106, 60107, 60108, 60109, 60110, 60111, 7
60112, 60113, 60115, 60116, and 60201 of Public Law 8
117–169, two-tenths of one percent of such amounts shall 9
be transferred to the Office of the Inspector General of 10
the Environmental Protection Agency for oversight of 11
funding provided to the Environmental Protection Agency 12
by such Public Law: Provided, That amounts so trans-13
ferred shall be derived from the unobligated balances of 14
amounts under each such section. 15
GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE NATIONAL MONUMENT 16
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EC. 471. None of the funds made available by this 17
Act may be used for management of the Grand Staircase- 18
Escalante National Monument except in compliance with 19
the Record of Decision and Approved Resource Manage-20
ment Plans for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National 21
Monument, dated February 2020. 22
OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS LEASING 23
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EC. 472. (a) The Secretary of the Interior shall con-24
duct all lease sales described in the 2017–2022 Outer Con-25
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tinental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Pro-1
gram (November 2016) that have not been conducted as 2
of the date of the enactment of this Act by not later than 3
September 30, 2024. 4
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and 5
except within areas subject to existing oil and gas leasing 6
moratoria beginning in fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of 7
the Interior shall annually conduct a minimum of 2 re-8
gion-wide oil and gas lease sales in the following planning 9
areas of the Gulf of Mexico region, as described in the 10
2017–2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing 11
Proposed Final Program (November 2016): 12
(1) The Central Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. 13
(2) The Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. 14
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, be-15
ginning in fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of the Interior 16
shall annually conduct a minimum of 2 region-wide oil and 17
gas lease sales in the Alaska region of the Outer Conti-18
nental Shelf, as described in the 2017–2022 Outer Conti-19
nental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program 20
(November 2016). 21
(d) In conducting lease sales under subsections (b) 22
and (c), the Secretary of the Interior shall— 23
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(1) issue such leases in accordance with the 1
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1332 2
et seq.); and 3
(2) include in each such lease sale all unleased 4
areas that are not subject to a moratorium as of the 5
date of the lease sale. 6
ONSHORE OIL AND GAS LEASING 7
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EC. 473. (a)(1) The Secretary of the Interior shall 8
immediately resume quarterly onshore oil and gas lease 9
sales in compliance with the Mineral Leasing Act (30 10
U.S.C. 181 et seq.). 11
(2) The Secretary of the Interior shall ensure— 12
(A) that any oil and gas lease sale pursuant to 13
paragraph (1) is conducted immediately on comple-14
tion of all applicable scoping, public comment, and 15
environmental analysis requirements under the Min-16
eral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) and the 17
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 18
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); and 19
(B) that the processes described in subpara-20
graph (A) are conducted in a timely manner to en-21
sure compliance with subsection (b)(1). 22
(3) Section 17(b)(1)(A) of the Mineral Leasing Act 23
(30 U.S.C. 226(b)(1)(A)) is amended by inserting ‘‘Eligi-24
ble lands comprise all lands subject to leasing under this 25
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Act and not excluded from leasing by a statutory or regu-1
latory prohibition. Available lands are those lands that 2
have been designated as open for leasing under a land use 3
plan developed under section 202 of the Federal Land Pol-4
icy and Management Act of 1976 and that have been nom-5
inated for leasing through the submission of an expression 6
of interest, are subject to drainage in the absence of leas-7
ing, or are otherwise designated as available pursuant to 8
regulations adopted by the Secretary.’’ after ‘‘sales are 9
necessary.’’. 10
(b)(1) In accordance with the Mineral Leasing Act 11
(30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), each fiscal year, the Secretary 12
of the Interior shall conduct a minimum of four oil and 13
gas lease sales in each of the following States: 14
(A) Wyoming. 15
(B) New Mexico. 16
(C) Colorado. 17
(D) Utah. 18
(E) Montana. 19
(F) North Dakota. 20
(G) Oklahoma. 21
(H) Nevada. 22
(I) Alaska. 23
(J) Any other State in which there is land 24
available for oil and gas leasing under the Mineral 25
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Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) or any other 1
mineral leasing law. 2
(2) In conducting a lease sale under paragraph (1) 3
in a State described in that paragraph, the Secretary of 4
the Interior shall offer all parcels nominated and eligible 5
pursuant to the requirements of the Mineral Leasing Act 6
