Us Congress Senate Bill SB4802 Latest Draft

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Calendar No. 447 
118THCONGRESS 
2
DSESSION S. 4802 
[Report No. 118–201] 
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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY25, 2024 
Mr. M
ERKLEY, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following 
original bill; which was read twice and placed on the calendar 
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. 
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 2 
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TITLE I 1
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 2
B
UREAU OFLANDMANAGEMENT 3
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES 4
For necessary expenses for protection, use, improve-5
ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classi-6
fication, acquisition of easements and other interests in 7
lands, and performance of other functions, including main-8
tenance of facilities, as authorized by law, in the manage-9
ment of lands and their resources under the jurisdiction 10
of the Bureau of Land Management, including the general 11
administration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral 12
potential of public lands pursuant to section 1010(a) of 13
Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C. 3150(a)), $1,342,510,000, 14
to remain available until September 30, 2026; of which 15
$67,238,000 for annual maintenance and deferred mainte-16
nance programs and $143,102,000 for the wild horse and 17
burro program, as authorized by Public Law 92–195 (16 18
U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), shall remain available until ex-19
pended: Provided, That amounts in the fee account of the 20
BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund may be used 21
for any bureau-related expenses associated with the proc-22
essing of oil and gas applications for permits to drill and 23
related use of authorizations: Provided further, That of the 24
amounts made available under this heading, up to 25 3 
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$3,000,000 shall be available in fiscal year 2025 subject 1
to a match by at least an equal amount by the National 2
Fish and Wildlife Foundation for cost-shared projects sup-3
porting conservation of Bureau lands; and such funds 4
shall be advanced to the Foundation as a lump-sum grant 5
without regard to when expenses are incurred: Provided 6
further, That of the amounts made available under this 7
heading, up to $3,000,000 may be made available for the 8
purposes described in section 122(e)(1)(A) of division G 9
of Public Law 115–31 (43 U.S.C. 1748c(e)(1)(A)): Pro-10
vided further, That of the amounts made available under 11
this heading, not to exceed $15,000 may be for official 12
reception and representation expenses: Provided further, 13
That of the amounts made available under this heading, 14
$150,000 is for projects specified for Land Management 15
Priorities in the table titled ‘‘Congressionally Directed 16
Spending Items’’ in the report accompanying this Act: 17
Provided further, That of the amounts made available 18
under this heading, $3,096,000 is for projects specified 19
for Construction Projects in the table titled ‘‘Congression-20
ally Directed Spending Items’’ in the report accompanying 21
this Act. 22
In addition, $40,696,000 is for Mining Law Adminis-23
tration program operations, including the cost of admin-24
istering the mining claim fee program, to remain available 25 4 
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until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected by the 1
Bureau and credited to this appropriation from mining 2
claim maintenance fees and location fees that are hereby 3
authorized for fiscal year 2025, so as to result in a final 4
appropriation estimated at not more than $1,342,510,000, 5
and $2,000,000, to remain available until expended, from 6
communication site rental fees established by the Bureau 7
for the cost of administering communication site activities. 8
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS 9
For expenses necessary for management, protection, 10
and development of resources and for construction, oper-11
ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and 12
other improvements on the revested Oregon and California 13
Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Or-14
egon and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and 15
on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or in-16
terests therein, including existing connecting roads on or 17
adjacent to such grant lands; $120,261,000, to remain 18
available until expended. 19
RANGE IMPROVEMENTS 20
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of 21
lands and interests therein, and improvement of Federal 22
rangelands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land 23
Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1751), 24
notwithstanding any other Act, sums equal to 50 percent 25 5 
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of all moneys received during the prior fiscal year under 1
sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 2
315b, 315m) and the amount designated for range im-3
provements from grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts 4
from Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the Depart-5
ment of the Interior pursuant to law, but not less than 6
$10,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-7
vided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall be available for 8
administrative expenses. 9
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES 10
For administrative expenses and other costs related 11
to processing application documents and other authoriza-12
tions for use and disposal of public lands and resources, 13
for costs of providing copies of official public land docu-14
ments, for monitoring construction, operation, and termi-15
nation of facilities in conjunction with use authorizations, 16
and for rehabilitation of damaged property, such amounts 17
as may be collected under Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 18
1701 et seq.), and under section 28 of the Mineral Leasing 19
Act (30 U.S.C. 185), to remain available until expended: 20
Provided, That notwithstanding any provision to the con-21
trary of section 305(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 22
1735(a)), any moneys that have been or will be received 23
pursuant to that section, whether as a result of forfeiture, 24
compromise, or settlement, if not appropriate for refund 25 6 
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pursuant to section 305(c) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1
1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended under 2
the authority of this Act by the Secretary of the Interior 3
to improve, protect, or rehabilitate any public lands ad-4
ministered through the Bureau of Land Management 5
which have been damaged by the action of a resource de-6
veloper, purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized person, 7
without regard to whether all moneys collected from each 8
such action are used on the exact lands damaged which 9
led to the action: Provided further, That any such moneys 10
that are in excess of amounts needed to repair damage 11
to the exact land for which funds were collected may be 12
used to repair other damaged public lands. 13
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS 14
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended 15
under existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such 16
amounts as may be contributed under section 307 of Pub-17
lic Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1737), and such amounts as 18
may be advanced for administrative costs, surveys, ap-19
praisals, and costs of making conveyances of omitted lands 20
under section 211(b) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1721(b)), to 21
remain available until expended. 22
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 23
The Bureau of Land Management may carry out the 24
operations funded under this Act by direct expenditure, 25 7 
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contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and reimburs-1
able agreements with public and private entities, including 2
with States. Appropriations for the Bureau shall be avail-3
able for purchase, erection, and dismantlement of tem-4
porary structures, and alteration and maintenance of nec-5
essary buildings and appurtenant facilities to which the 6
United States has title; up to $100,000 for payments, at 7
the discretion of the Secretary, for information or evidence 8
concerning violations of laws administered by the Bureau; 9
miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement ac-10
tivities authorized or approved by the Secretary and to be 11
accounted for solely on the Secretary’s certificate, not to 12
exceed $10,000: Provided, That notwithstanding Public 13
Law 90–620 (44 U.S.C. 501), the Bureau may, under co-14
operative cost-sharing and partnership arrangements au-15
thorized by law, procure printing services from cooperators 16
in connection with jointly produced publications for which 17
the cooperators share the cost of printing either in cash 18
or in services, and the Bureau determines the cooperator 19
is capable of meeting accepted quality standards: Provided 20
further, That projects to be funded pursuant to a written 21
commitment by a State government to provide an identi-22
fied amount of money in support of the project may be 23
carried out by the Bureau on a reimbursable basis. 24 8 
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UNITEDSTATESFISH ANDWILDLIFESERVICE 1
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 3
For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and 4
Wildlife Service, as authorized by law, and for scientific 5
and economic studies, general administration, and for the 6
performance of other authorized functions related to such 7
resources, $1,549,935,000, to remain available until Sep-8
tember 30, 2026, of which not to exceed $15,000 may be 9
for official reception and representation expenses: Pro-10
vided, That not to exceed $22,543,000 shall be used for 11
implementing subsections (a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 12
4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 13
1533) (except for processing petitions, developing and 14
issuing proposed and final regulations, and taking any 15
other steps to implement actions described in subsection 16
(c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or (c)(2)(B)(ii) of such section): 17
Provided further, That of the amount appropriated under 18
this heading, $15,838,000, to remain available until Sep-19
tember 30, 2027, shall be for projects specified for Stew-20
ardship Priorities in the table titled ‘‘Congressionally Di-21
rected Spending Items’’ in the report accompanying this 22
Act: Provided further, That amounts in the preceding pro-23
viso may be transferred to the appropriate program, 24
project, or activity under this heading and shall continue 25 9 
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to only be available for the purposes and in such amounts 1
as such funds were originally appropriated. 2
CONSTRUCTION 3
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 4
For construction, improvement, acquisition, or re-5
moval of buildings and other facilities required in the con-6
servation, management, investigation, protection, and uti-7
lization of fish and wildlife resources, and the acquisition 8
of lands and interests therein; $27,049,000, to remain 9
available until expended: Provided further, That of the 10
amount appropriated under this heading, $1,000,000, 11
shall be for projects specified for Line Item Construction 12
Projects (CDS) in the table titled ‘‘Congressionally Di-13
rected Spending Items’’ in the report accompanying this 14
Act. 15
COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION 16
FUND 17
For expenses necessary to carry out section 6 of the 18
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1535), 19
$23,000,000, to remain available until expended, to be de-20
rived from the Cooperative Endangered Species Conserva-21
tion Fund. 22
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND 23
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-24
ber 17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $13,228,000. 25 10 
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NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND 1
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 2
of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (16 3
U.S.C. 4401 et seq.), $49,000,000, to remain available 4
until expended. 5
NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION 6
For expenses necessary to carry out the Neotropical 7
Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 6101 et 8
seq.), $5,000,000, to remain available until expended. 9
MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND 10
For expenses necessary to carry out the African Ele-11
phant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.), the 12
Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 13
4261 et seq.), the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act 14
of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Great Ape Con-15
servation Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), and the 16
Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004 (16 U.S.C. 6601 17
et seq.), $20,500,000, to remain available until expended. 18
STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS 19
For wildlife conservation grants to States and to the 20
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United 21
States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, 22
American Samoa, and Indian tribes under the provisions 23
of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 and the Fish and 24
Wildlife Coordination Act, for the development and imple-25 11 
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mentation of programs for the benefit of wildlife and their 1
habitat, including species that are not hunted or fished, 2
$72,384,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-3
vided, That of the amount provided herein, $6,100,000 is 4
for a competitive grant program for Indian tribes not sub-5
ject to the remaining provisions of this appropriation: Pro-6
vided further, That $7,284,000 is for a competitive grant 7
program to implement approved plans for States, terri-8
tories, and other jurisdictions and at the discretion of af-9
fected States, the regional Associations of fish and wildlife 10
agencies, not subject to the remaining provisions of this 11
appropriation: Provided further, That the Secretary shall, 12
after deducting $13,384,000 and administrative expenses, 13
apportion the amount provided herein in the following 14
manner: (1) to the District of Columbia and to the Com-15
monwealth of Puerto Rico, each a sum equal to not more 16
than one-half of 1 percent thereof; and (2) to Guam, 17
American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and 18
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, each 19
a sum equal to not more than one-fourth of 1 percent 20
thereof: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Inte-21
rior shall apportion the remaining amount in the following 22
manner: (1) one-third of which is based on the ratio to 23
which the land area of such State bears to the total land 24
area of all such States; and (2) two-thirds of which is 25 12 
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based on the ratio to which the population of such State 1
bears to the total population of all such States: Provided 2
further, That the amounts apportioned under this para-3
graph shall be adjusted equitably so that no State shall 4
be apportioned a sum which is less than 1 percent of the 5
amount available for apportionment under this paragraph 6
for any fiscal year or more than 5 percent of such amount: 7
Provided further, That the Federal share of planning 8
grants shall not exceed 75 percent of the total costs of 9
such projects and the Federal share of implementation 10
grants shall not exceed 65 percent of the total costs of 11
such projects: Provided further, That the non-Federal 12
share of such projects may not be derived from Federal 13
grant programs: Provided further, That any amount ap-14
portioned in 2025 to any State, territory, or other jurisdic-15
tion that remains unobligated as of September 30, 2026, 16
shall be reapportioned, together with funds appropriated 17
in 2027, in the manner provided herein. 18
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 19
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service may 20
carry out the operations of Service programs by direct ex-21
penditure, contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and 22
reimbursable agreements with public and private entities. 23
Appropriations and funds available to the United States 24
Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for repair of 25 13 
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damage to public roads within and adjacent to reservation 1
areas caused by operations of the Service; options for the 2
purchase of land at not to exceed one dollar for each op-3
