Us Congress House Bill HB8998 Introduced / Bill

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Union Calendar No. 481 
118THCONGRESS 
2D S
ESSION H. R. 8998 
[Report No. 118–581] 
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY11, 2024 
Mr. S
IMPSON, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following 
bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, 
environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2025, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 3
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 4
Department of the Interior, environment, and related 5
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, 6
and for other purposes, namely: 7
TITLE I 8
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 9
B
UREAU OFLANDMANAGEMENT 10
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES 11
For necessary expenses for protection, use, improve-12
ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classi-13
fication, acquisition of easements and other interests in 14
lands, and performance of other functions, including main-15
tenance of facilities, as authorized by law, in the manage-16
ment of lands and their resources under the jurisdiction 17
of the Bureau of Land Management, including the general 18
administration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral 19
potential of public lands pursuant to section 1010(a) of 20
Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C. 3150(a)), $1,185,063,000, 21
to remain available until September 30, 2026; of which 22
$53,900,000 for annual maintenance and deferred mainte-23
nance programs and $143,000,000 for the wild horse and 24
burro program, as authorized by Public Law 92–195 (16 25
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U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), shall remain available until ex-1
pended: Provided, That amounts in the fee account of the 2
BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund may be used 3
for any bureau-related expenses associated with the proc-4
essing of oil and gas applications for permits to drill and 5
related use of authorizations: Provided further, That of the 6
amounts made available under this heading, up to 7
$1,000,000 may be made available for the purposes de-8
scribed in section 122(e)(1)(A) of division G of Public Law 9
115–31 (43 U.S.C. 1748c(e)(1)(A)): Provided further, 10
That of the amounts made available under this heading, 11
not to exceed $15,000 may be for official reception and 12
representation expenses. 13
In addition, $42,696,000 is for Mining Law Adminis-14
tration program operations, including the cost of admin-15
istering the mining claim fee program, to remain available 16
until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected by the 17
Bureau and credited to this appropriation from mining 18
claim maintenance fees and location fees that are hereby 19
authorized for fiscal year 2025, so as to result in a final 20
appropriation estimated at not more than $1,185,063,000, 21
and $2,000,000, to remain available until expended, from 22
communication site rental fees established by the Bureau 23
for the cost of administering communication site activities. 24
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OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS 1
For expenses necessary for management, protection, 2
and development of resources and for construction, oper-3
ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and 4
other improvements on the revested Oregon and California 5
Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Or-6
egon and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and 7
on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or in-8
terests therein, including existing connecting roads on or 9
adjacent to such grant lands; $107,799,000, to remain 10
available until expended: Provided, That 25 percent of the 11
aggregate of all receipts during the current fiscal year 12
from the revested Oregon and California Railroad grant 13
lands is hereby made a charge against the Oregon and 14
California land-grant fund and shall be transferred to the 15
General Fund in the Treasury in accordance with the sec-16
ond paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of 17
August 28, 1937 (43 U.S.C. 2605). 18
RANGE IMPROVEMENTS 19
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of 20
lands and interests therein, and improvement of Federal 21
rangelands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land 22
Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1751), 23
notwithstanding any other Act, sums equal to 50 percent 24
of all moneys received during the prior fiscal year under 25
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sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 1
315b, 315m) and the amount designated for range im-2
provements from grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts 3
from Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the Depart-4
ment of the Interior pursuant to law, but not less than 5
$10,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-6
vided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall be available for 7
administrative expenses. 8
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES 9
For administrative expenses and other costs related 10
to processing application documents and other authoriza-11
tions for use and disposal of public lands and resources, 12
for costs of providing copies of official public land docu-13
ments, for monitoring construction, operation, and termi-14
nation of facilities in conjunction with use authorizations, 15
and for rehabilitation of damaged property, such amounts 16
as may be collected under Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 17
1701 et seq.), and under section 28 of the Mineral Leasing 18
Act (30 U.S.C. 185), to remain available until expended: 19
Provided, That notwithstanding any provision to the con-20
trary of section 305(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 21
1735(a)), any moneys that have been or will be received 22
pursuant to that section, whether as a result of forfeiture, 23
compromise, or settlement, if not appropriate for refund 24
pursuant to section 305(c) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 25
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1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended under 1
the authority of this Act by the Secretary of the Interior 2
to improve, protect, or rehabilitate any public lands ad-3
ministered through the Bureau of Land Management 4
which have been damaged by the action of a resource de-5
veloper, purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized person, 6
without regard to whether all moneys collected from each 7
such action are used on the exact lands damaged which 8
led to the action: Provided further, That any such moneys 9
that are in excess of amounts needed to repair damage 10
to the exact land for which funds were collected may be 11
used to repair other damaged public lands. 12
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS 13
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended 14
under existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such 15
amounts as may be contributed under section 307 of Pub-16
lic Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1737), and such amounts as 17
may be advanced for administrative costs, surveys, ap-18
praisals, and costs of making conveyances of omitted lands 19
under section 211(b) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1721(b)), to 20
remain available until expended. 21
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 22
The Bureau of Land Management may carry out the 23
operations funded under this Act by direct expenditure, 24
contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and reimburs-25
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able agreements with public and private entities, including 1
with States. Appropriations for the Bureau shall be avail-2
able for purchase, erection, and dismantlement of tem-3
porary structures, and alteration and maintenance of nec-4
essary buildings and appurtenant facilities to which the 5
United States has title; up to $100,000 for payments, at 6
the discretion of the Secretary, for information or evidence 7
concerning violations of laws administered by the Bureau; 8
miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement ac-9
tivities authorized or approved by the Secretary and to be 10
accounted for solely on the Secretary’s certificate, not to 11
exceed $10,000: Provided, That notwithstanding Public 12
Law 90–620 (44 U.S.C. 501), the Bureau may, under co-13
operative cost-sharing and partnership arrangements au-14
thorized by law, procure printing services from cooperators 15
in connection with jointly produced publications for which 16
the cooperators share the cost of printing either in cash 17
or in services, and the Bureau determines the cooperator 18
is capable of meeting accepted quality standards: Provided 19
further, That projects to be funded pursuant to a written 20
commitment by a State government to provide an identi-21
fied amount of money in support of the project may be 22
carried out by the Bureau on a reimbursable basis. 23
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UNITEDSTATESFISH ANDWILDLIFESERVICE 1
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 2
For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and 3
Wildlife Service, as authorized by law, and for scientific 4
and economic studies, general administration, and for the 5
performance of other authorized functions related to such 6
resources, $1,385,096,000, to remain available until Sep-7
tember 30, 2026, of which not to exceed $15,000 may be 8
for official reception and representation expenses: Pro-9
vided, That not to exceed $17,597,000 shall be used for 10
implementing subsections (a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 11
4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 12
1533) (except for processing petitions, developing and 13
issuing proposed and final regulations, and taking any 14
other steps to implement actions described in subsection 15
(c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or (c)(2)(B)(ii) of such section). 16
CONSTRUCTION 17
For construction, improvement, acquisition, or re-18
moval of buildings and other facilities required in the con-19
servation, management, investigation, protection, and uti-20
lization of fish and wildlife resources, and the acquisition 21
of lands and interests therein; $8,114,000, to remain 22
available until expended. 23
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COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION 1
FUND 2
For expenses necessary to carry out section 6 of the 3
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1535), 4
$23,000,000, to remain available until expended, to be de-5
rived from the Cooperative Endangered Species Conserva-6
tion Fund. 7
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND 8
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-9
ber 17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $13,228,000. 10
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND 11
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 12
of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (16 13
U.S.C. 4401 et seq.), $49,000,000, to remain available 14
until expended. 15
NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION 16
For expenses necessary to carry out the Neotropical 17
Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 6101 et 18
seq.), $5,000,000, to remain available until expended. 19
MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND 20
For expenses necessary to carry out the African Ele-21
phant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.), the 22
Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 23
4261 et seq.), the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act 24
of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Great Ape Con-25
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servation Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), and the 1
Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004 (16 U.S.C. 6601 2
et seq.), $21,000,000, to remain available until expended. 3
STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS 4
For wildlife conservation grants to States and to the 5
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United 6
States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, 7
American Samoa, and Indian Tribes under the provisions 8
of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 and the Fish and 9
Wildlife Coordination Act, for the development and imple-10
mentation of programs for the benefit of wildlife and their 11
habitat, including species that are not hunted or fished, 12
$73,812,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-13
vided, That of the amount provided herein, $6,200,000 is 14
for a competitive grant program for Indian Tribes not sub-15
ject to the remaining provisions of this appropriation: Pro-16
vided further, That $7,612,000 is for a competitive grant 17
program to implement approved plans for States, terri-18
tories, and other jurisdictions and at the discretion of af-19
fected States, the regional Associations of fish and wildlife 20
agencies, not subject to the remaining provisions of this 21
appropriation: Provided further, That the Secretary shall, 22
after deducting $13,812,000 and administrative expenses, 23
apportion the amount provided herein in the following 24
manner: (1) to the District of Columbia and to the Com-25
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monwealth of Puerto Rico, each a sum equal to not more 1
than one-half of 1 percent thereof; and (2) to Guam, 2
American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and 3
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, each 4
a sum equal to not more than one-fourth of 1 percent 5
thereof: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Inte-6
rior shall apportion the remaining amount in the following 7
manner: (1) one-third of which is based on the ratio to 8
which the land area of such State bears to the total land 9
area of all such States; and (2) two-thirds of which is 10
based on the ratio to which the population of such State 11
bears to the total population of all such States: Provided 12
further, That the amounts apportioned under this para-13
graph shall be adjusted equitably so that no State shall 14
be apportioned a sum which is less than 1 percent of the 15
amount available for apportionment under this paragraph 16
for any fiscal year or more than 5 percent of such amount: 17
Provided further, That the Federal share of planning 18
grants shall not exceed 75 percent of the total costs of 19
such projects and the Federal share of implementation 20
grants shall not exceed 65 percent of the total costs of 21
such projects: Provided further, That the non-Federal 22
share of such projects may not be derived from Federal 23
grant programs: Provided further, That any amount ap-24
portioned in 2025 to any State, territory, or other jurisdic-25
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tion that remains unobligated as of September 30, 2026, 1
shall be reapportioned, together with funds appropriated 2
in 2027, in the manner provided herein. 3
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 4
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service may 5
carry out the operations of Service programs by direct ex-6
penditure, contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and 7
reimbursable agreements with public and private entities. 8
Appropriations and funds available to the United States 9
Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for repair of 10
damage to public roads within and adjacent to reservation 11
areas caused by operations of the Service; options for the 12
purchase of land at not to exceed one dollar for each op-13
tion; facilities incident to such public recreational uses on 14
conservation areas as are consistent with their primary 15
purpose; and the maintenance and improvement of aquar-16
ia, buildings, and other facilities under the jurisdiction of 17
the Service and to which the United States has title, and 18
which are used pursuant to law in connection with man-19
agement, and investigation of fish and wildlife resources: 20
Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Serv-21
ice may, under cooperative cost sharing and partnership 22
arrangements authorized by law, procure printing services 23
from cooperators in connection with jointly produced pub-24
lications for which the cooperators share at least one-half 25
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the cost of printing either in cash or services and the Serv-1
ice determines the cooperator is capable of meeting accept-2
ed quality standards: Provided further, That the Service 3
may accept donated aircraft as replacements for existing 4
aircraft: Provided further, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 5
3302, all fees collected for non-toxic shot review and ap-6
proval shall be deposited under the heading ‘‘United 7
States Fish and Wildlife Service—Resource Management’’ 8
and shall be available to the Secretary, without further 9
appropriation, to be used for expenses of processing of 10
such non-toxic shot type or coating applications and revis-11
ing regulations as necessary, and shall remain available 12
until expended. 13
N
ATIONALPARKSERVICE 14
OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM 15
For expenses necessary for the management, oper-16
ation, and maintenance of areas and facilities adminis-17
tered by the National Park Service and for the general 18
administration of the National Park Service, 19
$2,709,203,000, of which $11,661,000 for planning and 20
interagency coordination in support of Everglades restora-21
tion and $15,000,000 for uses authorized by section 22
101122 of title 54, United States Code shall remain avail-23
able until September 30, 2026, and not to exceed $15,000 24
may be for official reception and representative expenses: 25
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Provided, That funds appropriated under this heading in 1
this Act are available for the purposes of section 5 of Pub-2
lic Law 95–348: Provided further, That notwithstanding 3
section 9 of the 400 Years of African-American History 4
Commission Act (36 U.S.C. note prec. 101; Public Law 5
115–102), $3,300,000 of the funds provided under this 6
heading shall be made available for the purposes specified 7
by that Act: Provided further, That sections 7(b) and 8(a) 8
of that Act is amended by striking ‘‘July 1, 2025’’ and 9
inserting ‘‘July 1, 2026’’. 10
In addition, for purposes described in section 2404 11
of Public Law 116–9, an amount equal to the amount de-12
posited in this fiscal year into the National Park Medical 13
Services Fund established pursuant to such section of 14
such Act, to remain available until expended, shall be de-15
rived from such Fund. 16
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION 17
For expenses necessary to carry out recreation pro-18
grams, natural programs, cultural programs, heritage 19
partnership programs, environmental compliance and re-20
view, international park affairs, and grant administration, 21
not otherwise provided for, $89,593,000, to remain avail-22
able until September 30, 2026. 23
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND 1
For expenses necessary in carrying out the National 2
Historic Preservation Act (division A of subtitle III of title 3
54, United States Code), $168,900,000, to be derived 4
from the Historic Preservation Fund and to remain avail-5
able until September 30, 2026, of which $25,500,000 shall 6
be for Save America’s Treasures grants for preservation 7
of nationally significant sites, structures and artifacts as 8
authorized by section 7303 of the Omnibus Public Land 9
Management Act of 2009 (54 U.S.C. 3089): Provided, 10
That an individual Save America’s Treasures grant shall 11
be matched by non-Federal funds: Provided further, That 12
individual projects shall only be eligible for one grant: Pro-13
vided further, That all projects to be funded shall be ap-14
proved by the Secretary of the Interior in consultation 15
with the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-16
tions: Provided further, That of the funds provided for the 17
Historic Preservation Fund, $30,250,000 is for the Com-18
petitive Grants Subactivity; $11,000,000 is for grants to 19
Historically Black Colleges and Universities; $10,000,000 20
is for competitive grants for the restoration of historic 21
properties of national, State, and local significance listed 22
on or eligible for inclusion on the National Register of His-23
toric Places, to be made without imposing the usage or 24
direct grant restrictions of section 101(e)(3) (54 U.S.C. 25
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302904) of the National Historic Preservation Act; 1
$7,000,000 is for a competitive grant program to honor 2
the semiquincentennial anniversary of the United States 3
by restoring and preserving sites and structures listed on 4
the National Register of Historic Places that commemo-5
rate the founding of the nation: Provided further, That 6
such competitive grants shall be made without imposing 7
the matching requirements in section 302902(b)(3) of title 8
54, United States Code to States and Indian Tribes as 9
defined in chapter 3003 of such title, Native Hawaiian or-10
ganizations, local governments, including Certified Local 11
Governments, and nonprofit organizations. 12
CONSTRUCTION 13
For construction, improvements, repair, or replace-14
ment of physical facilities, and related equipment, and 15
compliance and planning for programs and areas adminis-16
tered by the National Park Service, $135,616,000, to re-17
main available until expended: Provided, That notwith-18
standing any other provision of law, for any project ini-19
tially funded in fiscal year 2025 with a future phase indi-20
cated in the National Park Service 5–Year Line Item Con-21
struction Plan, a single procurement may be issued which 22
includes the full scope of the project: Provided further, 23
That the solicitation and contract shall contain the clause 24
availability of funds found at 48 CFR 52.232–18: Pro-25
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vided further, That National Park Service Donations, 1
Park Concessions Franchise Fees, and Recreation Fees 2
may be made available for the cost of adjustments and 3
changes within the original scope of effort for projects 4
funded by the National Park Service Construction appro-5
priation: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Inte-6
rior shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations, 7
in accordance with current reprogramming thresholds, 8
prior to making any charges authorized under this head-9
ing. 10
CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE 11
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 12
of section 101701 of title 54, United States Code, relating 13
to challenge cost share agreements, $12,000,000, to re-14
main available until expended, for Centennial Challenge 15
projects and programs: Provided, That not less than 50 16
percent of the total cost of each project or program shall 17
be derived from non-Federal sources in the form of do-18
nated cash, assets, or a pledge of donation guaranteed by 19
an irrevocable letter of credit. 20
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 21
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 22
In addition to other uses set forth in section 23
101917(c)(2) of title 54, United States Code, franchise 24
fees credited to a sub-account shall be available for ex-25
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penditure by the Secretary, without further appropriation, 1
for use at any unit within the National Park System to 2
extinguish or reduce liability for Possessory Interest or 3
leasehold surrender interest. Such funds may only be used 4
for this purpose to the extent that the benefitting unit an-5
ticipated franchise fee receipts over the term of the con-6
tract at that unit exceed the amount of funds used to ex-7
tinguish or reduce liability. Franchise fees at the benefit-8
ting unit shall be credited to the sub-account of the origi-9
nating unit over a period not to exceed the term of a single 10
contract at the benefitting unit, in the amount of funds 11
so expended to extinguish or reduce liability. 12
For the costs of administration of the Land and 13
Water Conservation Fund grants authorized by section 14
105(a)(2)(B) of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act 15
of 2006 (Public Law 109–432), the National Park Service 16
may retain up to 3 percent of the amounts which are au-17
thorized to be disbursed under such section, such retained 18
amounts to remain available until expended. 19
National Park Service funds may be transferred to 20
the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Depart-21
ment of Transportation, for purposes authorized under 23 22
U.S.C. 203. Transfers may include a reasonable amount 23
for FHWA administrative support costs. 24
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UNITEDSTATESGEOLOGICALSURVEY 1
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH 2
For expenses necessary for the United States Geo-3
logical Survey to perform surveys, investigations, and re-4
search covering topography, geology, hydrology, biology, 5
and the mineral and water resources of the United States, 6
its territories and possessions, and other areas as author-7
ized by 43 U.S.C. 31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as 8
to their mineral and water resources; give engineering su-9
pervision to power permittees and Federal Energy Regu-10
latory Commission licensees; administer the minerals ex-11
ploration program (30 U.S.C. 641); conduct inquiries into 12
the economic conditions affecting mining and materials 13
processing industries (30 U.S.C. 3, 21a, and 1603; 50 14
U.S.C. 98g(a)(1)) and related purposes as authorized by 15
law; and to publish and disseminate data relative to the 16
foregoing activities; $1,374,385,000, to remain available 17
until September 30, 2026; of which $107,334,000 shall 18
remain available until expended for satellite operations; 19
and of which $54,130,000 shall be available until ex-20
pended for deferred maintenance and capital improvement 21
projects that exceed $100,000 in cost: Provided, That 22
none of the funds provided for the ecosystem research ac-23
tivity shall be used to conduct new surveys on private 24
property, unless specifically authorized in writing by the 25
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property owner: Provided further, That no part of this ap-1
propriation shall be used to pay more than one-half the 2
cost of topographic mapping or water resources data col-3
lection and investigations carried on in cooperation with 4
States and municipalities: Provided further, That of the 5
amount appropriated under this heading, not to exceed 6
$15,000 may be for official reception and representation 7
expenses. 8
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 9
From within the amount appropriated for activities 10
of the United States Geological Survey such sums as are 11
necessary shall be available for contracting for the fur-12
nishing of topographic maps and for the making of geo-13
physical or other specialized surveys when it is administra-14
tively determined that such procedures are in the public 15
interest; construction and maintenance of necessary build-16
ings and appurtenant facilities; acquisition of lands for 17
gauging stations, observation wells, and seismic equip-18
ment; expenses of the United States National Committee 19
for Geological Sciences; and payment of compensation and 20
expenses of persons employed by the Survey duly ap-21
pointed to represent the United States in the negotiation 22
and administration of interstate compacts: Provided, That 23
activities funded by appropriations herein made may be 24
accomplished through the use of contracts, grants, or co-25
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operative agreements (including noncompetitive coopera-1
tive agreements with Tribes) as defined in section 6302 2
of title 31, United States Code: Provided further, That the 3
United States Geological Survey may enter into contracts 4
or cooperative agreements directly with individuals or indi-5
rectly with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without 6
regard to 41 U.S.C. 6101, for the temporary or intermit-7
tent services of students or recent graduates, who shall 8
be considered employees for the purpose of chapters 57 9
and 81 of title 5, United States Code, relating to com-10
pensation for travel and work injuries, and chapter 171 11
of title 28, United States Code, relating to tort claims, 12
but shall not be considered to be Federal employees for 13
any other purposes. 14
B
UREAU OFOCEANENERGYMANAGEMENT 15
OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT 16
For expenses necessary for granting and admin-17
istering leases, easements, rights-of-way, and agreements 18
for use for oil and gas, other minerals, energy, and ma-19
rine-related purposes on the Outer Continental Shelf and 20
approving operations related thereto, as authorized by law; 21
for environmental studies, as authorized by law; for imple-22
menting other laws and to the extent provided by Presi-23
dential or Secretarial delegation; and for matching grants 24
or cooperative agreements, $199,057,000, of which 25
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$144,057,000 is to remain available until September 30, 1
2026, and of which $55,000,000 is to remain available 2
until expended: Provided, That this total appropriation 3
shall be reduced by amounts collected by the Secretary of 4
the Interior and credited to this appropriation from addi-5
tions to receipts resulting from increases to lease rental 6
rates in effect on August 5, 1993, and from cost recovery 7
fees from activities conducted by the Bureau of Ocean En-8
ergy Management pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf 9
Lands Act, including studies, assessments, analysis, and 10
miscellaneous administrative activities: Provided further, 11
That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as such 12
collections are received during the fiscal year, so as to re-13
sult in a final fiscal year 2025 appropriation estimated 14
at not more than $144,057,000: Provided further, That 15
not to exceed $3,000 shall be available for reasonable ex-16
penses related to promoting volunteer beach and marine 17
cleanup activities: Provided further, That not to exceed 18
$5,000 shall be available for official reception and rep-19
resentation expenses. 20
B
UREAU OFSAFETY ANDENVIRONMENTAL 21
E
NFORCEMENT 22
OFFSHORE SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT 23
For expenses necessary for the regulation of oper-24
ations related to leases, easements, rights-of-way, and 25
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agreements for use for oil and gas, other minerals, energy, 1
and marine-related purposes on the Outer Continental 2
Shelf, as authorized by law; for enforcing and imple-3
menting laws and regulations as authorized by law and 4
to the extent provided by Presidential or Secretarial dele-5
gation; and for matching grants or cooperative agree-6
ments, $168,330,000, of which $138,450,000, including 7
not to exceed $3,000 for official reception and representa-8
tion expenses, is to remain available until September 30, 9
2026, and of which $29,880,000 is to remain available 10
until expended, including $2,880,000 for offshore decom-11
missioning activities: Provided, That this total appropria-12
tion shall be reduced by amounts collected by the Sec-13
retary of the Interior and credited to this appropriation 14
from additions to receipts resulting from increases to lease 15
rental rates in effect on August 5, 1993, and from cost 16
recovery fees from activities conducted by the Bureau of 17
Safety and Environmental Enforcement pursuant to the 18
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, including studies, as-19
sessments, analysis, and miscellaneous administrative ac-20
tivities: Provided further, That the sum herein appro-21
priated shall be reduced as such collections are received 22
during the fiscal year, so as to result in a final fiscal year 23
2025 appropriation estimated at not more than 24
$141,330,000. 25
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For an additional amount, $37,000,000, to remain 1
available until expended, to be reduced by amounts col-2
lected by the Secretary and credited to this appropriation, 3
which shall be derived from non-refundable inspection fees 4
collected in fiscal year 2025, as provided in this Act: Pro-5
vided further, That for fiscal year 2025, not less than 50 6
percent of the inspection fees expended by the Bureau of 7
Safety and Environmental Enforcement will be used to 8
fund personnel and mission-related costs to expand capac-9
ity and expedite the orderly development, subject to envi-10
ronmental safeguards, of the Outer Continental Shelf pur-11
suant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 12
U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), including the review of applications 13
for permits to drill. 14
OIL SPILL RESEARCH 15
For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 16
1016; title IV, sections 4202 and 4303; title VII; and title 17
VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 18
$15,099,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-19
ability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended. 20
O
FFICE OFSURFACEMININGRECLAMATION AND 21
E
NFORCEMENT 22
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY 23
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 24
of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 25
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1977, Public Law 95–87, $119,786,000, to remain avail-1
able until September 30, 2026, of which $66,000,000 shall 2
be available for State and Tribal regulatory grants, and 3
of which not to exceed $5,000 may be for official reception 4
and representation expenses: Provided, That appropria-5
tions for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and 6
Enforcement may provide for the travel and per diem ex-7
penses of State and Tribal personnel attending Office of 8
Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored 9
training. 10
In addition, for costs to review, administer, and en-11
force permits issued by the Office pursuant to section 507 12
of Public Law 95–87 (30 U.S.C. 1257), $40,000, to re-13
main available until expended: Provided, That fees as-14
sessed and collected by the Office pursuant to such section 15
507 shall be credited to this account as discretionary off-16
setting collections, to remain available until expended: 17
Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated from 18
the general fund shall be reduced as collections are re-19
ceived during the fiscal year, so as to result in a fiscal 20
year 2025 appropriation estimated at not more than 21
$119,786,000. 22
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND 23
For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the 24
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, 25
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Public Law 95–87, $33,231,000, to be derived from re-1
ceipts of the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to 2
remain available until expended: Provided, That pursuant 3
to Public Law 97–365, the Department of the Interior is 4
authorized to use up to 20 percent from the recovery of 5
the delinquent debt owed to the United States Government 6
to pay for contracts to collect these debts: Provided fur-7
ther, That funds made available under title IV of Public 8
Law 95–87 may be used for any required non-Federal 9
share of the cost of projects funded by the Federal Gov-10
ernment for the purpose of environmental restoration re-11
lated to treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage 12
from abandoned mines: Provided further, That such 13
projects must be consistent with the purposes and prior-14
ities of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act: 15
Provided further, That amounts provided under this head-16
ing may be used for the travel and per diem expenses of 17
State and Tribal personnel attending Office of Surface 18
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored training: 19
Provided further, That of the amounts provided under this 20
heading, not to exceed $5,000 shall be available for official 21
reception and representation expenses. 22
In addition, $135,000,000, to remain available until 23
expended, for payments to States and federally recognized 24
Indian Tribes for reclamation of abandoned mine lands 25
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and other related activities in accordance with the terms 1
and conditions described in the report accompanying this 2
Act: Provided, That such additional amount shall be used 3
for economic and community development in conjunction 4
with the priorities described in section 403(a) of the Sur-5
face Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 6
U.S.C. 1233(a)): Provided further, That of such additional 7