(30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) for oil and gas exploration, devel-7
opment, and production under the resource management 8
plan in effect for the State. 9
(3) The Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a re-10
placement sale during the same fiscal year if— 11
(A) a lease sale under paragraph (1) is can-12
celed, delayed, or deferred, including for a lack of el-13
igible parcels; or 14
(B) during a lease sale under paragraph (1) the 15
percentage of acreage that does not receive a bid is 16
equal to or greater than 25 percent of the acreage 17
offered. 18
(4) Not later than 30 days after a sale required under 19
this subsection is canceled, delayed, deferred, or otherwise 20
missed the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to the 21
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-22
atives and the Senate, the Committee on Natural Re-23
sources of the House of Representatives, and the Com-24
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 25
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a report that states what sale was missed and why it was 1
missed. 2
RESCISSION OF COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 3
FUNDS 4
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EC. 474. Of the unobligated balances of amounts ap-5
propriated or otherwise made available for activities of the 6
Council on Environmental Quality under sections 60401 7
and 60402 of Public Law 117–169 (commonly known as 8
the ‘‘Inflation Reduction Act of 2022’’) as of the date of 9
the enactment of this Act are rescinded. 10
RESCISSION OF DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FUNDS 11
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EC. 475. Of the unobligated balances of amounts ap-12
propriated or otherwise made available under section 13
50224 of Public Law 117–169 (commonly known as the 14
‘‘Inflation Reduction Act of 2022’’) as of the date of the 15
enactment of this Act are rescinded. 16
OFFICIAL FLAGS 17
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EC. 476. None of the funds made available by this 18
Act may be obligated or expended to fly or display a flag 19
over a facility of a Department or agency funded by this 20
Act other than the flag of the United States; the flag of 21
a State, insular area, or the District of Columbia; the flag 22
of a Federally recognized Tribal entity; the official flag 23
of the Secretary of the Interior; the official flag of a U.S. 24
Department or agency; or the POW/MIA flag. 25
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EC. 477. Nothing in this Act, or any amendments 2
made by this Act, shall affect— 3
(a) the Presidential memorandum titled ‘‘Memo-4
randum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United 5
States Outer Continental Shelf From Leasing Disposi-6
tion’’ and dated September 8, 2020; 7
(b) the Presidential memorandum titled ‘‘Memo-8
randum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United 9
States Outer Continental Shelf From Leasing Disposi-10
tion’’ and dated September 25, 2020; 11
(c) the Presidential memorandum titled ‘‘Memo-12
randum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas off the Atlantic 13
Coast on the Outer Continental Shelf From Leasing Dis-14
position’’ and dated December 20, 2016; or 15
(d) the ban on oil and gas development in the Great 16
Lakes described in section 386 of the Energy Policy Act 17
of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15941). 18
VEHICLE RESERVATION SYSTEM AT GLACIER NATIONAL 19
PARK 20
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EC. 478. None of the funds made available by this 21
Act may be used for the operation or implementation of 22
the vehicle reservation system at Glacier National Park. 23
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PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR SECRETARIAL ORDER NO . 1
3410 2
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EC. 479. None of the funds made available by this 3
Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior to imple-4
ment or execute Secretarial Order No. 3410 (regarding 5
Restoration of American Bison and the Prairie Grass-6
lands) or any appendix to that Order, dated March 3, 7
2023. 8
LIMITATION 9
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EC. 480. None of the funds made available by this 10
Act may be used to finalize, implement, or enforce the pro-11
posed rule titled ‘‘National Emission Standards for Haz-12
ardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility 13
Steam Generating Units Review of the Residual Risk and 14
Technology Review’’ and published April 24, 2023 (88 15
Fed. Reg. 24854). 16
LEAD AMMUNITION AND TACKLE 17
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EC. 481. (a) None of the funds made available by 18
this Act may be used to prohibit the use of lead ammuni-19
tion or tackle on Federal land or water that is made avail-20
able for hunting or fishing activities or to issue regulations 21
relating to the level of lead in ammunition or tackle to 22
be used on Federal land or water, unless— 23
(1) the Secretary of the Interior determines that a 24
decline in wildlife population on the specific unit of Fed-25
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eral land or water is primarily caused by the use of lead 1
in ammunition or tackle, based on field data from the spe-2