tion; facilities incident to such public recreational uses on 4
conservation areas as are consistent with their primary 5
purpose; and the maintenance and improvement of aquar-6
ia, buildings, and other facilities under the jurisdiction of 7
the Service and to which the United States has title, and 8
which are used pursuant to law in connection with man-9
agement, and investigation of fish and wildlife resources: 10
Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Serv-11
ice may, under cooperative cost sharing and partnership 12
arrangements authorized by law, procure printing services 13
from cooperators in connection with jointly produced pub-14
lications for which the cooperators share at least one-half 15
the cost of printing either in cash or services and the Serv-16
ice determines the cooperator is capable of meeting accept-17
ed quality standards: Provided further, That the Service 18
may accept donated aircraft as replacements for existing 19
aircraft: Provided further, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 20
3302, all fees collected for non-toxic shot review and ap-21
proval shall be deposited under the heading ‘‘United 22
States Fish and Wildlife Service—Resource Management’’ 23
and shall be available to the Secretary, without further 24
appropriation, to be used for expenses of processing of 25 14 
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such non-toxic shot type or coating applications and revis-1
ing regulations as necessary, and shall remain available 2
until expended. 3
N
ATIONALPARKSERVICE 4
OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM 5
For expenses necessary for the management, oper-6
ation, and maintenance of areas and facilities adminis-7
tered by the National Park Service and for the general 8
administration of the National Park Service, 9
$2,994,292,000, of which $11,758,000 for planning and 10
interagency coordination in support of Everglades restora-11
tion and $120,168,000 for maintenance, repair, or reha-12
bilitation projects for constructed assets and 13
$188,184,000 for cyclic maintenance projects for con-14
structed assets and cultural resources and $213,510,000 15
for external administrative costs and $11,000,000 for uses 16
authorized by section 101122 of title 54, United States 17
Code shall remain available until September 30, 2026, and 18
not to exceed $15,000 may be for official reception and 19
representation expenses: Provided, That funds appro-20
priated under this heading in this Act are available for 21
the purposes of section 5 of Public Law 95–348: Provided 22
further, That notwithstanding section 9 of the 400 Years 23
of African-American History Commission Act (36 U.S.C. 24
note prec. 101; Public Law 115–102), $3,300,000 of the 25 15 
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funds provided under this heading shall be made available 1
for the purposes specified by that Act: Provided further, 2
That sections 7(b) and 8(a) of that Act shall be amended 3
by striking ‘‘July 1, 2025’’ and inserting ‘‘July 1, 2026’’. 4
In addition, for purposes described in section 2404 of Pub-5
lic Law 116–9, an amount equal to the amount deposited 6
in this fiscal year into the National Park Medical Services 7
Fund established pursuant to such section of such Act, 8
to remain available until expended, shall be derived from 9
such Fund. 10
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION 11
For expenses necessary to carry out recreation pro-12
grams, natural programs, cultural programs, heritage 13
partnership programs, environmental compliance and re-14
view, international park affairs, and grant administration, 15
not otherwise provided for, $96,192,000, to remain avail-16
able until September 30, 2026, of which $1,250,000 shall 17
be for projects specified for Statutory and Contractual Aid 18
in the table titled ‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending 19
Items’’ in the report accompanying this Act. 20
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND 21
For expenses necessary in carrying out the National 22
Historic Preservation Act (division A of subtitle III of title 23
54, United States Code), $182,775,000, to be derived 24
from the Historic Preservation Fund and to remain avail-25 16 
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able until September 30, 2026, of which $26,000,000 shall 1
be for Save America’s Treasures grants for preservation 2
of nationally significant sites, structures and artifacts as 3
authorized by section 7303 of the Omnibus Public Land 4
Management Act of 2009 (54 U.S.C. 3089): Provided, 5
That an individual Save America’s Treasures grant shall 6
be matched by non-Federal funds: Provided further, That 7
individual projects shall only be eligible for one grant: Pro-8
vided further, That all projects to be funded shall be ap-9
proved by the Secretary of the Interior in consultation 10
with the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-11
tions: Provided further, That of the funds provided for the 12
Historic Preservation Fund, $1,250,000 is for competitive 13
grants for the survey and nomination of properties to the 14
National Register of Historic Places and as National His-15
toric Landmarks associated with communities currently 16
under-represented, as determined by the Secretary; 17
$24,000,000 is for competitive grants to preserve the sites 18
and stories of the African American Civil Rights move-19
ment; $5,000,000 is for competitive grants to preserve 20
sites related to the struggle of all people to achieve equal 21
rights in America; $11,000,000 is for grants to Histori-22
cally Black Colleges and Universities; $10,000,000 is for 23
competitive grants for the restoration of historic prop-24
erties of national, State, and local significance listed on 25 17 
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or eligible for inclusion on the National Register of His-1
toric Places, to be made without imposing the usage or 2
direct grant restrictions of section 101(e)(3) (54 U.S.C. 3
302904) of the National Historic Preservation Act; and 4
$17,375,000 is for projects specified for the Historic Pres-5
ervation Fund Projects in the table titled ‘‘Congressionally 6
Directed Spending Items’’ in the report accompanying this 7
Act: Provided further, That such competitive grants shall 8
be made without imposing the matching requirements in 9
section 302902(b)(3) of title 54, United States Code to 10
States and Indian tribes as defined in chapter 3003 of 11
such title, Native Hawaiian organizations, local govern-12
ments, including Certified Local Governments, and non- 13
profit organizations. 14
CONSTRUCTION 15
For construction, improvements, repair, or replace-16
ment of physical facilities, and related equipment, and 17
compliance and planning for programs and areas adminis-18
tered by the National Park Service, $202,283,000, to re-19
main available until expended: Provided, That notwith-20
standing any other provision of law, for any project ini-21
tially funded in fiscal year 2025 with a future phase indi-22
cated in the National Park Service 5–Year Line Item Con-23
struction Plan, a single procurement may be issued which 24
includes the full scope of the project: Provided further, 25 18 
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That the solicitation and contract shall contain the clause 1
availability of funds found at 48 CFR 52.232–18: Pro-2
vided further, That National Park Service Donations, 3
Park Concessions Franchise Fees, and Recreation Fees 4
may be made available for the cost of adjustments and 5
changes within the original scope of effort for projects 6
funded by the National Park Service Construction appro-7
priation: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Inte-8
rior shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations, 9
in accordance with current reprogramming thresholds, 10
prior to making any charges authorized by this section: 11
Provided further, That of the amount appropriated under 12
this heading, $4,808,000 is for projects specified for Line 13
Item Construction and Maintenance in the table titled 14
‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending Items’’ in the report 15
accompanying this Act. 16
CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE 17
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 18
of section 101701 of title 54, United States Code, relating 19
to challenge cost share agreements, $15,000,000, to re-20
main available until expended, for Centennial Challenge 21
projects and programs: Provided, That not less than 50 22
percent of the total cost of each project or program shall 23
be derived from non-Federal sources in the form of do-24 19 
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nated cash, assets, or a pledge of donation guaranteed by 1
an irrevocable letter of credit. 2
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 3
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 4
In addition to other uses set forth in section 5
101917(c)(2) of title 54, United States Code, franchise 6
fees credited to a sub-account shall be available for ex-7
penditure by the Secretary, without further appropriation, 8
for use at any unit within the National Park System to 9
extinguish or reduce liability for Possessory Interest or 10
leasehold surrender interest. Such funds may only be used 11
for this purpose to the extent that the benefitting unit an-12
ticipated franchise fee receipts over the term of the con-13
tract at that unit exceed the amount of funds used to ex-14
tinguish or reduce liability. Franchise fees at the benefit-15
ting unit shall be credited to the sub-account of the origi-16
nating unit over a period not to exceed the term of a single 17
contract at the benefitting unit, in the amount of funds 18
so expended to extinguish or reduce liability. 19
For the costs of administration of the Land and 20
Water Conservation Fund grants authorized by section 21
105(a)(2)(B) of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act 22
of 2006 (Public Law 109–432), the National Park Service 23
may retain up to 3 percent of the amounts which are au-24 20 
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thorized to be disbursed under such section, such retained 1
amounts to remain available until expended. 2
National Park Service funds may be transferred to 3
the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Depart-4
ment of Transportation, for purposes authorized under 23 5
U.S.C. 203. Transfers may include a reasonable amount 6
for FHWA administrative support costs. 7
U
NITEDSTATESGEOLOGICALSURVEY 8
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH 9
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 10
For expenses necessary for the United States Geo-11
logical Survey to perform surveys, investigations, and re-12
search covering topography, geology, hydrology, biology, 13
and the mineral and water resources of the United States, 14
its territories and possessions, and other areas as author-15
ized by 43 U.S.C. 31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as 16
to their mineral and water resources; give engineering su-17
pervision to power permittees and Federal Energy Regu-18
latory Commission licensees; administer the minerals ex-19
ploration program (30 U.S.C. 641); conduct inquiries into 20
the economic conditions affecting mining and materials 21
processing industries (30 U.S.C. 3, 21a, and 1603; 50 22
U.S.C. 98g(a)(1)) and related purposes as authorized by 23
law; and to publish and disseminate data relative to the 24
foregoing activities; $1,481,963,000, to remain available 25 21 
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until September 30, 2026; of which $101,610,000 shall 1
remain available until expended for satellite operations; 2
and of which $74,851,000 shall be available until ex-3
pended for deferred maintenance and capital improvement 4
projects that exceed $100,000 in cost: Provided, That 5
none of the funds provided for the ecosystem research ac-6
tivity shall be used to conduct new surveys on private 7
property, unless specifically authorized in writing by the 8
property owner: Provided further, That no part of this ap-9
propriation shall be used to pay more than one-half the 10
cost of topographic mapping or water resources data col-11
lection and investigations carried on in cooperation with 12
States and municipalities: Provided further, That of the 13
amount appropriated under this heading, $4,511,000 shall 14
be for projects specified for Special Initiatives in the table 15
titled ‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending Items’’ in the 16
report accompanying this Act: Provided further, That 17
amounts in the preceding proviso may be transferred to 18
the appropriate program, project, or activity under this 19
heading and shall continue to only be available for the pur-20
poses and in such amounts as such funds were originally 21
appropriated: Provided further, That of the amount appro-22
priated under this heading, not to exceed $15,000 may 23
be for official reception and representation expenses. 24 22 
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 1
From within the amount appropriated for activities 2
of the United States Geological Survey such sums as are 3
necessary shall be available for contracting for the fur-4
nishing of topographic maps and for the making of geo-5
physical or other specialized surveys when it is administra-6
tively determined that such procedures are in the public 7
interest; construction and maintenance of necessary build-8
ings and appurtenant facilities; acquisition of lands for 9
gauging stations, observation wells, and seismic equip-10
ment; expenses of the United States National Committee 11
for Geological Sciences; and payment of compensation and 12
expenses of persons employed by the Survey duly ap-13
pointed to represent the United States in the negotiation 14
and administration of interstate compacts: Provided, That 15
activities funded by appropriations herein made may be 16
accomplished through the use of contracts, grants, or co-17
operative agreements (including noncompetitive coopera-18
tive agreements with tribes) as defined in section 6302 19
of title 31, United States Code: Provided further, That the 20
United States Geological Survey may enter into contracts 21
or cooperative agreements directly with individuals or indi-22
rectly with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without 23
regard to 41 U.S.C. 6101, for the temporary or intermit-24
tent services of students or recent graduates, who shall 25 23 
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be considered employees for the purpose of chapters 57 1
and 81 of title 5, United States Code, relating to com-2
pensation for travel and work injuries, and chapter 171 3
of title 28, United States Code, relating to tort claims, 4
but shall not be considered to be Federal employees for 5
any other purposes. 6
B
UREAU OFOCEANENERGYMANAGEMENT 7
OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT 8
For expenses necessary for granting and admin-9
istering leases, easements, rights-of-way, and agreements 10
for use for oil and gas, other minerals, energy, and ma-11
rine-related purposes on the Outer Continental Shelf and 12
approving operations related thereto, as authorized by law; 13
for environmental studies, as authorized by law; for imple-14
menting other laws and to the extent provided by Presi-15
dential or Secretarial delegation; and for grants and coop-16
erative agreements, both with or without a non-Federal 17
share, $216,043,000, of which $161,043,000 is to remain 18
available until September 30, 2026, and of which 19
$55,000,000 is to remain available until expended: Pro-20
vided, That this total appropriation shall be reduced by 21
amounts collected by the Secretary of the Interior and 22
credited to this appropriation from additions to receipts 23
resulting from increases to lease rental rates in effect on 24
August 5, 1993, and from cost recovery fees from activi-25 24 
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ties conducted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Manage-1
ment pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 2
including studies, assessments, analysis, and miscella-3
neous administrative activities: Provided further, That the 4
sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as such collec-5
tions are received during the fiscal year, so as to result 6
in a final fiscal year 2025 appropriation estimated at not 7
more than $161,043,000: Provided further, That not to 8
exceed $3,000 shall be available for reasonable expenses 9
related to promoting volunteer beach and marine cleanup 10
activities: Provided further, That not to exceed $5,000 11
shall be available for official reception and representation 12
expenses. 13
B
UREAU OFSAFETY ANDENVIRONMENTAL 14
E
NFORCEMENT 15
OFFSHORE SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT 16
For expenses necessary for the regulation of oper-17
ations related to leases, easements, rights-of-way, and 18
agreements for use for oil and gas, other minerals, energy, 19
and marine-related purposes on the Outer Continental 20
Shelf, as authorized by law; for enforcing and imple-21
menting laws and regulations as authorized by law and 22
to the extent provided by Presidential or Secretarial dele-23
gation; and for matching grants or cooperative agree-24