amount, $88,850,000 shall be distributed in equal 8
amounts to the three Appalachian States with the greatest 9
amount of unfunded needs to meet the priorities described 10
in paragraphs (1) and (2) of such section, $34,400,000 11
shall be distributed in equal amounts to the three Appa-12
lachian States with the subsequent greatest amount of un-13
funded needs to meet such priorities, and $11,750,000 14
shall be for grants to federally recognized Indian Tribes, 15
without regard to their status as certified or uncertified 16
under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 17
of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1233(a)), for reclamation of aban-18
doned mine lands and other related activities in accord-19
ance with the terms and conditions described in the report 20
accompanying this Act and shall be used for economic and 21
community development in conjunction with the priorities 22
in section 403(a) of the Surface Mining Control and Rec-23
lamation Act of 1977: Provided further, That such pay-24
ments shall be made to States and federally recognized 25
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Indian Tribes not later than 90 days after the date of the 1
enactment of this Act: Provided further, That if payments 2
have not been made by the date specified in the preceding 3
proviso, the amount appropriated for salaries and ex-4
penses under the heading ‘‘Office of Surface Mining Rec-5
lamation and Enforcement’’ shall be reduced by $100,000 6
per day until such payments have been made. 7
I
NDIANAFFAIRS 8
B
UREAU OFINDIANAFFAIRS 9
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 10
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 11
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian 12
programs, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act 13
of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13) and the Indian Self- 14
Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 15
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), $2,189,150,000, to remain available 16
until September 30, 2026, except as otherwise provided 17
herein; of which not to exceed $15,000 may be for official 18
reception and representation expenses; of which not to ex-19
ceed $79,494,000 shall be for welfare assistance pay-20
ments: Provided, That in cases of designated Federal dis-21
asters, the Secretary of the Interior may exceed such cap 22
for welfare payments from the amounts provided herein, 23
to provide for disaster relief to Indian communities af-24
fected by the disaster: Provided further, That federally rec-25
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ognized Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations of feder-1
ally recognized Indian Tribes may use their Tribal priority 2
allocations for unmet welfare assistance costs: Provided 3
further, That not to exceed $75,987,000 shall remain 4
available until expended for housing improvement, road 5
maintenance, land acquisition, attorney fees, litigation 6
support, land records improvement, hearings and appeals, 7
and the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Program: Provided fur-8
ther, That any forestry funds allocated to a federally rec-9
ognized Tribe which remain unobligated as of September 10
30, 2026, may be transferred during fiscal year 2027 to 11
an Indian forest land assistance account established for 12
the benefit of the holder of the funds within the holder’s 13
trust fund account: Provided further, That any such unob-14
ligated balances not so transferred shall expire on Sep-15
tember 30, 2027: Provided further, That in order to en-16
hance the safety of Bureau field employees, the Bureau 17
may use funds to purchase uniforms or other identifying 18
articles of clothing for personnel: Provided further, That 19
not to exceed $7,664,000 of funds made available under 20
this heading may, as needed, be transferred to ‘‘Office of 21
the Secretary—Departmental Operations’’ for trust, pro-22
bate, and administrative functions: Provided further, That 23
the Bureau of Indian Affairs may accept transfers of 24
funds from United States Customs and Border Protection 25
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to supplement any other funding available for reconstruc-1
tion or repair of roads owned by the Bureau of Indian 2
Affairs as identified on the National Tribal Transpor-3
tation Facility Inventory, 23 U.S.C. 202(b)(1). 4
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS 5
For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for 6
contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter-7
mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with 8
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian 9
Education for fiscal year 2025, such sums as may be nec-10
essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-11
tember 30, 2026: 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. 15
PAYMENTS FOR TRIBAL LEASES 16
For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for 17
leases pursuant to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Deter-18
mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 19
5324(l)) for fiscal year 2025, such sums as may be nec-20
essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-21
tember 30, 2026: Provided, That notwithstanding any 22
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 23
this heading shall be available for transfer to another 24
budget account. 25
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CONSTRUCTION 1
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 2
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-3
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, 4
and other facilities, including architectural and engineer-5
ing services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests 6
in lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for 7
construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pur-8
suant to Public Law 87–483; $146,296,000, to remain 9
available until expended: Provided, That such amounts as 10
may be available for the construction of the Navajo Indian 11
Irrigation Project may be transferred to the Bureau of 12
Reclamation: Provided further, That any funds provided 13
for the Safety of Dams program pursuant to the Act of 14
November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), shall be made available 15
on a nonreimbursable basis: Provided further, That this 16
appropriation may be reimbursed from the Bureau of 17
Trust Funds Administration appropriation for the appro-18
priate share of construction costs for space expansion 19
needed in agency offices to meet trust reform implementa-20
tion: Provided further, That of the funds made available 21
under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be derived from the 22
Indian Irrigation Fund established by section 3211 of the 23
WIIN Act (Public Law 114–322; 130 Stat. 1749): Pro-24
vided further, That amounts provided under this heading 25
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are made available for the modernization of Federal field 1
communication capabilities, in addition to amounts other-2
wise made available for such purpose. 3
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 4
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 5
For payments and necessary administrative expenses 6
for implementation of Indian land and water claim settle-7
ments pursuant to Public Laws 99–264, 101–618, and 8
117–349, and for implementation of other land and water 9
rights settlements, $32,263,000, to remain available until 10
expended. 11
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 12
For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, 13
$20,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 14
2026, of which $2,125,000 is for administrative expenses, 15
as authorized by the Indian Financing Act of 1974: Pro-16
vided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 17
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con-18
gressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That 19
these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, 20
any part of which is to be guaranteed or insured, not to 21
exceed $399,114,126. 22
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BUREAU OFINDIANEDUCATION 1
OPERATION OF INDIAN EDUCATION PROGRAMS 2
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian 3
education programs, as authorized by law, including the 4
Snyder Act of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the In-5
dian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 6
1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Education Amend-7
ments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001–2019), and the Tribally 8
Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), 9
$1,198,216,000 to remain available until September 30, 10
2026, except as otherwise provided herein: Provided, That 11
federally recognized Indian Tribes and Tribal organiza-12
tions of federally recognized Indian Tribes may use their 13
Tribal priority allocations for unmet welfare assistance 14
costs: Provided further, That not to exceed $871,983,000 15
for school operations costs of Bureau-funded schools and 16
other education programs shall become available on June 17
1, 2025, and shall remain available until September 30, 18
2026: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 19
provision of law, including but not limited to the Indian 20
Self–Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) 21
and section 1128 of the Education Amendments of 1978 22
(25 U.S.C. 2008), not to exceed $96,886,000 within and 23
only from such amounts made available for school oper-24
ations shall be available for administrative cost grants as-25
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sociated with grants approved prior to June 1, 2025: Pro-1
vided further, That in order to enhance the safety of Bu-2
reau field employees, the Bureau may use funds to pur-3
chase uniforms or other identifying articles of clothing for 4
personnel. 5
EDUCATION CONSTRUCTION 6
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-7
nance of buildings, utilities, and other facilities necessary 8
for the operation of Indian education programs, including 9
architectural and engineering services by contract; acquisi-10
tion of lands, and interests in lands; $270,867,000, to re-11
main available until expended: Provided, That in order to 12
ensure timely completion of construction projects, the Sec-13
retary of the Interior may assume control of a project and 14
all funds related to the project, if, not later than 18 15
months after the date of the enactment of this Act, any 16
Public Law 100–297 (25 U.S.C. 2501, et seq.) grantee 17
receiving funds appropriated in this Act or in any prior 18
Act, has not completed the planning and design phase of 19
the project and commenced construction. 20
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 21
The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of In-22
dian Education may carry out the operation of Indian pro-23
grams by direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agree-24
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ments, compacts, and grants, either directly or in coopera-1
tion with States and other organizations. 2
Notwithstanding Public Law 87–279 (25 U.S.C. 15), 3
the Bureau of Indian Affairs may contract for services in 4
support of the management, operation, and maintenance 5
of the Power Division of the San Carlos Irrigation Project. 6
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 7
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau 8
of Indian Education for central office oversight and Exec-9
utive Direction and Administrative Services (except Exec-10
utive Direction and Administrative Services funding for 11
Tribal Priority Allocations, regional offices, and facilities 12
operations and maintenance) shall be available for con-13
tracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative agreements with 14
the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau of Indian 15
Education under the provisions of the Indian Self-Deter-16
mination Act or the Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 17
(Public Law 103–413). 18
In the event any Tribe returns appropriations made 19
available by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or 20
the Bureau of Indian Education, this action shall not di-21
minish the Federal Government’s trust responsibility to 22
that Tribe, or the government-to-government relationship 23
between the United States and that Tribe, or that Tribe’s 24
ability to access future appropriations. 25
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 1
available to the Bureau of Indian Education, other than 2
the amounts provided herein for assistance to public 3
schools under 25 U.S.C. 452 et seq., shall be available to 4
support the operation of any elementary or secondary 5
school in the State of Alaska. 6
No funds available to the Bureau of Indian Edu-7
cation shall be used to support expanded grades for any 8
school or dormitory beyond the grade structure in place 9
or approved by the Secretary of the Interior at each school 10
in the Bureau of Indian Education school system as of 11
October 1, 1995, except that the Secretary of the Interior 12
may waive this prohibition to support expansion of up to 13
one additional grade when the Secretary determines such 14
waiver is needed to support accomplishment of the mission 15
of the Bureau of Indian Education, or more than one 16
grade to expand the elementary grade structure for Bu-17
reau-funded schools with a K–2 grade structure on Octo-18
ber 1, 1996. Appropriations made available in this or any 19
prior Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be avail-20
able, in accordance with the Bureau’s funding formula, 21
only to the schools in the Bureau school system as of Sep-22
tember 1, 1996, and to any school or school program that 23
was reinstated in fiscal year 2012. Funds made available 24
under this Act may not be used to establish a charter 25
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school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term is defined 1
in section 1141 of the Education Amendments of 1978 2
(25 U.S.C. 2021)), except that a charter school that is 3
in existence on the date of the enactment of this Act and 4
that has operated at a Bureau-funded school before Sep-5
tember 1, 1999, may continue to operate during that pe-6
riod, but only if the charter school pays to the Bureau 7
a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau for 8
the use of the real and personal property (including buses 9
and vans), the funds of the charter school are kept sepa-10
rate and apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau does 11
not assume any obligation for charter school programs of 12
the State in which the school is located if the charter 13
school loses such funding. Employees of Bureau-funded 14
schools sharing a campus with a charter school and per-15
forming functions related to the charter school’s operation 16
and employees of a charter school shall not be treated as 17
Federal employees for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, 18
United States Code. 19
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 20
section 113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106– 21
113, if in fiscal year 2003 or 2004 a grantee received indi-22
rect and administrative costs pursuant to a distribution 23
formula based on section 5(f) of Public Law 101–301, the 24
Secretary shall continue to distribute indirect and admin-25
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istrative cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) 1
distribution formula. 2
Funds available under this Act may not be used to 3
establish satellite locations of schools in the Bureau school 4
system as of September 1, 1996, except that the Secretary 5
may waive this prohibition in order for an Indian Tribe 6
to provide language and cultural immersion educational 7
programs for non-public schools located within the juris-8
dictional area of the Tribal government which exclusively 9
serve Tribal members, do not include grades beyond those 10
currently served at the existing Bureau-funded school, 11
provide an educational environment with educator pres-12
ence and academic facilities comparable to the Bureau- 13
funded school, comply with all applicable Tribal, Federal, 14
or State health and safety standards, and the Americans 15
with Disabilities Act, and demonstrate the benefits of es-16
tablishing operations at a satellite location in lieu of incur-17
ring extraordinary costs, such as for transportation or 18
other impacts to students such as those caused by busing 19
students extended distances: Provided, That no funds 20
available under this Act may be used to fund operations, 21
maintenance, rehabilitation, construction, or other facili-22
ties-related costs for such assets that are not owned by 23
the Bureau: Provided further, That the term ‘‘satellite 24
school’’ means a school location physically separated from 25
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the existing Bureau school by more than 50 miles but that 1
forms part of the existing school in all other respects. 2
Funds made available for Tribal Priority Allocations 3
within Operation of Indian Programs and Operation of In-4
dian Education Programs may be used to execute re-5
quested adjustments in Tribal priority allocations initiated 6
by an Indian Tribe. 7
B
UREAU OFTRUSTFUNDSADMINISTRATION 8
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 9
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 10
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by 11
direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, 12
compacts, and grants, $105,277,000, to remain available 13
until expended, of which not to exceed $17,997,000 from 14
this or any other Act, may be available for settlement sup-15
port: Provided, That funds for trust management improve-16
ments and litigation support may, as needed, be trans-17
ferred to or merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 18
‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ and Bureau of Indian 19
Education, ‘‘Operation of Indian Education Programs’’ 20
accounts; the Office of the Solicitor, ‘‘Salaries and Ex-21
penses’’ account; and the Office of the Secretary, ‘‘Depart-22
mental Operations’’ account: Provided further, That funds 23
made available through contracts or grants obligated dur-24
ing fiscal year 2025, as authorized by the Indian Self-De-25
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termination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall 1
remain available until expended by the contractor or 2
grantee: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 3
provision of law, the Secretary shall not be required to 4
provide a quarterly statement of performance for any In-5
dian trust account that has not had activity for at least 6
15 months and has a balance of $15 or less: Provided fur-7
ther, That the Secretary shall issue an annual account 8
statement and maintain a record of any such accounts and 9
shall permit the balance in each such account to be with-10
drawn upon the express written request of the account 11
holder: Provided further, That not to exceed $100,000 is 12
available for the Secretary to make payments to correct 13
administrative errors of either disbursements from or de-14
posits to Individual Indian Money or Tribal accounts after 15
September 30, 2002: Provided further, That erroneous 16
payments that are recovered shall be credited to and re-17
main available in this account for this purpose: Provided 18
further, That the Secretary shall not be required to rec-19
oncile Special Deposit Accounts with a balance of less than 20
$500 unless the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration 21
receives proof of ownership from a Special Deposit Ac-22
counts claimant: Provided further, That notwithstanding 23
section 102 of the American Indian Trust Fund Manage-24
ment Reform Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–412) or any 25
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other provision of law, the Secretary may aggregate the 1
trust accounts of individuals whose whereabouts are un-2
known for a continuous period of at least 5 years and shall 3
not be required to generate periodic statements of per-4
formance for the individual accounts: Provided further, 5
That with respect to the preceding proviso, the Secretary 6
shall continue to maintain sufficient records to determine 7
the balance of the individual accounts, including any ac-8
crued interest and income, and such funds shall remain 9
available to the individual account holders. 10
D
EPARTMENTAL OFFICES 11
O
FFICE OF THESECRETARY 12
DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS 13
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 14
For necessary expenses for management of the De-15
partment of the Interior and for grants and cooperative 16
agreements, as authorized by law, $102,292,000, to re-17
main available until September 30, 2026; of which not to 18
exceed $15,000 may be for official reception and represen-19
tation expenses; of which up to $1,000,000 shall be avail-20
able for workers compensation payments and unemploy-21
ment compensation payments associated with the orderly 22
closure of the United States Bureau of Mines; and of 23
which $14,295,000 for Indian land, mineral, and resource 24
valuation activities shall remain available until expended: 25
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Provided, That funds for Indian land, mineral, and re-1
source valuation activities may, as needed, be transferred 2
to and merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs ‘‘Oper-3
ation of Indian Programs’’ and Bureau of Indian Edu-4
cation ‘‘Operation of Indian Education Programs’’ ac-5
counts and the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration 6
‘‘Federal Trust Programs’’ account: Provided further, 7
That funds made available through contracts or grants ob-8
ligated during fiscal year 2025, as authorized by the In-9
dian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et 10
seq.), shall remain available until expended by the con-11
tractor or grantee. 12
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 13
For fiscal year 2025, up to $550,000 of the payments 14
authorized by chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, 15
may be retained for administrative expenses of the Pay-16
ments in Lieu of Taxes Program: Provided, That the 17
amounts provided under this Act specifically for the Pay-18
ments in Lieu of Taxes program are the only amounts 19
available for payments authorized under chapter 69 of 20
title 31, United States Code: Provided further, That in the 21
event the sums appropriated for any fiscal year for pay-22
ments pursuant to this chapter are insufficient to make 23
the full payments authorized by that chapter to all units 24
of local government, then the payment to each local gov-25
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ernment shall be made proportionally: Provided further, 1
That the Secretary may make adjustments to payment to 2
individual units of local government to correct for prior 3
overpayments or underpayments: Provided further, That 4
no payment shall be made pursuant to that chapter to oth-5
erwise eligible units of local government if the computed 6
amount of the payment is less than $100. 7
I
NSULARAFFAIRS 8
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 9
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories 10
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, 11
$118,689,000, of which: (1) $107,220,000 shall remain 12
available until expended for territorial assistance, includ-13
ing general technical assistance, maintenance assistance, 14
disaster assistance, coral reef initiative and natural re-15
sources activities, and brown tree snake control and re-16
search; grants to the judiciary in American Samoa for 17
compensation and expenses, as authorized by law (48 18
U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Government of American 19
Samoa, in addition to current local revenues, for construc-20
tion and support of governmental functions; grants to the 21
Government of the Virgin Islands, as authorized by law; 22
grants to the Government of Guam, as authorized by law; 23
and grants to the Government of the Northern Mariana 24
Islands, as authorized by law (Public Law 94–241; 90 25
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Stat. 272); and (2) $11,469,000 shall be available until 1
September 30, 2026, for salaries and expenses of the Of-2
fice of Insular Affairs: Provided, That all financial trans-3
actions of the territorial and local governments herein pro-4
vided for, including such transactions of all agencies or 5
instrumentalities established or used by such governments, 6
may be audited by the Government Accountability Office, 7
at its discretion, in accordance with chapter 35 of title 8
31, United States Code: Provided further, That Northern 9
Mariana Islands Covenant grant funding shall be provided 10
according to those terms of the Agreement of the Special 11
Representatives on Future United States Financial Assist-12
ance for the Northern Mariana Islands approved by Public 13
Law 104–134: Provided further, That the funds for the 14
program of operations and maintenance improvement are 15
appropriated to institutionalize routine operations and 16
maintenance improvement of capital infrastructure with 17
territorial participation and cost sharing to be determined 18
by the Secretary based on the grantee’s commitment to 19
timely maintenance of its capital assets: Provided further, 20
That any appropriation for disaster assistance under this 21
heading in this Act or previous appropriations Acts may 22
be used as non–Federal matching funds for the purpose 23
of hazard mitigation grants provided pursuant to section 24
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404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-1
gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c). 2
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 3
For grants and necessary expenses, $813,000, to re-4
main available until expended, to support Federal services 5
and programs provided to the Republic of Palau, the Re-6
public of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States 7
of Micronesia. 8
A
DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 9
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 10
At the request of the Governor of Guam, the Sec-11
retary may transfer discretionary funds or mandatory 12
funds provided under section 104(e) of Public Law 108– 13
188 and Public Law 104–134, that are allocated for 14
Guam, to the Secretary of Agriculture for the subsidy cost 15
of direct or guaranteed loans, plus not to exceed three per-16
cent of the amount of the subsidy transferred for the cost 17
of loan administration, for the purposes authorized by the 18
Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) 19
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act for 20
construction and repair projects in Guam, and such funds 21
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That such 22
costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be 23
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 24
of 1974: Provided further, That such loans or loan guaran-25
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tees may be made without regard to the population of the 1
area, credit elsewhere requirements, and restrictions on 2
the types of eligible entities under the Rural Electrifica-3
tion Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated 4
Farm and Rural Development Act: Provided further, That 5
any funds transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture shall 6
be in addition to funds otherwise made available to make 7
or guarantee loans under such authorities. 8
O
FFICE OF THESOLICITOR 9
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 10
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 11
$93,964,000, to remain available until September 30, 12
2026. 13
O
FFICE OFINSPECTORGENERAL 14
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 15
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 16
General, $68,000,000, to remain available until September 17
30, 2026. 18
D
EPARTMENT-WIDEPROGRAMS 19
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 20
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 21
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, fire 22
suppression operations, fire science and research, emer-23
gency rehabilitation, fuels management activities, and 24
rural fire assistance by the Department of the Interior, 25
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$1,195,086,000, to remain available until expended, of 1
which not to exceed $14,000,000 shall be for the renova-2
tion or construction of fire facilities: Provided, That such 3
funds are also available for repayment of advances to 4
other appropriation accounts from which funds were pre-5
viously transferred for such purposes: Provided further, 6
That of the funds provided $255,000,000 is for fuels man-7
agement activities: Provided further, That of the funds 8
provided $10,000,000 is for burned area rehabilitation: 9
Provided further, That persons hired pursuant to 43 10
U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence and lodging 11
without cost from funds available from this appropriation: 12
Provided further, That notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 1856d, 13
sums received by a bureau or office of the Department 14
of the Interior for fire protection rendered pursuant to 42 15
U.S.C. 1856 et seq., protection of United States property, 16
may be credited to the appropriation from which funds 17
were expended to provide that protection, and are avail-18
able without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, That 19
using the amounts designated under this title of this Act, 20
the Secretary of the Interior may enter into procurement 21
contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, for fuels 22
management activities, and for training and monitoring 23
associated with such fuels management activities on Fed-24
eral land, or on adjacent non-Federal land for activities 25
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that benefit resources on Federal land: Provided further, 1
That the costs of implementing any cooperative agreement 2
between the Federal Government and any non-Federal en-3
tity may be shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected 4
parties: Provided further, That notwithstanding require-5
ments of the Competition in Contracting Act, the Sec-6
retary, for purposes of fuels management activities, may 7
obtain maximum practicable competition among: (1) local 8
private, nonprofit, or cooperative entities; (2) Youth Con-9
servation Corps crews, Public Lands Corps (Public Law 10
109–154), or related partnerships with State, local, or 11
nonprofit youth groups; (3) small or micro-businesses; or 12
(4) other entities that will hire or train locally a significant 13
percentage, defined as 50 percent or more, of the project 14
workforce to complete such contracts: Provided further, 15
That in implementing this section, the Secretary shall de-16
velop written guidance to field units to ensure account-17
ability and consistent application of the authorities pro-18
vided herein: Provided further, That funds appropriated 19
under this heading may be used to reimburse the United 20
States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine 21
Fisheries Service for the costs of carrying out their re-22
sponsibilities under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 23
(16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to consult and conference, as 24
required by section 7 of such Act, in connection with 25
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wildland fire management activities: Provided further, 1
That the Secretary of the Interior may use wildland fire 2
appropriations to enter into leases of real property with 3
local governments, at or below fair market value, to con-4
struct capitalized improvements for fire facilities on such 5
leased properties, including but not limited to fire guard 6
stations, retardant stations, and other initial attack and 7
fire support facilities, and to make advance payments for 8
any such lease or for construction activity associated with 9
the lease: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Inte-10
rior and the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the 11
transfer of funds appropriated for wildland fire manage-12
ment, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000,000 13
between the Departments when such transfers would fa-14
cilitate and expedite wildland fire management programs 15
and projects: Provided further, That funds provided for 16
wildfire suppression shall be available for support of Fed-17
eral emergency response actions: Provided further, That 18
funds appropriated under this heading shall be available 19
for assistance to or through the Department of State in 20
connection with forest and rangeland research, technical 21
information, and assistance in foreign countries, and, with 22
the concurrence of the Secretary of State, shall be avail-23
able to support forestry, wildland fire management, and 24
related natural resource activities outside the United 25
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States and its territories and possessions, including tech-1
nical assistance, education and training, and cooperation 2
with United States and international organizations: Pro-3
vided further, That of the funds provided under this head-4
ing, $383,657,000 shall be available for wildfire suppres-5
sion operations, and is provided to meet the terms of sec-6
tion 251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of the Balanced Budget and 7
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 8
WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 9
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 10
In addition to the amounts provided under the head-11
ing ‘‘Department of the Interior—Department-Wide Pro-12
grams—Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppres-13
sion operations, $360,000,000, to remain available until 14
transferred, is additional new budget authority as speci-15
fied for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced 16
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Pro-17
vided, That such amounts may be transferred to and 18
merged with amounts made available under the headings 19
‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Service—Wildland 20
Fire Management’’ and ‘‘Department of the Interior—De-21
partment-Wide Programs—Wildland Fire Management’’ 22
for wildfire suppression operations in the fiscal year in 23
which such amounts are transferred: Provided further, 24
That amounts may be transferred to the ‘‘Wildland Fire 25
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Management’’ accounts in the Department of Agriculture 1
or the Department of the Interior only upon the notifica-2
tion of the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-3
tions that all wildfire suppression operations funds appro-4
priated under that heading in this and prior appropria-5
tions Acts to the agency to which the funds will be trans-6
ferred will be obligated within 30 days: Provided further, 7
That the transfer authority provided under this heading 8
is in addition to any other transfer authority provided by 9
law: Provided further, That in determining whether all 10
wildfire suppression operations funds appropriated under 11
the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ in this and 12
prior appropriations Acts to either the Department of Ag-13
riculture or the Department of the Interior will be obli-14
gated within 30 days pursuant to the preceding proviso, 15
any funds transferred or permitted to be transferred pur-16
suant to any other transfer authority provided by law shall 17
be excluded. 18
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 19
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-20
terior and any of its component offices and bureaus for 21
the response action, including associated activities, per-22
formed pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Re-23
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 24
et seq.), $9,200,000, to remain available until expended. 25
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ENERGY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROGRAM 1
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 2
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-3
terior to inventory, assess, decommission, reclaim, respond 4
to hazardous substance releases, remediate lands pursuant 5
to section 40704 of Public Law 117–58 (30 U.S.C. 1245), 6
and carry out the purposes of section 349 of the Energy 7
Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15907), as amended, 8
$5,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 9
That such amount shall be in addition to amounts other-10
wise available for such purposes: Provided further, That 11
amounts appropriated under this heading are available for 12
program management and oversight of these activities: 13