cific unit of Federal land or water; and 3
(2) the prohibition or regulation, as applicable, is— 4
(A) consistent with— 5
(i) the law of the State in which the spe-6
cific unit of Federal land or water is located; or 7
(ii) an applicable policy of the fish and 8
wildlife department of the State in which the 9
specific unit of Federal land or water is located; 10
or 11
(B) approved by the fish and wildlife depart-12
ment of the State in which the specific unit of Fed-13
eral land or water is located. 14
(b) In any case in which the Secretary of the Interior 15
determines under subsection (a) that there is a wildlife 16
population decline on a specific unit of Federal land or 17
water that warrants a prohibition on or regulation relating 18
to the level of lead in ammunition or tackle, the Secretary 19
shall include in a Federal Register notice an explanation 20
of how the prohibition or regulation, as applicable, meets 21
the requirements of this section. 22
LIMITATION 23
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EC. 482. None of the funds made available by this 24
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-25
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force the proposed rule titled ‘‘New Source Performance 1
Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From New, 2
Modified, and Reconstructed Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric 3
Generating Units; Emission Guidelines for Greenhouse 4
Gas Emissions From Existing Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric 5
Generating Units; and Repeal of the Affordable Clean En-6
ergy Rule’’ published by the Environmental Protection 7
Agency in the Federal Register on May 23, 2023 (88 Fed. 8
Reg. 33240). 9
LIMITATION 10
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EC. 483. (a) INGENERAL.—Notwithstanding sec-11
tion 7 of title 1, United States Code, section 1738C of 12
title 28, United States Code, or any other provision of law, 13
none of the funds provided by this Act, or previous appro-14
priations Acts, shall be used in whole or in part to take 15
any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or par-16
tially, on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in 17
accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral 18
conviction, that marriage is, or should be recognized as, 19
a union of one man and one woman. 20
(b) D
ISCRIMINATORYACTIONDEFINED.—As used in 21
subsection (a), a discriminatory action means any action 22
taken by the Federal Government to— 23
(1) alter in any way the Federal tax treatment 24
of, or cause any tax, penalty, or payment to be as-25
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sessed against, or deny, delay, or revoke an exemp-1
tion from taxation under section 50l(a) of the Inter-2
nal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person referred to 3
in subsection (a); 4
(2) disallow a deduction for Federal tax pur-5
poses of any charitable contribution made to or by 6
such person; 7
(3) withhold, reduce the amount or funding for, 8
exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or 9
deny, any Federal grant, contract, subcontract, co-10
operative agreement, guarantee, loan, scholarship, li-11
cense, certification, accreditation, employment, or 12
other similar position or status from or to such per-13
son; 14
(4) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-15
erwise make unavailable or deny, any entitlement or 16
benefit under a Federal benefit program, including 17
admission to, equal treatment in, or eligibility for a 18
degree from an educational program, from or to 19
such person; or 20
(5) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-21
erwise make unavailable or deny access or an entitle-22
ment to Federal property, facilities, educational in-23
stitutions, speech fora (including traditional, limited, 24
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and nonpublic fora), or charitable fundraising cam-1
paigns from or to such person. 2
(c) A
CCREDITATION; LICENSURE; CERTIFICATION.— 3
The Federal Government shall consider accredited, li-4
censed, or certified for purposes of Federal law any person 5
that would be accredited, licensed, or certified, respec-6
tively, for such purposes but for a determination against 7
such person wholly or partially on the basis that the per-8
son speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held 9
religious belief or moral conviction described in subsection 10
(a). 11
LIMITATION 12
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EC. 484. None of the amounts appropriated or oth-13
erwise made available to the Smithsonian Institution by 14
this Act may be made available for partnerships or activi-15
ties associated with the Hong Kong Economic and Trade 16
Offices, including any use of facilities by the Hong Kong 17
Economic and Trade Offices. 18
LIMITATION 19
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EC. 485. None of the funds made available by this 20
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-21
force the proposed rule titled ‘‘National Emission Stand-22
ards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Ethylene Oxide Emis-23
sions Standards for Sterilization Facilities Residual Risk 24
and Technology Review’’ published by the Environmental 25
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Protection Agency in the Federal Register on April 13, 1