ments, $173,886,000, of which $144,006,000, including 25 25 
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not to exceed $3,000 for official reception and representa-1
tion expenses, is to remain available until September 30, 2
2026, and of which $29,880,000 is to remain available 3
until expended, including $2,880,000 for offshore decom-4
missioning activities: Provided, That this total appropria-5
tion shall be reduced by amounts collected by the Sec-6
retary of the Interior and credited to this appropriation 7
from additions to receipts resulting from increases to lease 8
rental rates in effect on August 5, 1993, and from cost 9
recovery fees from activities conducted by the Bureau of 10
Safety and Environmental Enforcement pursuant to the 11
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, including studies, as-12
sessments, analysis, and miscellaneous administrative ac-13
tivities: Provided further, That the sum herein appro-14
priated shall be reduced as such collections are received 15
during the fiscal year, so as to result in a final fiscal year 16
2025 appropriation estimated at not more than 17
$146,886,000. 18
For an additional amount, $37,000,000, to remain 19
available until expended, to be reduced by amounts col-20
lected by the Secretary and credited to this appropriation, 21
which shall be derived from non-refundable inspection fees 22
collected in fiscal year 2025, as provided in this Act: Pro-23
vided, That for fiscal year 2025, not less than 50 percent 24
of the inspection fees expended by the Bureau of Safety 25 26 
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and Environmental Enforcement will be used to fund per-1
sonnel and mission-related costs to expand capacity and 2
expedite the orderly development, subject to environmental 3
safeguards, of the Outer Continental Shelf pursuant to the 4
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et 5
seq.), including the review of applications for permits to 6
drill. 7
OIL SPILL RESEARCH 8
For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 9
1016; title IV, sections 4202 and 4303; title VII; and title 10
VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 11
$15,099,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-12
ability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended. 13
O
FFICE OFSURFACEMININGRECLAMATION AND 14
E
NFORCEMENT 15
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY 16
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 17
of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 18
1977, Public Law 95–87, $118,223,000, to remain avail-19
able until September 30, 2026, of which $63,000,000 shall 20
be available for State and tribal regulatory grants, and 21
of which not to exceed $5,000 may be for official reception 22
and representation expenses: Provided, That appropria-23
tions for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and 24
Enforcement may provide for the travel and per diem ex-25 27 
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penses of State and tribal personnel attending Office of 1
Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored 2
training. 3
In addition, for costs to review, administer, and en-4
force permits issued by the Office pursuant to section 507 5
of Public Law 95–87 (30 U.S.C. 1257), $40,000, to re-6
main available until expended: Provided, That fees as-7
sessed and collected by the Office pursuant to such section 8
507 shall be credited to this account as discretionary off-9
setting collections, to remain available until expended: 10
Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated from 11
the general fund shall be reduced as collections are re-12
ceived during the fiscal year, so as to result in a fiscal 13
year 2025 appropriation estimated at not more than 14
$118,223,000. 15
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND 16
For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the 17
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, 18
Public Law 95–87, $34,207,000, to be derived from re-19
ceipts of the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to 20
remain available until expended: Provided, That pursuant 21
to Public Law 97–365, the Department of the Interior is 22
authorized to use up to 20 percent from the recovery of 23
the delinquent debt owed to the United States Government 24
to pay for contracts to collect these debts: Provided fur-25 28 
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ther, That funds made available under title IV of Public 1
Law 95–87 may be used for any required non-Federal 2
share of the cost of projects funded by the Federal Gov-3
ernment for the purpose of environmental restoration re-4
lated to treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage 5
from abandoned mines: Provided further, That such 6
projects must be consistent with the purposes and prior-7
ities of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act: 8
Provided further, That amounts provided under this head-9
ing may be used for the travel and per diem expenses of 10
State and tribal personnel attending Office of Surface 11
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored training: 12
Provided further, That of the amounts provided under this 13
heading, not to exceed $5,000 shall be available for official 14
reception and representation expenses. 15
In addition, $130,000,000, to remain available until 16
expended, for payments to States and federally recognized 17
Indian tribes for reclamation of abandoned mine lands and 18
other related activities in accordance with the terms and 19
conditions described in the report accompanying this Act: 20
Provided, That such additional amount shall be used for 21
economic and community development in conjunction with 22
the priorities described in section 403(a) of the Surface 23
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 24
1233(a)): Provided further, That of such additional 25 29 
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amount, $86,000,000 shall be distributed in equal 1
amounts to the three Appalachian States with the greatest 2
amount of unfunded needs to meet the priorities described 3
in paragraphs (1) and (2) of such section, $33,000,000 4
shall be distributed in equal amounts to the three Appa-5
lachian States with the subsequent greatest amount of un-6
funded needs to meet such priorities, and $11,000,000 7
shall be for grants to federally recognized Indian tribes, 8
without regard to their status as certified or uncertified 9
under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 10
of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1233(a)), for reclamation of aban-11
doned mine lands and other related activities in accord-12
ance with the terms and conditions described in the report 13
accompanying this Act and shall be used for economic and 14
community development in conjunction with the priorities 15
in section 403(a) of the Surface Mining Control and Rec-16
lamation Act of 1977: Provided further, That such pay-17
ments shall be made to States and federally recognized 18
Indian tribes not later than 90 days after the date of the 19
enactment of this Act. 20 30 
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INDIANAFFAIRS 1
B
UREAU OFINDIANAFFAIRS 2
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 3
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 4
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian 5
programs, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act 6
of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13) and the Indian Self- 7
Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 8
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), $1,963,076,000, to remain available 9
until September 30, 2026, except as otherwise provided 10
herein; of which not to exceed $15,000 may be for official 11
reception and representation expenses; of which not to ex-12
ceed $78,494,000 shall be for welfare assistance pay-13
ments: Provided, That in cases of designated Federal dis-14
asters, the Secretary of the Interior may exceed such cap 15
for welfare payments from the amounts provided herein, 16
to provide for disaster relief to Indian communities af-17
fected by the disaster: Provided further, That federally rec-18
ognized Indian tribes and tribal organizations of federally 19
recognized Indian tribes may use their tribal priority allo-20
cations for unmet welfare assistance costs: Provided fur-21
ther, That not to exceed $71,919,000 shall remain avail-22
able until expended for housing improvement, road main-23
tenance, land acquisition, attorney fees, litigation support, 24
land records improvement, hearings and appeals, and the 25 31 
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Navajo-Hopi Settlement Program: Provided further, That 1
of the amount appropriated under this heading, 2
$6,650,000 shall be for projects specified for Special Ini-3
tiatives in the table titled ‘‘Congressionally Directed 4
Spending Items’’ in the report accompanying this Act: 5
Provided further, That any forestry funds allocated to a 6
federally recognized tribe which remain unobligated as of 7
September 30, 2026, may be transferred during fiscal year 8
2027 to an Indian forest land assistance account estab-9
lished for the benefit of the holder of the funds within 10
the holder’s trust fund account: Provided further, That 11
any such unobligated balances not so transferred shall ex-12
pire on September 30, 2027: Provided further, That in 13
order to enhance the safety of Bureau field employees, the 14
Bureau may use funds to purchase uniforms or other iden-15
tifying articles of clothing for personnel: Provided further, 16
That funds for trust, probate, and administrative func-17
tions may, as needed, be transferred to the ‘‘Office of the 18
Secretary—Departmental Operations’’ account: Provided 19
further, That the Bureau of Indian Affairs may accept 20
transfers of funds from United States Customs and Bor-21
der Protection to supplement any other funding available 22
for reconstruction or repair of roads owned by the Bureau 23
of Indian Affairs as identified on the National Tribal 24
Transportation Facility Inventory, 23 U.S.C. 202(b)(1). 25 32 
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INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION 1
For the acquisition of fractional interests to further 2
land consolidation as authorized under the Indian Land 3
Consolidation Act Amendments of 2000 (Public Law 106– 4
462), and the American Indian Probate Reform Act of 5
2004 (Public Law 108–374), $4,000,000, to remain avail-6
able until expended: Provided, That any provision of the 7
Indian Land Consolidation Act Amendments of 2000 8
(Public Law 106–462) that requires or otherwise relates 9
to application of a lien shall not apply to the acquisitions 10
funded herein. 11
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS 12
For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for 13
contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter-14
mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with 15
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian 16
Education for fiscal year 2025, such sums as may be nec-17
essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-18
tember 30, 2026: Provided, That notwithstanding any 19
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 20
this heading shall be available for transfer to another 21
budget account. 22
PAYMENTS FOR TRIBAL LEASES 23
For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for 24
leases pursuant to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Deter-25 33 
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mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 1
5324(l)) for fiscal year 2025, such sums as may be nec-2
essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-3
tember 30, 2026: Provided, That notwithstanding any 4
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 5
this heading shall be available for transfer to another 6
budget account. 7
CONSTRUCTION 8
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 9
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-10
nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, 11
and other facilities, including architectural and engineer-12
ing services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests 13
in lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for 14
construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pur-15
suant to Public Law 87–483; $146,022,000, to remain 16
available until expended: Provided, That such amounts as 17
may be available for the construction of the Navajo Indian 18
Irrigation Project may be transferred to the Bureau of 19
Reclamation: Provided further, That any funds provided 20
for the Safety of Dams program pursuant to the Act of 21
November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), shall be made available 22
on a nonreimbursable basis: Provided further, That this 23
appropriation may be reimbursed from the Bureau of 24
Trust Funds Administration appropriation for the appro-25 34 
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priate share of construction costs for space expansion 1
needed in agency offices to meet trust reform implementa-2
tion: Provided further, That of the funds made available 3
under this heading, $11,000,000 shall be derived from the 4
Indian Irrigation Fund established by section 3211 of the 5
WIIN Act (Public Law 114–322; 130 Stat. 1749): Pro-6
vided further, That amounts provided under this heading 7
are made available for the modernization of Federal field 8
communication capabilities, in addition to amounts other-9
wise made available for such purpose. 10
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 11
MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 12
For payments and necessary administrative expenses 13
for implementation of Indian land and water claim settle-14
ments pursuant to Public Laws 99–264, 101–618, and 15
117–349 and for implementation of other land and water 16
rights settlements, $45,897,000, to remain available until 17
expended. 18
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 19
For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, 20
$13,616,000, to remain available until September 30, 21
2026, of which $2,412,000 is for administrative expenses, 22
as authorized by the Indian Financing Act of 1974: Pro-23
vided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 24
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con-25 35 
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gressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That 1
these funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, 2
any part of which is to be guaranteed or insured, not to 3
exceed $185,707,188. 4
B
UREAU OFINDIANEDUCATION 5
OPERATION OF INDIAN EDUCATION PROGRAMS 6
For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian 7
education programs, as authorized by law, including the 8
Snyder Act of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the In-9
dian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 10
1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Education Amend-11
ments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001–2019), and the Tribally 12
Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), 13
$1,156,853,000 to remain available until September 30, 14
2026, except as otherwise provided herein: Provided, That 15
federally recognized Indian tribes and tribal organizations 16
of federally recognized Indian tribes may use their tribal 17
priority allocations for unmet welfare assistance costs: 18
Provided further, That not to exceed $852,740,000 for 19
school operations costs of Bureau-funded schools and 20
other education programs shall become available on June 21
1, 2025, and shall remain available until September 30, 22
2026: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 23
provision of law, including but not limited to the Indian 24
Self–Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) 25 36 
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and section 1128 of the Education Amendments of 1978 1
(25 U.S.C. 2008), not to exceed $96,844,000 within and 2
only from such amounts made available for school oper-3
ations shall be available for administrative cost grants as-4
sociated with grants approved prior to June 1, 2025: Pro-5
vided further, That in order to enhance the safety of Bu-6
reau field employees, the Bureau may use funds to pur-7
chase uniforms or other identifying articles of clothing for 8
personnel. 9
EDUCATION CONSTRUCTION 10
For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-11
nance of buildings, utilities, and other facilities necessary 12
for the operation of Indian education programs, including 13
architectural and engineering services by contract; acquisi-14
tion of lands, and interests in lands; $264,775,000, to re-15
main available until expended: Provided, That in order to 16
ensure timely completion of construction projects, the Sec-17
retary of the Interior may assume control of a project and 18
all funds related to the project, if, not later than 18 19
months after the date of the enactment of this Act, any 20
Public Law 100–297 (25 U.S.C. 2501, et seq.) grantee 21
receiving funds appropriated in this Act or in any prior 22
Act, has not completed the planning and design phase of 23
the project and commenced construction. 24 37 