Provided further, That the Secretary may transfer the 14
funds provided under this heading in this Act to any other 15
account in the Department to carry out such purposes, 16
and may expend such funds directly, or through grants: 17
Provided further, That these amounts are not available to 18
fulfill Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com-19
pensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) obli-20
gations agreed to in settlement or imposed by a court, 21
whether for payment of funds or for work to be performed. 22
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NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND 1
RESTORATION 2
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 3
To conduct natural resource damage assessment, res-4
toration activities, and onshore oil spill preparedness by 5
the Department of the Interior necessary to carry out the 6
provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 7
Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), 8
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 9
et seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 10
et seq.), and 54 U.S.C. 100721 et seq., $7,715,000, to 11
remain available until expended. 12
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 13
For the operation and maintenance of a departmental 14
financial and business management system, data manage-15
ment, information technology improvements of general 16
benefit to the Department, cybersecurity, and the consoli-17
dation of facilities and operations throughout the Depart-18
ment, $99,453,000, to remain available until expended: 19
Provided, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act 20
or any other Act may be used to establish reserves in the 21
Working Capital Fund account other than for accrued an-22
nual leave and depreciation of equipment without prior ap-23
proval of the Committees on Appropriations of the House 24
of Representatives and the Senate: Provided further, That 25
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the Secretary of the Interior may assess reasonable 1
charges to State, local, and Tribal government employees 2
for training services provided by the National Indian Pro-3
gram Training Center, other than training related to Pub-4
lic Law 93–638: Provided further, That the Secretary may 5
lease or otherwise provide space and related facilities, 6
equipment, or professional services of the National Indian 7
Program Training Center to State, local and Tribal gov-8
ernment employees or persons or organizations engaged 9
in cultural, educational, or recreational activities (as de-10
fined in section 3306(a) of title 40, United States Code) 11
at the prevailing rate for similar space, facilities, equip-12
ment, or services in the vicinity of the National Indian 13
Program Training Center: Provided further, That all funds 14
received pursuant to the two preceding provisos shall be 15
credited to this account, shall be available until expended, 16
and shall be used by the Secretary for necessary expenses 17
of the National Indian Program Training Center: Provided 18
further, That the Secretary may enter into grants and co-19
operative agreements to support the Office of Natural Re-20
source Revenue’s collection and disbursement of royalties, 21
fees, and other mineral revenue proceeds, as authorized 22
by law. 23
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 1
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from avail-2
able resources within the Working Capital Fund, aircraft 3
which may be obtained by donation, purchase, or through 4
available excess surplus property: Provided, That existing 5
aircraft being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived 6
or trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the 7
replacement aircraft. 8
OFFICE OF NATURAL RESOURCES REVENUE 9
For necessary expenses for management of the collec-10
tion and disbursement of royalties, fees, and other mineral 11
revenue proceeds, and for grants and cooperative agree-12
ments, as authorized by law, $160,446,000, to remain 13
available until September 30, 2026; of which $59,751,000 14
shall remain available until expended for the purpose of 15
mineral revenue management activities: Provided, That 16
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $50,000 shall 17
be available for refunds of overpayments in connection 18
with certain Indian leases in which the Secretary of the 19
Interior concurred with the claimed refund due, to pay 20
amounts owed to Indian allottees or Tribes, or to correct 21
prior unrecoverable erroneous payments. 22
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GENERALPROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 1
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 2
EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY —INTRA-BUREAU 3
S
EC. 101. Appropriations made in this title shall be 4
available for expenditure or transfer (within each bureau 5
or office), with the approval of the Secretary of the Inte-6
rior, for the emergency reconstruction, replacement, or re-7
pair of aircraft, buildings, utilities, or other facilities or 8
equipment damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or 9
other unavoidable causes: Provided, That no funds shall 10
be made available under this authority until funds specifi-11
cally made available to the Department of the Interior for 12
emergencies shall have been exhausted: Provided further, 13
That all funds used pursuant to this section must be re-14
plenished by a supplemental appropriation, which must be 15
requested as promptly as possible. 16
EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY —DEPARTMENT-WIDE 17
S
EC. 102. The Secretary of the Interior may author-18
ize the expenditure or transfer of any no year appropria-19
tion in this title, in addition to the amounts included in 20
the budget programs of the several agencies, for the sup-21
pression or emergency prevention of wildland fires on or 22
threatening lands under the jurisdiction of the Depart-23
ment of the Interior; for the emergency rehabilitation of 24
burned-over lands under its jurisdiction; for emergency ac-25
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tions related to potential or actual earthquakes, floods, 1
volcanoes, storms, or other unavoidable causes; for contin-2
gency planning subsequent to actual oil spills; for response 3
and natural resource damage assessment activities related 4
to actual oil spills or releases of hazardous substances into 5
the environment; for the prevention, suppression, and con-6
trol of actual or potential grasshopper and Mormon cricket 7
outbreaks on lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, 8
pursuant to the authority in section 417(b) of Public Law 9
106–224 (7 U.S.C. 7717(b)); for emergency reclamation 10
projects under section 410 of Public Law 95–87; and shall 11
transfer, from any no year funds available to the Office 12
of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, such 13
funds as may be necessary to permit assumption of regu-14
latory authority in the event a primacy State is not car-15
rying out the regulatory provisions of the Surface Mining 16
Act: Provided, That appropriations made in this title for 17
wildland fire operations shall be available for the payment 18
of obligations incurred during the preceding fiscal year, 19
and for reimbursement to other Federal agencies for de-20
struction of vehicles, aircraft, or other equipment in con-21
nection with their use for wildland fire operations, with 22
such reimbursement to be credited to appropriations cur-23
rently available at the time of receipt thereof: Provided 24
further, That for wildland fire operations, no funds shall 25
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be made available under this authority until the Secretary 1
determines that funds appropriated for ‘‘wildland fire sup-2
pression’’ shall be exhausted within 30 days: Provided fur-3
ther, That all funds used pursuant to this section must 4
be replenished by a supplemental appropriation, which 5
must be requested as promptly as possible: Provided fur-6
ther, That such replenishment funds shall be used to reim-7
burse, on a pro rata basis, accounts from which emergency 8
funds were transferred. 9
AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS 10
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EC. 103. Appropriations made to the Department 11
of the Interior in this title shall be available for services 12
as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States 13
Code, when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, 14
in total amount not to exceed $500,000; purchase and re-15
placement of motor vehicles, including specially equipped 16
law enforcement vehicles; hire, maintenance, and oper-17
ation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles; pur-18
chase of reprints; payment for telephone service in private 19
residences in the field, when authorized under regulations 20
approved by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, when 21
authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in so-22
cieties or associations which issue publications to members 23
only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers 24
who are not members. 25
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AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS , INDIAN TRUST 1
MANAGEMENT 2
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EC. 104. Appropriations made in this Act under the 3
headings Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian 4
Education, and Bureau of Trust Funds Administration 5
and any unobligated balances from prior appropriations 6
Acts made under the same headings shall be available for 7
expenditure or transfer for Indian trust management and 8
reform activities. Total funding for settlement support ac-9
tivities shall not exceed amounts specifically designated in 10
this Act for such purpose. The Secretary shall notify the 11
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations within 12
60 days of the expenditure or transfer of any funds under 13
this section, including the amount expended or transferred 14
and how the funds will be used. 15
REDISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS , BUREAU OF INDIAN 16
AFFAIRS 17
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EC. 105. Notwithstanding any other provision of 18
law, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redis-19
tribute any Tribal Priority Allocation funds, including 20
Tribal base funds, to alleviate Tribal funding inequities 21
by transferring funds to address identified, unmet needs, 22
dual enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate 23
distribution methodologies. No Tribe shall receive a reduc-24
tion in Tribal Priority Allocation funds of more than 10 25
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percent in fiscal year 2025. Under circumstances of dual 1
enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate dis-2
tribution methodologies, the 10 percent limitation does not 3
apply. 4
OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF INSPECTION FEES 5
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EC. 106. (a) In fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of 6
the Interior shall collect a nonrefundable inspection fee, 7
which shall be deposited in the ‘‘Offshore Safety and Envi-8
ronmental Enforcement’’ account, from the designated op-9
erator for facilities subject to inspection under 43 U.S.C. 10
1348(c). 11
(b) Annual fees shall be collected for facilities that 12
are above the waterline, excluding drilling rigs, and are 13
in place at the start of the fiscal year. Fees for fiscal year 14
2025 shall be— 15
(1) $10,500 for facilities with no wells, but with 16
processing equipment or gathering lines; 17
(2) $17,000 for facilities with 1 to 10 wells, 18
with any combination of active or inactive wells; and 19
(3) $31,500 for facilities with more than 10 20
wells, with any combination of active or inactive 21
wells. 22
(c) Fees for drilling rigs shall be assessed for all in-23
spections completed in fiscal year 2025. Fees for fiscal 24
year 2025 shall be— 25
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(1) $30,500 per inspection for rigs operating in 1
water depths of 500 feet or more; and 2
(2) $16,700 per inspection for rigs operating in 3
water depths of less than 500 feet. 4
(d) Fees for inspection of well operations conducted 5
via non-rig units as outlined in title 30 CFR 250 subparts 6
D, E, F, and Q shall be assessed for all inspections com-7
pleted in fiscal year 2025. Fees for fiscal year 2025 shall 8
be— 9
(1) $13,260 per inspection for non-rig units op-10
erating in water depths of 2,500 feet or more; 11
(2) $11,530 per inspection for non-rig units op-12
erating in water depths between 500 and 2,499 feet; 13
and 14
(3) $4,470 per inspection for non-rig units op-15
erating in water depths of less than 500 feet. 16
(e) The Secretary shall bill designated operators 17
under subsection (b) quarterly, with payment required 18
within 30 days of billing. The Secretary shall bill des-19
ignated operators under subsection (c) within 30 days of 20
the end of the month in which the inspection occurred, 21
with payment required within 30 days of billing. The Sec-22
retary shall bill designated operators under subsection (d) 23
with payment required by the end of the following quarter. 24
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CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS FOR WILD HORSE AND 1
BURRO HOLDING FACILITIES 2
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EC. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of 3
this Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into 4
multiyear cooperative agreements with nonprofit organiza-5
tions and other appropriate entities, and may enter into 6
multiyear contracts in accordance with the provisions of 7
section 3903 of title 41, United States Code (except that 8
the 5-year term restriction in subsection (a) shall not 9
apply), for the long-term care and maintenance of excess 10
wild free roaming horses and burros by such organizations 11
or entities on private land. Such cooperative agreements 12
and contracts may not exceed 10 years, subject to renewal 13
at the discretion of the Secretary. 14
MASS MARKING OF SALMONIDS 15
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EC. 108. The United States Fish and Wildlife Serv-16
ice shall, in carrying out its responsibilities to protect 17
threatened and endangered species of salmon, implement 18
a system of mass marking of salmonid stocks, intended 19
for harvest, that are released from federally operated or 20
federally financed hatcheries including but not limited to 21
fish releases of coho, chinook, and steelhead species. 22
Marked fish must have a visible mark that can be readily 23
identified by commercial and recreational fishers. 24
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CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS WITH INDIAN AFFAIRS 1
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EC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of 2
law, during fiscal year 2025, in carrying out work involv-3
ing cooperation with State, local, and Tribal governments 4
or any political subdivision thereof, Indian Affairs may 5
record obligations against accounts receivable from any 6
such entities, except that total obligations at the end of 7
the fiscal year shall not exceed total budgetary resources 8
available at the end of the fiscal year. 9
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR EXPERIENCED SERVICES 10
PROGRAM 11
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EC. 110. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 12
of law relating to Federal grants and cooperative agree-13
ments, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make 14
grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements with, pri-15
vate nonprofit organizations designated by the Secretary 16
of Labor under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 17
to utilize the talents of older Americans in programs au-18
thorized by other provisions of law administered by the 19
Secretary and consistent with such provisions of law. 20
(b) Prior to awarding any grant or agreement under 21
subsection (a), the Secretary shall ensure that the agree-22
ment would not— 23
(1) result in the displacement of individuals 24
currently employed by the Department, including 25
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partial displacement through reduction of non-over-1
time hours, wages, or employment benefits; 2
(2) result in the use of an individual under the 3
Department of the Interior Experienced Services 4
Program for a job or function in a case in which a 5
Federal employee is in a layoff status from the same 6
or substantially equivalent job within the Depart-7
ment; or 8
(3) affect existing contracts for services. 9
OBLIGATION OF FUNDS 10
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EC. 111. Amounts appropriated by this Act to the 11
Department of the Interior shall be available for obligation 12
and expenditure not later than 60 days after the date of 13
enactment of this Act. 14
SEPARATION OF ACCOUNTS 15
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EC. 112. The Secretary of the Interior, in order to 16
implement an orderly transition to separate accounts of 17
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian 18
Education, may transfer funds among and between the 19
successor offices and bureaus affected by the reorganiza-20
tion only in conformance with the reprogramming guide-21
lines described in this Act. 22
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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 2025’’ 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 2025, 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. 1533)— 8
(1) to write or issue a proposed or final rule 9
with regard to the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus 10
urophasianus) or any distinct population segment of 11
greater sage-grouse; or 12
(2) to implement, administer, or enforce any 13
threatened species or endangered species status of 14
the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) 15
or any distinct population segment of greater sage- 16
grouse. 17
SAGE-GROUSE HABITAT 18
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EC. 117. None of the funds made available by this 19
or any other Act may be used to finalize, implement, ad-20
minister, or enforce the Draft Resource Management Plan 21
Amendment or Draft Environmental Impact Statement 22
for Greater Sage-Grouse Rangewide Planning referenced 23
in the Notice titled ‘‘Notice of Availability of the Draft 24
Resource Management Plan Amendment and Environ-25
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mental Impact Statement for Greater Sage-Grouse 1
Rangewide Planning’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 18963 (March 15, 2
2024)). 3
STATE CONSERVATION GRANTS 4
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EC. 118. For expenses necessary to carry out section 5
200305 of title 54, United States Code, the National Park 6
Service may retain up to 7 percent of the State Conserva-7
tion Grants program to provide to States, the District of 8
Columbia, and insular areas, as matching grants to sup-9
port state program administrative costs. 10
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND DEPOSITS 11
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EC. 119. Section 303102 of title 54, United States 12
Code, shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2025’’ 13
for ‘‘fiscal year 2023’’. 14
INTERIOR AUTHORITY FOR OPERATING EFFICIENCIES 15
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EC. 120. (a) In fiscal years 2025 and 2026, the Sec-16
retary of the Interior may authorize and execute agree-17
ments to achieve operating efficiencies among and between 18
two or more component bureaus and offices through the 19
following activities: 20
(1) co-locating in facilities leased or owned by 21
any such component bureau or office and sharing re-22
lated utilities and equipment; 23
(2) detailing or assigning staff on a non-reim-24
bursable basis for up to 5 business days; and 25
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(3) sharing staff and equipment necessary to 1
meet mission requirements. 2
(b) The authority provided by subsection (a) shall be 3
to support areas of mission alignment between and among 4
component bureaus and offices or where geographic prox-5
imity allows for efficiencies. 6
(c) Bureaus and offices entering into agreements au-7
thorized under subsections (a)(1) and (a)(3) shall bear 8
costs for such agreements in a manner that reflects their 9
approximate benefit and share of total costs, which may 10
or may not include indirect costs. 11
(d) In furtherance of the requirement in subsection 12
(c), the Secretary of the Interior may make transfers of 13
funds in advance or on a reimbursable basis. 14
EMERGENCY LAW ENFORCEMENT CEILING 15
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EC. 121. Section 103101 of title 54, United States 16
Code, is amended in subsection (c)(1) by striking 17
‘‘$250,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$500,000’’. 18
CONTRIBUTION AUTHORITY EXTENSION 19
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EC. 122. Section 113 of division G of Public Law 20
113–76, as amended by Public Law 116–6, is further 21
amended by striking ‘‘2024’’ and inserting ‘‘2029’’. 22
PERIOD OF AVAILABILITY 23
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EC. 123. Funds previously made available in the 24
Further Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Dis-25
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aster Relief Requirements Act, 2018 (Div. B of Public 1
Law 115–123) for the ‘‘National Park Service – Historic 2
Preservation Fund’’ that were available for obligation 3
through fiscal year 2019 are to remain available through 4
fiscal year 2026 for the liquidation of valid obligations in-5
curred during fiscal years 2018 and 2019: Provided, That 6
amounts repurposed pursuant to this section that were 7
previously designated by the Congress as an emergency 8
requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emer-9
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated as an 10
emergency requirement pursuant to section 11
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 12
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 13
ONSHORE WIND PROJECT 14
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EC. 124. The final environmental impact statement 15
for the Lava Ridge Wind Project described in the notice 16
of availability issued by the Bureau of Land Management 17
and titled ‘‘Notice of Availability of the Final Environ-18
mental Impact Statement for the Proposed Lava Ridge 19
Wind Project in Jerome, Lincoln, and Minidoka Counties, 20
ID’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 48681 (June 7, 2024)) shall have no 21
force or effect. 22
LEAD AMMUNITION AND TACKLE 23
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EC. 125. (a) None of the funds made available by 24
this or any other Act may be used to prohibit the use of 25
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lead ammunition or tackle on Federal land or water that 1
is made available for hunting or fishing activities or to 2
issue regulations relating to the level of lead in ammuni-3
tion or tackle to be used on Federal land or water, un-4
less— 5
(1) the Secretary of the Interior determines that a 6
decline in wildlife population on the specific unit of Fed-7
eral land or water is primarily caused by the use of lead 8
in ammunition or tackle, based on field data from the spe-9
cific unit of Federal land or water; and 10
(2) the prohibition or regulation, as applicable, is— 11
(A) consistent with— 12
(i) the law of the State in which the spe-13
cific unit of Federal land or water is located; or 14
(ii) an applicable policy of the fish and 15
wildlife department of the State in which the 16
specific unit of Federal land or water is located; 17
or 18
(B) approved by the fish and wildlife depart-19
ment of the State in which the specific unit of Fed-20
eral land or water is located. 21
(b) In any case in which the Secretary of the Interior 22
determines under subsection (a) that there is a wildlife 23
population decline on a specific unit of Federal land or 24
water that warrants a prohibition on or regulation relating 25
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to the level of lead in ammunition or tackle, the Secretary 1
shall include in a Federal Register notice an explanation 2
of how the prohibition or regulation, as applicable, meets 3
the requirements of this section. 4
ECOGRIEF 5
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EC. 126. None of the funds made available by this 6
or any other Act may be used to carry out the program 7
for Federal employees at the Department of the Interior 8
titled ‘‘Acknowledging Ecogrief and Developing Resist-9
ance’’ or any counseling sessions, workshop, or any other 10
meeting pertaining to ecological grief, ecogrief, or eco-re-11
silience. 12
LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN 13
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EC. 127. None of the funds made available by this 14
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 15
or enforce the final rule titled ‘‘Endangered and Threat-16
ened Wildlife and Plants; Lesser Prairie-Chicken; Threat-17
ened Status With Section 4(d) Rule for the Northern Dis-18
tinct Population Segment and Endangered Status for the 19
Southern Distinct Population Segment’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 20
72674 (November 25, 2022)). 21
NORTHERN LONG-EARED BAT 22
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EC. 128. None of the funds made available by this 23
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 24
or enforce the final rule titled ‘‘Endangered and Threat-25
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ened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for 1
Northern Long-Eared Bat’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 73488 (Novem-2
ber 30, 2022)). 3
DUNES SAGEBRUSH LIZARD 4
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EC. 129. None of the funds made available by this 5
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 6
or enforce the threatened species or endangered species 7
status of the dunes sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus 8
arenicolus) pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 9
1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). 10
GRAY WOLF 11
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EC. 130. Not later than 60 days after the date of 12
enactment of this section, the Secretary of the Interior 13
shall reissue the final rule titled ‘‘Endangered and Threat-14
ened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Gray Wolf (Canis 15
lupus) From the List of Endangered and Threatened 16
Wildlife’’ (85 Fed. Reg. 69778 (November 3, 2020)). 17
WOLVERINE 18
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EC. 131. None of the funds made available by this 19
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 20
or enforce the final rule titled ‘‘Endangered and Threat-21
ened Wildlife and Plants; Threatened Species Status With 22
Section 4(d) Rule for North American Wolverine’’ (88 23
Fed. Reg. 83726 (November 30, 2023)). 24
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NORTH CASCADES ECOSYSTEM GRIZZLY BEAR 1
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EC. 132. None of the funds made available by this 2
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 3
or enforce the final rule titled ‘‘Endangered and Threat-4
ened Wildlife and Plants; Establishment of a Nonessential 5
Experimental Population of Grizzly Bear in the North 6
Cascades Ecosystem, Washington State’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 7
36982 (May 3, 2024)). 8
BITTERROOT ECOSYSTEM GRIZZLY BEAR 9
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EC. 133. None of the funds made available by this 10
or any other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Inte-11
rior pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 12
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to establish an experimental popu-13
lation of the grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) within 14
the Bitterroot Ecosystem of Montana and Idaho. 15
FISH LEGALLY HELD IN CAPTIVITY 16
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EC. 134. None of the funds made available by this 17
or any other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Inte-18
rior pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 19
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to implement, administer, or enforce 20
a proposed or final rule with regard to a fish legally held 21
in captivity or in a controlled environment in a manner 22
that maintains physical separation of such fish from any 23
wild population of the same species. 24
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CHARLES M. RUSSELL NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 1
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EC. 135. None of the funds made available by this 2
or any other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Inte-3
rior to facilitate or allow for the introduction of American 4
bison (Bison bison) on the Charles M. Russell National 5
Wildlife Refuge (as originally established in Executive 6
Order No. 7509, renamed in Public Land Order 2951, and 7
redesignated in Public Land Order 5635). 8
ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT RULES 9
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EC. 136. None of the funds made available by this 10
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce— 11
(1) the final rule titled ‘‘Endangered and 12
Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Regulations Per-13
taining to Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and 14
Plants’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 23919 (April 5, 2024)); 15
(2) the final rule titled ‘‘Endangered and 16
Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Listing Endangered 17
and Threatened Species and Designating Critical 18
Habitat’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 24300 (April 5, 2024)); or 19
(3) the final rule titled ‘‘Endangered and 20
Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Regulations for 21
Interagency Cooperation’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 24268 22
(April 5, 2024)). 23
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TRANSPARENCY 1
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EC. 137. (a) Not later than 60 days after the date 2
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior 3
shall reissue and implement Order No. 3368 ‘‘Promoting 4
Transparency and Accountability in Consent Decrees and 5
Settlement Agreements’’ dated September 11, 2018. 6
(b) None of the funds made available by this Act shall 7
be available to rescind the Order reissued under subsection 8
(a), reissue, enforce, administer, or implement Order No. 9
3408 ‘‘Rescission of Secretary’s Order 3368’’ dated June 10
17, 2022, or to issue, enforce, administer, or implement 11
any substantially similar order. 12
FUNDING LIMITATION REGARDING BLM RULE 13
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EC. 138. None of the funds made available by this 14
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 15
or enforce the final rule titled ‘‘Conservation and Land-16
scape Health’’ published by the Bureau of Land Manage-17
ment in the Federal Register on May 9, 2024 (89 Fed. 18
Reg. 40308). 19
GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE NATIONAL MONUMENT 20
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EC. 139. None of the funds made available by this 21
or any other Act may be used for management of the 22
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument except in 23
compliance with the document titled ‘‘Record of Decision 24
and Approved Resource Management Plans for the Grand 25
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Staircase-Escalante National Monument’’ (February 1
2020). 2
COTTONWOOD 3
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EC. 140. Not later than 60 days after the date of 4
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall 5
issue the final rule titled ‘‘Endangered and Threatened 6
Wildlife and Plants; Regulations for Interagency Coopera-7
tion’’ (86 Fed. Reg. 2373 (January 12, 2021)). 8
FUNDING LIMITATION REGARDING FISH AND WILDLIFE 9
SERVICE RULE 10
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EC. 141. None of the funds made available by this 11
or any other Act may be used to finalize, implement, ad-12
minister, or enforce the proposed rule titled ‘‘National 13
Wildlife Refuge System; Biological Integrity, Diversity, 14
and Environmental Health’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 7345 (Feb-15
ruary 2, 2024)). 16
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE HOUSING 17
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EC. 142. None of the funds made available by this 18
Act may be used by the National Park Service to provide 19
housing to an alien without lawful status under the immi-20
gration laws (as such term is defined in section 101 of 21
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101)). 22
BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE 23
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EC. 143. The Secretary of the Interior, acting 24
through the Director of the National Park Service, shall 25
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prepare an environmental impact statement under the Na-1
tional Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 2
et seq.), prior to approving an operations permit, as de-3
scribed in 36 Code of Federal Regulations, subpart B 4
§§9.80 through 9.90, for the purpose of conducting or pro-5
posing to conduct non-federal oil or gas operations within 6
the Big Cypress National Preserve. 7
CALDWELL CANYON 8
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EC. 144. Notwithstanding any other provision of 9
law, not later than December 31, 2024, the Secretary of 10
the Interior shall issue a new Record of Decision for the 11
Caldwell Canyon Mine project that addresses the defi-12
ciencies identified by the United States District Court for 13
the District of Idaho in its decisions and orders issued 14
in Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. United States 15
Bureau of Land Management, et al. (Case Number 4:21- 16
CV-00182-BLW) on January 24, 2023, and June 2, 2023. 17
5-YEAR PLAN 18
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EC. 145. Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf 19
Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344) is amended— 20
(1) in subsection (a)— 21
(A) by striking ‘‘subsections (c) and (d) of 22
this section, shall prepare and periodically re-23
vise,’’ and inserting ‘‘this section, shall issue 24
every five years’’; 25
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(B) by adding at the end the following: 1
‘‘(5) Each five-year program shall include at 2
least two Gulf of Mexico region-wide lease sales per 3
year.’’. 4
(C) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘domes-5
tic energy security,’’ after ‘‘between’’; 6
(2) by redesignating subsections (f) through (i) 7
as subsections (g) through (j), respectively; and 8
(3) by inserting after subsection (e) the fol-9
lowing: 10
‘‘(f) Subsequent Leasing Programs.— 11
‘‘(1) In General.—Not later than 36 months 12
after conducting the first lease sale under an oil and 13
gas leasing program prepared pursuant to this sec-14
tion, the Secretary shall begin preparing the subse-15
quent oil and gas leasing program under this sec-16
tion. 17
‘‘(2) Requirement.—Each subsequent oil and 18
gas leasing program under this section shall be ap-19
proved by not later than 180 days before the expira-20
tion of the previous oil and gas leasing program.’’. 21
OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS LEASING 22
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EC. 146. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 23
of law, and except within areas subject to existing oil and 24
gas leasing moratoria beginning in fiscal year 2025, the 25
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Secretary of the Interior shall annually conduct a min-1
imum of 2 region-wide oil and gas lease sales in the fol-2
lowing planning areas of the Gulf of Mexico region, as de-3
scribed in the 2017–2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and 4
Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program (November 2016): 5
(1) The Central Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. 6
(2) The Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. 7
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, be-8
ginning in fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of the Interior 9
shall annually conduct a minimum of 2 region-wide oil and 10
gas lease sales in the Alaska region of the Outer Conti-11
nental Shelf, as described in the 2017–2022 Outer Conti-12
nental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program 13
(November 2016). 14