2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 22790) or the proposed interim reg-2
istration review decision and draft risk assessment adden-3
dum for ethylene oxide described in the notice titled ‘‘Pes-4
ticide Registration Review; Proposed Interim Decision and 5
Draft Risk Assessment Addendum for Ethylene Oxide; 6
Notice of Availability’’ published by the Environmental 7
Protection Agency in the Federal Register on April 13, 8
2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 22447) unless the Commissioner of 9
Food and Drugs certifies that finalization, implementa-10
tion, administration, or enforcement of such rule, decision, 11
or addendum for ethylene oxide will not adversely impact 12
the availability of sterile medical products in the United 13
States. 14
LIMITATION 15
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EC. 486. None of the funds made available by this 16
Act may be used to implement a final rule listing the 17
Dunes Sagebrush Lizard as endangered or threatened 18
pursuant to ‘‘Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and 19
Plants; Endangered Species Status for the Dunes Sage-20
brush Lizard’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 42661 (July 3, 2023)). 21
LIMITATION 22
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EC. 487. None of the funds made available by this 23
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-24
force the decisions proposed in the notice titled ‘‘Pesticide 25
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Registration Review; Proposed Interim Decisions for the 1
Rodenticides; Notice of Availability’’ published by the En-2
vironmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on 3
November 29, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 73297). 4
LIMITATION 5
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EC. 488. None of the funds made available by this 6
Act may be made available to finalize, implement, admin-7
ister, or enforce the proposed rule titled ‘‘Multi-Pollutant 8
Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later 9
Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles’’ and published 10
May 5, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 29184), or any substantially 11
similar rule. 12
LIMITATION 13
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EC. 489. None of the funds made available by this 14
Act may be made available to finalize, implement, admin-15
ister, or enforce the proposed rule titled ‘‘Greenhouse Gas 16
Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles-Phase 3’’ 17
and published April 27, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 25926), or 18
any substantially similar rule. 19
FUNDING LIMITATION REGARDING BLM RULE 20
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EC. 490. None of the funds made available by this 21
Act may be obligated or expended to— 22
(1) develop, finalize, or issue a final rule with 23
respect to the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Conservation 24
and Landscape Health’’ published by the Bureau of 25
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Land Management in the Federal Register on April 1
3, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 19583); or 2
(2) implement, administer, or enforce such pro-3
posed rule or any substantially similar rule. 4
GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM GRIZZLY BEAR 5
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EC. 491. (a) Not later than 180 days after the date 6
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior 7
shall reissue the final rule entitled ‘‘Endangered and 8
Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Greater 9
Yellowstone Ecosystem Population of Grizzly Bears From 10
the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife’’ 11
(82 Fed. Reg. 30502 (June 30, 2017)), without regard 12
to any other provision of law that applies to the issuance 13
of that final rule. 14
(b) The reissuance of the final rule described in sub-15
section (a) (including this section) shall not be subject to 16
judicial review. 17
BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE 18
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EC. 492. The Secretary of the Interior, acting 19
through the Director of the National Park Service, shall 20
prepare an environmental impact statement under the Na-21
tional Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 22
et seq.), prior to approving an operations permit, as de-23
scribed in 36 Code of Federal Regulations, subpart B 24
§§9.80 through 9.90, for the purpose of conducting or pro-25
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posing to conduct non-federal oil or gas operations within 1
the Big Cypress National Preserve. 2
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EC. 493. For ‘‘UNITEDSTATESGEOLOGICALSUR-3
VEY’’ to implement the Saline Lake Ecosystems in the 4
Great Basin States Assessment and Monitoring Program, 5
there is hereby appropriated, and the amount otherwise 6
provided by this Act for ‘‘D
EPARTMENTAL OFFICES—OF-7
FICE OF THESECRETARY—DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS 8
- 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) ’’ is hereby reduced 9
by, $5,000,000. 10
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EC. 494. (a) For ‘‘Department of the Interior—Of-11
fice of the Secretary—Departmental Operations - (includ-12