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 1
The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of In-2
dian Education may carry out the operation of Indian pro-3
grams by direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agree-4
ments, compacts, and grants, either directly or in coopera-5
tion with States and other organizations. 6
Notwithstanding Public Law 87–279 (25 U.S.C. 15), 7
the Bureau of Indian Affairs may contract for services in 8
support of the management, operation, and maintenance 9
of the Power Division of the San Carlos Irrigation Project. 10
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 11
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau 12
of Indian Education for central office oversight and Exec-13
utive Direction and Administrative Services (except Exec-14
utive Direction and Administrative Services funding for 15
Tribal Priority Allocations, regional offices, and facilities 16
operations and maintenance) shall be available for con-17
tracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative agreements with 18
the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau of Indian 19
Education under the provisions of the Indian Self-Deter-20
mination Act or the Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 21
(Public Law 103–413). 22
In the event any tribe returns appropriations made 23
available by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or 24
the Bureau of Indian Education, this action shall not di-25 38 
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minish the Federal Government’s trust responsibility to 1
that tribe, or the government-to-government relationship 2
between the United States and that tribe, or that tribe’s 3
ability to access future appropriations. 4
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 5
available to the Bureau of Indian Education, other than 6
the amounts provided herein for assistance to public 7
schools under 25 U.S.C. 452 et seq., shall be available to 8
support the operation of any elementary or secondary 9
school in the State of Alaska. 10
No funds available to the Bureau of Indian Edu-11
cation shall be used to support expanded grades for any 12
school or dormitory beyond the grade structure in place 13
or approved by the Secretary of the Interior at each school 14
in the Bureau of Indian Education school system as of 15
October 1, 1995, except that the Secretary of the Interior 16
may waive this prohibition to support expansion of up to 17
one additional grade when the Secretary determines such 18
waiver is needed to support accomplishment of the mission 19
of the Bureau of Indian Education, or more than one 20
grade to expand the elementary grade structure for Bu-21
reau-funded schools with a K–2 grade structure on Octo-22
ber 1, 1996. Appropriations made available in this or any 23
prior Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be avail-24
able, in accordance with the Bureau’s funding formula, 25 39 
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only to the schools in the Bureau school system as of Sep-1
tember 1, 1996, and to any school or school program that 2
was reinstated in fiscal year 2012. Funds made available 3
under this Act may not be used to establish a charter 4
school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term is defined 5
in section 1141 of the Education Amendments of 1978 6
(25 U.S.C. 2021)), except that a charter school that is 7
in existence on the date of the enactment of this Act and 8
that has operated at a Bureau-funded school before Sep-9
tember 1, 1999, may continue to operate during that pe-10
riod, but only if the charter school pays to the Bureau 11
a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau for 12
the use of the real and personal property (including buses 13
and vans), the funds of the charter school are kept sepa-14
rate and apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau does 15
not assume any obligation for charter school programs of 16
the State in which the school is located if the charter 17
school loses such funding. Employees of Bureau-funded 18
schools sharing a campus with a charter school and per-19
forming functions related to the charter school’s operation 20
and employees of a charter school shall not be treated as 21
Federal employees for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, 22
United States Code. 23
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 24
section 113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106– 25 40 
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113, if in fiscal year 2003 or 2004 a grantee received indi-1
rect and administrative costs pursuant to a distribution 2
formula based on section 5(f) of Public Law 101–301, the 3
Secretary shall continue to distribute indirect and admin-4
istrative cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) 5
distribution formula. 6
Funds available under this Act may not be used to 7
establish satellite locations of schools in the Bureau school 8
system as of September 1, 1996, except that the Secretary 9
may waive this prohibition in order for an Indian tribe 10
to provide language and cultural immersion educational 11
programs for non-public schools located within the juris-12
dictional area of the tribal government which exclusively 13
serve tribal members, do not include grades beyond those 14
currently served at the existing Bureau-funded school, 15
provide an educational environment with educator pres-16
ence and academic facilities comparable to the Bureau- 17
funded school, comply with all applicable Tribal, Federal, 18
or State health and safety standards, and the Americans 19
with Disabilities Act, and demonstrate the benefits of es-20
tablishing operations at a satellite location in lieu of incur-21
ring extraordinary costs, such as for transportation or 22
other impacts to students such as those caused by busing 23
students extended distances: Provided, That no funds 24
available under this Act may be used to fund operations, 25 41 
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maintenance, rehabilitation, construction, or other facili-1
ties-related costs for such assets that are not owned by 2
the Bureau: Provided further, That the term ‘‘satellite 3
school’’ means a school location physically separated from 4
the existing Bureau school by more than 50 miles but that 5
forms part of the existing school in all other respects. 6
Funds made available for Tribal Priority Allocations 7
within Operation of Indian Programs and Operation of In-8
dian Education Programs may be used to execute re-9
quested adjustments in tribal priority allocations initiated 10
by an Indian tribe. 11
B
UREAU OFTRUSTFUNDSADMINISTRATION 12
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 13
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 14
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by 15
direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, 16
compacts, and grants, $100,472,000, to remain available 17
until expended, of which not to exceed $17,152,000 from 18
this or any other Act, may be available for settlement sup-19
port: Provided, That funds for trust management improve-20
ments and litigation support may, as needed, be trans-21
ferred to or merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 22
‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ and Bureau of Indian 23
Education, ‘‘Operation of Indian Education Programs’’ 24
accounts; the Office of the Solicitor, ‘‘Salaries and Ex-25 42 
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penses’’ account; and the Office of the Secretary, ‘‘Depart-1
mental Operations’’ account: Provided further, That funds 2
made available through contracts or grants obligated dur-3
ing fiscal year 2025, as authorized by the Indian Self-De-4
termination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall 5
remain available until expended by the contractor or 6
grantee: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 7
provision of law, the Secretary shall not be required to 8
provide a quarterly statement of performance for any In-9
dian trust account that has not had activity for at least 10
15 months and has a balance of $15 or less: Provided fur-11
ther, That the Secretary shall issue an annual account 12
statement and maintain a record of any such accounts and 13
shall permit the balance in each such account to be with-14
drawn upon the express written request of the account 15
holder: Provided further, That not to exceed $100,000 is 16
available for the Secretary to make payments to correct 17
administrative errors of either disbursements from or de-18
posits to Individual Indian Money or Tribal accounts after 19
September 30, 2002: Provided further, That erroneous 20
payments that are recovered shall be credited to and re-21
main available in this account for this purpose: Provided 22
further, That the Secretary shall not be required to rec-23
oncile Special Deposit Accounts with a balance of less than 24
$1,000 unless the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration 25 43 
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receives proof of ownership from a Special Deposit Ac-1
counts claimant: Provided further, That notwithstanding 2
section 102 of the American Indian Trust Fund Manage-3
ment Reform Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–412) or any 4
other provision of law, the Secretary may aggregate the 5
trust accounts of individuals whose whereabouts are un-6
known for a continuous period of at least 5 years and shall 7
not be required to generate periodic statements of per-8
formance for the individual accounts: Provided further, 9
That with respect to the preceding proviso, the Secretary 10
shall continue to maintain sufficient records to determine 11
the balance of the individual accounts, including any ac-12
crued interest and income, and such funds shall remain 13
available to the individual account holders. 14
D
EPARTMENTAL OFFICES 15
O
FFICE OF THESECRETARY 16
DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS 17
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 18
For necessary expenses for management of the De-19
partment of the Interior and for grants and cooperative 20
agreements, as authorized by law, $154,945,000, to re-21
main available until September 30, 2026; of which not to 22
exceed $15,000 may be for official reception and represen-23
tation expenses; of which up to $1,000,000 shall be avail-24
able for workers compensation payments and unemploy-25 44 
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ment compensation payments associated with the orderly 1
closure of the United States Bureau of Mines; and of 2
which $14,295,000 for Indian land, mineral, and resource 3
valuation activities shall remain available until expended: 4
Provided, That funds for Indian land, mineral, and re-5
source valuation activities may, as needed, be transferred 6
to and merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs ‘‘Oper-7
ation of Indian Programs’’ and Bureau of Indian Edu-8
cation ‘‘Operation of Indian Education Programs’’ ac-9
counts and the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration 10
‘‘Federal Trust Programs’’ account: Provided further, 11
That funds made available through contracts or grants ob-12
ligated during fiscal year 2025, as authorized by the In-13
dian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et 14
seq.), shall remain available until expended by the con-15
tractor or grantee. 16
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 17
For fiscal year 2025, up to $550,000 of the payments 18
authorized by chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, 19
may be retained for administrative expenses of the Pay-20
ments in Lieu of Taxes Program: Provided, That the 21
amounts provided under this Act specifically for the Pay-22
ments in Lieu of Taxes program are the only amounts 23
available for payments authorized under chapter 69 of 24
title 31, United States Code: Provided further, That in the 25 45 
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event the sums appropriated for any fiscal year for pay-1
ments pursuant to this chapter are insufficient to make 2
the full payments authorized by that chapter to all units 3
of local government, then the payment to each local gov-4
ernment shall be made proportionally: Provided further, 5
That the Secretary may make adjustments to payment to 6
individual units of local government to correct for prior 7
overpayments or underpayments: Provided further, That 8
no payment shall be made pursuant to that chapter to oth-9
erwise eligible units of local government if the computed 10
amount of the payment is less than $100. 11
I
NSULARAFFAIRS 12
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 13
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories 14
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, 15
$114,615,000, of which: (1) $103,890,000 shall remain 16
available until expended for territorial assistance, includ-17
ing general technical assistance, maintenance assistance, 18
disaster assistance, coral reef initiative and natural re-19
sources activities, and brown tree snake control and re-20
search; grants to the judiciary in American Samoa for 21
compensation and expenses, as authorized by law (48 22
U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Government of American 23
Samoa, in addition to current local revenues, for construc-24
tion and support of governmental functions; grants to the 25 46 
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Government of the Virgin Islands, as authorized by law; 1
grants to the Government of Guam, as authorized by law; 2
and grants to the Government of the Northern Mariana 3
Islands, as authorized by law (Public Law 94–241; 90 4
Stat. 272); and (2) $10,725,000 shall be available until 5
September 30, 2026, for salaries and expenses of the Of-6
fice of Insular Affairs: Provided, That all financial trans-7
actions of the territorial and local governments herein pro-8
vided for, including such transactions of all agencies or 9
instrumentalities established or used by such governments, 10
may be audited by the Government Accountability Office, 11
at its discretion, in accordance with chapter 35 of title 12
31, United States Code: Provided further, That Northern 13
Mariana Islands Covenant grant funding shall be provided 14
according to those terms of the Agreement of the Special 15
Representatives on Future United States Financial Assist-16
ance for the Northern Mariana Islands approved by Public 17
Law 104–134: Provided further, That the funds for the 18
program of operations and maintenance improvement are 19
appropriated to institutionalize routine operations and 20
maintenance improvement of capital infrastructure with 21
territorial participation and cost sharing to be determined 22
by the Secretary based on the grantee’s commitment to 23
timely maintenance of its capital assets: Provided further, 24
That any appropriation for disaster assistance under this 25 47 
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heading in this Act or previous appropriations Acts may 1
be used as non–Federal matching funds for the purpose 2
of hazard mitigation grants provided pursuant to section 3
404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-4
gency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c). 5
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 6
For grants and necessary expenses, $813,000, to re-7
main available until expended, to support Federal services 8
and programs provided to the Republic of Palau, the Re-9
public of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States 10
of Micronesia. 11
A
DMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS 12
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 13
At the request of the Governor of Guam, the Sec-14
retary may transfer discretionary funds or mandatory 15
funds provided under section 104(e) of Public Law 108– 16
188 and Public Law 104–134, that are allocated for 17
Guam, to the Secretary of Agriculture for the subsidy cost 18
of direct or guaranteed loans, plus not to exceed three per-19
cent of the amount of the subsidy transferred for the cost 20
of loan administration, for the purposes authorized by the 21
Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) 22
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act for 23
construction and repair projects in Guam, and such funds 24
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That such 25 48 
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costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be 1
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 2
of 1974: Provided further, That such loans or loan guaran-3
tees may be made without regard to the population of the 4
area, credit elsewhere requirements, and restrictions on 5
the types of eligible entities under the Rural Electrifica-6
tion Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated 7
Farm and Rural Development Act: Provided further, That 8
any funds transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture shall 9
be in addition to funds otherwise made available to make 10
or guarantee loans under such authorities. 11
O
FFICE OF THESOLICITOR 12
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 13
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 14