(c) In conducting lease sales under subsections (a) 15
and (b), the Secretary of the Interior shall— 16
(1) issue such leases in accordance with the 17
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1332 18
et seq.); and 19
(2) include in each such lease sale all unleased 20
areas that are not subject to a moratorium as of the 21
date of the lease sale. 22
CONTINUING OFFSHORE ENERGY 23
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EC. 147. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 24
of law, not later than one year after the date of the enact-25
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ment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall hold 1
Lease Sale 262, which shall include offering for leasing 2
any tracts— 3
(1) that were offered for leasing under Lease 4
Sale 259 (as defined in section 50264 of Public Law 5
117–169); and 6
(2) for which the Secretary of the Interior did 7
not issue a lease. 8
(b) Leases from Lease Sale 262 shall be conveyed 9
using the same lease form and containing the same lease 10
terms, economic conditions, and lease stipulations as con-11
tained in the Final Notice of Sale for Gulf of Mexico Outer 12
Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale 257 (86 Fed. 13
Reg. 54728 (Oct 4, 2021)). 14
EFFECT ON OTHER LAW 15
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EC. 148. Nothing in this Act, or any amendments 16
made by this Act, shall affect— 17
(a) the Presidential memorandum titled ‘‘Memo-18
randum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United 19
States Outer Continental Shelf From Leasing Disposi-20
tion’’ and dated September 8, 2020; 21
(b) the Presidential memorandum titled ‘‘Memo-22
randum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United 23
States Outer Continental Shelf From Leasing Disposi-24
tion’’ and dated September 25, 2020; 25
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(c) the Presidential memorandum titled ‘‘Memo-1
randum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas off the Atlantic 2
Coast on the Outer Continental Shelf From Leasing Dis-3
position’’ and dated December 20, 2016; or 4
(d) the ban on oil and gas development in the Great 5
Lakes described in section 386 of the Energy Policy Act 6
of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15941). 7
MARINE MAMMALS 8
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EC. 149. (a) None of the funds made available by 9
this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce 10
any restriction, stipulation, or mitigation related to off-11
shore energy leasing, exploration, development, or produc-12
tion carried out pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf 13
Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) intended to reduce 14
or eliminate possible disturbance to the North Pacific 15
right whale (Eubalaena japonica), North Atlantic right 16
whale (Eubalaena glacialis), or Rice’s whale (Balaenoptera 17
ricei). 18
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to any action re-19
quired to comply with a court order in regard to litigation 20
concerning the document titled ‘‘Biological Opinion on the 21
Federally Regulated Oil and Gas Program Activities in the 22
Gulf of Mexico’’ (OPR–2017–00002; March 13, 2020) or 23
any environmental document required under the National 24
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 25
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seq.) needed for Gulf Of Mexico lease sales, provided that 1
such actions are necessary to prevent a decrease, reduc-2
tion, or prohibition of access to the Gulf of Mexico Outer 3
Continental Shelf for energy-related activities. 4
ONSHORE OIL AND GAS LEASING 5
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EC. 150. (a)(1) The Secretary of the Interior shall 6
immediately resume quarterly onshore oil and gas lease 7
sales in compliance with the Mineral Leasing Act (30 8
U.S.C. 181 et seq.). 9
(2) The Secretary of the Interior shall ensure— 10
(A) that any oil and gas lease sale pursuant to 11
paragraph (1) is conducted immediately on comple-12
tion of all applicable scoping, public comment, and 13
environmental analysis requirements under the Min-14
eral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) and the 15
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 16
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); and 17
(B) that the processes described in subpara-18
graph (A) are conducted in a timely manner to en-19
sure compliance with subsection (b)(1). 20
(3) Section 17(b)(1)(A) of the Mineral Leasing Act 21
(30 U.S.C. 226(b)(1)(A)) is amended by inserting ‘‘Eligi-22
ble lands comprise all lands subject to leasing under this 23
Act and not excluded from leasing by a statutory or regu-24
latory prohibition. Available lands are those lands that 25
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have been designated as open for leasing under a land use 1
plan developed under section 202 of the Federal Land Pol-2
icy and Management Act of 1976 and that have been nom-3
inated for leasing through the submission of an expression 4
of interest, are subject to drainage in the absence of leas-5
ing, or are otherwise designated as available pursuant to 6
regulations adopted by the Secretary.’’ after ‘‘sales are 7
necessary.’’. 8
(b)(1) In accordance with the Mineral Leasing Act 9
(30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), each fiscal year, the Secretary 10
of the Interior shall conduct a minimum of four oil and 11
gas lease sales in each of the following States: 12
(A) Wyoming. 13
(B) New Mexico. 14
(C) Colorado. 15
(D) Utah. 16
(E) Montana. 17
(F) North Dakota. 18
(G) Oklahoma. 19
(H) Nevada. 20
(I) Alaska. 21
(J) Any other State in which there is land 22
available for oil and gas leasing under the Mineral 23
Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) or any other 24
mineral leasing law. 25
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(2) In conducting a lease sale under paragraph (1) 1
in a State described in that paragraph, the Secretary of 2
the Interior shall offer all parcels nominated and eligible 3
pursuant to the requirements of the Mineral Leasing Act 4
(30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) for oil and gas exploration, devel-5
opment, and production under the resource management 6
plan in effect for the State. 7
(3) The Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a re-8
placement sale during the same fiscal year if— 9
(A) a lease sale under paragraph (1) is can-10
celed, delayed, or deferred, including for a lack of el-11
igible parcels; or 12
(B) during a lease sale under paragraph (1) the 13
percentage of acreage that does not receive a bid is 14
equal to or greater than 25 percent of the acreage 15
offered. 16
(4) Not later than 30 days after a sale required under 17
this subsection is canceled, delayed, deferred, or otherwise 18
missed the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to the 19
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-20
atives and the Senate, the Committee on Natural Re-21
sources of the House of Representatives, and the Com-22
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 23
a report that states what sale was missed and why it was 24
missed. 25
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DOMESTIC MINING 1
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EC. 151. None of the funds made available by this 2
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce any 3
recommendation of the Interagency Working Group on 4
Mining Regulations, Laws, and Permitting of the Depart-5
ment of the Interior contained in the report titled ‘‘Rec-6
ommendations to Improve Mining on Public Lands’’ (pub-7
lished September 12, 2023). 8
TEN-DAY NOTICES 9
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EC. 152. None of the funds made available by this 10
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 11
final rule titled ‘‘Ten-Day Notices and Corrective Action 12
for State Regulatory Program Issues’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 13
24714 (April 9, 2024)). 14
LEASE CANCELLATIONS IN ALASKA 15
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EC. 153. None of the funds made available by this 16
Act may be used for the cancellation or suspension of oil 17
and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or 18
the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. 19
NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE IN ALASKA 20
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EC. 154. None of the funds made available by this 21
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 22
final rule titled ‘‘Management and Protection of the Na-23
tional Petroleum Reserve in Alaska’’ and published by the 24
Bureau of Land Management in the Federal Register on 25
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May 7, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 38712), or any substantially 1
similar rule. 2
TRADEMARK LITIGATION 3
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EC. 155. None of the funds made available by this 4
Act may be used to oppose an application for trademark 5
related to the logo for the Glacier Rough Riders or pursue 6
litigation or other action against the Glacier Range Riders 7
for trademark rights infringement related to such logo. 8
RENEWAL 9
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EC. 156. The first section of Public Law 99-338 10
(100 Stat. 641) is amended— 11
(1) by striking ‘‘3 renewals’’ and inserting ‘‘7 12
renewals’’; and 13
(2) by striking ‘‘of Southern California Edison 14
Company’’. 15
GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM GRIZZLY BEAR 16
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EC. 157. (a) Not later than 180 days after the date 17
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior 18
shall reissue the final rule entitled ‘‘Endangered and 19
Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Greater 20
Yellowstone Ecosystem Population of Grizzly Bears From 21
the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife’’ 22
(82 Fed. Reg. 30502 (June 30, 2017)), without regard 23
to any other provision of law that applies to the issuance 24
of that final rule. 25
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(b) The reissuance of the final rule described in sub-1
section (a) (including this section) shall not be subject to 2
judicial review. 3
WILDERNESS AREA 4
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EC. 158. None of the funds made available by this 5
Act may be used by the National Park Service to designate 6
or manage Big Cypress National Preserve as wilderness 7
or as a component of the National Wilderness Preserva-8
tion System. 9
DECOMMISSIONING ACCOUNT 10
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EC. 159. The matter under the amended heading 11
‘‘Royalty and Offshore Minerals Management’’ for the 12
Minerals Management Service in Public Law 101–512 13
(104 Stat. 1926, as amended) (43 U.S.C. 1338a), as 14
amended by section 123 of title I of division E of (Public 15
Law 118-42), is further amended by striking the fifth 16
through eighth provisos in their entirety and inserting the 17
following: ‘‘Provided further, That notwithstanding section 18
3302 of title 31, United States Code, any moneys here-19
after received as a result of the forfeiture of a bond or 20
other security by an Outer Continental Shelf permittee, 21
lessee, or right-of-way holder that does not fulfill the re-22
quirements of its permit, lease, or right-of-way or does not 23
comply with the regulations of the Secretary, or as a bank-24
ruptcy distribution or settlement associated with such fail-25
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ure or noncompliance, shall be credited to a separate ac-1
count established in the Treasury for decommissioning ac-2
tivities and shall be available to the Bureau of Ocean En-3
ergy Management without further appropriation or fiscal 4
year limitation to cover the cost to the United States or 5
any entity conducting any improvement, protection, reha-6
bilitation, or decommissioning work rendered necessary by 7
the action or inaction that led to the forfeiture or bank-8
ruptcy distribution or settlement, to remain available until 9
expended: Provided further, That amounts deposited into 10
the decommissioning account may be allocated to the Bu-11
reau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement for such 12
costs: Provided further, That any moneys received for such 13
costs currently held in the Ocean Energy Management ac-14
count shall be transferred to the decommissioning account: 15
Provided further, That only such portion of the moneys 16
so credited that are in excess of the amount expended in 17
performing the work necessitated by the action or inaction 18
which led to their receipt or, if the bond or security was 19
forfeited for failure to pay the civil penalty, in excess of 20
the civil penalty imposed shall be returned to the bank-21
ruptcy estate, permittee, lessee, or right-of-way holder.’’. 22
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TITLE II 1
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 2
S
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, $522,500,000, to remain available until Sep-12
tember 30, 2026: Provided, That of the funds included 13
under this heading, $21,475,000 shall be for Research: 14
National Priorities as specified in the report accom-15
panying this Act. 16
E
NVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS ANDMANAGEMENT 17
For environmental programs and management, in-18
cluding necessary expenses not otherwise provided for, for 19
personnel and related costs and travel expenses; hire of 20
passenger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and oper-21
ation of aircraft; purchase of reprints; library member-22
ships in societies or associations which issue publications 23
to members only or at a price to members lower than to 24
subscribers who are not members; administrative costs of 25
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the brownfields program under the Small Business Liabil-1
ity Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002; im-2
plementation of a coal combustion residual permit pro-3
gram under section 2301 of the Water and Waste Act of 4
2016; and not to exceed $40,000 for official reception and 5
representation expenses, $2,250,445,000, to remain avail-6
able until September 30, 2026: Provided further, That of 7
the funds included under this heading— 8
(1) $35,000,000 shall be for Environmental 9
Protection: National Priorities as specified in the re-10
port accompanying this Act; and 11
(2) $651,226,000 shall be for Geographic Pro-12
grams as specified in the report accompanying this 13
Act. 14
In addition, $9,000,000, to remain available until ex-15
pended, for necessary expenses of activities described in 16
section 26(b)(1) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 17
U.S.C. 2625(b)(1)): Provided, That fees collected pursu-18
ant to that section of that Act and deposited in the ‘‘TSCA 19
Service Fee Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting receipts in 20
fiscal year 2025 shall be retained and used for necessary 21
salaries and expenses in this appropriation and shall re-22
main available until expended: Provided further, That the 23
sum herein appropriated in this paragraph from the gen-24
eral fund for fiscal year 2025 shall be reduced by the 25
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amount of discretionary offsetting receipts received during 1
fiscal year 2025, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2025 2
appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more 3
than $0: Provided further, That to the extent that amounts 4
realized from such receipts exceed $9,000,000, those 5
amounts in excess of $9,000,000 shall be deposited in the 6
‘‘TSCA Service Fee Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting re-7
ceipts in fiscal year 2025, shall be retained and used for 8
necessary salaries and expenses in this account, and shall 9
remain available until expended: Provided further, That of 10
the funds included in the first paragraph under this head-11
ing, the Chemical Risk Review and Reduction program 12
project shall be allocated for this fiscal year, excluding the 13
amount of any fees appropriated, not less than the amount 14
of appropriations for that program project for fiscal year 15
2014. 16
O
FFICE OFINSPECTORGENERAL 17
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 18
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 19
General Act of 1978, $43,250,000, to remain available 20
until September 30, 2026. 21
B
UILDINGS ANDFACILITIES 22
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-23
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, 24
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or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency, 1
$40,676,000, to remain available until expended. 2
H
AZARDOUSSUBSTANCESUPERFUND 3
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 4
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehen-5
sive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil-6
ity Act of 1980 (CERCLA), including sections 111(c)(3), 7
(c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and hire, 8
maintenance, and operation of aircraft, $661,167,000, to 9
remain available until expended, consisting of such sums 10
as are available in the Trust Fund on September 30, 11
2024, and not otherwise appropriated from the Trust 12
Fund, as authorized by section 517(a) of the Superfund 13
Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) 14
and up to $661,167,000 as a payment from general reve-15
nues to the Hazardous Substance Superfund for purposes 16
as authorized by section 517(b) of SARA: Provided, That 17
funds appropriated under this heading may be allocated 18
to other Federal agencies in accordance with section 19
111(a) of CERCLA: Provided further, That of the funds 20
appropriated under this heading, $13,979,000 shall be 21
paid to the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ appropriation 22
to remain available until September 30, 2026, and 23
$32,120,000 shall be paid to the ‘‘Science and Tech-24
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nology’’ appropriation to remain available until September 1
30, 2026. 2
L
EAKINGUNDERGROUND STORAGETANKTRUSTFUND 3
P
ROGRAM 4
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-5
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sub-6
title I of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $80,000,000, to 7
remain available until expended, of which $57,167,000 8
shall be for carrying out leaking underground storage tank 9
cleanup activities authorized by section 9003(h) of the 10
Solid Waste Disposal Act; and $22,833,000 shall be for 11
carrying out the other provisions of the Solid Waste Dis-12
posal Act specified in section 9508(c) of the Internal Rev-13
enue Code: Provided, That the Administrator is authorized 14
to use appropriations made available under this heading 15
to implement section 9013 of the Solid Waste Disposal 16
Act to provide financial assistance to federally recognized 17
Indian Tribes for the development and implementation of 18
programs to manage underground storage tanks. 19
I
NLANDOILSPILLPROGRAMS 20
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environ-21
mental Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil 22
Pollution Act of 1990, including hire, maintenance, and 23
operation of aircraft, $19,600,000, to be derived from the 24
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Oil Spill Liability trust fund, to remain available until ex-1
pended. 2
S
TATE ANDTRIBALASSISTANCEGRANTS 3
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-4
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolv-5
ing funds and performance partnership grants, 6
$3,680,203,000, to remain available until expended, of 7
which— 8
(1) $1,203,013,000 shall be for making capital-9
ization grants for the Clean Water State Revolving 10
Funds under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution 11
Control Act; and of which $883,515,000 shall be for 12
making capitalization grants for the Drinking Water 13
State Revolving Funds under section 1452 of the 14
Safe Drinking Water Act: Provided, That 15
$553,936,004 of the funds made available for cap-16
italization grants for the Clean Water State Revolv-17
ing Funds and $479,541,446 of the funds made 18
available for capitalization grants for the Drinking 19
Water State Revolving Funds shall be for the con-20
struction of drinking water, wastewater, and storm 21
water infrastructure and for water quality protection 22
in accordance with the terms and conditions speci-23
fied for such grants in the report accompanying this 24
Act for projects specified for ‘‘STAG—Drinking 25
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Water State Revolving Fund’’ and ‘‘STAG—Clean 1
Water State Revolving Fund’’ in the table titled ‘‘In-2
terior and Environment Incorporation of Community 3
Project Funding Items’’ included in the report ac-4
companying this Act, and, for purposes of these 5
grants, each grantee shall contribute not less than 6
20 percent of the cost of the project unless the 7
grantee is approved for a waiver by the Agency: Pro-8
vided further, That the Administrator is authorized 9
to use up to $1,500,000 of funds made available for 10
the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under this 11
heading under title VI of the Federal Water Pollu-12
tion Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1381) to conduct the 13
Clean Watersheds Needs Survey: Provided further, 14
That notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) of the Fed-15
eral Water Pollution Control Act, the limitation on 16
the amounts in a State water pollution control re-17
volving fund that may be used by a State to admin-18
ister the fund shall not apply to amounts included 19
as principal in loans made by such fund in fiscal 20
year 2025 and prior years where such amounts rep-21
resent costs of administering the fund to the extent 22
that such amounts are or were deemed reasonable by 23
the Administrator, accounted for separately from 24
other assets in the fund, and used for eligible pur-25
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poses of the fund, including administration: Provided 1
further, That for fiscal year 2025, notwithstanding 2
the provisions of subsections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of 3
section 201 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 4
Act, grants made under title II of such Act for 5
American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the 6
Northern Marianas, the United States Virgin Is-7
lands, and the District of Columbia may also be 8
made for the purpose of providing assistance: (1) 9
solely for facility plans, design activities, or plans, 10
specifications, and estimates for any proposed 11
project for the construction of treatment works; and 12
(2) for the construction, repair, or replacement of 13
privately owned treatment works serving one or 14
more principal residences or small commercial estab-15
lishments: Provided further, That for fiscal year 16
2025, notwithstanding the provisions of such sub-17
sections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of section 201 and sec-18
tion 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 19
Act, funds reserved by the Administrator for grants 20
under section 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution 21
Control Act may also be used to provide assistance: 22
(1) solely for facility plans, design activities, or 23
plans, specifications, and estimates for any proposed 24
project for the construction of treatment works; and 25
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(2) for the construction, repair, or replacement of 1
privately owned treatment works serving one or 2
more principal residences or small commercial estab-3
lishments: Provided further, That for fiscal year 4
2025, notwithstanding any provision of the Federal 5
Water Pollution Control Act and regulations issued 6
pursuant thereof, up to a total of $2,000,000 of the 7
funds reserved by the Administrator for grants 8
under section 518(c) of such Act may also be used 9
for grants for training, technical assistance, and 10
educational programs relating to the operation and 11
management of the treatment works specified in sec-12
tion 518(c) of such Act: Provided further, That for 13
fiscal year 2025, funds reserved under section 14
518(c) of such Act shall be available for grants only 15
to Indian Tribes, as defined in section 518(h) of 16
such Act and former Indian reservations in Okla-17
homa (as determined by the Secretary of the Inte-18
rior) and Native Villages as defined in Public Law 19
92–203: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2025, 20
notwithstanding the limitation on amounts in section 21
518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 22
up to a total of 2 percent of the funds appropriated, 23
or $30,000,000, whichever is greater, and notwith-24
standing the limitation on amounts in section 25
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1452(i) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, up to a 1
total of 2 percent of the funds appropriated, or 2
$20,000,000, whichever is greater, for State Revolv-3
ing Funds under such Acts may be reserved by the 4
Administrator for grants under section 518(c) and 5
section 1452(i) of such Acts: Provided further, That 6
for fiscal year 2025, notwithstanding the amounts 7
specified in section 205(c) of the Federal Water Pol-8
lution Control Act, up to 1.5 percent of the aggre-9
gate funds appropriated for the Clean Water State 10
Revolving Fund program under the Act less any 11
sums reserved under section 518(c) of the Act, may 12
be reserved by the Administrator for grants made 13
under title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control 14
Act for American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth 15
of the Northern Marianas, and United States Virgin 16
Islands: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2025, 17
notwithstanding the limitations on amounts specified 18
in section 1452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, 19
up to 1.5 percent of the funds appropriated for the 20
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs 21
under the Safe Drinking Water Act may be reserved 22
by the Administrator for grants made under section 23
1452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water Act: Provided 24
further, That 10 percent of the funds made available 25
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under this title to each State for Clean Water State 1
Revolving Fund capitalization grants and 14 percent 2
of the funds made available under this title to each 3
State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund cap-4
italization grants shall be used by the State to pro-5
vide additional subsidy to eligible recipients in the 6
form of forgiveness of principal, negative interest 7
loans, or grants (or any combination of these), and 8
shall be so used by the State only where such funds 9
are provided as initial financing for an eligible re-10
cipient or to buy, refinance, or restructure the debt 11
obligations of eligible recipients only where such debt 12
was incurred on or after the date of enactment of 13
this Act, or where such debt was incurred prior to 14
the date of enactment of this Act if the State, with 15
concurrence from the Administrator, determines that 16
such funds could be used to help address a threat 17
to public health from heightened exposure to lead in 18
drinking water or if a Federal or State emergency 19
declaration has been issued due to a threat to public 20
health from heightened exposure to lead in a munic-21
ipal drinking water supply before the date of enact-22
ment of this Act: Provided further, That in a State 23
in which such an emergency declaration has been 24
issued, the State may use more than 14 percent of 25
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the funds made available under this title to the 1
State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund cap-2
italization grants to provide additional subsidy to eli-3
gible recipients: Provided further, That notwith-4
standing section 1452(o) of the Safe Drinking Water 5
Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(o)), the Administrator shall 6
reserve up to $12,000,000 of the amounts made 7
available for fiscal year 2025 for making capitaliza-8
tion grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving 9
Funds to pay the costs of monitoring for unregu-10
lated contaminants under section 1445(a)(2)(C) of 11
such Act: Provided further, That the funds made 12
available under this heading for Community Project 13
Funding grants in this or prior appropriations Acts 14
are not subject to compliance with Federal procure-15
ment requirements for competition and methods of 16
procurement applicable to Federal financial assist-17
ance, if a Community Project Funding recipient has 18
procured services or products through contracts en-19
tered into prior to the date of enactment of this Act 20
that complied with State and/or local laws governing 21
competition; 22
(2) $45,000,000 shall be for architectural, engi-23
neering, planning, design, construction and related 24
activities in connection with the construction of high 25
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priority water and wastewater facilities in the area 1
of the United States-Mexico Border, after consulta-2
tion with the appropriate border commission: Pro-3
vided, That no funds provided by this appropriations 4
Act to address the water, wastewater and other crit-5
ical infrastructure needs of the colonias in the 6
United States along the United States-Mexico bor-7
der shall be made available to a county or municipal 8
government unless that government has established 9
an enforceable local ordinance, or other zoning rule, 10
which prevents in that jurisdiction the development 11
or construction of any additional colonia areas, or 12
the development within an existing colonia the con-13
struction of any new home, business, or other struc-14
ture which lacks water, wastewater, or other nec-15
essary infrastructure; 16
(3) $30,000,000 shall be for grants to the State 17
of Alaska to address drinking water and wastewater 18
infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska Native Vil-19
lages: Provided, That of these funds: (A) the State 20
of Alaska shall provide a match of 25 percent; (B) 21
no more than 5 percent of the funds may be used 22
for administrative and overhead expenses; and (C) 23
the State of Alaska shall make awards consistent 24
with the Statewide priority list established in con-25
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junction with the Agency and the U.S. Department 1
of Agriculture for all water, sewer, waste disposal, 2
and similar projects carried out by the State of Alas-3
ka that are funded under section 221 of the Federal 4
Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) or 5
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act 6
(7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) which shall allocate not less 7
than 25 percent of the funds provided for projects 8
in regional hub communities; 9
(4) $90,292,000 shall be to carry out section 10
104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Re-11
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 12
(CERCLA), including grants, interagency agree-13
ments, and associated program support costs: Pro-14
vided, That at least 10 percent shall be allocated for 15
assistance in persistent poverty counties: Provided 16
further, That for purposes of this section, the term 17
‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ means any county that 18
has had 20 percent or more of its population living 19
in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by 20
the 1993 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, 21
the 2000 decennial census, and the most recent 22
Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, or any 23
territory or possession of the United States; 24
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(5) $90,000,000 shall be for grants under title 1
VII, subtitle G of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; 2
(6) $67,800,000 shall be for targeted airshed 3
grants in accordance with the terms and conditions 4
in the report accompanying this Act; 5
(7) $27,500,000 shall be for grants under sub-6
sections (a) through (j) of section 1459A of the Safe 7
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–19a): Pro-8
vided, That for fiscal year 2025, funds provided 9
under subsections (a) through (j) of such section of 10
such Act may be used— 11
(A) by a State to provide assistance to 12
benefit one or more owners of drinking water 13
wells that are not public water systems or con-14
nected to a public water system for necessary 15
and appropriate activities related to a contami-16
nant pursuant to subsection (j) of such section 17
of such Act; and 18
(B) to support a community described in 19
subsection (c)(2) of such section of such Act; 20
(8) $28,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-21
tion 1464(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 22
U.S.C. 300j–24(d)); 23
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(9) $22,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-1
tion 1459B of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 2
U.S.C. 300j–19b); 3
(10) $6,500,000 shall be for grants under sec-4
tion 1459A(l) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 5
U.S.C. 300j–19a(l)); 6
(11) $25,500,000 shall be for grants under sec-7
tion 104(b)(8) of the Federal Water Pollution Con-8
trol Act (33 U.S.C. 1254(b)(8)); 9
(12) $2,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-10
tion 224 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 11
(33 U.S.C. 1302b); 12
(13) $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
(14) $41,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-16
tion 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 17
(33 U.S.C. 1301); 18
(15) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-19
tion 4304(b) of the America’s Water Infrastructure 20
Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–270); 21
(16) $3,000,000 shall be for carrying out sec-22
tion 302(a) of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (33 U.S.C. 23
4282(a)), of which not more than 2 percent shall be 24
for administrative costs to carry out such section: 25
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Provided, That notwithstanding section 302(a) of 1
such Act, the Administrator may also provide grants 2
pursuant to such authority to intertribal consortia 3
consistent with the requirements in 40 CFR 4
35.504(a), to former Indian reservations in Okla-5
homa (as determined by the Secretary of the Inte-6
rior), and Alaska Native Villages as defined in Pub-7
lic Law 92–203; 8
(17) $2,250,000 shall be for grants under sec-9
tion 1459F of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 10
U.S.C. 300j–19g); 11
(18) $4,000,000 shall be for carrying out sec-12
tion 2001 of the America’s Water Infrastructure Act 13
of 2018 (Public Law 115–270, 42 U.S.C. 300j–3c 14
note): Provided, That the Administrator may award 15
grants to and enter into contracts with Tribes, inter-16
tribal consortia, public or private agencies, institu-17
tions, organizations, and individuals, without regard 18
to section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and section 19
6101 of title 41, United States Code, and enter into 20
interagency agreements as appropriate; 21
(19) $2,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-22
tion 50217(b) of the Infrastructure Investment and 23
Jobs Act (33 U.S.C. 1302f(b); Public Law 117–58); 24
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(20) $3,500,000 shall be for grants under sec-1
tion 124 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 2
(33 U.S.C. 1276); and 3
(21) $1,095,333,000 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
$42,250,000 shall be for carrying out section 128 of 19
CERCLA; $7,000,000 shall be for Environmental 20
Information Exchange Network grants, including as-21
sociated program support costs; $1,475,000 shall be 22
for grants to States under section 2007(f)(2) of the 23
Solid Waste Disposal Act, which shall be in addition 24
to funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Leaking 25
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Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program’’ 1
to carry out the provisions of the Solid Waste Dis-2
posal Act specified in section 9508(c) of the Internal 3
Revenue Code other than section 9003(h) of the 4
Solid Waste Disposal Act; $18,512,000 of the funds 5
available for grants under section 106 of the Federal 6
Water Pollution Control Act shall be for State par-7
ticipation in national- and State-level statistical sur-8
veys of water resources and enhancements to State 9
monitoring programs. 10
W
ATERINFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE ANDINNOVATION 11
P
ROGRAMACCOUNT 12
For the cost of direct loans and for the cost of guar-13
anteed loans, as authorized by the Water Infrastructure 14
Finance and Innovation Act of 2014, $64,634,000, to re-15