ing transfer of funds)’’ for carrying out section 4 of the 13
Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act (Public Law 14
117–114), there is hereby appropriated, and the amount 15
otherwise provided for by this Act for ‘‘Department of the 16
Interior—Office of the Secretary—Departmental Oper-17
ations - (including transfer of funds)’’ is hereby reduced 18
by, $5,500,000. 19
(b) For ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Serv-20
ice—Forest Service Operations - (including transfer of 21
funds)’’ for carrying out section 4 of the Modernizing Ac-22
cess to Our Public Land Act (Public Law 117–114), there 23
is hereby appropriated, and the amount otherwise pro-24
vided for by this Act for ‘‘Department of the Interior— 25
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Office of the Secretary—Departmental Operations - (in-1
cluding transfer of funds)’’ is hereby reduced by, 2
$5,500,000. 3
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EC. 495. None of the funds made available by this 4
Act may be used by the National Park Service to place 5
any limitation on the number of air tours at national 6
parks. 7
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EC. 496. None of the funds made available by this 8
Act may be used to promulgate new rules that the Admin-9
istrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Af-10
fairs of the Office of Management and Budget finds has 11
resulted in or is likely to result in— 12
(1) an annual effect on the economy of 13
$100,000,000 or more; 14
(2) a major increase in costs or prices for con-15
sumers, individual industries, Federal, State, or local 16
government agencies, or geographic regions; or 17
(3) significant adverse effects on competition, 18
employment, investment, productivity, innovation, or 19
the ability of United States-based enterprises to 20
compete with foreign-based enterprises in domestic 21
and export markets. 22
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EC. 497. None of the funds made available by this 23
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-24
force the Draft Resource Management Plan and Environ-25
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mental Impact Statement for the Rock Springs RMP Re-1
vision, Wyoming, referred to in the notice of availability 2
titled ‘‘Notice of Availability of the Draft Resource Man-3
agement Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for 4
the Rock Springs RMP Revision, Wyoming’’ published by 5
the Bureau of Land Management on August 18, 2023 (88 6
Fed. Reg. 56654). 7
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EC. 498. None of the funds made available by this 8
Act may be used for the establishment or modification of 9
a national monument in Colusa County, California, under 10
chapter 3203 of title 54, United States Code (commonly 11
referred to as the ‘‘Antiquities Act of 1906’’). 12
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EC. 499. None of the funds made available by this 13
Act may be used by the National Park Service to enact 14
the terms of NPS Lease#L-GATE912-2023, as executed 15
on September 15, 2023. 16
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 17
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EC. 500. $0 (increased by $28,000,000) (increased 18
by $15,000). 19
SALINA MUCKET AND MEXICAN FAWNSFOOT 20
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EC. 501. None of the funds made available by this 21
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-22
force the proposed rule titled ‘‘Endangered and Threat-23
ened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for 24
Salina Mucket and Mexican Fawnsfoot and Designation 25
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of Critical Habitat’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 47952; published July 1
25, 2023). 2
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EC. 502. None of the funds made available by this 3
Act may be used for the establishment of a national monu-4
ment in Malheur County, Oregon, under chapter 3203 of 5
title 54, United States Code (commonly referred to as the 6
‘‘Antiquities Act of 1906’’). 7
PROHIBITION ON FINALIZATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS 8
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EC. 503. None of the funds made available by this 9
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-10
force the Draft Resource Management Plan or Draft Sup-11
plemental Environmental Impact Statement referenced in 12
the Notice titled ‘‘Notice of Availability of the Draft Re-13
source Management Plan and Supplemental Environ-14
mental Impact Statement for the Colorado River Valley 15
Field Office and Grand Junction Field Office Resource 16
Management Plans, Colorado’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 51855; pub-17
lished August 4, 2023). 18
PROHIBITION ON FINALIZATION OF PROPOSED RULE 19
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EC. 504. None of the funds made available by this 20
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-21
force the proposed rule titled ‘‘Fluid Mineral Leases and 22
Leasing Process’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 47562; published July 24, 23
2023). 24
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SEC. 505. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to carry out the Bicycle Subsidy Benefit 2