$101,559,000, to remain available until September 30, 15
2026. 16
O
FFICE OFINSPECTORGENERAL 17
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 18
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 19
General, $71,540,000, to remain available until September 20
30, 2026. 21 49 
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DEPARTMENT-WIDEPROGRAMS 1
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 3
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, fire 4
suppression operations, fire science and research, emer-5
gency rehabilitation, fuels management activities, and 6
rural fire assistance by the Department of the Interior, 7
$1,210,789,000, to remain available until expended, of 8
which not to exceed $14,000,000 shall be for the renova-9
tion or construction of fire facilities: Provided, That such 10
funds are also available for repayment of advances to 11
other appropriation accounts from which funds were pre-12
viously transferred for such purposes: Provided further, 13
That of the funds provided $244,766,000 is for fuels man-14
agement and post-fire activities: Provided further, That of 15
the funds provided $10,000,000 is for burned area reha-16
bilitation: Provided further, That persons hired pursuant 17
to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence and lodg-18
ing without cost from funds available from this appropria-19
tion: Provided further, That notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 20
1856d, sums received by a bureau or office of the Depart-21
ment of the Interior for fire protection rendered pursuant 22
to 42 U.S.C. 1856 et seq., protection of United States 23
property, may be credited to the appropriation from which 24
funds were expended to provide that protection, and are 25 50 
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available without fiscal year limitation: Provided further, 1
That using the amounts designated under this title of this 2
Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into procure-3
ment contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, for (1) 4
fuels management and post-fire activities, or (2) training 5
and monitoring associated with such activities: Provided 6
further, That activities for the purposes specified in the 7
preceding proviso may occur on Federal land, or on non- 8
Federal land when such activities benefit resources on 9
Federal land or federally-recognized Tribal land: Provided 10
further, That not to exceed 15 percent of funds provided 11
for fuels management and post-fire activities may be used 12
for activities on non-Federal land: Provided further, That 13
the costs of implementing any cooperative agreement be-14
tween the Federal Government and any non-Federal entity 15
may be shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected par-16
ties: Provided further, That notwithstanding requirements 17
of the Competition in Contracting Act, the Secretary, for 18
purposes of fuels management activities, may obtain max-19
imum practicable competition among: (1) local private, 20
nonprofit, or cooperative entities; (2) Youth Conservation 21
Corps crews, Public Lands Corps (Public Law 109–154), 22
or related partnerships with State, local, or nonprofit 23
youth groups; (3) small or micro-businesses; or (4) other 24
entities that will hire or train locally a significant percent-25 51 
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age, defined as 50 percent or more, of the project work-1
force to complete such contracts: Provided further, That 2
in implementing this section, the Secretary shall develop 3
written guidance to field units to ensure accountability 4
and consistent application of the authorities provided here-5
in: Provided further, That funds appropriated under this 6
heading may be used to reimburse the United States Fish 7
and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries 8
Service for the costs of carrying out their responsibilities 9
under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 10
1531 et seq.) to consult and conference, as required by 11
section 7 of such Act, in connection with wildland fire 12
management activities: Provided further, That the Sec-13
retary of the Interior may use wildland fire appropriations 14
to enter into leases of real property with local govern-15
ments, at or below fair market value, to construct capital-16
ized improvements for fire facilities on such leased prop-17
erties, including but not limited to fire guard stations, re-18
tardant stations, and other initial attack and fire support 19
facilities, and to make advance payments for any such 20
lease or for construction activity associated with the lease: 21
Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior and 22
the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the transfer 23
of funds appropriated for wildland fire management, in 24
an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000,000 between 25 52 
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the Departments when such transfers would facilitate and 1
expedite wildland fire management programs and projects: 2
Provided further, That funds provided for wildfire suppres-3
sion shall be available for support of Federal emergency 4
response actions: Provided further, That funds appro-5
priated under this heading shall be available for assistance 6
to or through the Department of State in connection with 7
forest and rangeland research, technical information, and 8
assistance in foreign countries, and, with the concurrence 9
of the Secretary of State, shall be available to support for-10
estry, wildland fire management, and related natural re-11
source activities outside the United States and its terri-12
tories and possessions, including technical assistance, edu-13
cation and training, and cooperation with United States 14
and international organizations: Provided further, That 15
funds made available under this heading in this Act and 16
unobligated balances made available under this heading in 17
prior Acts, other than amounts designated by the Con-18
gress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to 19
a concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced 20
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, shall 21
be available, in addition to any other funds made available 22
for such purpose, to continue uninterrupted the Federal 23
wildland firefighter base salary increases provided under 24
section 40803(d)(4)(B) of Public Law 117–58: Provided 25 53 
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further, That of the funds made available under this head-1
ing, $1,210,789,000 is designated by the Congress as 2
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 3
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 4
Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided further, That of the 5
funds provided under this heading, $383,657,000 shall be 6
available for wildfire suppression operations, and is pro-7
vided to meet the terms of section 251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of 8
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 9
of 1985. 10
WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 11
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 12
In addition to the amounts provided under the head-13
ing ‘‘Department of the Interior—Department-Wide Pro-14
grams—Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppres-15
sion operations, $360,000,000, to remain available until 16
transferred, is additional new budget authority as speci-17
fied for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced 18
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Pro-19
vided, That such amounts may be transferred to and 20
merged with amounts made available under the headings 21
‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Service—Wildland 22
Fire Management’’ and ‘‘Department of the Interior—De-23
partment-Wide Programs—Wildland Fire Management’’ 24
for wildfire suppression operations in the fiscal year in 25 54 
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which such amounts are transferred: Provided further, 1
That amounts may be transferred to the ‘‘Wildland Fire 2
Management’’ accounts in the Department of Agriculture 3
or the Department of the Interior only upon the notifica-4
tion of the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-5
tions that all wildfire suppression operations funds appro-6
priated under that heading in this and prior appropria-7
tions Acts to the agency to which the funds will be trans-8
ferred will be obligated within 30 days: Provided further, 9
That the transfer authority provided under this heading 10
is in addition to any other transfer authority provided by 11
law: Provided further, That, in determining whether all 12
wildfire suppression operations funds appropriated under 13
the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ in this and 14
prior appropriations Acts to either the Department of Ag-15
riculture or the Department of the Interior will be obli-16
gated within 30 days pursuant to the preceding proviso, 17
any funds transferred or permitted to be transferred pur-18
suant to any other transfer authority provided by law shall 19
be excluded. 20
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 21
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-22
terior and any of its component offices and bureaus for 23
the response action, including associated activities, per-24
formed pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Re-25 55 
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sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 1
et seq.) (CERCLA), $9,801,000, to remain available until 2
expended: Provided, That amounts provided under this 3
heading in this or any prior Act shall not be available to 4
fund liabilities or obligations of the United States, or any 5
agency or department thereof, for past or future response 6
actions or costs agreed to pursuant to section 122 of 7
CERCLA or imposed by court order in any action pursu-8
ant to CERCLA or other Federal or State environmental 9
law. 10
ENERGY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROGRAM 11
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 12
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-13
terior to inventory, assess, decommission, reclaim, respond 14
to hazardous substance releases, remediate lands pursuant 15
to section 40704 of Public Law 117–58 (30 U.S.C. 1245), 16
and carry out the purposes of section 349 of the Energy 17
Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15907), as amended, 18
$5,300,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 19
That such amount shall be in addition to amounts other-20
wise available for such purposes: Provided further, That 21
amounts appropriated under this heading are available for 22
program management and oversight of these activities: 23
Provided further, That the Secretary may transfer the 24
funds provided under this heading in this Act to any other 25 56 
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account in the Department to carry out such purposes, 1
and may expend such funds directly, or through grants: 2
Provided further, That these amounts are not available to 3
fulfill Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com-4
pensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) obli-5
gations agreed to in settlement or imposed by a court, 6
whether for payment of funds or for work to be performed. 7
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND 8
RESTORATION 9
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND 10
To conduct natural resource damage assessment, res-11
toration activities, and onshore oil spill preparedness by 12
the Department of the Interior necessary to carry out the 13
provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 14
Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), 15
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 16
et seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 17
et seq.), and 54 U.S.C. 100721 et seq., $7,769,000, to 18
remain available until expended. 19
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 20
For the operation and maintenance of a departmental 21
financial and business management system, data manage-22
ment, information technology improvements of general 23
benefit to the Department, cybersecurity, and the consoli-24
dation of facilities and operations throughout the Depart-25 57 
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ment, $108,311,000, to remain available until expended: 1
Provided, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act 2
or any other Act may be used to establish reserves in the 3
Working Capital Fund account other than for accrued an-4
nual leave and depreciation of equipment without prior ap-5
proval of the Committees on Appropriations of the House 6
of Representatives and the Senate: Provided further, That 7
the Secretary of the Interior may assess reasonable 8
charges to State, local, and tribal government employees 9
for training services provided by the National Indian Pro-10
gram Training Center, other than training related to Pub-11
lic Law 93–638: Provided further, That the Secretary may 12
lease or otherwise provide space and related facilities, 13
equipment, or professional services of the National Indian 14
Program Training Center to State, local and tribal govern-15
ment employees or persons or organizations engaged in 16
cultural, educational, or recreational activities (as defined 17
in section 3306(a) of title 40, United States Code) at the 18
prevailing rate for similar space, facilities, equipment, or 19
services in the vicinity of the National Indian Program 20
Training Center: Provided further, That all funds received 21
pursuant to the two preceding provisos shall be credited 22
to this account, shall be available until expended, and shall 23
be used by the Secretary for necessary expenses of the 24
National Indian Program Training Center: Provided fur-25 58 
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ther, That the Secretary may enter into grants and cooper-1
ative agreements to support the Office of Natural Re-2
source Revenue’s collection and disbursement of royalties, 3
fees, and other mineral revenue proceeds, as authorized 4
by law. 5
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 6
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from avail-7
able resources within the Working Capital Fund, aircraft 8
which may be obtained by donation, purchase, or through 9
available excess surplus property: Provided, That existing 10
aircraft being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived 11
or trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the 12
replacement aircraft. 13
OFFICE OF NATURAL RESOURCES REVENUE 14
For necessary expenses for management of the collec-15
tion and disbursement of royalties, fees, and other mineral 16
revenue proceeds, and for grants and cooperative agree-17
ments, as authorized by law, $169,412,000, to remain 18
available until September 30, 2026; of which $59,751,000 19
shall remain available until expended for the purpose of 20
mineral revenue management activities: Provided, That 21
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $50,000 shall 22
be available for refunds of overpayments in connection 23
with certain Indian leases in which the Secretary of the 24
Interior concurred with the claimed refund due, to pay 25 59 
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amounts owed to Indian allottees or tribes, or to correct 1
prior unrecoverable erroneous payments. 2
G
ENERALPROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 3
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 4
EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY —INTRA-BUREAU 5
S
EC. 101. Appropriations made in this title shall be 6
available for expenditure or transfer (within each bureau 7
or office), with the approval of the Secretary of the Inte-8
rior, for the emergency reconstruction, replacement, or re-9
pair of aircraft, buildings, utilities, or other facilities or 10
equipment damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or 11
other unavoidable causes: Provided, That no funds shall 12
be made available under this authority until funds specifi-13
cally made available to the Department of the Interior for 14
emergencies shall have been exhausted: Provided further, 15
That all funds used pursuant to this section must be re-16
plenished by a supplemental appropriation, which must be 17
requested as promptly as possible. 18
EMERGENCY TRANSFER AUTHORITY —DEPARTMENT-WIDE 19
S
EC. 102. The Secretary of the Interior may author-20
ize the expenditure or transfer of any no year appropria-21
tion in this title, in addition to the amounts included in 22
the budget programs of the several agencies, for the sup-23
pression or emergency prevention of wildland fires on or 24
threatening lands under the jurisdiction of the Depart-25 60 
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ment of the Interior; for the emergency rehabilitation of 1
burned-over lands under its jurisdiction; for emergency ac-2
tions related to potential or actual earthquakes, floods, 3
volcanoes, storms, or other unavoidable causes; for contin-4
gency planning subsequent to actual oil spills; for response 5
and natural resource damage assessment activities related 6
to actual oil spills or releases of hazardous substances into 7