main available until expended: Provided, That such costs, 16
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-17
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 18
1974: Provided further, That these funds are available to 19
subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of di-20
rect loans, including capitalized interest, and total loan 21
principal, including capitalized interest, any part of which 22
is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $12,500,000,000: Pro-23
vided further, That of the funds made available under this 24
heading, $5,000,000 shall be used solely for the cost of 25
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direct loans and for the cost of guaranteed loans for 1
projects described in section 5026(9) of the Water Infra-2
structure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 to State 3
infrastructure financing authorities, as authorized by sec-4
tion 5033(e) of such Act: Provided further, That the use 5
of direct loans or loan guarantee authority under this 6
heading for direct loans or commitments to guarantee 7
loans for any project shall be in accordance with the cri-8
teria published in the Federal Register on June 30, 2020 9
(85 FR 39189) pursuant to the fourth proviso under the 10
heading ‘‘Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation 11
Program Account’’ in division D of the Further Consoli-12
dated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94): 13
Provided further, That none of the direct loans or loan 14
guarantee authority made available under this heading 15
shall be available for any project unless the Administrator 16
and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 17
have certified in advance in writing that the direct loan 18
or loan guarantee, as applicable, and the project comply 19
with the criteria referenced in the previous proviso: Pro-20
vided further, That, for the purposes of carrying out the 21
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Director of the 22
Congressional Budget Office may request, and the Admin-23
istrator shall promptly provide, documentation and infor-24
mation relating to a project identified in a Letter of Inter-25
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est submitted to the Administrator pursuant to a Notice 1
of Funding Availability for applications for credit assist-2
ance under the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innova-3
tion Act Program, including with respect to a project that 4
was initiated or completed before the date of enactment 5
of this Act. 6
In addition, fees authorized to be collected pursuant 7
to sections 5029 and 5030 of the Water Infrastructure 8
Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 shall be deposited 9
in this account, to remain available until expended. 10
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 11
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, notwithstanding 12
section 5033 of the Water Infrastructure Finance and In-13
novation Act of 2014, $7,640,000, to remain available 14
until September 30, 2026. 15
A
DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS—ENVIRONMENTAL 16
P
ROTECTIONAGENCY 17
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 18
For fiscal year 2025, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 19
6303(1) and 6305(1), the Administrator of the Environ-20
mental Protection Agency, in carrying out the Agency’s 21
function to implement directly Federal environmental pro-22
grams required or authorized by law in the absence of an 23
acceptable Tribal program, may award cooperative agree-24
ments to federally recognized Indian Tribes or Intertribal 25
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consortia, if authorized by their member Tribes, to assist 1
the Administrator in implementing Federal environmental 2
programs for Indian Tribes required or authorized by law, 3
except that no such cooperative agreements may be award-4
ed from funds designated for State financial assistance 5
agreements. 6
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 7
Agency is authorized to collect and obligate pesticide reg-8
istration service fees in accordance with section 33 of the 9
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 10
U.S.C. 136w–8), to remain available until expended. 11
Notwithstanding section 33(d)(2) of the Federal In-12
secticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 13
U.S.C. 136w–8(d)(2)), the Administrator of the Environ-14
mental Protection Agency may assess fees under section 15
33 of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136w–8) for fiscal year 2025. 16
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 17
Agency is authorized to collect and obligate fees in accord-18
ance with section 3024 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act 19
(42 U.S.C. 6939g) for fiscal year 2025, to remain avail-20
able until expended. 21
The Administrator is authorized to transfer up to 22
$368,000,000 of the funds appropriated for the Great 23
Lakes Restoration Initiative under the heading ‘‘Environ-24
mental Programs and Management’’ to the head of any 25
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Federal department or agency, with the concurrence of 1
such head, to carry out activities that would support the 2
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and Great Lakes 3
Water Quality Agreement programs, projects, or activities; 4
to enter into an interagency agreement with the head of 5
such Federal department or agency to carry out these ac-6
tivities; and to make grants to governmental entities, non-7
profit organizations, institutions, and individuals for plan-8
ning, research, monitoring, outreach, and implementation 9
in furtherance of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative 10
and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. 11
The Science and Technology, Environmental Pro-12
grams and Management, Office of Inspector General, Haz-13
ardous Substance Superfund, and Leaking Underground 14
Storage Tank Trust Fund Program Accounts, are avail-15
able for the construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, 16
and renovation of facilities, provided that the cost does 17
not exceed $300,000 per project. 18
For fiscal year 2025, and notwithstanding section 19
518(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 20
U.S.C. 1377(f)), the Administrator is authorized to use 21
the amounts appropriated for any fiscal year under section 22
319 of the Act to make grants to Indian Tribes pursuant 23
to sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act. 24
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The Administrator is authorized to use the amounts 1
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Environmental Pro-2
grams and Management’’ for fiscal year 2025 to provide 3
grants to implement the Southeast New England Water-4
shed Restoration Program. 5
Notwithstanding the limitations on amounts in sec-6
tion 320(i)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 7
Act, not less than $2,500,000 of the funds made available 8
under this title for the National Estuary Program shall 9
be for making competitive awards described in section 10
320(g)(4). 11
For fiscal year 2025, the Office of Chemical Safety 12
and Pollution Prevention and the Office of Water may, 13
using funds appropriated under the headings ‘‘Environ-14
mental Programs and Management’’ and ‘‘Science and 15
Technology’’, contract directly with individuals or indi-16
rectly with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without 17
regard to 41 U.S.C. 5, for the temporary or intermittent 18
personal services of students or recent graduates, who 19
shall be considered employees for the purposes of chapters 20
57 and 81 of title 5, United States Code, relating to com-21
pensation for travel and work injuries, and chapter 171 22
of title 28, United States Code, relating to tort claims, 23
but shall not be considered to be Federal employees for 24
any other purpose: Provided, That amounts used for this 25
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purpose by the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution 1
Prevention and the Office of Water collectively may not 2
exceed $2,000,000. 3
The Environmental Protection agency shall provide 4
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-5
resentatives and Senate with copies of any available De-6
partment of Treasury quarterly certification of trust fund 7
receipts collected from section 13601 of Public Law 117– 8
169 and section 80201 of Public Law 117–58, an annual 9
operating plan for such receipts showing amounts allo-10
cated by program area and program project, and quarterly 11
reports for such receipts of obligated balances by program 12
area and program project. 13
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TITLE III 1
RELATED AGENCIES 2
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 3
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR NATURAL 4
RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT 5
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under 6
Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, 7
$1,000,000: Provided, That funds made available by this 8
Act to any agency in the Natural Resources and Environ-9
ment mission area for salaries and expenses are available 10
to fund up to one administrative support staff for the of-11
fice. 12
F
ORESTSERVICE 13
FOREST SERVICE OPERATIONS 14
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 15
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 16
otherwise provided for, $1,035,000,000, to remain avail-17
able through September 30, 2028: Provided, That a por-18
tion of the funds made available under this heading shall 19
be for the base salary and expenses of employees in the 20
Chief’s Office, the Work Environment and Performance 21
Office, the Business Operations Deputy Area, and the 22
Chief Financial Officer’s Office to carry out administra-23
tive and general management support functions: Provided 24
further, That funds provided under this heading shall be 25
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available for the costs of facility maintenance, repairs, and 1
leases for buildings and sites where these administrative, 2
general management and other Forest Service support 3
functions take place; the costs of all utility and tele-4
communication expenses of the Forest Service, as well as 5
business services; and, for information technology, includ-6
ing cybersecurity requirements: Provided further, That 7
funds provided under this heading may be used for nec-8
essary expenses to carry out administrative and general 9
management support functions of the Forest Service not 10
otherwise provided for and necessary for its operation. 11
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 12
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-13
search as authorized by law, $299,760,000, to remain 14
available through September 30, 2028: Provided, That of 15
the funds provided, $32,000,000 is for the forest inventory 16
and analysis program: Provided further, That all authori-17
ties for the use of funds, including the use of contracts, 18
grants, and cooperative agreements, available to execute 19
the Forest and Rangeland Research appropriation, are 20
also available in the utilization of these funds for Fire 21
Science Research. 22
STATE, PRIVATE, AND TRIBAL FORESTRY 23
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-24
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-25
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tories, possessions, Tribes, and others, and for forest 1
health management, including for invasive plants, and 2
conducting an international program and trade activities 3
as authorized, $282,960,000, to remain available through 4
September 30, 2028, as authorized by law. 5
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 6
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 7
otherwise provided for, for management, protection, im-8
provement, and utilization of the National Forest System, 9
and for hazardous fuels management on or adjacent to 10
such lands, $1,866,465,000, to remain available through 11
September 30, 2028: Provided, That of the funds pro-12
vided, $30,000,000 shall be deposited in the Collaborative 13
Forest Landscape Restoration Fund for ecological restora-14
tion treatments as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 7303(f): Pro-15
vided further, That of the funds provided, $43,000,000 16
shall be for forest products: Provided further, That of the 17
funds provided, $202,000,000 shall be for hazardous fuels 18
management activities, of which not to exceed 19
$30,000,000 may be used to make grants, using any au-20
thorities available to the Forest Service under the ‘‘State, 21
Private, and Tribal Forestry’’ appropriation, for the pur-22
pose of creating incentives for increased use of biomass 23
from National Forest System lands: Provided further, 24
That $20,000,000 may be used by the Secretary of Agri-25
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culture to enter into procurement contracts or cooperative 1
agreements or to issue grants for hazardous fuels manage-2
ment activities, and for training or monitoring associated 3
with such hazardous fuels management activities on Fed-4
eral land, or on non-Federal land if the Secretary deter-5
mines such activities benefit resources on Federal land: 6
Provided further, That funds made available to implement 7
the Community Forest Restoration Act, Public Law 106– 8
393, title VI, shall be available for use on non-Federal 9
lands in accordance with authorities made available to the 10
Forest Service under the ‘‘State, Private, and Tribal For-11
estry’’ appropriation: Provided further, That notwith-12
standing section 33 of the Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant 13
Act (7 U.S.C. 1012), the Secretary of Agriculture, in cal-14
culating a fee for grazing on a National Grassland, may 15
provide a credit of up to 50 percent of the calculated fee 16
to a Grazing Association or direct permittee for a con-17
servation practice approved by the Secretary in advance 18
of the fiscal year in which the cost of the conservation 19
practice is incurred, and that the amount credited shall 20
remain available to the Grazing Association or the direct 21
permittee, as appropriate, in the fiscal year in which the 22
credit is made and each fiscal year thereafter for use on 23
the project for conservation practices approved by the Sec-24
retary: Provided further, That funds appropriated to this 25
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account shall be available for the base salary and expenses 1
of employees that carry out the functions funded by the 2
‘‘Capital Improvement and Maintenance’’ account, the 3
‘‘Range Betterment Fund’’ account, and the ‘‘Manage-4
ment of National Forest Lands for Subsistence Uses’’ ac-5
count. 6
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 7
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 8
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 9
otherwise provided for, $157,000,000, to remain available 10
through September 30, 2028, for construction, capital im-11
provement, maintenance, and acquisition of buildings and 12
other facilities and infrastructure; for construction, recon-13
struction, and decommissioning of roads that are no 14
longer needed, including unauthorized roads that are not 15
part of the transportation system; and for maintenance 16
of forest roads and trails by the Forest Service as author-17
ized by 16 U.S.C. 532–538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205: 18
Provided, That $6,000,000 shall be for activities author-19
ized by 16 U.S.C. 538(a): Provided further, That funds 20
becoming available in fiscal year 2025 under the Act of 21
March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501) shall be transferred to 22
the General Fund of the Treasury and shall not be avail-23
able for transfer or obligation for any other purpose unless 24
the funds are appropriated. 25
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ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL 1
ACTS 2
For acquisition of lands within the exterior bound-3
aries of the Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, 4
Utah; the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada; and the An-5
geles, San Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland National 6
Forests, California; and the Ozark-St. Francis and 7
Ouachita National Forests, Arkansas; as authorized by 8
law, $664,000, to be derived from forest receipts. 9
ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES 10
For acquisition of lands, such sums, to be derived 11
from funds deposited by State, county, or municipal gov-12
ernments, public school districts, or other public school au-13
thorities, and for authorized expenditures from funds de-14
posited by non-Federal parties pursuant to Land Sale and 15
Exchange Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 4, 1967 16
(16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available through September 17
30, 2028, (16 U.S.C. 516–617a, 555a; Public Law 96– 18
586; Public Law 76–589, Public Law 76–591; and Public 19
Law 78–310). 20
RANGE BETTERMENT FUND 21
For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, pro-22
tection, and improvement, 50 percent of all moneys re-23
ceived during the prior fiscal year, as fees for grazing do-24
mestic livestock on lands in National Forests in the 16 25
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Western States, pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of Public 1
Law 94–579, to remain available through September 30, 2
2028, of which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available 3
for administrative expenses associated with on-the-ground 4
range rehabilitation, protection, and improvements. 5
GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND 6
RANGELAND RESEARCH 7
For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), 8
$45,000, to remain available through September 30, 2028, 9
to be derived from the fund established pursuant to the 10
above Act. 11
MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR 12
SUBSISTENCE USES 13
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service to man-14
age Federal lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under 15
title VIII of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conserva-16
tion Act (16 U.S.C. 3111 et seq.), $1,099,000, to remain 17
available through September 30, 2028. 18
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 19
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 20
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression 21
activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency 22
wildland fire suppression on or adjacent to such lands or 23
other lands under fire protection agreement, and for emer-24
gency rehabilitation of burned-over National Forest Sys-25
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tem lands and water, $2,407,735,000, to remain available 1
until expended: Provided, That such funds, including un-2
obligated balances under this heading, are available for re-3
payment of advances from other appropriations accounts 4
previously transferred for such purposes: Provided further, 5
That any unobligated funds appropriated in a previous fis-6
cal year for hazardous fuels management may be trans-7
ferred to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account: Provided 8
further, That such funds shall be available to reimburse 9
State and other cooperating entities for services provided 10
in response to wildfire and other emergencies or disasters 11
to the extent such reimbursements by the Forest Service 12
for non-fire emergencies are fully repaid by the responsible 13
emergency management agency: Provided further, That 14
funds provided shall be available for support to Federal 15
emergency response: Provided further, That the costs of 16
implementing any cooperative agreement between the Fed-17
eral Government and any non-Federal entity may be 18
shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected parties: Pro-19
vided further, That of the funds provided under this head-20
ing, $1,011,000,000 shall be available for wildfire suppres-21
sion operations, and is provided to meet the terms of sec-22
tion 251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of the Balanced Budget and 23
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 24
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WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 1
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 2
In addition to the amounts provided under the head-3
ing ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Service— 4
Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppression oper-5
ations, $2,390,000,000, to remain available until trans-6
ferred, is additional new budget authority as specified for 7
purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget 8
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided, 9
That such amounts may be transferred to and merged 10
with amounts made available under the headings ‘‘Depart-11
ment of the Interior—Department-Wide Programs— 12
Wildland Fire Management’’ and ‘‘Department of Agri-13
culture—Forest Service—Wildland Fire Management’’ for 14
wildfire suppression operations in the fiscal year in which 15
such amounts are transferred: Provided further, That 16
amounts may be transferred to the ‘‘Wildland Fire Man-17
agement’’ accounts in the Department of the Interior or 18
the Department of Agriculture only upon the notification 19
of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 20
that all wildfire suppression operations funds appropriated 21
under that heading in this and prior appropriations Acts 22
to the agency to which the funds will be transferred will 23
be obligated within 30 days: Provided further, That the 24
transfer authority provided under this heading is in addi-25
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tion to any other transfer authority provided by law: Pro-1
vided further, That, in determining whether all wildfire 2
suppression operations funds appropriated under the 3
heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ in this and prior 4
appropriations Acts to either the Department of Agri-5
culture or the Department of the Interior will be obligated 6
within 30 days pursuant to the preceding proviso, any 7
funds transferred or permitted to be transferred pursuant 8
to any other transfer authority provided by law shall be 9
excluded. 10
COMMUNICATIONS SITE ADMINISTRATION 11
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 12
Amounts collected in this fiscal year pursuant to sec-13
tion 8705(f)(2) of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 14
2018 (Public Law 115–334), shall be deposited in the spe-15
cial account established by section 8705(f)(1) of such Act, 16
shall be available to cover the costs described in subsection 17
(c)(3) of such section of such Act, and shall remain avail-18
able until expended: Provided, That such amounts shall 19
be transferred to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account. 20
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —FOREST SERVICE 21
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 22
Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current 23
fiscal year shall be available for: (1) purchase of passenger 24
motor vehicles; acquisition of passenger motor vehicles 25
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from excess sources, and hire of such vehicles; purchase, 1
lease, operation, maintenance, and acquisition of aircraft 2
to maintain the operable fleet for use in Forest Service 3
wildland fire programs and other Forest Service programs; 4
notwithstanding other provisions of law, existing aircraft 5
being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or 6
trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the 7
replacement aircraft; (2) services pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 8
2225, and not to exceed $100,000 for employment under 9
5 U.S.C. 3109; (3) purchase, erection, and alteration of 10
buildings and other public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); 11
(4) acquisition of land, waters, and interests therein pur-12
suant to 7 U.S.C. 428a; (5) for expenses pursuant to the 13
Volunteers in the National Forest Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 14
558a, 558d, and 558a note); (6) the cost of uniforms as 15
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; and (7) for debt col-16
lection contracts in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c). 17
Funds made available to the Forest Service in this 18
Act may be transferred between accounts affected by the 19
Forest Service budget restructure outlined in section 435 20
of division D of the Further Consolidated Appropriations 21
Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94): Provided, That any 22
transfer of funds pursuant to this paragraph shall not in-23
crease or decrease the funds appropriated to any account 24
in this fiscal year by more than ten percent: Provided fur-25
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ther, That such transfer authority is in addition to any 1
other transfer authority provided by law. 2
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest 3
Service may be transferred to the Wildland Fire Manage-4
ment appropriation for forest firefighting, emergency re-5
habilitation of burned-over or damaged lands or waters 6
under its jurisdiction, and fire preparedness due to severe 7
burning conditions upon the Secretary of Agriculture’s no-8
tification of the House and Senate Committees on Appro-9
priations that all fire suppression funds appropriated 10
under the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ will be 11
obligated within 30 days: Provided, That all funds used 12
pursuant to this paragraph must be replenished by a sup-13
plemental appropriation which must be requested as 14
promptly as possible. 15
Not more than $50,000,000 of funds appropriated to 16
the Forest Service shall be available for expenditure or 17
transfer to the Department of the Interior for wildland 18
fire management, hazardous fuels management, and State 19
fire assistance when such transfers would facilitate and 20
expedite wildland fire management programs and projects. 21
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 22
Forest Service may transfer unobligated balances of dis-23
cretionary funds appropriated to the Forest Service by 24
this Act to or within the National Forest System Account, 25
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or reprogram funds to be used for the purposes of haz-1
ardous fuels management and urgent rehabilitation of 2
burned-over National Forest System lands and water: Pro-3
vided, That such transferred funds shall remain available 4
through September 30, 2028: Provided further, That none 5
of the funds transferred pursuant to this paragraph shall 6
be available for obligation without written notification to 7
and the prior approval of the Committees on Appropria-8
tions of both Houses of Congress. 9
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 10
available for assistance to or through the Agency for Inter-11
national Development in connection with forest and range-12
land research, technical information, and assistance in for-13
eign countries, and shall be available to support forestry 14
and related natural resource activities outside the United 15
States and its territories and possessions, including tech-16
nical assistance, education and training, and cooperation 17
with United States government, private sector, and inter-18
national organizations: Provided, That the Forest Service, 19
acting for the International Program, may sign direct 20
funding agreements with foreign governments and institu-21
tions as well as other domestic agencies (including the 22
U.S. Agency for International Development, the Depart-23
ment of State, and the Millennium Challenge Corpora-24
tion), United States private sector firms, institutions and 25
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organizations to provide technical assistance and training 1
programs on forestry and rangeland management: Pro-2
vided further, That to maximize effectiveness of domestic 3
and international research and cooperation, the Inter-4
national Program may utilize all authorities related to for-5
estry, research, and cooperative assistance regardless of 6
program designations. 7
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 8
available for expenditure or transfer to the Department 9
of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, for removal, 10
preparation, and adoption of excess wild horses and burros 11
from National Forest System lands, and for the perform-12
ance of cadastral surveys to designate the boundaries of 13
such lands. 14
None of the funds made available to the Forest Serv-15
ice in this Act or any other Act with respect to any fiscal 16
year shall be subject to transfer under the provisions of 17
section 702(b) of the Department of Agriculture Organic 18
Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257), section 442 of Public Law 19
106–224 (7 U.S.C. 7772), or section 10417(b) of Public 20
Law 107–171 (7 U.S.C. 8316(b)). 21
Not more than $82,000,000 of funds available to the 22
Forest Service shall be transferred to the Working Capital 23
Fund of the Department of Agriculture and not more than 24
$14,500,000 of funds available to the Forest Service shall 25
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be transferred to the Department of Agriculture for De-1
partment Reimbursable Programs, commonly referred to 2
as Greenbook charges: Provided, That nothing in this 3
paragraph shall prohibit or limit the use of reimbursable 4
agreements requested by the Forest Service in order to 5
obtain information technology services, including tele-6
communications and system modifications or enhance-7
ments, from the Working Capital Fund of the Department 8
of Agriculture. 9
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, up to 10
$5,000,000 shall be available for priority projects within 11
the scope of the approved budget, which shall be carried 12
out by the Youth Conservation Corps and shall be carried 13
out under the authority of the Public Lands Corps Act 14
of 1993 (16 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.). 15
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $4,000 16
is available to the Chief of the Forest Service for official 17
reception and representation expenses. 18
Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public 19
Law 101–593, of the funds available to the Forest Service, 20
up to $3,000,000 may be advanced in a lump sum to the 21
National Forest Foundation to aid conservation partner-22
ship projects in support of the Forest Service mission, 23
without regard to when the Foundation incurs expenses, 24
for projects on or benefitting National Forest System 25
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lands or related to Forest Service programs: Provided, 1
That of the Federal funds made available to the Founda-2
tion, no more than $300,000 shall be available for admin-3
istrative expenses: Provided further, That the Foundation 4
shall obtain, by the end of the period of Federal financial 5
assistance, private contributions to match funds made 6
available by the Forest Service on at least a one-for-one 7
basis: Provided further, That the Foundation may transfer 8
Federal funds to a Federal or a non-Federal recipient for 9
a project at the same rate that the recipient has obtained 10
the non-Federal matching funds. 11
Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98–244, 12
up to $3,000,000 of the funds available to the Forest 13
Service may be advanced to the National Fish and Wildlife 14
Foundation in a lump sum to aid cost-share conservation 15
projects, without regard to when expenses are incurred, 16
on or benefitting National Forest System lands or related 17
to Forest Service programs: Provided, That such funds 18
shall be matched on at least a one-for-one basis by the 19
Foundation or its sub-recipients: Provided further, That 20
the Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a Federal 21
or non-Federal recipient for a project at the same rate 22
that the recipient has obtained the non-Federal matching 23
funds. 24
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Any amounts made available to the Forest Service 1
in this fiscal year, including available collections, may be 2
used by the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the 3
Chief of the Forest Service, to enter into Federal financial 4
assistance grants and cooperative agreements to support 5
forest or grassland collaboratives in the accomplishment 6
of activities benefitting both the public and the National 7
Forest System, Federal lands and adjacent non-Federal 8
lands. Eligible activities are those that will improve or en-9
hance Federal investments, resources, or lands, including 10
for collaborative and collaboration-based activities, includ-11
ing but not limited to facilitation, planning, and imple-12
menting projects, technical assistance, administrative 13
functions, operational support, participant costs, and 14
other capacity support needs, as identified by the Forest 15
Service. Eligible recipients are Indian Tribal entities (de-16
fined at 25 U.S.C. 5304(e)), state government, local gov-17
ernments, private and nonprofit entities, for-profit organi-18
zations, and educational institutions. The Secretary of Ag-19
riculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, 20
may enter into such cooperative agreements notwith-21
standing chapter 63 of title 31 when the Secretary deter-22
mines that the public interest will be benefited and that 23
there exists a mutual interest other than monetary consid-24
erations. Transactions subject to Title 2 of the Code of 25
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Federal Regulations shall be publicly advertised and re-1
quire competition when required by such Title 2. For those 2
transactions not subject to Title 2 of the Code of Federal 3
Regulations, the agency may require public advertising 4
and competition when deemed appropriate. The term ‘‘for-5
est and grassland collaboratives’’ means groups of individ-6
uals or entities with diverse interests participating in a 7
cooperative process to share knowledge, ideas, and re-8
sources about the protection, restoration, or enhancement 9
of natural and other resources on Federal and adjacent 10
non-Federal lands, the improvement or maintenance of 11
public access to Federal lands, or the reduction of risk 12
to such lands caused by natural disasters. 13
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service under the 14
headings ‘‘National Forest System’’ and ‘‘Forest and 15
Rangeland Research’’ may be used for fiscal year 2024 16
and fiscal year 2025 expenses associated with primary and 17
secondary schooling for dependents of agency personnel 18
stationed in Puerto Rico, who are subject to transfer and 19
reassignment to other locations in the United States, at 20
a cost not in excess of those authorized for the Depart-21
ment of Defense for the same area, when it is determined 22
by the Chief of the Forest Service that public schools 23
available in the locality are unable to provide adequately 24
for the education of such dependents: Provided, That the 25
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Congress hereby ratifies and approves payments for such 1
purposes to agency employees stationed in Puerto Rico 2
made by the Forest Service after August 2, 2005, in ac-3
cordance with the 19th unnumbered paragraph under the 4
heading ‘‘Administrative Provisions, Forest Service’’ in 5
title III of Public Law 109-54, as amended. 6
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 7
available for interactions with and providing technical as-8
sistance to rural communities and natural resource-based 9
businesses for sustainable rural development purposes. 10
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 11
available for payments to counties within the Columbia 12
River Gorge National Scenic Area, pursuant to section 13
14(c)(1) and (2), and section 16(a)(2) of Public Law 99– 14
663. 15
Any funds appropriated to the Forest Service may 16
be used to meet the non-Federal share requirement in sec-17
tion 502(c) of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 18
U.S.C. 3056(c)(2)). 19
The Forest Service shall not assess funds for the pur-20
pose of performing fire, administrative, and other facilities 21
maintenance and decommissioning. 22
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of any 23
appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service, 24
not to exceed $500,000 may be used to reimburse the Of-25
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fice of the General Counsel (OGC), Department of Agri-1
culture, for travel and related expenses incurred as a re-2
sult of OGC assistance or participation requested by the 3
Forest Service at meetings, training sessions, management 4
reviews, land purchase negotiations, and similar matters 5
unrelated to civil litigation: Provided, That future budget 6
justifications for both the Forest Service and the Depart-7