Program of the Department of the Interior. 3
PROHIBITION ON FINALIZATION OF CERTAIN PROPOSED 4
RULES 5
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EC. 506. None of the funds made available by this 6
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-7
force— 8
(1) the proposed rule titled ‘‘Endangered and 9
Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Revision of Regula-10
tions for Interagency Cooperation’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 11
40753; published June 22, 2023); 12
(2) the proposed rule titled ‘‘Endangered and 13
Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Listing Endangered 14
and Threatened Species and Designating Critical 15
Habitat’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 40764; published June 22, 16
2023); or 17
(3) the proposed rule titled ‘‘Endangered and 18
Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Regulations Per-19
taining to Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and 20
Plants’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 40742; published June 22, 21
2023). 22
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EC. 507. None of the funds made available by this 23
Act may be used to implement or enforce the final rule 24
of the Environmental Protection Agency titled 25
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‘‘Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for 1
Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air 2
Act’’ and published December 15, 2009 (74 Fed. Reg. 3
66496). 4
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EC. 508. None of the funds made available by this 5
Act may be used to implement Executive Order No. 14057 6
(relating to Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs 7
Through Federal Sustainability) (86 Fed. Reg. 70935; 8
Dec. 8, 2021). 9
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EC. 509. None of the funds appropriated or other-10
wise made available by this Act may be made available 11
to finalize any rule or regulation that meets the definition 12
of section 804(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code. 13
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EC. 510. None of the funds made available by this 14
Act may be used for the cancellation or suspension of oil 15
and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or 16
the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. 17
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EC. 511. None of the funds made available by this 18
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-19
force the proposed rule titled ‘‘Management and Protec-20
tion of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska’’ and 21
published September 8, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 62025). 22
NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALE 23
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EC. 512. None of the funds made available by this 24
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-25
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force the proposed rule titled ‘‘Amendments to the North 1
Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule’’ (87 2
Fed. Reg. 46921; published August 1, 2022). 3
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EC. 513. None of the funds made available by this 4
Act may be used to reduce the number of oil and gas 5
leases issued by the Secretary of the Interior. 6
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EC. 514. None of the funds made available by this 7
Act may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency 8
for community-scale ambient air monitoring. 9
CRAB ISLAND AREA COMMERCIAL SERVICES STRATEGY 10
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EC. 515. None of the funds made available by this 11
Act may be used to finalize or implement a Commercial 12
Services Strategy for the Crab Island Area of the Gulf 13
Islands National Seashore. 14
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EC. 516. None of the funds made available by this 15
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce 16
Presidential Proclamation 10606 of August 8, 2023 (88 17
Fed. Reg. 55331, relating to the establishment of the Baaj 18
Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni–Ancestral Footprints of the Grand 19
Canyon National Monument). 20
RICE’S WHALE 21
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EC. 517. None of the funds made available by this 22
Act may be used by the Director of the Bureau of Ocean 23
Energy Management or the Director of the Bureau of 24
Safety and Environmental Enforcement to implement the 25
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terms of the ‘‘Stipulated Agreement to Stay Proceedings’’ 1
(July 21, 2023; Docket No. 8:20-cv-03060-DLB) entered 2
into by the Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, 3
Friends of the Earth, and Turtle Island Restoration Net-4
work and the National Marine Fisheries Service and the 5
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries of the National Ma-6
rine Fisheries Service, including the ‘‘Notice to Lessees 7
and Operators of Federal Oil and Gas, and Sulphur 8
Leases in the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf; Ex-9
panded Rice’s Whale Protection Efforts During Reiniti-10
ated Consultation with NMFS’’ (BOEM NTL No. 2023- 11
G01; August 17, 2023). 12