the environment; for the prevention, suppression, and con-8
trol of actual or potential grasshopper and Mormon cricket 9
outbreaks on lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, 10
pursuant to the authority in section 417(b) of Public Law 11
106–224 (7 U.S.C. 7717(b)); for emergency reclamation 12
projects under section 410 of Public Law 95–87; and shall 13
transfer, from any no year funds available to the Office 14
of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, such 15
funds as may be necessary to permit assumption of regu-16
latory authority in the event a primacy State is not car-17
rying out the regulatory provisions of the Surface Mining 18
Act: Provided, That appropriations made in this title for 19
wildland fire operations shall be available for the payment 20
of obligations incurred during the preceding fiscal year, 21
and for reimbursement to other Federal agencies for de-22
struction of vehicles, aircraft, or other equipment in con-23
nection with their use for wildland fire operations, with 24
such reimbursement to be credited to appropriations cur-25 61 
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rently available at the time of receipt thereof: Provided 1
further, That for wildland fire operations, no funds shall 2
be made available under this authority until the Secretary 3
determines that funds appropriated for ‘‘wildland fire sup-4
pression’’ shall be exhausted within 30 days: Provided fur-5
ther, That all funds used pursuant to this section must 6
be replenished by a supplemental appropriation, which 7
must be requested as promptly as possible: Provided fur-8
ther, That such replenishment funds shall be used to reim-9
burse, on a pro rata basis, accounts from which emergency 10
funds were transferred. 11
AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS 12
S
EC. 103. Appropriations made to the Department 13
of the Interior in this title shall be available for services 14
as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States 15
Code, when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, 16
in total amount not to exceed $500,000; purchase and re-17
placement of motor vehicles, including specially equipped 18
law enforcement vehicles; hire, maintenance, and oper-19
ation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles; pur-20
chase of reprints; payment for telephone service in private 21
residences in the field, when authorized under regulations 22
approved by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, when 23
authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in so-24
cieties or associations which issue publications to members 25 62 
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only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers 1
who are not members. 2
AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS , INDIAN TRUST 3
MANAGEMENT 4
S
EC. 104. Appropriations made in this Act under the 5
headings Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian 6
Education, and Bureau of Trust Funds Administration 7
and any unobligated balances from prior appropriations 8
Acts made under the same headings shall be available for 9
expenditure or transfer for Indian trust management and 10
reform activities. Total funding for settlement support ac-11
tivities shall not exceed amounts specifically designated in 12
this Act for such purpose. The Secretary shall notify the 13
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations within 14
60 days of the expenditure or transfer of any funds under 15
this section, including the amount expended or transferred 16
and how the funds will be used. 17
REDISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS , BUREAU OF INDIAN 18
AFFAIRS 19
S
EC. 105. Notwithstanding any other provision of 20
law, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redis-21
tribute any Tribal Priority Allocation funds, including 22
tribal base funds, to alleviate tribal funding inequities by 23
transferring funds to address identified, unmet needs, 24
dual enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate 25 63 
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distribution methodologies. No tribe shall receive a reduc-1
tion in Tribal Priority Allocation funds of more than 10 2
percent in fiscal year 2025. Under circumstances of dual 3
enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate dis-4
tribution methodologies, the 10 percent limitation does not 5
apply. 6
E
LLIS, GOVERNORS, ANDLIBERTYISLANDS 7
S
EC. 106. Notwithstanding any other provision of 8
law, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire 9
lands, waters, or interests therein, including the use of all 10
or part of any pier, dock, or landing within the State of 11
New York and the State of New Jersey, for the purpose 12
of operating and maintaining facilities in the support of 13
transportation and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, 14
Governors, and Liberty Islands, and of other program and 15
administrative activities, by donation or with appropriated 16
funds, including franchise fees (and other monetary con-17
sideration), or by exchange; and the Secretary is author-18
ized to negotiate and enter into leases, subleases, conces-19
sion contracts, or other agreements for the use of such 20
facilities on such terms and conditions as the Secretary 21
may determine reasonable: Provided, That for purposes of 22
54 U.S.C. 200306(a), such lands, waters, or interests ac-23
quired under this heading shall be considered to be within 24 64 
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the exterior boundary of a System unit authorized or es-1
tablished. 2
OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF INSPECTION FEES 3
S
EC. 107. (a) In fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of 4
the Interior shall collect a nonrefundable inspection fee, 5
which shall be deposited in the ‘‘Offshore Safety and Envi-6
ronmental Enforcement’’ account, from the designated op-7
erator for facilities subject to inspection under 43 U.S.C. 8
1348(c). 9
(b) Annual fees shall be collected for facilities that 10
are above the waterline, excluding drilling rigs, and are 11
in place at the start of the fiscal year. Fees for fiscal year 12
2025 shall be— 13
(1) $10,500 for facilities with no wells, but with 14
processing equipment or gathering lines; 15
(2) $17,000 for facilities with 1 to 10 wells, 16
with any combination of active or inactive wells; and 17
(3) $31,500 for facilities with more than 10 18
wells, with any combination of active or inactive 19
wells. 20
(c) Fees for drilling rigs shall be assessed for all in-21
spections completed in fiscal year 2025. Fees for fiscal 22
year 2025 shall be— 23
(1) $30,500 per inspection for rigs operating in 24
water depths of 500 feet or more; and 25 65 
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(2) $16,700 per inspection for rigs operating in 1
water depths of less than 500 feet. 2
(d) Fees for inspection of well operations conducted 3
via non-rig units as outlined in title 30 CFR 250 subparts 4
D, E, F, and Q shall be assessed for all inspections com-5
pleted in fiscal year 2025. Fees for fiscal year 2025 shall 6
be— 7
(1) $13,260 per inspection for non-rig units op-8
erating in water depths of 2,500 feet or more; 9
(2) $11,530 per inspection for non-rig units op-10
erating in water depths between 500 and 2,499 feet; 11
and 12
(3) $4,470 per inspection for non-rig units op-13
erating in water depths of less than 500 feet. 14
(e) The Secretary shall bill designated operators 15
under subsection (b) quarterly, with payment required 16
within 30 days of billing. The Secretary shall bill des-17
ignated operators under subsection (c) within 30 days of 18
the end of the month in which the inspection occurred, 19
with payment required within 30 days of billing. The Sec-20
retary shall bill designated operators under subsection (d) 21
with payment required by the end of the following quarter. 22 66 
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CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS FOR WILD HORSE AND 1
BURRO HOLDING FACILITIES 2
S
EC. 108. 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
S
EC. 109. 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 67 
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CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS WITH INDIAN AFFAIRS 1
S
EC. 110. 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
S
EC. 111. (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 68 
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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
S
EC. 112. 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
S
EC. 113. 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 69 
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PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES (PILT) 1
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EC. 114. Section 6906 of title 31, United States 2
Code, shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2025’’ 3
for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’. 4
DISCLOSURE OF DEPARTURE OR ALTERNATE PROCEDURE 5
APPROVAL 6
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EC. 115. (a) Subject to subsection (b), in any case 7
in which the Bureau of Safety and Environmental En-8
forcement or the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 9
prescribes or approves any departure or use of alternate 10
procedure or equipment, in regards to a plan or permit, 11
under 30 CFR 585.103; 30 CFR 550.141; 30 CFR 12
550.142; 30 CFR 250.141; or 30 CFR 250.142, the head 13
of such bureau shall post a description of such departure 14
or alternate procedure or equipment use approval on such 15
bureau’s publicly available website not more than 15 busi-16
ness days after such issuance. 17
(b) The head of each bureau may exclude confidential 18
business information. 19
LONG BRIDGE PROJECT 20
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EC. 116. (a) AUTHORIZATION OF CONVEYANCE.— 21
Hereafter, until the expiration of authority pursuant to 22
subsection (e), on request by the State of Virginia or the 23
District of Columbia for the purpose of the construction 24
of rail and other infrastructure relating to the Long 25 70 
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Bridge Project, the Secretary of the Interior may convey 1
to the State or the District of Columbia, as applicable, 2
all right, title, and interest of the United States in and 3
to any portion of the approximately 4.4 acres of National 4
Park Service land depicted as ‘‘Permanent Impact to NPS 5
Land’’ on the Map dated May 15, 2020, that is identified 6
by the State or the District of Columbia. 7
(b) T
ERMS ANDCONDITIONS.—Such conveyance of 8
the National Park Service land under subsection (a) shall 9
be subject to any terms and conditions that the Secretary 10
may require. If such conveyed land is no longer being used 11
for the purposes specified in this section, the lands or in-12
terests therein shall revert to the National Park Service 13
after they have been restored or remediated to the satis-14
faction of the Secretary. 15
(c) C
ORRECTIONS.—The Secretary and the State or 16
the District of Columbia, as applicable, by mutual agree-17
ment, may— 18
(1) make minor boundary adjustments to the 19
National Park Service land to be conveyed to the 20
State or the District of Columbia under subsection 21
(a); and 22
(2) correct any minor errors in the Map re-23
ferred to in subsection (a). 24
(d) D
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(1) LONG BRIDGE PROJECT .—The term ‘‘Long 1
Bridge Project’’ means the rail project, as identified 2
by the Federal Railroad Administration, from 3
Rosslyn (RO) Interlocking in Arlington, Virginia, to 4
L’Enfant (LE) Interlocking in Washington, DC, 5
which includes a bicycle and pedestrian bridge. 6
(2) S
ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 7
the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Di-8
rector of the National Park Service. 9
(3) S
TATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the State 10
of Virginia. 11
(e) T
ERMINATION OF AUTHORITY.—The authority 12
provided by this section shall expire once the conveyance 13
described in subsection (a) has been completed. 14
INTERAGENCY MOTOR POOL 15
S
EC. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of law 16
or Federal regulation, federally recognized Indian tribes 17
or authorized tribal organizations that receive Tribally- 18
Controlled School Grants pursuant to Public Law 100– 19
297 may obtain interagency motor vehicles and related 20
services for performance of any activities carried out 21
under such grants to the same extent as if they were con-22
tracting under the Indian Self-Determination and Edu-23
cation Assistance Act. 24 72 
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APPRAISER PAY AUTHORITY 1
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EC. 118. For fiscal year 2025, funds made available 2
in this or any other Act or otherwise made available to 3
the Department of the Interior for the Appraisal and 4
Valuation Services Office may be used by the Secretary 5
of the Interior to establish higher minimum rates of basic 6
pay for employees of the Department of the Interior in 7
the Appraiser (GS–1171) job series at grades 11 through 8
15 carrying out appraisals of real property and appraisal 9
reviews conducted in support of the Department’s realty 10
programs at rates no greater than 15 percent above the 11
minimum rates of basic pay normally scheduled, and such 12
higher rates shall be consistent with subsections (e) 13
through (h) of section 5305 of title 5, United States Code. 14
SAGE-GROUSE 15
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EC. 119. None of the funds made available by this 16
or any other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Inte-17
rior to write or issue pursuant to section 4 of the Endan-18
gered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533)— 19
(1) a proposed rule for greater sage-grouse 20
(Centrocercus urophasianus); 21
(2) a proposed rule for the Columbia basin dis-22
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STATE CONSERVATION GRANTS 1
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EC. 120. For expenses necessary to carry out section 2
200305 of title 54, United States Code, the National Park 3
Service may retain up to 7 percent of the State Conserva-4
tion Grants program to provide to States, the District of 5
Columbia, and insular areas, as matching grants to sup-6
port state program administrative costs. 7
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND DEPOSITS 8
S
EC. 121. Section 303102 of title 54, United States 9
Code, shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2025’’ 10
for ‘‘fiscal year 2024’’. 11
INTERIOR AUTHORITY FOR OPERATING EFFICIENCIES 12
S
EC. 122. (a) In fiscal years 2025 and 2026, the Sec-13
retary of the Interior may authorize and execute agree-14
ments to achieve operating efficiencies among and between 15
two or more component bureaus and offices through the 16
following activities: 17
(1) co-locating in facilities leased or owned by 18
any such component bureau or office and sharing re-19
lated utilities and equipment; 20
(2) detailing or assigning staff on a non-reim-21
bursable basis for up to 5 business days; and 22
(3) sharing staff and equipment necessary to 23
meet mission requirements. 24 74 
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(b) The authority provided by subsection (a) shall be 1
to support areas of mission alignment between and among 2
component bureaus and offices or where geographic prox-3
imity allows for efficiencies. 4
(c) Bureaus and offices entering into agreements au-5
thorized under subsections (a)(1) and (a)(3) shall bear 6
costs for such agreements in a manner that reflects their 7
approximate benefit and share of total costs, which may 8
or may not include indirect costs. 9
(d) In furtherance of the requirement in subsection 10
(c), the Secretary of the Interior may make transfers of 11
funds in advance or on a reimbursable basis. 12
EMERGENCY LAW ENFORCEMENT CEILING 13
S
EC. 123. Section 103101 of title 54, United States 14
Code, is amended in subsection (c)(1) by striking 15
‘‘$250,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$500,000’’. 16
CONTRIBUTION AUTHORITY EXTENSION 17
S
EC. 124. Section 113 of division G of the Consoli-18
dated Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 113–76), as 19
amended by section 114 of division E of the Consolidated 20
Appropriations Act, 2019 (Public Law 116–6), is further 21
amended by striking ‘‘In fiscal years 2014 through 2024’’ 22
and inserting ‘‘In fiscal year 2014 and each fiscal year 23
thereafter’’. 24 75 
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FIELD UNIT LOCAL HIRING 1
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EC. 125. The Secretary of the Interior may recruit 2
and directly appoint qualified individuals into the competi-3
tive service who are certified as maintaining a permanent 4
and exclusive residence within, or contiguous to, a field 5
unit, into any position at or below grades GS-9 or WG- 6
15 or equivalent within such field unit: Provided, That any 7
action authorized herein shall be consistent with the merit 8
principles of section 2301 of such title 5, and with the 9