ment of Agriculture should clearly display the sums pre-8
viously transferred and the sums requested for transfer. 9
An eligible individual who is employed in any project 10
funded under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 11
(42 U.S.C. 3056 et seq.) and administered by the Forest 12
Service shall be considered to be a Federal employee for 13
purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code. 14
The Forest Service may employ or contract with an 15
individual who is enrolled in a training program at a long-16
standing Civilian Conservation Center (as defined in sec-17
tion 147(d) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 18
Act (29 U.S.C. 3197(d))) at regular rates of pay for nec-19
essary hours of work on National Forest System lands. 20
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 21
available to pay, from a single account, the base salary 22
and expenses of employees who carry out functions funded 23
by other accounts for Enterprise Program, Geospatial 24
Technology and Applications Center, remnant Natural Re-25
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source Manager, Job Corps, and National Technology and 1
Development Program. 2
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 3
SERVICES 4
I
NDIANHEALTHSERVICE 5
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES 6
For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of Au-7
gust 5, 1954 (68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determina-8
tion and Education Assistance Act, the Indian Health 9
Care Improvement Act, and titles II and III of the Public 10
Health Service Act with respect to the Indian Health Serv-11
ice, $440,282,000, to remain available until September 30, 12
2026, except as otherwise provided herein, which shall be 13
in addition to funds previously appropriated under this 14
heading that became available on October 1, 2024; in ad-15
dition, $150,472,000, to remain available until September 16
30, 2026, for the Electronic Health Record System and 17
the Indian Healthcare Improvement Fund, of which 18
$75,472,000 is for the Indian Health Care Improvement 19
Fund and may be used, as needed, to carry out activities 20
typically funded under the Indian Health Facilities ac-21
count; and, in addition, $5,124,311,000, which shall be-22
come available on October 1, 2025, and remain available 23
through September 30, 2027, except as otherwise provided 24
herein; together with payments received during the fiscal 25
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year pursuant to sections 231(b) and 233 of the Public 1
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 238(b) and 238b), for serv-2
ices furnished by the Indian Health Service: Provided, 3
That funds made available to Tribes and Tribal organiza-4
tions through contracts, grant agreements, or any other 5
agreements or compacts authorized by the Indian Self-De-6
termination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 7
U.S.C. 450), shall be deemed to be obligated at the time 8
of the grant or contract award and thereafter shall remain 9
available to the Tribe or Tribal organization without fiscal 10
year limitation: Provided further, That from the amounts 11
that become available on October 1, 2025, $2,500,000 12
shall be available for grants or contracts with public or 13
private institutions to provide alcohol or drug treatment 14
services to Indians, including alcohol detoxification serv-15
ices: Provided further, That from the amounts that become 16
available on October 1, 2025, $1,048,804,000 shall remain 17
available until expended for Purchased/Referred Care: 18
Provided further, That of the total amount specified in the 19
preceding proviso for Purchased/Referred Care, 20
$54,000,000 shall be for the Indian Catastrophic Health 21
Emergency Fund: Provided further, That from the 22
amounts that become available on October 1, 2025, up to 23
$51,000,000 shall remain available until expended for im-24
plementation of the loan repayment program under section 25
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108 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act: Provided 1
further, That from the amounts that become available on 2
October 1, 2025, $58,000,000, to remain available until 3
expended, shall be for costs related to or resulting from 4
accreditation emergencies, including supplementing activi-5
ties funded under the heading ‘‘Indian Health Facilities’’, 6
of which up to $4,000,000 may be used to supplement 7
amounts otherwise available for Purchased/Referred Care: 8
Provided further, That the amounts collected by the Fed-9
eral Government as authorized by sections 104 and 108 10
of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 11
1613a and 1616a) during the preceding fiscal year for 12
breach of contracts shall be deposited in the Fund author-13
ized by section 108A of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a–1) and 14
shall remain available until expended and, notwithstanding 15
section 108A(c) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a–1(c)), funds 16
shall be available to make new awards under the loan re-17
payment and scholarship programs under sections 104 18
and 108 of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1613a and 1616a): Pro-19
vided further, That the amounts made available within this 20
account for the Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention 21
Program, for Opioid Prevention, Treatment and Recovery 22
Services, for the Domestic Violence Prevention Program, 23
for the Zero Suicide Initiative, for the housing subsidy au-24
thority for civilian employees, for Aftercare Pilot Pro-25
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grams at Youth Regional Treatment Centers, for trans-1
formation and modernization costs of the Indian Health 2
Service Electronic Health Record system, for national 3
quality and oversight activities, to improve collections from 4
public and private insurance at Indian Health Service and 5
Tribally operated facilities, for an initiative to treat or re-6
duce the transmission of HIV and HCV, for a maternal 7
health initiative, for the Telebehaviorial Health Center of 8
Excellence, for Alzheimer’s activities, for Village Built 9
Clinics, for a produce prescription pilot, and for accredita-10
tion emergencies shall be allocated at the discretion of the 11
Director of the Indian Health Service and shall remain 12
available until expended: Provided further, That funds pro-13
vided in this Act may be used for annual contracts and 14
grants that fall within 2 fiscal years, provided the total 15
obligation is recorded in the year the funds are appro-16
priated: Provided further, That the amounts collected by 17
the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the 18
authority of title IV of the Indian Health Care Improve-19
ment Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available until 20
expended for the purpose of achieving compliance with the 21
applicable conditions and requirements of titles XVIII and 22
XIX of the Social Security Act, except for those related 23
to the planning, design, or construction of new facilities: 24
Provided further, That funding contained herein for schol-25
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arship programs under the Indian Health Care Improve-1
ment Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available until 2
expended: Provided further, That amounts received by 3
Tribes and Tribal organizations under title IV of the In-4
dian Health Care Improvement Act shall be reported and 5
accounted for and available to the receiving Tribes and 6
Tribal organizations until expended: Provided further, 7
That the Bureau of Indian Affairs may collect from the 8
Indian Health Service, and from Tribes and Tribal organi-9
zations operating health facilities pursuant to Public Law 10
93–638, such individually identifiable health information 11
relating to disabled children as may be necessary for the 12
purpose of carrying out its functions under the Individuals 13
with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.): 14
Provided further, That none of the funds provided that be-15
come available on October 1, 2025, may be used for imple-16
mentation of the Electronic Health Record System or the 17
Indian Health Care Improvement Fund: Provided further, 18
That none of the funds appropriated by this Act, or any 19
other Act, to the Indian Health Service for the Electronic 20
Health Record system shall be available for obligation or 21
expenditure for the selection or implementation of a new 22
Information Technology infrastructure system, unless the 23
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-24
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atives and the Senate are consulted 90 days in advance 1
of such obligation. 2
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS 3
For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for 4
contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter-5
mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with 6
the Indian Health Service for fiscal year 2025, such sums 7
as may be necessary: 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: Provided further, That amounts obligated 11
but not expended by a Tribe or Tribal organization for 12
contract support costs for such agreements for the current 13
fiscal year shall be applied to contract support costs due 14
for such agreements for subsequent fiscal years. 15
PAYMENTS FOR TRIBAL LEASES 16
For payments to Tribes and Tribal organizations for 17
leases pursuant to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Deter-18
mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 19
5324(l)) for fiscal year 2025, such sums as may be nec-20
essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-21
tember 30, 2026: Provided, That notwithstanding any 22
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 23
this heading shall be available for transfer to another 24
budget account. 25
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INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES 1
For construction, repair, maintenance, demolition, 2
improvement, and equipment of health and related auxil-3
iary facilities, including quarters for personnel; prepara-4
tion of plans, specifications, and drawings; acquisition of 5
sites, purchase and erection of modular buildings, and 6
purchases of trailers; and for provision of domestic and 7
community sanitation facilities for Indians, as authorized 8
by section 7 of the Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 9
2004a), the Indian Self-Determination Act, and the In-10
dian Health Care Improvement Act, and for expenses nec-11
essary to carry out such Acts and titles II and III of the 12
Public Health Service Act with respect to environmental 13
health and facilities support activities of the Indian Health 14
Service, $344,010,000, to remain available until expended, 15
which shall be in addition to funds previously appropriated 16
under this heading that became available on October 1, 17
2024; in addition, $850,864,000, which shall become 18
available on October 1, 2025, and remain available until 19
expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any other pro-20
vision of law, funds appropriated for the planning, design, 21
construction, renovation, or expansion of health facilities 22
for the benefit of an Indian Tribe or Tribes may be used 23
to purchase land on which such facilities will be located: 24
Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000 may be 25
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used for fiscal year 2026 by the Indian Health Service 1
to purchase TRANSAM equipment from the Department 2
of Defense for distribution to the Indian Health Service 3
and Tribal facilities: Provided further, That none of the 4
funds appropriated to the Indian Health Service may be 5
used for sanitation facilities construction for new homes 6
funded with grants by the housing programs of the United 7
States Department of Housing and Urban Development. 8
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 9
Appropriations provided in this Act to the Indian 10
Health Service shall be available for services as authorized 11
by 5 U.S.C. 3109 at rates not to exceed the per diem rate 12
equivalent to the maximum rate payable for senior-level 13
positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger motor 14
vehicles and aircraft; purchase of medical equipment; pur-15
chase of reprints; purchase, renovation, and erection of 16
modular buildings and renovation of existing facilities; 17
payments for telephone service in private residences in the 18
field, when authorized under regulations approved by the 19
Secretary of Health and Human Services; uniforms, or al-20
lowances therefor as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; 21
and for expenses of attendance at meetings that relate to 22
the functions or activities of the Indian Health Service: 23
Provided, That in accordance with the provisions of the 24
Indian Health Care Improvement Act, non-Indian patients 25
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may be extended health care at all Tribally administered 1
or Indian Health Service facilities, subject to charges, and 2
the proceeds along with funds recovered under the Federal 3
Medical Care Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 2651–2653) shall 4
be credited to the account of the facility providing the 5
service and shall be available without fiscal year limitation: 6
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other law or 7
regulation, funds transferred from the Department of 8
Housing and Urban Development to the Indian Health 9
Service shall be administered under Public Law 86–121, 10
the Indian Sanitation Facilities Act and Public Law 93– 11
638: Provided further, That funds appropriated to the In-12
dian Health Service in this Act, except those used for ad-13
ministrative and program direction purposes, shall not be 14
subject to limitations directed at curtailing Federal travel 15
and transportation: Provided further, That none of the 16
funds made available to the Indian Health Service in this 17
Act shall be used for any assessments or charges by the 18
Department of Health and Human Services unless such 19
assessments or charges are identified in the budget jus-20
tification and provided in this Act, or approved by the 21
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations through 22
the reprogramming process: Provided further, That not-23
withstanding any other provision of law, funds previously 24
or herein made available to a Tribe or Tribal organization 25
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through a contract, grant, or agreement authorized by 1
title I or title V of the Indian Self-Determination and 2
Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450et seq.), 3
may be deobligated and reobligated to a self-determination 4
contract under title I, or a self-governance agreement 5
under title V of such Act and thereafter shall remain avail-6
able to the Tribe or Tribal organization without fiscal year 7
limitation: Provided further, That none of the funds made 8
available to the Indian Health Service in this Act shall 9
be used to implement the final rule published in the Fed-10
eral Register on September 16, 1987, by the Department 11
of Health and Human Services, relating to the eligibility 12
for the health care services of the Indian Health Service 13
until the Indian Health Service has submitted a budget 14
request reflecting the increased costs associated with the 15
proposed final rule, and such request has been included 16
in an appropriations Act and enacted into law: Provided 17
further, That with respect to functions transferred by the 18
Indian Health Service to Tribes or Tribal organizations, 19
the Indian Health Service is authorized to provide goods 20
and services to those entities on a reimbursable basis, in-21
cluding payments in advance with subsequent adjustment, 22
and the reimbursements received therefrom, along with 23
the funds received from those entities pursuant to the In-24
dian Self-Determination Act, may be credited to the same 25
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or subsequent appropriation account from which the funds 1
were originally derived, with such amounts to remain 2
available until expended: Provided further, That reim-3
bursements for training, technical assistance, or services 4
provided by the Indian Health Service will contain total 5
costs, including direct, administrative, and overhead costs 6
associated with the provision of goods, services, or tech-7
nical assistance: Provided further, That the Indian Health 8
Service may provide to civilian medical personnel serving 9
in hospitals operated by the Indian Health Service housing 10
allowances equivalent to those that would be provided to 11
members of the Commissioned Corps of the United States 12
Public Health Service serving in similar positions at such 13
hospitals: Provided further, That the appropriation struc-14
ture for the Indian Health Service may not be altered 15
without advance notification to the House and Senate 16
Committees on Appropriations. 17
N
ATIONALINSTITUTES OFHEALTH 18
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 19
SCIENCES 20
For necessary expenses for the National Institute of 21
Environmental Health Sciences in carrying out activities 22
set forth in section 311(a) of the Comprehensive Environ-23
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 24
1980 (42 U.S.C. 9660(a)) and section 126(g) of the 25
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Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, 1
$75,000,000. 2
A
GENCY FORTOXICSUBSTANCES ANDDISEASE 3
R
EGISTRY 4
TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC 5
HEALTH 6
For necessary expenses for the Agency for Toxic Sub-7
stances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in carrying out 8
activities set forth in sections 104(i) and 111(c)(4) of the 9
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, 10
and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and section 3019 11
of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $76,000,000: Provided, 12
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, in lieu 13
of performing a health assessment under section 104(i)(6) 14
of CERCLA, the Administrator of ATSDR may conduct 15
other appropriate health studies, evaluations, or activities, 16
including, without limitation, biomedical testing, clinical 17
evaluations, medical monitoring, and referral to accredited 18
healthcare providers: Provided further, That in performing 19
any such health assessment or health study, evaluation, 20
or activity, the Administrator of ATSDR shall not be 21
bound by the deadlines in section 104(i)(6)(A) of 22
CERCLA: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-23
priated under this heading shall be available for ATSDR 24
to issue in excess of 40 toxicological profiles pursuant to 25
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section 104(i) of CERCLA during fiscal year 2025, and 1
existing profiles may be updated as necessary. 2
OTHER RELATED AGENCIES 3
E
XECUTIVEOFFICE OF THEPRESIDENT 4
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF 5
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 6
For necessary expenses to continue functions as-7
signed to the Council on Environmental Quality and Office 8
of Environmental Quality pursuant to the National Envi-9
ronmental Policy Act of 1969, the Environmental Quality 10
Improvement Act of 1970, and Reorganization Plan No. 11
1 of 1977, and not to exceed $750 for official reception 12
and representation expenses, $1,000,000: Provided, That 13
notwithstanding section 202 of the National Environ-14
mental Policy Act of 1970, the Council shall consist of 15
one member, appointed by the President, by and with the 16
advice and consent of the Senate, serving as chairman and 17
exercising all powers, functions, and duties of the Council. 18
C
HEMICALSAFETY ANDHAZARDINVESTIGATIONBOARD 19
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 20
For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pur-21
suant to section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, including 22
hire of passenger vehicles, uniforms or allowances there-23
for, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, rental of space, 24
and for services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates 25
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for individuals not to exceed the per diem equivalent to 1
the maximum rate payable for senior level positions under 2
5 U.S.C. 5376, $13,824,000: Provided, That the Chemical 3
Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (Board) shall have 4
not more than three career Senior Executive Service posi-5
tions: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 6
provision of law, the individual appointed to the position 7
of Inspector General of the Environmental Protection 8
Agency (EPA) shall, by virtue of such appointment, also 9
hold the position of Inspector General of the Board: Pro-10
vided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of 11
law, the Inspector General of the Board shall utilize per-12
sonnel of the Office of Inspector General of EPA in per-13
forming the duties of the Inspector General of the Board, 14
and shall not appoint any individuals to positions within 15
the Board. 16
O
FFICE OFNAVAJO ANDHOPIINDIANRELOCATION 17
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 18
For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and 19
Hopi Indian Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93– 20
531, $3,060,000, to remain available until expended, 21
which shall be derived from unobligated balances from 22
prior year appropriations available under this heading: 23
Provided, That funds provided in this or any other appro-24
priations Act are to be used to relocate eligible individuals 25
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and groups including evictees from District 6, Hopi-parti-1
tioned lands residents, those in significantly substandard 2
housing, and all others certified as eligible and not in-3
cluded in the preceding categories: Provided further, That 4
none of the funds contained in this or any other Act may 5
be used by the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Reloca-6
tion to evict any single Navajo or Navajo family who, as 7
of November 30, 1985, was physically domiciled on the 8
lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe unless a new or re-9
placement home is provided for such household: Provided 10
further, That no relocatee will be provided with more than 11
one new or replacement home: Provided further, That the 12
Office shall relocate any certified eligible relocatees who 13
have selected and received an approved homesite on the 14
Navajo reservation or selected a replacement residence off 15
the Navajo reservation or on the land acquired pursuant 16
to section 11 of Public Law 93–531 (88 Stat. 1716). 17
I
NSTITUTE OFAMERICANINDIAN ANDALASKANATIVE 18
C
ULTURE ANDARTSDEVELOPMENT 19
PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE 20
For payment to the Institute of American Indian and 21
Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, as author-22
ized by part A of title XV of Public Law 99–498 (20 23
U.S.C. 4411 et seq.), $13,125,000, which shall become 24
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available on July 1, 2025, and shall remain available until 1
September 30, 2026. 2
S
MITHSONIANINSTITUTION 3
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institu-5
tion, as authorized by law, including research in the fields 6
of art, science, and history; development, preservation, and 7
documentation of the National Collections; presentation of 8
public exhibits and performances; collection, preparation, 9
dissemination, and exchange of information and publica-10
tions; conduct of education, training, and museum assist-11
ance programs; maintenance, alteration, operation, lease 12
agreements of no more than 30 years, and protection of 13
buildings, facilities, and approaches; not to exceed 14
$100,000 for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and 15
purchase, rental, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for em-16
ployees, $837,802,000, to remain available until Sep-17
tember 30, 2026, except as otherwise provided herein; of 18
which not to exceed $27,000,000 for the instrumentation 19
program, collections acquisition, exhibition reinstallation, 20
Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, Na-21
tional Museum of the American Latino, and the repatri-22
ation of skeletal remains program shall remain available 23
until expended; and including such funds as may be nec-24
essary to support American overseas research centers: 25
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Provided, That funds appropriated herein are available for 1
advance payments to independent contractors performing 2
research services or participating in official Smithsonian 3
presentations: Provided further, That the Smithsonian In-4
stitution may expend Federal appropriations designated in 5
this Act for lease or rent payments, as rent payable to 6
the Smithsonian Institution, and such rent payments may 7
be deposited into the general trust funds of the Institution 8
to be available as trust funds for expenses associated with 9
the purchase of a portion of the building at 600 Maryland 10
Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, to the extent that federally 11
supported activities will be housed there: Provided further, 12
That the use of such amounts in the general trust funds 13
of the Institution for such purpose shall not be construed 14
as Federal debt service for, a Federal guarantee of, a 15
transfer of risk to, or an obligation of the Federal Govern-16
ment: Provided further, That no appropriated funds may 17
be used directly to service debt which is incurred to fi-18
nance the costs of acquiring a portion of the building at 19
600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, or of plan-20
ning, designing, and constructing improvements to such 21
building: Provided further, That any agreement entered 22
into by the Smithsonian Institution for the sale of its own-23
ership interest, or any portion thereof, in such building 24
so acquired may not take effect until the expiration of a 25
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30 day period which begins on the date on which the Sec-1
retary of the Smithsonian submits to the Committees on 2
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Sen-3
ate, the Committees on House Administration and Trans-4
portation and Infrastructure of the House of Representa-5
tives, and the Committee on Rules and Administration of 6
the Senate a report, as outlined in the explanatory state-7
ment described in section 4 of the Further Consolidated 8
Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94; 133 Stat. 9
2536) on the intended sale. 10
FACILITIES CAPITAL 11
For necessary expenses of repair, revitalization, and 12
alteration of facilities owned or occupied by the Smithso-13
nian Institution, by contract or otherwise, as authorized 14
by section 2 of the Act of August 22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623), 15
and for construction, including necessary personnel, 16
$121,913,000, to remain available until expended, of 17
which not to exceed $10,000 shall be for services as au-18
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 19
N
ATIONALGALLERY OFART 20
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 21
For the upkeep and operations of the National Gal-22
lery of Art, the protection and care of the works of art 23
therein, and administrative expenses incident thereto, as 24
authorized by the Act of March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), 25
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as amended by the public resolution of April 13, 1939 1
(Public Resolution 9, 76th Congress), including services 2
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in advance when 3
authorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for membership 4
in library, museum, and art associations or societies whose 5
publications or services are available to members only, or 6
to members at a price lower than to the general public; 7
purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards, and 8
uniforms, or allowances therefor, for other employees as 9
authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); purchase or 10
rental of devices and services for protecting buildings and 11
contents thereof, and maintenance, alteration, improve-12
ment, and repair of buildings, approaches, and grounds; 13
and purchase of services for restoration and repair of 14
works of art for the National Gallery of Art by contracts 15
made, without advertising, with individuals, firms, or or-16
ganizations at such rates or prices and under such terms 17
and conditions as the Gallery may deem proper, 18
$171,050,000, to remain available until September 30, 19
2026. 20
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS 21
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 22
For necessary expenses of repair, restoration, and 23
renovation of buildings, grounds and facilities owned or 24
occupied by the National Gallery of Art, by contract or 25
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otherwise, for operating lease agreements of no more than 1
10 years, that address space needs created by the ongoing 2
renovations in the Master Facilities Plan, as authorized, 3
$17,266,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-4
vided, That of this amount, $5,651,000 shall be available 5
for the completion of an off-site art storage facility in 6
partnership with the Smithsonian Institution and may be 7
transferred to the Smithsonian Institution for such pur-8
poses: Provided further, That contracts awarded for envi-9
ronmental systems, protection systems, and exterior repair 10
or renovation of buildings of the National Gallery of Art 11
may be negotiated with selected contractors and awarded 12
on the basis of contractor qualifications as well as price. 13
J
OHNF. KENNEDYCENTER FOR THEPERFORMING 14
A
RTS 15
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 16
For necessary expenses for the operation, mainte-17
nance, and security of the John F. Kennedy Center for 18
the Performing Arts, $32,000,000, to remain available 19
until September 30, 2026. 20
CAPITAL REPAIR AND RESTORATION 21
For necessary expenses for capital repair and restora-22
tion of the existing features of the building and site of 23
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 24
$6,000,000, to remain available until expended. 25
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WOODROWWILSONINTERNATIONALCENTER FOR 1
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CHOLARS 2
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 3
For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions 4
of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 5
1356) including hire of passenger vehicles and services as 6
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $12,000,000, to remain 7
available until September 30, 2026. 8
N
ATIONALFOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE 9
H
UMANITIES 10
N
ATIONALENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 11
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 12
For necessary expenses to carry out the National 13
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 14
$203,895,000 shall be available to the National Endow-15
ment for the Arts for the support of projects and produc-16
tions in the arts, including arts education and public out-17
reach activities, through assistance to organizations and 18
individuals pursuant to section 5 of the Act, for program 19
support, and for administering the functions of the Act, 20
to remain available until expended. 21
N
ATIONALENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 22
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION 23
For necessary expenses to carry out the National 24
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, 25
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$203,895,000, to remain available until expended, of 1
which $195,645,000 shall be available for support of ac-2
tivities in the humanities, pursuant to section 7(c) of the 3
Act and for administering the functions of the Act; and 4
$8,250,000 shall be available to carry out the matching 5
grants program pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Act, 6
including $6,250,000 for the purposes of section 7(h): 7
Provided, That appropriations for carrying out section 8
10(a)(2) shall be available for obligation only in such 9
amounts as may be equal to the total amounts of gifts, 10
bequests, devises of money, and other property accepted 11
by the chairman or by grantees of the National Endow-12
ment for the Humanities under the provisions of sections 13
11(a)(2)(B) and 11(a)(3)(B) during the current and pre-14
ceding fiscal years for which equal amounts have not pre-15
viously been appropriated. 16
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DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 17
None of the funds appropriated to the National 18
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities may be used 19
to process any grant or contract documents which do not 20
include the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913: Provided, That none 21
of the funds appropriated to the National Foundation on 22
the Arts and the Humanities may be used for official re-23
ception and representation expenses: Provided further, 24
That funds from nonappropriated sources may be used as 25
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necessary for official reception and representation ex-1
penses: Provided further, That the Chairperson of the Na-2
tional Endowment for the Arts may approve grants of up 3
to $10,000, if in the aggregate the amount of such grants 4
does not exceed 5 percent of the sums appropriated for 5
grantmaking purposes per year: Provided further, That 6
such small grant actions are taken pursuant to the terms 7
of an expressed and direct delegation of authority from 8
the National Council on the Arts to the Chairperson. 9
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OMMISSION OFFINEARTS 10
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 11
For expenses of the Commission of Fine Arts under 12
chapter 91 of title 40, United States Code, $3,600,000: 13
Provided, That the Commission is authorized to charge 14
fees to cover the full costs of its publications, and such 15
fees shall be credited to this account as an offsetting col-16
lection, to remain available until expended without further 17
appropriation: Provided further, That the Commission is 18
authorized to accept gifts, including objects, papers, art-19
work, drawings and artifacts, that pertain to the history 20
and design of the Nation’s Capital or the history and ac-21
tivities of the Commission of Fine Arts, for the purpose 22
of artistic display, study, or education: Provided further, 23
That one-tenth of one percent of the funds provided under 24
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this heading may be used for official reception and rep-1
resentation expenses. 2
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 3
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 4
99–190 (20 U.S.C. 956a), $4,950,000. 5
A
DVISORYCOUNCIL ONHISTORICPRESERVATION 6
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 7
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on 8
Historic Preservation (Public Law 89–665), $8,375,000. 9
N
ATIONALCAPITALPLANNINGCOMMISSION 10
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 11
For necessary expenses of the National Capital Plan-12
ning Commission under chapter 87 of title 40, United 13
States Code, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 14
3109, $8,700,000: Provided, That one-quarter of 1 per-15
cent of the funds provided under this heading may be used 16
for official reception and representational expenses associ-17
ated with hosting international visitors engaged in the 18
planning and physical development of world capitals. 19
U
NITEDSTATESHOLOCAUSTMEMORIALMUSEUM 20
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 21
For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, as 22
authorized by Public Law 106–292 (36 U.S.C. 2301– 23
2310), $65,231,000, to remain available until September 24
30, 2026, of which $1,000,000 shall remain available until 25
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September 30, 2027, for the Museum’s equipment replace-1
ment program; and of which $4,000,000 for the Museum’s 2
repair and rehabilitation program and $1,264,000 for the 3
Museum’s outreach initiatives program shall remain avail-4
able until expended. 5
U
NITEDSTATESSEMIQUINCENTENNIAL COMMISSION 6
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 7
For necessary expenses of the United States 8
Semiquincentennial Commission to plan and coordinate 9
observances and activities associated with the 250th anni-10
versary of the founding of the United States, as authorized 11
by Public Law 116–282, the technical amendments to 12
Public Law 114–196, $15,000,000, to remain available 13
until September 30, 2026. 14