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EC. 518. None of the funds made available by this 13
Act may be used to develop, finalize, issue, or use assess-14
ments under the Integrated Risk Information System 15
(IRIS). 16
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EC. 519. None of the funds made available by this 17
Act may be used to finalize, revise, implement, administer, 18
or enforce the notice of interim guidance entitled ‘‘Na-19
tional Environmental Policy Act Guidance on Consider-20
ation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change’’ 21
published by the Council on Environmental Quality in the 22
Federal Register on January 9, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 23
1196). 24
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SEC. 520. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to implement or enforce the final rule 2
of the Environmental Protection Agency, titled ‘‘Clean 3
Water Act Section 401 Water Quality Certification Im-4
provement Rule’’, and published on September 27, 2023 5
(88 Fed. Reg. 66558). 6
TEXAS KANGAROO RAT 7
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EC. 521. None of the funds made available by this 8
Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior to final-9
ize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule 10
titled ‘‘Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 11
Endangered Species Status for Texas Kangaroo Rat and 12
Designation of Critical Habitat’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 55962; 13
published August 17, 2023). 14
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EC. 522. None of the funds made available by this 15
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-16
force the Draft Resource Management Plan or Draft En-17
vironmental Impact Statement referenced in the notice ti-18
tled ‘‘Notice of Availability of the Draft Resource Manage-19
ment Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for the 20
Redding and Arcata Field Offices and an Associated Envi-21
ronmental Impact Statement, California’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 22
67344; published September 29, 2023). 23
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SEC. 523. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used for the Solar For All competition of the 2
Environmental Protection Agency. 3
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EC. 524. None of the funds made available by this 4
Act may be used for the shooting of cattle in the Gila Na-5
tional Forest or any other National Forest. 6
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EC. 525. None of the funds made available by this 7
Act may be used for the American Climate Corps. 8
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EC. 526. None of the funds made available by this 9
Act may be used to implement or enforce the final rule 10
titled ‘‘Control of Air Pollution From New Motor Vehicles: 11
Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle Standards’’ published in 12
the Federal Register by the Environmental Protection 13
Agency on January 24, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 4296). 14
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EC. 527. None of the funds made available by this 15
Act may be used for the Interagency Working Group on 16
the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases. 17
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EC. 528. None of the funds made available by this 18
Act made be used to fund the Justice, Equity, Diversity 19
and Inclusion Workgroup of the Environmental Protection 20
Agency. 21
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EC. 529. None of the funds made available by this 22
Act may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency 23
for the U.S. Global Change Research Program 24
(USGCRP). 25
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SEC. 530. None of the funds made available by this 1
Act may be used to enforce any COVID–19 mask man-2
dates. 3
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EC. 531. None of the funds made available by this 4
Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, 5
or carry out section 216 of Executive Order No. 14008 6
(86 Fed. Reg. 7627, relating to tackling the climate crisis 7
at home and abroad). 8
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EC. 532. None of the funds made available by this 9
Act may be used finalize, implement, or enforce the pro-10
posed rule titled ‘‘Reconsideration of the National Ambi-11
ent Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter’’ and 12
published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the 13
Federal Register on January 27, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 14
5558). 15
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EC. 533. None of the funds made available by this 16
Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, 17
or carry out Executive Order No. 14037 of August 5, 18
2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 43583; relating to strengthening 19
American leadership in clean cars and trucks), Executive 20
Order No. 14057 of December 8, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 21
70935; relating to catalyzing clean energy industries and 22
jobs through Federal sustainability), or Executive Order 23