public notice requirements of section 3327 of such title 10
5: Provided further, That appointments under this author-11
ity shall be considered compliant with all applicable provi-12
sions of chapter 33 of title 5. 13
PERMIT EXTENSION 14
S
EC. 126. The first section of Public Law 99–338, 15
as amended by subsection (c)(1) of section 139 of division 16
E of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public 17
Law 108–447), is further amended— 18
(1) by striking ‘‘3 renewals’’ and inserting ‘‘7 19
renewals’’; and 20
(2) by striking ‘‘of Southern California Edison 21
Company’’. 22 76 
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REDESIGNATION 1
S
EC. 127. The Cottonwood Visitor Center at Joshua 2
Tree National Park shall hereafter be known and des-3
ignated as the ‘‘Senator Dianne Feinstein Visitor Center’’. 4
GRANT APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS 5
S
EC. 128. Section 1521 of the American Indian, 6
Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Culture and Art De-7
velopment Act (20 U.S.C. 4441) is amended— 8
(1) in subsection (a), in the matter preceding 9
paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘private,’’; and 10
(2) in subsection (c)(2)— 11
(A) in subparagraph (A)— 12
(i) by striking ‘‘be Native Hawaiians 13
or’’ and inserting ‘‘include Native Hawai-14
ians and’’; and 15
(ii) by striking the comma at the end 16
and inserting ‘‘; and’’; 17
(B) by striking subparagraphs (B) through 18
(D); 19
(C) in subparagraph (E), by striking ‘‘of 20
office’’; and 21
(D) by redesignating subparagraph (E) as 22
subparagraph (B). 23 77 
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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, $783,704,000, to remain available until Sep-12
tember 30, 2026: Provided, That of the funds included 13
under this heading, $25,204,000 shall be for Research: 14
National Priorities as specified in the report accom-15
panying this Act, of which $7,704,000 shall be for projects 16
specified for Research: National Priorities in the table ti-17
tled ‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending Items’’ in the re-18
port accompanying this Act. 19
E
NVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS ANDMANAGEMENT 20
For environmental programs and management, in-21
cluding necessary expenses not otherwise provided for, for 22
personnel and related costs and travel expenses; hire of 23
passenger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and oper-24
ation of aircraft; purchase of reprints; library member-25 78 
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ships in societies or associations which issue publications 1
to members only or at a price to members lower than to 2
subscribers who are not members; administrative costs of 3
the brownfields program under the Small Business Liabil-4
ity Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002; im-5
plementation of a coal combustion residual permit pro-6
gram under section 2301 of the Water and Waste Act of 7
2016; and not to exceed $40,000 for official reception and 8
representation expenses, $3,255,489,000, to remain avail-9
able until September 30, 2026: Provided, That funds in-10
cluded under this heading may be used for environmental 11
justice implementation and training grants, and associated 12
program support costs: Provided further, That of the funds 13
included under this heading— 14
(1) $32,700,000 shall be for Environmental 15
Protection: National Priorities as specified in the re-16
port accompanying this Act; 17
(2) $690,176,000 shall be for Geographic Pro-18
grams as specified in the report accompanying this 19
Act; and 20
(3) $22,016,000, to remain available until ex-21
pended, shall be for grants, including grants that 22
may be awarded on a non-competitive basis, inter-23
agency agreements, and associated program support 24
costs to establish and implement a program to assist 25 79 
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Alaska Native Regional Corporations, Alaskan Na-1
tive Village Corporations, federally-recognized tribes 2
in Alaska, Alaska Native Non-Profit Organizations 3
and Alaska Native Nonprofit Associations, and 4
intertribal consortia comprised of Alaskan tribal en-5
tities to address contamination on lands conveyed 6
under or pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Set-7
tlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) that were or 8
are contaminated at the time of conveyance and are 9
on an inventory of such lands developed and main-10
tained by the Environmental Protection Agency: 11
Provided, That grants awarded using funds made 12
available in this paragraph may be used by a recipi-13
ent to supplement other funds provided by the Envi-14
ronmental Protection Agency through individual 15
media or multi-media grants or cooperative agree-16
ments: Provided further, That of the amounts made 17
available in this paragraph, in addition to amounts 18
otherwise available for such purposes, the Environ-19
mental Protection Agency may reserve up to 20
$2,000,000 for salaries, expenses, and administra-21
tion of the program and for grants related to such 22
program that address contamination on lands con-23
veyed under or pursuant to the Alaska Native 24
Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) that 25 80 
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were or are contaminated at the time of conveyance 1
and are on the EPA inventory of such lands. 2
In addition, $9,000,000, to remain available until ex-3
pended, for necessary expenses of activities described in 4
section 26(b)(1) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 5
U.S.C. 2625(b)(1)): Provided, That fees collected pursu-6
ant to that section of that Act and deposited in the ‘‘TSCA 7
Service Fee Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting receipts in 8
fiscal year 2025 shall be retained and used for necessary 9
salaries and expenses in this appropriation and shall re-10
main available until expended: Provided further, That the 11
sum herein appropriated in this paragraph from the gen-12
eral fund for fiscal year 2025 shall be reduced by the 13
amount of discretionary offsetting receipts received during 14
fiscal year 2025, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2025 15
appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more 16
than $0: Provided further, That to the extent that amounts 17
realized from such receipts exceed $9,000,000, those 18
amounts in excess of $9,000,000 shall be deposited in the 19
‘‘TSCA Service Fee Fund’’ as discretionary offsetting re-20
ceipts in fiscal year 2025, shall be retained and used for 21
necessary salaries and expenses in this account, and shall 22
remain available until expended: Provided further, That of 23
the funds included in the first paragraph under this head-24
ing, the Chemical Risk Review and Reduction program 25 81 
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project shall be allocated for this fiscal year, excluding the 1
amount of any fees appropriated, not less than the amount 2
of appropriations for that program project for fiscal year 3
2014. 4
O
FFICE OFINSPECTORGENERAL 5
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 6
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 7
General Act of 1978, $49,242,000, to remain available 8
until September 30, 2026: Provided, That the Office of 9
Inspector General shall continue to be subject to the 10
terms, conditions, and requirements specified under this 11
heading in Senate Report 118–83. 12
B
UILDINGS ANDFACILITIES 13
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-14
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, 15
or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency, 16
$40,676,000, to remain available until expended. 17
H
AZARDOUSSUBSTANCESUPERFUND 18
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 19
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehen-20
sive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil-21
ity Act of 1980 (CERCLA), including sections 111(c)(3), 22
(c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and hire, 23
maintenance, and operation of aircraft, $546,004,000, to 24
remain available until expended, consisting of such sums 25 82 
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as are available in the Trust Fund on September 30, 1
2024, and not otherwise appropriated from the Trust 2
Fund, as authorized by section 517(a) of the Superfund 3
Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) 4
and up to $546,004,000 as a payment from general reve-5
nues to the Hazardous Substance Superfund for purposes 6
as authorized by section 517(b) of SARA: Provided, That 7
funds appropriated under this heading may be allocated 8
to other Federal agencies in accordance with section 9
111(a) of CERCLA: Provided further, That of the funds 10
appropriated under this heading, $11,328,000 shall be 11
paid to the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ appropriation 12
to remain available until September 30, 2026, and 13
$32,120,000 shall be paid to the ‘‘Science and Tech-14
nology’’ appropriation to remain available until September 15
30, 2026: Provided further, That section 122(b)(3) of 16
CERCLA (42 U.S.C. 9622(b)(3)) shall be applied in this 17
fiscal year by inserting before the period: ‘‘, including for 18
the hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft’’: Pro-19
vided further, That the matter preceding the first proviso 20
in section 443(b) of title IV of division G of the Consoli-21
dated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public Law 117–328) 22
shall be applied in this fiscal year by inserting before the 23
semicolon ‘‘, including for the hire, maintenance, and oper-24
ation of aircraft’’: Provided further, That amounts 25 83 
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repurposed pursuant to the preceding proviso shall con-1
tinue to be treated as amounts specified in section 103(b) 2
of division A of Public Law 118–5. 3
L
EAKINGUNDERGROUND STORAGETANKTRUSTFUND 4
P
ROGRAM 5
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-6
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sub-7
title I of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $89,371,000, to 8
remain available until expended, of which $64,880,000 9
shall be for carrying out leaking underground storage tank 10
cleanup activities authorized by section 9003(h) of the 11
Solid Waste Disposal Act; and $24,491,000 shall be for 12
carrying out the other provisions of the Solid Waste Dis-13
posal Act specified in section 9508(c) of the Internal Rev-14
enue Code: Provided, That the Administrator is authorized 15
to use appropriations made available under this heading 16
to implement section 9013 of the Solid Waste Disposal 17
Act to provide financial assistance to federally recognized 18
Indian tribes for the development and implementation of 19
programs to manage underground storage tanks. 20
I
NLANDOILSPILLPROGRAMS 21
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environ-22
mental Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil 23
Pollution Act of 1990, including hire, maintenance, and 24
operation of aircraft, $20,952,000, to be derived from the 25 84 
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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
$4,428,488,000, to remain available until expended, of 7
which— 8
(1) $1,638,861,000 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 $1,126,101,000 shall be 12
for making capitalization grants for the Drinking 13
Water State Revolving Funds under section 1452 of 14
the Safe Drinking Water Act: Provided, That 15
$362,500,000 of the funds made available for cap-16
italization grants for the Clean Water State Revolv-17
ing Funds and $242,391,000 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 85 
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Water State Revolving Fund [SRF]’’ and ‘‘STAG— 1
Clean Water State Revolving Fund [SRF]’’ in the 2
table titled ‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending 3
Items’’ in the report accompanying this Act, and, for 4
purposes of these grants, each grantee shall con-5
tribute not less than 20 percent of the cost of the 6
project unless the grantee is approved for a waiver 7
by the Agency: Provided further, That $19,000,000 8
of the funds appropriated under this heading for 9
capitalization grants for the Clean Water State Re-10
volving Funds and for capitalization grants for the 11
Drinking Water State Revolving Funds, in addition 12
to amounts otherwise available for such purposes, 13
may be used by the Administrator for salaries, ex-14
penses, and administration for Community Project 15
Funding Items/Congressionally Directed Spending 16
Items: Provided further, That the amounts in the 17
preceding proviso under this heading shall not be 18
available for obligation until the report, as specified 19
under this heading in the report accompanying this 20
Act is received by the Committees on Appropriations 21
of the House of Representatives and the Senate: 22
Provided further, That for fiscal year 2025, to the 23
extent there are sufficient eligible project applica-24
tions and projects are consistent with State Intended 25 86 
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Use Plans, not less than 10 percent of the funds 1
made available under this title to each State for 2
Clean Water State Revolving Fund capitalization 3
grants shall be used by the State for projects to ad-4
dress green infrastructure, water or energy efficiency 5
improvements, or other environmentally innovative 6
activities: Provided further, That for fiscal year 7
2025, funds made available under this title to each 8
State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund cap-9
italization grants may, at the discretion of each 10
State, be used for projects to address green infra-11
structure, water or energy efficiency improvements, 12
or other environmentally innovative activities: Pro-13
vided further, That the Administrator is authorized 14
to use up to $1,500,000 of funds made available for 15
the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under this 16
heading under title VI of the Federal Water Pollu-17
tion Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1381) to conduct the 18
Clean Watersheds Needs Survey: Provided further, 19
That notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) of the Fed-20
eral Water Pollution Control Act, the limitation on 21
the amounts in a State water pollution control re-22
volving fund that may be used by a State to admin-23
ister the fund shall not apply to amounts included 24
as principal in loans made by such fund in fiscal 25 87 
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year 2025 and prior years where such amounts rep-1
resent costs of administering the fund to the extent 2
that such amounts are or were deemed reasonable by 3
the Administrator, accounted for separately from 4
other assets in the fund, and used for eligible pur-5
poses of the fund, including administration: Provided 6
further, That for fiscal year 2025, notwithstanding 7
the provisions of subsections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of 8
section 201 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 9
Act, grants made under title II of such Act for 10
American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the 11
Northern Marianas, the United States Virgin Is-12
lands, and the District of Columbia may also be 13
made for the purpose of providing assistance: (1) 14
solely for facility plans, design activities, or plans, 15
specifications, and estimates for any proposed 16
project for the construction of treatment works; and 17
(2) for the construction, repair, or replacement of 18
privately owned treatment works serving one or 19
more principal residences or small commercial estab-20
lishments: Provided further, That for fiscal year 21
2025, notwithstanding the provisions of such sub-22
sections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of section 201 and sec-23
tion 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 24
Act, funds reserved by the Administrator for grants 25 88 
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under section 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution 1
Control Act may also be used to provide assistance: 2
(1) solely for facility plans, design activities, or 3
plans, specifications, and estimates for any proposed 4
project for the construction of treatment works; and 5
(2) for the construction, repair, or replacement of 6
privately owned treatment works serving one or 7
more principal residences or small commercial estab-8
lishments: Provided further, That for fiscal year 9
2025, notwithstanding any provision of the Federal 10
Water Pollution Control Act and regulations issued 11
pursuant thereof, up to a total of $2,000,000 of the 12
funds reserved by the Administrator for grants 13
under section 518(c) of such Act may also be used 14
for grants for training, technical assistance, and 15
educational programs relating to the operation and 16
management of the treatment works specified in sec-17
tion 518(c) of such Act: Provided further, That for 18
fiscal year 2025, funds reserved under section 19
518(c) of such Act shall be available for grants only 20
to Indian tribes, as defined in section 518(h) of such 21
Act and former Indian reservations in Oklahoma (as 22