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TITLE IV 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS AND RESCISSION 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, 2026, 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 2025. 21
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS , FISCAL YEAR 2025 22
LIMITATION 23
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EC. 406. Amounts provided by this Act for fiscal 24
year 2025 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 and Bureau of Indian Education, Contract Sup-3
port Costs’’ are the only amounts available for contract 4
support costs arising out of self-determination or self-gov-5
ernance contracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding 6
agreements for fiscal year 2025 with the Bureau of Indian 7
Affairs, Bureau of Indian Education, and the Indian 8
Health Service: Provided, That such amounts provided by 9
this Act are not available for payment of claims for con-10
tract support costs for prior years, or for repayments of 11
payments for settlements or judgments awarding contract 12
support costs for prior 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 2025. 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
S
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
S
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, 2025’’ 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, 2026’’ 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 2025’’ 10
for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’. 11
SHASTA-TRINITY MARINA FEE AUTHORITY 12
AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 13
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EC. 424. Section 422 of division F of Public Law 14
110–161 (121 Stat 1844), as amended, shall be applied 15
by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2025’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’. 16
INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 17
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EC. 425. Section 426 of division G of Public Law 18
113–76 (16 U.S.C. 565a–1 note) shall be applied by sub-19
stituting ‘‘September 30, 2025’’ for ‘‘September 30, 20
2019’’. 21
FOREST BOTANICAL PRODUCTS FEE COLLECTION 22
AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 23
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EC. 426. Section 339 of the Department of the Inte-24
rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as 25
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enacted into law by Public Law 106–113; 16 U.S.C. 528 1
note), as amended by section 335(6) of Public Law 108– 2
108 and section 432 of Public Law 113–76, shall be ap-3
plied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2025’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 4
2019’’. 5
TRIBAL LEASES 6
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EC. 427. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 7
of law, in the case of any lease under section 105(l) of 8
the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance 9
Act (25 U.S.C. 5324(l)), the initial lease term shall com-10
mence no earlier than the date of receipt of the lease pro-11
posal. 12
(b) The Secretaries of the Interior and Health and 13
Human Services shall, jointly or separately, during fiscal 14
year 2025 consult with Tribes and Tribal organizations 15
through public solicitation and other means regarding the 16
requirements for leases under section 105(l) of the Indian 17
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 18
U.S.C. 5324(l)) on how to implement a consistent and 19
transparent process for the payment of such leases. 20
FOREST ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND 21
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EC. 428. The authority provided under the heading 22
‘‘Forest Ecosystem Health and Recovery Fund’’ in title 23
I of Public Law 111–88, as amended by section 117 of 24
division F of Public Law 113–235, shall be applied by sub-25
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stituting ‘‘fiscal year 2025’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2020’’ each 1
place it appears. 2
ALLOCATION OF PROJECTS , NATIONAL PARKS AND PUB -3
LIC LAND LEGACY RESTORATION FUND AND LAND 4
AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND 5
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EC. 429. (a)(1) Within 45 days of enactment of this 6
Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall allocate amounts 7
made available from the National Parks and Public Land 8
Legacy Restoration Fund for fiscal year 2025 pursuant 9
to subsection (c) of section 200402 of title 54, United 10
States Code, and as provided in subsection (e) of such sec-11
tion of such title, to the agencies of the Department of 12
the Interior and the Department of Agriculture specified, 13
in the amounts specified, for the stations and unit names 14
specified, and for the projects and activities specified in 15
the table titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: National Parks and 16
Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund Fiscal Year 2025’’ 17
in the report accompanying this Act. 18
(2) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Sec-19
retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, 20
as appropriate, shall allocate amounts made available for 21
expenditure from the Land and Water Conservation Fund 22
for fiscal year 2025 pursuant to subsection (a) of section 23
200303 of title 54, United States Code, to the agencies 24
and accounts specified, in the amounts specified, and for 25
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the projects and activities specified in the table titled ‘‘Al-1
location of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund 2
Fiscal Year 2025’’ in the report accompanying this Act. 3
(b) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (c) 4
of this section, neither the President nor his designee may 5
allocate any amounts that are made available for any fiscal 6
year under subsection (c) of section 200402 of title 54, 7
United States Code, or subsection (a) of section 200303 8
of title 54, United States Code, other than in amounts 9
and for projects and activities that are allocated by sub-10
sections (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section: Provided, That 11
in any fiscal year, the matter preceding this proviso shall 12
not apply to the allocation of amounts for continuing ad-13
ministration of programs allocated funds from the Na-14
tional Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund 15
or the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which may 16
be allocated only in amounts that are no more than the 17
allocation for such purposes in subsections (a)(1) and 18
(a)(2) of this section. 19
(c) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary 20
of Agriculture may reallocate amounts from each agency’s 21
‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line in the table titled ‘‘Allocation 22
of Funds: National Parks and Public Land Legacy Res-23
toration Fund Fiscal Year 2025’’ to any project funded 24
by the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora-25
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tion Fund within the same agency, from any fiscal year, 1
that experienced a funding deficiency due to unforeseen 2
cost overruns, in accordance with the following require-3
ments: 4
(1) ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ amounts may only be 5
reallocated if there is a risk to project completion re-6
sulting from unforeseen cost overruns; 7
(2) ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ amounts may only be 8
reallocated for cost of adjustments and changes 9
within the original scope of effort for projects fund-10
ed by the National Parks and Public Land Legacy 11
Restoration Fund; and 12
(3) The Secretary of the Interior or the Sec-13
retary of Agriculture must provide written notifica-14
tion to the Committees on Appropriations 30 days 15
before taking any actions authorized by this sub-16
section if the amount reallocated from the ‘‘Contin-17
gency Fund’’ line for a project is projected to be 10 18
percent or greater than the following, as applicable: 19
(A) The amount allocated to that project 20
in the table titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: Na-21
tional Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora-22
tion Fund Fiscal Year 2025’’ in the report ac-23
companying this Act; or 24
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(B) The initial estimate in the most recent 1
report submitted, prior to enactment of this 2
Act, to the Committees on Appropriations pur-3
suant to section 430(e) of division E of the 4
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public 5
Law 118–42). 6
(d)(1) Concurrent with the annual budget submission 7
of the President for fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of the 8
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each sub-9
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 10
of Representatives and the Senate project data sheets for 11
the projects in the ‘‘Submission of Annual List of Projects 12
to Congress’’ required by section 200402(h) of title 54, 13
United States Code: Provided, That the ‘‘Submission of 14
Annual List of Projects to Congress’’ must include a 15
‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line for each agency within the allo-16
cations defined in subsection (e) of section 200402 of title 17
54, United States Code: Provided further, That in the 18
event amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act for 19
the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration 20
Fund are no longer needed to complete a specified project, 21
such amounts may be reallocated in such submission to 22
that agency’s ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line: Provided further, 23
That any proposals to change the scope of or terminate 24
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a previously approved project must be clearly identified 1
in such submission. 2
(2)(A) Concurrent with the annual budget submission 3
of the President for fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of the 4
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each sub-5
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 6
of Representatives and the Senate a list of supplementary 7
allocations for Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy 8
Projects at the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and 9
Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and 10
the U.S. Forest Service that are in addition to the ‘‘Sub-11
mission of Cost Estimates’’ required by section 12
200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, that are 13
prioritized and detailed by account, program, and project, 14
and that total no less than half the full amount allocated 15
to each account for that land management Agency under 16
the allocations submitted under section 200303(c)(1) of 17
title 54, United States Code: Provided, That in the event 18
amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act pursuant 19
to subsection (a) of section 200303 of title 54, United 20
States Code are no longer needed because a project has 21
been completed or can no longer be executed, such 22
amounts must be clearly identified if proposed for realloca-23
tion in the annual budget submission. 24
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(B) The Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy 1
projects in the ‘‘Submission of Cost Estimates’’ required 2
by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, 3
and on the list of supplementary allocations required by 4
subparagraph (A) shall be comprised only of projects for 5
which a willing seller has been identified and for which 6
an appraisal or market research has been initiated. 7
(C) Concurrent with the annual budget submission 8
of the President for fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of the 9
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each sub-10
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 11
of Representatives and the Senate project data sheets in 12
the same format and containing the same level of detailed 13
information that is found on such sheets in the Budget 14
Justifications annually submitted by the Department of 15
the Interior with the President’s Budget for the projects 16
in the ‘‘Submission of Cost Estimates’’ required by section 17
200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, and in the 18
same format and containing the same level of detailed in-19
formation that is found on such sheets submitted to the 20
Committees pursuant to section 427 of division D of the 21
Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public 22
Law 116–94) for the list of supplementary allocations re-23
quired by subparagraph (A). 24
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(e) The Department of the Interior and the Depart-1
ment of Agriculture shall provide the Committees on Ap-2
propriations of the House of Representatives and Senate 3
quarterly reports on the status of balances of projects and 4
activities funded by the National Parks and Public Land 5
Legacy Restoration Fund for amounts allocated pursuant 6
to subsection (a)(1) of this section and the status of bal-7
ances of projects and activities funded by the Land and 8
Water Conservation Fund for amounts allocated pursuant 9
to subsection (a)(2) of this section, including all uncom-10
mitted, committed, and unobligated funds, and, for 11
amounts allocated pursuant to subsection (a)(1) of this 12
section, National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora-13
tion Fund amounts reallocated pursuant to subsection (c) 14
of this section. 15
POLICIES RELATING TO BIOMASS ENERGY 16
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EC. 430. To support the key role that forests in the 17
United States can play in addressing the energy needs of 18
the United States, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary 19
of Agriculture, and the Administrator of the Environ-20
mental Protection Agency shall, consistent with their mis-21
sions, jointly— 22
(1) ensure that Federal policy relating to forest 23
bioenergy— 24
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(A) is consistent across all Federal depart-1
ments and agencies; and 2
(B) recognizes the full benefits of the use 3
of forest biomass for energy, conservation, and 4
responsible forest management; and 5
(2) establish clear and simple policies for the 6
use of forest biomass as an energy solution, includ-7
ing policies that— 8
(A) reflect the carbon neutrality of forest 9
bioenergy and recognize biomass as a renewable 10
energy source, provided the use of forest bio-11
mass for energy production does not cause con-12
version of forests to non-forest use; 13
(B) encourage private investment through-14
out the forest biomass supply chain, including 15
in— 16
(i) working forests; 17
(ii) harvesting operations; 18
(iii) forest improvement operations; 19
(iv) forest bioenergy production; 20
(v) wood products manufacturing; or 21
(vi) paper manufacturing; 22
(C) encourage forest management to im-23
prove forest health; and 24
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(D) recognize State initiatives to produce 1
and use forest biomass. 2
SMALL REMOTE INCINERATORS 3
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EC. 431. None of the funds made available in this 4
Act may be used to implement or enforce the regulation 5
issued on March 21, 2011 at 40 CFR part 60 subparts 6
CCCC and DDDD with respect to units in the State of 7
Alaska that are defined as ‘‘small, remote incinerator’’ 8
units in those regulations and, until a subsequent regula-9
tion is issued, the Administrator shall implement the law 10
and regulations in effect prior to such date. 11
TIMBER SALE REQUIREMENTS 12
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EC. 432. No timber sale in Alaska’s Region 10 shall 13
be advertised if the indicated rate is deficit (defined as 14
the value of the timber is not sufficient to cover all logging 15
and stumpage costs and provide a normal profit and risk 16
allowance under the Forest Service’s appraisal process) 17
when appraised using a residual value appraisal. The west-18
ern red cedar timber from those sales which is surplus 19
to the needs of the domestic processors in Alaska, shall 20
be made available to domestic processors in the contiguous 21
48 United States at prevailing domestic prices. All addi-22
tional western red cedar volume not sold to Alaska or con-23
tiguous 48 United States domestic processors may be ex-24
ported to foreign markets at the election of the timber sale 25
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holder. All Alaska yellow cedar may be sold at prevailing 1
export prices at the election of the timber sale holder. 2
TRANSFER AUTHORITY TO FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINIS -3
TRATION FOR THE NATIONAL PARKS AND PUBLIC 4
LAND LEGACY RESTORATION FUND 5
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EC. 433. Funds made available or allocated in this 6
Act to the Department of the Interior or the Department 7
of Agriculture that are subject to the allocations and limi-8
tations in 54 U.S.C. 200402(e) and prohibitions in 54 9
U.S.C. 200402(f) may be further allocated or reallocated 10
to the Federal Highway Administration for transportation 11
projects of the covered agencies defined in 54 U.S.C. 12
200401(2). 13
PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS 14
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EC. 434. Notwithstanding any other provision of 15
law, none of the funds made available in this Act or any 16
other Act may be used to promulgate or implement any 17
regulation requiring the issuance of permits under title V 18
of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7661 et seq.) for carbon 19
dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions 20
resulting from biological processes associated with live-21
stock production. 22
GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING RESTRICTIONS 23
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EC. 435. Notwithstanding any other provision of 24
law, none of the funds made available in this or any other 25
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Act may be used to implement any provision in a rule, 1
if that provision requires mandatory reporting of green-2
house gas emissions from manure management systems. 3
FUNDING PROHIBITION 4
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EC. 436. None of the funds made available by this 5
or any other Act may be used to regulate the lead content 6
of ammunition, ammunition components, or fishing tackle 7
under the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2601 8
et seq.) or any other law. 9
FIREFIGHTER PAY CAP 10
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EC. 437. Section 1701 of division B of the Extend-11
ing Government Funding and Delivering Emergency As-12
sistance Act (5 U.S.C. 5547 note), as amended, is further 13
amended by striking ‘‘2021 or 2022 or 2023 or 2024’’ 14
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘calendar years 2021 15
through 2025’’. 16
ALASKA NATIVE REGIONAL HEALTH ENTITIES 17
AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 18
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EC. 438. Section 424(a) of title IV of division G of 19
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 20
113–76) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘October 1, 21
2025’’ for ‘‘December 24, 2022’’. 22
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WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION FUNDING AND FOREST 1
MANAGEMENT ACT 2
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EC. 439. Section 104 of the Wildfire Suppression 3
Funding and Forest Management Activities Act (division 4
O of Public Law 115-141) is amended— 5
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘90’’ and in-6
serting ‘‘180’’; and 7
(2) in paragraph (4) of subsection (b), by in-8
serting the following before the semi-colon: ‘‘, and 9
shall include an accounting of any spending in the 10
first two quarters of the succeeding fiscal year that 11
is attributable to suppression operations in the fiscal 12
year for which the report was prepared’’. 13
HUNTING, FISHING, AND RECREATIONAL SHOOTING ON 14
FEDERAL LAND 15
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EC. 440. (a) None of the funds made available by 16
this or any other Act for any fiscal year may be used to 17
prohibit the use of or access to Federal land (as such term 18
is defined in section 3 of the Healthy Forests Restoration 19
Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6502)) for hunting, fishing, or 20
recreational shooting if such use or access— 21
(1) was not prohibited on such Federal land as of 22
January 1, 2013; and 23
(2) was conducted in compliance with the resource 24
management plan (as defined in section 101 of such Act 25
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(16 U.S.C. 6511)) applicable to such Federal land as of 1
January 1, 2013. 2
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary of 3
the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture may tempo-4
rarily close, for a period not to exceed 30 days, Federal 5
land managed by the Secretary to hunting, fishing, or rec-6
reational shooting if the Secretary determines that the 7
temporary closure is necessary to accommodate a special 8
event or for public safety reasons. The Secretary may ex-9
tend a temporary closure for one additional 90-day period 10
only if the Secretary determines the extension is necessary 11
because of extraordinary weather conditions or for public 12
safety reasons. 13
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed as af-14
fecting the authority, jurisdiction, or responsibility of the 15
several States to manage, control, or regulate fish and 16
resident wildlife under State law or regulations. 17
COASTAL BARRIER RESOURCES ACT 18
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EC. 441. Section 6(a) of the Coastal Barrier Re-19
sources Act (16 U.S.C. 3505(a)) is amended by adding 20
at the end the following: 21
‘‘(7) Use of a sand source within a System unit 22
by Federal coastal storm risk management projects 23
or their predecessor projects that have used a Sys-24
tem unit for sand to nourish adjacent beaches out-25
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side the System pursuant to section 5 of the Act of 1
August 18, 1941 (commonly known as the ‘Flood 2
Control Act of 1941’) (55 Stat. 650, chapter 377; 3
33 U.S.C. 701n) at least once between December 4
31, 2008, and December 31, 2023, in response to an 5
emergency situation prior to December 31, 2023.’’ 6
RESCISSION OF DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FUNDS 7
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EC. 442. The unobligated balances of amounts ap-8
propriated or otherwise made available under section 9
50224 of Public Law 117–169 (commonly known as the 10
‘‘Inflation Reduction Act of 2022’’) are hereby rescinded. 11
EXECUTIVE ORDER FUNDING PROHIBITION 12
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EC. 443. None of the funds made available by this 13
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Ex-14
ecutive Order No. 13985 of January 20, 2021 (86 Fed. 15
Reg. 7009, relating to advancing racial equity and support 16
for underserved communities through the Federal Govern-17
ment), Executive Order No. 14035 of June 25, 2021 (86 18
Fed. Reg. 34593, relating to diversity, equity, inclusion, 19
and accessibility in the Federal workforce), or Executive 20
Order No. 14091 of February 16, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 21
10825, relating to further advancing racial equity and 22
support for underserved communities through the Federal 23
Government). 24
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MASKS AND VACCINE MANDATES 1
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EC. 444. None of the funds made available by this 2
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce any 3
COVID–19 mask or vaccine mandates. 4
LIMITATION 5
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EC. 445. None of the funds made available by this 6
Act may be used to carry out any program, project, or 7
activity that promotes or advances Critical Race Theory 8
or any concept associated with Critical Race Theory. 9
OFFICIAL FLAGS 10
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EC. 446. None of the funds made available by this 11
Act may be used to fly or display a flag over a facility 12
of a Department or agency funded by this Act other than 13
the flag of the United States; the flag of a State, insular 14
area, or the District of Columbia; the flag of a Federally 15
recognized Tribal entity; the official flag of the Secretary 16
of the Interior; the official flag of a U.S. Department or 17
agency; or the POW/MIA flag. 18
MARRIAGE 19
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EC. 447. (a) In general.—Notwithstanding section 20
7 of title 1, United States Code, section 1738C of title 21
28, United States Code, or any other provision of law, 22
none of the funds provided by this Act, or previous appro-23
priations Acts, shall be used in whole or in part to take 24
any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or par-25
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tially, on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in 1
accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral 2
conviction, that marriage is, or should be recognized as, 3
a union of one man and one woman. 4
(b) Discriminatory action defined.—As used in sub-5
section (a), a discriminatory action means any action 6
taken by the Federal Government to— 7
(1) alter in any way the Federal tax treatment 8
of, or cause any tax, penalty, or payment to be as-9
sessed against, or deny, delay, or revoke an exemp-10
tion from taxation under section 501(a) of the Inter-11
nal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person referred to 12
in subsection (a); 13
(2) disallow a deduction for Federal tax pur-14
poses of any charitable contribution made to or by 15
such person; 16
(3) withhold, reduce the amount or funding for, 17
exclude, terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or 18
deny, any Federal grant, contract, subcontract, co-19
operative agreement, guarantee, loan, scholarship, li-20
cense, certification, accreditation, employment, or 21
other similar position or status from or to such per-22
son; 23
(4) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-24
erwise make unavailable or deny, any entitlement or 25
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benefit under a Federal benefit program, including 1
admission to, equal treatment in, or eligibility for a 2
degree from an educational program, from or to 3
such person; or 4
(5) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or oth-5
erwise make unavailable or deny access or an entitle-6
ment to Federal property, facilities, educational in-7
stitutions, speech fora (including traditional, limited, 8
and nonpublic fora), or charitable fundraising cam-9
paigns from or to such person. 10
(c) Accreditation; Licensure; Certification.—The 11
Federal Government shall consider accredited, licensed, or 12
certified for purposes of Federal law any person that 13
would be accredited, licensed, or certified, respectively, for 14
such purposes but for a determination against such person 15
wholly or partially on the basis that the person speaks, 16
or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief 17
or moral conviction described in subsection (a). 18
AMERICAN CLIMATE CORPS 19
S
EC. 448. None of the funds made available by this 20
Act may be used for the American Climate Corps. 21
CLIMATE CHANGE EXECUTIVE ORDERS 22
S
EC. 449. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 23
may be used to implement any of the following executive 24
orders: 25
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(1) Executive Order No. 13990, relating to 1
Protecting Public Health and the Environment and 2
Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis; 3
(2) Executive Order No. 14008, relating to 4
Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad; 5
(3) Section 6 of Executive Order No. 14013, re-6
lating to Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs To 7
Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of 8
Climate Change on Migration; 9
(4) Executive Order No. 14030, relating to Cli-10
mate-Related Financial Risk; 11
(5) Executive Order 14037, relating to 12
Strengthening American Leadership in Clean Cars 13
and Trucks; 14
(6) Executive Order No. 14057, relating to 15
Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs 16
Through Federal Sustainability; 17
(7) Executive Order No. 14082, relating to Im-18
plementation of the Energy and Infrastructure Pro-19
visions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022; and 20
(8) Executive Order No. 14096, relating to Re-21
vitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environ-22
mental Justice for All. 23
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NATURAL ASSETS 1
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EC. 450. None of the funds made available by this 2
Act may be used to develop or implement guidance related 3
to the valuation of ecosystem and environmental services 4
and natural assets in Federal regulatory decision-making 5
pursuant to Executive Order 14072 (87 Fed. Reg. 24851, 6
relating to strengthening the Nation’s forests, commu-7
nities, and local economies). 8
USE OF MINING CLAIMS FOR ANCILLARY ACTIVITIES 9
S
EC. 451. 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
PUBLIC LAND ORDER 7917 9
S
EC. 452. None of the funds made available by this 10
or any other Act may be used to enforce Public Land 11
Order 7917 (88 Fed. Reg. 6308 (January 31, 2023)). 12
MINERAL LEASES 13
S
EC. 453. Notwithstanding any other provision of law 14
and not subject to further judicial review, not later than 15
30 days after the date of enactment of this Act the Sec-16
retary of the Interior shall reinstate the hardrock mineral 17
leases in the Superior National Forest in the State of Min-18
nesota issued in 2019 and identified as MNES-01352 and 19
MNES-01353. 20
SOCIAL COST OF CARBON 21
S
EC. 454. None of the funds made available by this 22
or any other Act may be used to consider or incorporate 23
the social cost of carbon— 24
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(1) as part of any cost-benefit analysis required 1
or performed pursuant to— 2
(A) any law; 3
(B) Executive Order No. 13990 (86 Fed. 4
Reg. 7037; relating to protecting public health 5
and the environment and restoring science to 6
tackle the climate crisis); 7
(C) Executive Order No. 14094 (88 Fed. 8
Reg. 21879; relating to modernizing regulatory 9
review); 10
(D) the Presidential Memorandum titled 11
‘‘Modernizing Regulatory Review’’ issued by the 12
President on January 20, 2021; 13
(E) any revisions to Office of Management 14
and Budget Circular A-4 proposed or finalized 15
under Executive Order No. 14094; or 16
(F) ‘‘Technical Support Document: Social 17
Cost of Carbon, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide 18
Interim Estimates under Executive Order 19
13990,’’ published under the Interagency Work-20
ing Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse 21
Gases, in February of 2021; 22
(2) in any rulemaking; 23
(3) in the issuance of any guidance; 24
(4) in taking any other agency action; or 25
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(5) as a justification for any rulemaking, guid-1
ance document, or agency action. 2
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE 3
S
EC. 455. (a) The provisions of the following bills of 4
the 118th Congress are hereby enacted into law: 5
(1) H.R. 548 (Eastern Band of Cherokee His-6
toric Lands Reacquisition Act), as passed by the 7
House of Representatives on February 6, 2023. 8
(2) Title III of H.R. 7408 (America’s Wildlife 9
Habitat Conservation Act) as ordered to be reported 10
on April 16, 2024, by the Committee on Natural Re-11
sources of the House of Representatives. 12
(b) In publishing this Act in slip form and in the 13
United States Statutes at large pursuant to section 112 14
of title 1, United States Code, the Archivist of the United 15
States shall include after the date of approval at the end 16
an appendix setting forth the text of the sections of the 17
bills referred to in subsection (a). 18
SPECIAL BASE RATES OF PAY FOR WILDLAND 19
FIREFIGHTERS 20
S
EC. 456. (a) Subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 21
5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after sec-22
tion 5332 the following: 23
‘‘§ 5332a. Special base rates of pay for wildland fire-24
fighters 25
‘‘(a) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section— 26
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‘‘(1) the term ‘firefighter’ means an employee 1
who— 2
‘‘(A) is a firefighter within the meaning of 3
section 8331(21) or section 8401(14); 4
‘‘(B) in the case of an employee who holds 5
a supervisory or administrative position and is 6
subject to subchapter III of chapter 83, but 7
who does not qualify to be considered a fire-8
fighter within the meaning of section 8331(21), 9
would otherwise qualify if the employee had 10
transferred directly to that position after serv-11
ing as a firefighter within the meaning of that 12
section; 13
‘‘(C) in the case of an employee who holds 14
a supervisory or administrative position and is 15
subject to chapter 84, but who does not qualify 16
to be considered a firefighter within the mean-17
ing of section 8401(14), would otherwise qualify 18
if the employee had transferred directly to that 19
position after performing duties described in 20
section 8401(14)(A) for at least 3 years; or 21
‘‘(D) in the case of an employee who is not 22
subject to subchapter III of chapter 83 or chap-23
ter 84, holds a position that the Office of Per-24
sonnel Management determines would satisfy 25
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subparagraph (A), (B), or (C) if the employee 1
were subject to subchapter III of chapter 83 or 2
chapter 84; 3
‘‘(2) the term ‘General Schedule base rate’ 4
means an annual rate of basic pay established under 5
section 5332 before any additions, such as a locality- 6
based comparability payment under section 5304 or 7
5304a or a special rate supplement under section 8
5305; 9
‘‘(3) the term ‘special base rate’ means an an-10
nual rate of basic pay payable to a wildland fire-11
fighter, before any additions or reductions, that re-12
places the General Schedule base rate otherwise ap-13
plicable to the wildland firefighter and that is ad-14
ministered in the same manner as a General Sched-15
ule base rate; and 16
‘‘(4) the term ‘wildland firefighter’ means a 17
firefighter— 18
‘‘(A) who is employed by the Forest Serv-19
ice or the Department of the Interior; and 20
‘‘(B) the duties of the position of whom 21
primarily relate to fires occurring in forests, 22
range lands, or other wildlands, as opposed to 23
structural fires. 24
‘‘(b) S
PECIALBASERATES OFPAY.— 25
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‘‘(1) ENTITLEMENT TO SPECIAL RATE .—Not-1
withstanding section 5332, a wildland firefighter is 2
entitled to a special base rate at grades 1 through 3
15, which shall— 4
‘‘(A) replace the otherwise applicable Gen-5
eral Schedule base rate for the wildland fire-6
fighter; 7
‘‘(B) be basic pay for all purposes, includ-8
ing the purpose of computing a locality-based 9
comparability payment under section 5304 or 10
5304a; and 11
‘‘(C) be computed as described in para-12
graph (2) and adjusted at the time of adjust-13
ments in the General Schedule. 14
‘‘(2) C
OMPUTATION.— 15
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—The special base rate 16
for a wildland firefighter shall be derived by in-17
creasing the otherwise applicable General 18
Schedule base rate for the wildland firefighter 19
by the following applicable percentage for the 20
grade of the wildland firefighter and rounding 21
the result to the nearest whole dollar: 22
‘‘(i) For GS–1, 42 percent. 23
‘‘(ii) For GS–2, 39 percent. 24
‘‘(iii) For GS–3, 36 percent. 25
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‘‘(iv) For GS–4, 33 percent. 1
‘‘(v) For GS–5, 30 percent. 2
‘‘(vi) For GS–6, 27 percent. 3
‘‘(vii) For GS–7, 24 percent. 4
‘‘(viii) For GS–8, 21 percent. 5
‘‘(ix) For GS–9, 18 percent. 6
‘‘(x) For GS–10, 15 percent. 7
‘‘(xi) For GS–11, 12 percent. 8
‘‘(xii) For GS–12, 9 percent. 9
‘‘(xiii) For GS–13, 6 percent. 10
‘‘(xiv) For GS–14, 3 percent. 11
‘‘(xv) For GS–15, 1.5 percent. 12
‘‘(B) H
OURLY, DAILY, WEEKLY, OR BI-13
WEEKLY RATES.—When the special base rate 14
with respect to a wildland firefighter is ex-15
pressed as an hourly, daily, weekly, or biweekly 16
rate, the special base rate shall be computed 17
from the appropriate annual rate of basic pay 18
derived under subparagraph (A) in accordance 19
with the rules under section 5504(b).’’. 20
(b) The table of sections for subchapter III of chapter 21
53 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting 22
after the item relating to section 5332 the following: 23
‘‘5332a. Special base rates of pay for wildland firefighters.’’. 