No. 14096 of April 21, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 25251; relat-24
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ing to revitalizing our Nation’s commitment to environ-1
mental justice for all). 2
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EC. 534. None of the funds made available by this 3
Act may be used for the Environmental Financial Advi-4
sory Board of the Environmental Protection Agency. 5
DOMESTIC MINING 6
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EC. 535. None of the funds made available by this 7
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce any 8
recommendation of the Interagency Working Group on 9
Mining Regulations, Laws, and Permitting of the Depart-10
ment of the Interior contained in the report titled ‘‘Rec-11
ommendations to Improve Mining on Public Lands’’ (pub-12
lished September 12, 2023). 13
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EC. 536. None of the funds made available by this 14
Act may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency 15
to carry out the powers granted under section 3063 of title 16
18, United States Code. 17
S
EC. 537. None of the funds made available by this 18
Act may be used to give formal notification under, or pre-19
pare, propose, implement, administer, or enforce any rule 20
or recommendation pursuant to, section 115 of the Clean 21
Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7415). 22
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EC. 538. The amount otherwise made available by 23
this Act for ‘‘Environmental Protection Agency–Environ-24
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mental Programs and Management’’ for the Office of Air 1
and Radiation is hereby reduced by 50 percent. 2
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EC. 539. None of the funds made available by this 3
Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, 4
or carry out any plastic straw prohibitions. 5
S
EC. 540. None of the funds made available by this 6
Act may be used implement or enforce the final rule of 7
the Council on Environmental Quality titled ‘‘National 8
Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations Revi-9
sions’’ and published April 20, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 10
23453). 11
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EC. 541. None of the funds made available by this 12
Act may be used to finalize, implement, or enforce the pro-13
posed rule of the Council on Environmental Quality titled 14
‘‘National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regu-15
lations Revisions Phase 2’’ and published July 31, 2023 16
(88 Fed. Reg. 49924). 17
OCEAN JUSTICE STRATEGY 18
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EC. 542. None of the funds made available by this 19
Act may be used to develop, finalize, implement, admin-20
ister, or enforce the Ocean Justice Strategy referenced in 21
the Notice titled ‘‘Ocean Justice Strategy’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 22
37518; published June 8, 2023). 23
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EC. 543. None of the funds made available by this 2
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce sec-3
tion 50262 of Public Law 117–169 (commonly known as 4
the ‘‘Inflation Reduction Act’’). 5
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EC. 544. None of the funds made available by this 6
Act may be used for environmental justice activities. 7
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EC. 545. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 8
may be used to implement any of the following executive 9
orders: 10
(1) Executive Order No. 13990, relating to 11
Protecting Public Health and the Environment and 12
Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis. 13
(2) Executive Order No. 14008, relating to 14
Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. 15
(3) Section 6 of Executive Order No. 14013, re-16
lating to Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs To 17
Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of 18
Climate Change on Migration. 19
(4) Executive Order No. 14030, relating to Cli-20
mate-Related Financial Risk. 21
(5) Executive Order No. 14057, relating to 22
Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs 23
Through Federal Sustainability. 24
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(6) Executive Order No. 14082, relating to Im-1
plementation of the Energy and Infrastructure Pro-2
visions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. 3
(7) Executive Order No. 14096, relating to Re-4
vitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environ-5
mental Justice for All. 6
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-7
terior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations 8
Act, 2024’’. 9
Passed the House of Representatives November 3, 
2023. 
Attest: KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 
Clerk. 
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CONGRESS 
1
ST
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ESSION
 
H. R. 4821 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Department of the 
Interior, environment, and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and 
for other purposes. 
N
OVEMBER
7, 2023 
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar 
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