(c) Section 5343 of title 5, United States Code, is 24
amended by adding at the end the following: 25
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‘‘(g)(1) For a prevailing rate employee described in 1
section 5342(a)(2)(A) who is a wildland firefighter, as de-2
fined in section 5332a(a), the Secretary of Agriculture or 3
the Secretary of the Interior (as applicable) shall increase 4
the wage rates of that employee by an amount (determined 5
at the sole and exclusive discretion of the applicable Sec-6
retary after consultation with the other Secretary) that is 7
generally consistent with the percentage increases given 8
to wildland firefighters in the General Schedule under sec-9
tion 5332a. 10
‘‘(2) An increased wage rate under paragraph (1) 11
shall be basic pay for the same purposes as the wage rate 12
otherwise established under this section. 13
‘‘(3) An increase under this subsection may not cause 14
the wage rate of an employee to increase to a rate that 15
would produce an annualized rate in excess of the annual 16
rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule.’’. 17
(d) The amendments made by this section shall take 18
effect on the first day of the first applicable pay period 19
beginning on or after either October 1, 2024 or the date 20
of enactment of this Act, whichever is later. 21
(e) Notwithstanding section 40803(d)(4)(B) of the 22
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (16 U.S.C. 23
6592(d)(4)(B)) and authority provided under the headings 24
‘‘
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT – FOREST SERVICE’’ and 25
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‘‘WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT – DEPARTMENT OF THE 1
INTERIOR’’ in fiscal years 2024 and 2025, the salary in-2
crease in such section and under such headings shall not 3
apply to the positions described in such section 4
40803(d)(4)(B) for service performed on or after the ef-5
fective date described in subsection (d) of this section. 6
WILDLAND FIRE INCIDENT RESPONSE PREMIUM PAY 7
S
EC. 457. (a) Subchapter V of chapter 55 of title 5, 8
United Sates Code, is amended by inserting after section 9
5545b the following: 10
‘‘§ 5545c. Incident response premium pay for employ-11
ees engaged in wildland firefighting 12
‘‘(a) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section— 13
‘‘(1) the term ‘appropriate committees of Con-14
gress’ means— 15
‘‘(A) the Committee on Appropriations of 16
the House of Representatives; 17
‘‘(B) the Committee on Oversight and Ac-18
countability of the House of Representatives; 19
‘‘(C) the Committee on Agriculture of the 20
House of Representatives; 21
‘‘(D) the Committee on Natural Resources 22
of the House of Representatives; 23
‘‘(E) the Committee on Appropriations of 24
the Senate; 25
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‘‘(F) the Committee on Homeland Security 1
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; 2
‘‘(G) the Committee on Energy and Nat-3
ural Resources of the Senate; and 4
‘‘(H) the Committee on Agriculture, Nutri-5
tion, and Forestry of the Senate; 6
‘‘(2) the term ‘covered employee’ means an em-7
ployee of the Forest Service or the Department of 8
the Interior who is— 9
‘‘(A) a wildland firefighter, as defined in 10
section 5332a(a); or 11
‘‘(B) certified by the applicable agency to 12
perform wildland fire incident-related duties 13
during the period that employee is deployed to 14
respond to a qualifying incident; 15
‘‘(3) the term ‘incident response premium pay’ 16
means pay to which a covered employee is entitled 17
under subsection (c); 18
‘‘(4) the term ‘prescribed fire incident’ means a 19
wildland fire originating from a planned ignition in 20
accordance with applicable laws, policies, and regula-21
tions to meet specific objectives; 22
‘‘(5) the term ‘qualifying incident’— 23
‘‘(A) means— 24
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‘‘(i) a wildfire incident, a prescribed 1
fire incident, or a severity incident; or 2
‘‘(ii) an incident that the Secretary of 3
Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior 4
determines is similar in nature to an inci-5
dent described in clause (i); and 6
‘‘(B) does not include an initial response 7
incident that is contained within 36 hours; and 8
‘‘(6) the term ‘severity incident’ means an inci-9
dent in which a covered employee is pre-positioned 10
in an area in which conditions indicate there is a 11
high risk of wildfires. 12
‘‘(b) E
LIGIBILITY.—A covered employee is eligible for 13
incident response premium pay under this section if— 14
‘‘(1) the covered employee is deployed to re-15
spond to a qualifying incident; and 16
‘‘(2) the deployment described in paragraph (1) 17
is— 18
‘‘(A) outside of the official duty station of 19
the covered employee; or 20
‘‘(B) within the official duty station of the 21
covered employee and the covered employee is 22
assigned to an incident-adjacent fire camp or 23
other designated field location. 24
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‘‘(c) ENTITLEMENT TO INCIDENTRESPONSEPRE-1
MIUMPAY.— 2
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—A covered employee who 3
satisfies the conditions under subsection (b) is enti-4
tled to premium pay for the period in which the cov-5
ered employee is deployed to respond to the applica-6
ble qualifying incident. 7
‘‘(2) C
OMPUTATION.— 8
‘‘(A) F
ORMULA.—Subject to subpara-9
graphs (B) and (C), premium pay under para-10
graph (1) shall be paid to a covered employee 11
at a daily rate of 450 percent of the hourly rate 12
of basic pay of the covered employee for each 13
day that the covered employee satisfies the re-14
quirements under subsection (b), rounded to 15
the nearest whole cent. 16
‘‘(B) L
IMITATION.—Premium pay under 17
this subsection may not be paid— 18
‘‘(i) with respect to a covered em-19
ployee for whom the annual rate of basic 20
pay is greater than that for step 10 of GS– 21
10, at a daily rate that exceeds the daily 22
rate established under subparagraph (A) 23
for step 10 of GS–10; or 24
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‘‘(ii) to a covered employee in a total 1
amount that exceeds $9,000 in any cal-2
endar year. 3
‘‘(C) A
DJUSTMENTS.— 4
‘‘(i) A
SSESSMENT.—The Secretary of 5
Agriculture and the Secretary of the Inte-6
rior shall assess the difference between the 7
average total amount of compensation that 8
was paid to covered employees, by grade, 9
in fiscal years 2023 and 2024. 10
‘‘(ii) R
EPORT.—Not later than 180 11
days after the date that is 1 year after the 12
effective date of this section, the Secretary 13
of Agriculture and the Secretary of the In-14
terior shall jointly publish a report on the 15
results of the assessment conducted under 16
clause (i). 17
‘‘(iii) A
DMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS .— 18
After publishing the report required under 19
clause (ii), the Secretary of Agriculture 20
and the Secretary of the Interior, in con-21
sultation with the Director of the Office of 22
Personnel Management, may, in the sole 23
and exclusive discretion of the Secretaries 24
acting jointly, administratively adjust the 25
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amount of premium pay paid under this 1
subsection (or take other administrative 2
action) to ensure that the average annual 3
amount of total compensation paid to cov-4
ered employees, by grade, is more con-5
sistent with such amount that was paid to 6
those employees in fiscal year 2023. 7
‘‘(iv) C
ONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICA -8
TION.—Not later than 3 days after an ad-9
justment made, or other administrative ac-10
tion taken, under clause (iii) becomes final, 11
the Secretary of Agriculture and the Sec-12
retary of the Interior shall jointly submit 13
to the appropriate committees of Congress 14
a notification regarding that adjustment or 15
other administrative action, as applicable. 16
‘‘(d) T
REATMENT OFINCIDENTRESPONSEPREMIUM 17
P
AY.—Incident response premium pay under this sec-18
tion— 19
‘‘(1) is not considered part of the basic pay of 20
a covered employee for any purpose; 21
‘‘(2) may not be considered in determining a 22
covered employee’s lump-sum payment for accumu-23
lated and accrued annual leave under section 5551 24
or section 5552; 25
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‘‘(3) may not be used in determining pay under 1
section 8114 (relating to compensation for work in-2
juries); 3
‘‘(4) may not be considered in determining pay 4
for hours of paid leave or other paid time off during 5
which the premium pay is not payable; and 6
‘‘(5) shall be disregarded in determining the 7
minimum wage and overtime pay to which a covered 8
employee is entitled under the Fair Labor Standards 9
Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.).’’. 10
(b) Subchapter V of chapter 55 of title 5, United 11
States Code, is amended— 12
(1) in section 5544— 13
(A) by amending the section heading to 14
read as follows: ‘‘Wage-board overtime, 15
Sunday rates, and other premium 16
pay’’; and 17
(B) by adding at the end the following: 18
‘‘(d) A prevailing rate employee described in section 19
5342(a)(2)(A) shall receive incident response premium 20
pay under the same terms and conditions that apply to 21
a covered employee under section 5545c if that em-22
ployee— 23
‘‘(1) is employed by the Forest Service or the 24
Department of the Interior; and 25
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‘‘(2)(A) is a wildland firefighter, as defined in 1
section 5332a(a); or 2
‘‘(B) is certified by the applicable agency to 3
perform wildland fire incident-related duties during 4
the period the employee is deployed to respond to a 5
qualifying incident (as defined in section 6
5545c(a)).’’; and 7
(2) in section 5547(a), in the matter preceding 8
paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘5545c,’’ after 9
‘‘5545a,’’. 10
(c) The table of sections for subchapter V of chapter 11
55 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— 12
(1) by amending the item relating to section 13
5544 to read as follows: 14
‘‘5544. Wage-board overtime, Sunday rates, and other premium pay.’’; and 
(2) by inserting after the item relating to sec-15
tion 5545b the following: 16
‘‘5545c. Incident response premium pay for employees engaged in wildland fire-
fighting.’’. 
(d) The amendments made by this section shall take 17
effect on the first day of the first applicable pay period 18
beginning on or after either October 1, 2024 or the date 19
of enactment of this Act, whichever is later. 20
WATER RIGHTS 21
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EC. 458. None of the funds made available by this 22
or any other Act may be obligated to require or request, 23
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as a condition of the issuance, renewal, or extension of 1
any Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management per-2
mit, lease, allotment, easement, or other land use and oc-3
cupancy, arrangement, the transfer, or relinquishment of 4
any water right, in whole, or in part, granted under State 5
law. 6
CACTUS CHANNEL 7
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EC. 459. Subject to the terms provided herein, if 8
the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conserva-9
tion District submits to the Secretary of Agriculture, not 10
later than 365 days after the date of enactment of this 11
Act, a written request for the conveyance of certain Na-12
tional Forest System land located in the County of River-13
side, California, as generally depicted on the map titled 14
‘‘Sunnymead Cactus Avenue Channel Proposed Land Con-15
veyance’’ and dated ‘‘May 13, 2024’’ the Secretary shall 16
convey to that District all right, title, and interest of the 17
United States in and to those lands: Provided, That the 18
exact acreage and legal description of the National Forest 19
System land herein identified shall be determined by a sur-20
vey satisfactory to the Secretary: Provided further, That 21
then conveyance shall be made by quitclaim deed and sub-22
ject to existing rights and any other terms and conditions 23
the Secretary considers appropriate to protect the inter-24
ests of the United States: Provided further, That the Dis-25
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trict shall pay to the United States fair market value for 1
the conveyed National Forest System land herein identi-2
fied: Provided further, That the Secretary shall deposit any 3
funds received by the United States from such conveyance 4
in the fund established under Public Law 90-171 (16 5
U.S.C. 484a) (commonly known as the ‘‘Sisk Act’’) and 6
such deposits shall be made available without future ap-7
propriations: Provided further, That as a condition of the 8
conveyance, the District shall pay all costs associated with 9
the conveyance, including the survey herein required and 10
any environmental analysis and resource surveys required 11
by Federal law: Provided further, That notwithstanding 12
the requirements of Section 120(h) of the Comprehensive 13
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act 14
of 1980 (42 U.S.C, 9620(h)), with respect to the National 15
Forest System land herein identified, the Secretary shall 16
only be required to meet disclosure requirements for haz-17
ardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants under Sec-18
tion 120(h) and shall not otherwise be required to reme-19
diate or abate any hazardous substances, pollutants, or 20
contaminants: Provided further, That if the National For-21
est System land herein identified is conveyed to the Dis-22
trict, the Secretary shall not be required to contribute to 23
the cost of any infrastructure, facilities, or improvements 24
developed on that land after the conveyance. 25
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LIMITATION 1
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EC. 460. None of the funds made available by this 2
or any other Act may be used for the Climate Justice Alli-3
ance. 4
LIMITATION 5
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EC. 461. None of the amounts appropriated or oth-6
erwise made available to the Smithsonian Institution by 7
this Act may be made available for partnerships or activi-8
ties associated with the Hong Kong Economic and Trade 9
Offices. 10
LAND WITHDRAWALS 11
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EC. 462. None of the funds made available by this 12
Act may be used to withdraw any Federal land from any 13
form of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public 14
land laws, location, entry, or patent under the general 15
mining laws, or disposition under the mineral leasing, min-16
eral materials, or geothermal leasing laws unless such 17
withdrawal is authorized by an Act of Congress. 18
FAST-41 19
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EC. 463. 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 ‘‘Revising Scope of the Min-22
ing Sector of Projects That Are Eligible for Coverage 23
Under Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transpor-24
tation Act’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 65350; September 22, 2023). 25
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PRIVATELY OWNED MINERAL ESTATES 1
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EC. 464. None of the funds made available by this 2
Act may be used to issue or revise any regulation pursuant 3
to Section 17(o) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 4
226(o)) relating to oil and gas development of outstanding 5
and reserved mineral rights within the Allegheny National 6
Forest. 7
APPRAISALS 8
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EC. 465. Section 5 of the Act of June 22, 1948 (62 9
Stat. 568, chapter 593; 16 U.S.C. 577g), is amended by 10
striking ‘‘of the fair appraised value of such’’ and insert-11
ing ‘‘of the highest fair appraised value, including the his-12
torical fair appraised value, as determined by the Sec-13
retary of Agriculture in accordance with this section, of 14
such’’. 15
WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES 16
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EC. 466. Not later than 15 days after the date of 17
enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environ-18
mental Protection Agency and the Assistant Secretary of 19
the Army for Civil Works shall provide to the appropriate 20
congressional committees any guidance documents relat-21
ing to the implementation of the rule entitled ‘‘Revised 22
Definition of ‘Waters of the United States’; Conforming’’ 23
published by the Army Corps of Engineers and the Envi-24
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ronmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on 1
September 8, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 61964). 2
PESTICIDES 3
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EC. 467. None of the funds made available by this 4
or any other Act may be used to issue or adopt any guid-5
ance or any policy, take any regulatory action, or approve 6
any labeling or change to such labeling that is inconsistent 7
with or in any respect different from the conclusion of— 8
(a) a human health assessment performed pursuant 9
to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 10
(7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.); or 11
(b) a carcinogenicity classification for a pesticide. 12
STEAM RULE 13
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EC. 468. None of the funds made available by this 14
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 15
or enforce the final rule titled ‘‘Supplemental Effluent 16
Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Steam Elec-17
tric Power Generating Point Source Category’’ published 18
by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal 19
Register on May 9, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 40198). 20
SMALL OFF-ROAD ENGINE WAIVER 21
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EC. 469. None of the funds made available by this 22
or any other Act may be used to approve a waiver sub-23
mitted 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
OZONE GOOD NEIGHBOR 4
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EC. 470. None of the funds made available by this 5
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 6
or enforce the final rule titled ‘‘Federal ‘Good Neighbor 7
Plan’ for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality 8
Standards’’ published by the Environmental Protection 9
Agency in the Federal Register on June 5, 2023 (88 Fed. 10
Reg. 36654). 11
EPA OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 12
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EC. 471. Beginning on October 1, 2024, of the 13
amounts made available to the Environmental Protection 14
Agency under each of sections 60101, 60102, 60104, 15
60105, 60106, 60107, 60108, 60109, 60110, 60111, 16
60112, 60113, 60115, 60116, and 60201 of Public Law 17
117–169, two-tenths of one percent of such amounts shall 18
be transferred to the Office of the Inspector General of 19
the Environmental Protection Agency for oversight of 20
funding provided to the Environmental Protection Agency 21
by such Public Law: Provided, That amounts so trans-22
ferred shall be derived from the unobligated balances of 23
amounts under each such section. 24
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CLEAN POWER PLAN 1
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EC. 472. None of the funds made available by this 2
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 3
or enforce the final rule titled ‘‘New Source Performance 4
Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From New, 5
Modified, and Reconstructed Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric 6
Generating Units; Emission Guidelines for Greenhouse 7
Gas Emissions From Existing Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric 8
Generating Units; and Repeal of the Affordable Clean En-9
ergy Rule’’ published by the Environmental Protection 10
Agency in the Federal Register on May 9, 2024 (89 Fed. 11
Reg. 39798). 12
ETHYLENE OXIDE 13
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EC. 473. None of the funds made available by this 14
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-15
force the proposed interim registration review decision and 16
draft risk assessment addendum for ethylene oxide de-17
scribed in the notice titled ‘‘Pesticide Registration Review; 18
Proposed Interim Decision and Draft Risk Assessment 19
Addendum for Ethylene Oxide; Notice of Availability’’ 20
published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the 21
Federal Register on April 13, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 22447) 22
unless the Commissioner of Food and Drugs certifies that, 23
as relevant, finalization, implementation, administration, 24
or enforcement of such rule, decision, or addendum for 25
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ethylene oxide will not adversely impact the availability of 1
ethylene oxide to sterilize medical products in the United 2
States or result in the movement of any sterilization ca-3
pacity of such products outside of the United States. 4
LIGHT- AND MEDIUM-DUTY VEHICLES 5
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EC. 474. None of the funds made available by this 6
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 7
or enforce the final rule titled ‘‘Multi-Pollutant Emissions 8
Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty 9
and Medium-Duty Vehicles’’ published by the Environ-10
mental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on April 11
18, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 27842), or any substantially simi-12
lar rule. 13
HEAVY-DUTY VEHICLES 14
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EC. 475. None of the funds made available by this 15
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 16
or enforce the final rule titled ‘‘Greenhouse Gas Emissions 17
Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles-Phase 3’’ and pub-18
lished by the Environmental Protection Agency in the 19
Federal Register on April 22, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 29440), 20
or any substantially similar rule. 21
CLEAN WATER ACT SECTION 401 22
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EC. 476. None of the funds made available by this 23
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 24
final rule of the Environmental Protection Agency, titled 25
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‘‘Clean Water Act Section 401 Water Quality Certification 1
Improvement Rule’’, and published on September 27, 2
2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 66558). 3
INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP ON SOCIAL COST OF 4
GREENHOUSE GASES 5
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EC. 477. None of the funds made available by this 6
Act may be used for the Interagency Working Group on 7
the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases. 8
NEPA GREENHOUSE GAS GUIDANCE 9
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EC. 478. None of the funds made available by this 10
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-11
force the notice of interim guidance titled ‘‘National Envi-12
ronmental Policy Act Guidance on Consideration of Green-13
house Gas Emissions and Climate Change’’ published by 14
the Council on Environmental Quality in the Federal Reg-15
ister on January 9, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 1196). 16
NEPA PHASE 1 17
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EC. 479. None of the funds made available by this 18
Act may be used implement, administer, or enforce the 19
final rule titled ‘‘National Environmental Policy Act Im-20
plementing Regulations Revisions’’ published by the Coun-21
cil on Environmental Quality in the Federal Register on 22
April 20, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 23453). 23
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NEPA PHASE 2 1
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EC. 480. None of the funds made available by this 2
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-3
force the final rule titled ‘‘National Environmental Policy 4
Act Implementing Regulations Revisions Phase 2’’ pub-5
lished by the Council on Environmental Quality in the 6
Federal Register on May 1, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 35442). 7
OIL AND NATURAL GAS 8
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EC. 481. None of the funds made available by this 9
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 10
final rule titled ‘‘Standards of Performance for New, Re-11
constructed, and Modified Sources and Emissions Guide-12
lines for Existing Sources: Oil and Natural Gas Sector Cli-13
mate Review’’ published by the Environmental Protection 14
Agency in the Federal Register on March 8, 2024 (89 15
Fed. Reg. 16820). 16
RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS 17
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EC. 482. None of the funds made available by this 18
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 19
final rule titled ‘‘Accidental Release Prevention Require-20
ments: Risk Management Programs Under the Clean Air 21
Act; Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Preven-22
tion’’ published by the Environmental Protection Agency 23
in the Federal Register on March 11, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 24
17622). 25
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GHG REPORTING 1
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EC. 483. None of the funds made available by this 2
or any other Act may be used to implement, administer, 3
or enforce the final rule titled ‘‘Greenhouse Gas Reporting 4
Rule: Revisions and Confidentiality Determinations for 5
Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems’’ published by the 6
Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register 7
on May 14, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 42062). 8
MEAT AND POULTRY PRODUCTS 9
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EC. 484. None of the funds made available by this 10
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-11
force the proposed rule titled ‘‘Clean Water Act Effluent 12
Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Meat and 13
Poultry Products Point Source Category’’ published by the 14
Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register 15
on January 23, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 4474). 16
DISPOSAL OF COAL COMBUSTION RESIDUALS 17
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EC. 485. None of the funds made available by this 18
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 19
final rule titled ‘‘Hazardous and Solid Waste Management 20
System: Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals From 21
Electric Utilities; Legacy CCR Surface Impoundments’’ 22
published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the 23
Federal Register on May 8, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 38950). 24
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AERIALLY APPLIED FIRE RETARDANT 1
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EC. 486. None of the funds made available by this 2
Act may be used to ban the use of aerially applied fire 3
retardant. 4
CALIFORNIA RCRA ACTION 5
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EC. 487. None of the funds made available by this 6
Act may be used to implement a regulation issued by the 7
State of California, pursuant to the authority provided 8
under the 2009 Memorandum of Agreement between the 9
California Department of Toxic Substances Control and 10
Region IX of the Environmental Protection Agency (or 11
any successor agreement), that classifies metal shredding 12
facilities as hazardous waste treatment facilities. 13
REPORT ON CELLULOSIC BIOFUELS 14
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EC. 488. (a) Not later than 30 days after the date 15
of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Envi-16
ronmental Protection Agency shall submit to the Com-17
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 18
and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate a re-19
port outlining a plan to qualify any fuel derived from 20
waste plastic or waste tires as cellulosic biofuel under sec-21
tion 211(o) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(o)). 22
(b) In preparing the report described in subsection 23
(a), the Administrator shall consult with relevant stake-24
holders and incorporate into such report any input from 25
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such stakeholders that the Administrator determines ap-1
propriate. 2
GOOD NEIGHBOR AUTHORITY 3
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EC. 489. (a) Section 8206(b)(2)(C)(ii) of the Agri-4
cultural Act of 2014 (16 U.S.C. 2113a) is amended by 5
striking ‘‘2024’’ and inserting ‘‘2025’’. 6
(b) Notwithstanding the amendment made by sub-7
section (a), the authorities provided by title III of the 8
America’s Wildlife Habitat Conservation Act (as enacted 9
by section 455 of this Act), and the terms and conditions 10
of such Act, shall apply to the United States Fish and 11
Wildlife Service. 12
METHANE FEE 13
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EC. 490. None of the funds made available by this 14
Act may be used— 15
(1) to develop, propose, finalize, implement, or 16
enforce regulations implementing subsection (c) of 17
section 136 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7436); 18
or 19
(2) otherwise impose, collect, or enforce a 20
charge on methane emissions under such section 21
136. 22
LIMITATION 23
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EC. 491. None of the funds made available by this 24
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 25
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final rule titled ‘‘National Emission Standards for Haz-1
ardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility 2
Steam Generating Units Review of the Residual Risk and 3
Technology Review’’ published by the Environmental Pro-4
tection Agency in the Federal Register on May 7, 2024 5
(89 Fed. Reg. 38508). 6
STATE PERMIT PROGRAM 7
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EC. 492. The notice of the Environmental Protec-8
tion Agency approving the State of Florida’s request to 9
carry out a permit program for the discharge of dredged 10
or fill material pursuant to section 404 of the Federal 11
Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344), published 12
on December 22, 2020, and titled ‘‘EPA’s Approval of 13
Florida’s Clean Water Act Section 404 Assumption Re-14
quest’’ (85 Fed. Reg. 83553) shall have the force and ef-15
fect of law. 16
IRIS 17
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EC. 493. None of the funds made available by this 18
Act may be used to develop, finalize, issue, or use assess-19
ments under the Integrated Risk Information System 20
(IRIS). 21
UPPER COLUMBIA RIVER 22
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EC. 494. None of the funds made available by this 23
Act or any other Act may be used to finalize, implement, 24
or administer the addition of the Upper Columbia River, 25
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Washington site under the General Superfund Section of 1
the proposed rule entitled ‘‘National Priorities List’’ and 2
published by the Environmental Protection Agency on 3
March 7, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 16502). 4
OLD-GROWTH 5
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EC. 495. None of the funds made available by this 6
Act may be used to— 7
(1) finalize, implement, administer, or enforce 8
the environmental impact statement entitled ‘‘EIS 9
No. 20240110, Draft, USFS, NAT, Land Manage-10
ment Plan Direction for Old-Growth Forest Condi-11
tions Across the National Forest System’’ published 12
by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Fed-13
eral Register on June 21, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 14
52039) or any substantially similar environmental 15
impact statement; or 16
(2) carry out any proposed action included in 17
such environmental impact statement (or notice re-18
lating to such environmental impact statement) or 19
any substantially similar action. 20
NAAQS RULE 21
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EC. 496. None of the funds made available by this 22
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 23
final rule entitled ‘‘Reconsideration of the National Ambi-24
ent Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter’’ and 25
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published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the 1
Federal Register on March 6, 2024 (89 Fed. Reg. 16202). 2
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 3
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EC. 497. $0 4
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the 5
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropria-6
tions Act, 2025’’. 7
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481 
118
TH
CONGRESS 
2D S
ESSION
 
H. R. 8998 
[Report No. 118–581] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Department of the 
Interior, environment, and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and 
for other purposes. 
J
ULY
11, 2024 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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