determined by the Secretary of the Interior) and Na-23
tive Villages as defined in Public Law 92–203: Pro-24
vided further, That for fiscal year 2025, notwith-25 89 
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standing the limitation on amounts in section 518(c) 1
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, up to a 2
total of 2 percent of the funds appropriated, or 3
$30,000,000, whichever is greater, and notwith-4
standing the limitation on amounts in section 5
1452(i) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, up to a 6
total of 2 percent of the funds appropriated, or 7
$20,000,000, whichever is greater, for State Revolv-8
ing Funds under such Acts may be reserved by the 9
Administrator for grants under section 518(c) and 10
section 1452(i) of such Acts: Provided further, That 11
for fiscal year 2025, notwithstanding the amounts 12
specified in section 205(c) of the Federal Water Pol-13
lution Control Act, up to 1.5 percent of the aggre-14
gate funds appropriated for the Clean Water State 15
Revolving Fund program under the Act less any 16
sums reserved under section 518(c) of the Act, may 17
be reserved by the Administrator for grants made 18
under title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control 19
Act for American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth 20
of the Northern Marianas, and United States Virgin 21
Islands: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2025, 22
notwithstanding the limitations on amounts specified 23
in section 1452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, 24
up to 1.5 percent of the funds appropriated for the 25 90 
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Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs 1
under the Safe Drinking Water Act may be reserved 2
by the Administrator for grants made under section 3
1452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water Act: Provided 4
further, That 10 percent of the funds made available 5
under this title to each State for Clean Water State 6
Revolving Fund capitalization grants and 14 percent 7
of the funds made available under this title to each 8
State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund cap-9
italization grants shall be used by the State to pro-10
vide additional subsidy to eligible recipients in the 11
form of forgiveness of principal, negative interest 12
loans, or grants (or any combination of these), and 13
shall be so used by the State only where such funds 14
are provided as initial financing for an eligible re-15
cipient or to buy, refinance, or restructure the debt 16
obligations of eligible recipients only where such debt 17
was incurred on or after the date of enactment of 18
this Act, or where such debt was incurred prior to 19
the date of enactment of this Act if the State, with 20
concurrence from the Administrator, determines that 21
such funds could be used to help address a threat 22
to public health from heightened exposure to lead in 23
drinking water or if a Federal or State emergency 24
declaration has been issued due to a threat to public 25 91 
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health from heightened exposure to lead in a munic-1
ipal drinking water supply before the date of enact-2
ment of this Act: Provided further, That in a State 3
in which such an emergency declaration has been 4
issued, the State may use more than 14 percent of 5
the funds made available under this title to the 6
State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund cap-7
italization grants to provide additional subsidy to eli-8
gible recipients: Provided further, That notwith-9
standing section 1452(o) of the Safe Drinking Water 10
Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–12(o)), the Administrator shall 11
reserve up to $12,000,000 of the amounts made 12
available for fiscal year 2025 for making capitaliza-13
tion grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving 14
Funds to pay the costs of monitoring for unregu-15
lated contaminants under section 1445(a)(2)(C) of 16
such Act: Provided further, That the funds made 17
available under this heading for Community Project 18
Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending grants 19
in this or prior appropriations Acts are not subject 20
to compliance with Federal procurement require-21
ments for competition and methods of procurement 22
applicable to Federal financial assistance, if a Com-23
munity Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 24
Spending recipient has procured services or products 25 92 
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through contracts entered into prior to the date of 1
enactment of this legislation that complied with 2
state and/or local laws governing competition: Pro-3
vided further, That the Administrator may provide 4
funding by grant or cooperative agreement to States 5
to administer or to support administration of any 6
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Di-7
rected Spending project when the State and the 8
project recipient agree on such administration: Pro-9
vided further, That of the funds made available to 10
the Administrator to administer the Community 11
Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending 12
projects, the Administrator may provide funding 13
through grant or cooperative agreement to the 14
States which administer Community Project 15
Funding/ Congressional Directed Spending projects 16
on a pro rata bases: Provided further, That when a 17
State administers the grant or cooperative agree-18
ment for any Community Project Funding/ Congres-19
sionally Directed Spending projects, the projects will 20
be subject to the same requirements that apply to 21
the Clean Water State Revolving Fund or Drinking 22
Water State Revolving Fund project grants: Pro-23
vided further, That the funds made available under 24
this heading for Community Project Funding/ Con-25 93 
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gressionally Directed Spending grants in this or 1
prior appropriations Acts are not subject to compli-2
ance with Federal procurement requirements for 3
competition and methods of procurement applicable 4
to Federal financial assistance, if a Community 5
Project Funding/ Congressionally Directed Spending 6
recipient has procured services or products through 7
contracts that were entered into in compliance with 8
State and/or local laws governing competitions: Pro-9
vided further, That when a State does not administer 10
or support administration of any Community Project 11
Funding/ Congressionally Directed Spending project, 12
the Environmental Protection Agency shall continue 13
to administer such projects: Provided further, That 14
the Administrator may provide funding to the U.S. 15
Department of Health and Human Services to ad-16
minister or to support administration of any Com-17
munity Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 18
Spending project for Tribal recipients when the U.S. 19
Department of Health and Human Services and the 20
Tribal project recipient agree; 21
(2) $35,500,000 shall be for architectural, engi-22
neering, planning, design, construction and related 23
activities in connection with the construction of high 24
priority water and wastewater facilities in the area 25 94 
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of the United States-Mexico Border, after consulta-1
tion with the appropriate border commission: Pro-2
vided, That no funds provided by this appropriations 3
Act to address the water, wastewater and other crit-4
ical infrastructure needs of the colonias in the 5
United States along the United States-Mexico bor-6
der shall be made available to a county or municipal 7
government unless that government has established 8
an enforceable local ordinance, or other zoning rule, 9
which prevents in that jurisdiction the development 10
or construction of any additional colonia areas, or 11
the development within an existing colonia the con-12
struction of any new home, business, or other struc-13
ture which lacks water, wastewater, or other nec-14
essary infrastructure; 15
(3) $40,000,000 shall be for grants to the State 16
of Alaska to address drinking water and wastewater 17
infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska Native Vil-18
lages: Provided, That of these funds: (A) the State 19
of Alaska shall provide a match of 25 percent; (B) 20
no more than 5 percent of the funds may be used 21
for administrative and overhead expenses; and (C) 22
the State of Alaska shall make awards consistent 23
with the Statewide priority list established in con-24
junction with the Agency and the U.S. Department 25 95 
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of Agriculture for all water, sewer, waste disposal, 1
and similar projects carried out by the State of Alas-2
ka that are funded under section 221 of the Federal 3
Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) or 4
the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act 5
(7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) which shall allocate not less 6
than 25 percent of the funds provided for projects 7
in regional hub communities; 8
(4) $99,386,000 shall be to carry out section 9
104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Re-10
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 11
(CERCLA), including grants, interagency agree-12
ments, and associated program support costs: Pro-13
vided, That at least 10 percent shall be allocated for 14
assistance in persistent poverty counties: Provided 15
further, That for purposes of this section, the term 16
‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ means any county that 17
has had 20 percent or more of its population living 18
in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by 19
the 1993 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, 20
the 2000 decennial census, and the most recent 21
Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, or any 22
territory or possession of the United States; 23
(5) $91,000,000 shall be for grants under title 24
VII, subtitle G of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; 25 96 
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(6) $68,860,000 shall be for targeted airshed 1
grants in accordance with the terms and conditions 2
in the report accompanying this Act; 3
(7) $28,500,000 shall be for grants under sub-4
sections (a) through (j) of section 1459A of the Safe 5
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j–19a): Pro-6
vided, That for fiscal year 2025, funds provided 7
under subsections (a) through (j) of such section of 8
such Act may be used— 9
(A) by a State to provide assistance to 10
benefit one or more owners of drinking water 11
wells that are not public water systems or con-12
nected to a public water system for necessary 13
and appropriate activities related to a contami-14
nant pursuant to subsection (j) of such section 15
of such Act; and 16
(B) to support a community described in 17
subsection (c)(2) of such section of such Act; 18
(8) $28,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-19
tion 1464(d) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 20
U.S.C. 300j–24(d)); 21
(9) $22,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-22
tion 1459B of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 23
U.S.C. 300j–19b); 24 97 
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(10) $6,500,000 shall be for grants under sec-1
tion 1459A(l) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 2
U.S.C. 300j–19a(l)); 3
(11) $27,500,000 shall be for grants under sec-4
tion 104(b)(8) of the Federal Water Pollution Con-5
trol Act (33 U.S.C. 1254(b)(8)); 6
(12) $41,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-7
tion 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 8
(33 U.S.C. 1301); 9
(13) $5,400,000 shall be for grants under sec-10
tion 4304(b) of the America’s Water Infrastructure 11
Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–270); 12
(14) $5,000,000 shall be for carrying out sec-13
tion 302(a) of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (33 U.S.C. 14
4282(a)), of which not more than 2 percent shall be 15
for administrative costs to carry out such section: 16
Provided, That notwithstanding section 302(a) of 17
such Act, the Administrator may also provide grants 18
pursuant to such authority to intertribal consortia 19
consistent with the requirements in 40 CFR 20
35.504(a), to former Indian reservations in Okla-21
homa (as determined by the Secretary of the Inte-22
rior), and Alaska Native Villages as defined in Pub-23
lic Law 92–203; 24 98 
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(15) $9,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-1
tion 103(b)(3) of the Clean Air Act for wildfire 2
smoke preparedness grants in accordance with the 3
terms and conditions in the report accompanying 4
this Act: Provided, That not more than 3 percent 5
shall be for administrative costs to carry out such 6
section; 7
(16) $26,297,000 shall be for projects specified 8
for STAG–Other in the table titled ‘‘Congressionally 9
Directed Spending Items’’ in the report accom-10
panying this Act; 11
(17) $2,250,000 shall be for grants under sec-12
tion 1459F of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 13
U.S.C. 300j–19g); 14
(18) $4,000,000 shall be for carrying out sec-15
tion 2001 of the America’s Water Infrastructure Act 16
of 2018 (Public Law 115–270, 42 U.S.C. 300j–3c 17
note): Provided, That the Administrator may award 18
grants to and enter into contracts with tribes, inter-19
tribal consortia, public or private agencies, institu-20
tions, organizations, and individuals, without regard 21
to section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and section 22
6101 of title 41, United States Code, and enter into 23
interagency agreements as appropriate; 24 99 
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(19) $3,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-1
tion 50217(b) of the Infrastructure Investment and 2
Jobs Act (33 U.S.C. 1302f(b); Public Law 117–58); 3
(20) $3,500,000 shall be for grants under sec-4
tion 124 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 5
(33 U.S.C. 1276); 6
(21) $3,000,000 shall be for grants for remedi-7
ation of above ground leaking fuel tanks pursuant to 8
Public Law 106–554; and 9
(22) $1,113,833,000 shall be for grants, includ-10
ing associated program support costs, to States, fed-11
erally recognized tribes, interstate agencies, tribal 12
consortia, and air pollution control agencies for 13
multi-media or single media pollution prevention, 14
control and abatement, and related activities, includ-15
ing activities pursuant to the provisions set forth 16
under this heading in Public Law 104–134, and for 17
making grants under section 103 of the Clean Air 18
Act for particulate matter monitoring and data col-19
lection activities subject to terms and conditions 20
specified by the Administrator, and under section 21
2301 of the Water and Waste Act of 2016 to assist 22
States in developing and implementing programs for 23
control of coal combustion residuals, of which: 24
$46,750,000 shall be for carrying out section 128 of 25 100 
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CERCLA; $9,500,000 shall be for Environmental 1
Information Exchange Network grants, including as-2
sociated program support costs; $1,475,000 shall be 3
for grants to States under section 2007(f)(2) of the 4
Solid Waste Disposal Act, which shall be in addition 5
to funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Leaking 6
Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program’’ 7
to carry out the provisions of the Solid Waste Dis-8
posal Act specified in section 9508(c) of the Internal 9
Revenue Code other than section 9003(h) of the 10
Solid Waste Disposal Act; $18,512,000 of the funds 11
available for grants under section 106 of the Federal 12
Water Pollution Control Act shall be for State par-13
ticipation in national- and State-level statistical sur-14
veys of water resources and enhancements to State 15
monitoring programs. 16
W
ATERINFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE ANDINNOVATION 17
P
ROGRAMACCOUNT 18
For the cost of direct loans and for the cost of guar-19
anteed loans, as authorized by the Water Infrastructure 20
Finance and Innovation Act of 2014, $64,634,000, to re-21
main available until expended: Provided, That such costs, 22
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-23
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 24
1974: Provided further, That these funds are available to 25 101 
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subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of di-1
rect loans, including capitalized interest, and total loan 2
principal, including capitalized interest, any part of which 3
is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $12,500,000,000: Pro-4
vided further, That of the funds made available under this 5
heading, $5,000,000 shall be used solely for the cost of 6
direct loans and for the cost of guaranteed loans for 7
projects described in section 5026(9) of the Water Infra-8
structure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 to State 9
infrastructure financing authorities, as authorized by sec-10
tion 5033(e) of such Act: Provided further, That the use 11
of direct loans or loan guarantee authority under this 12
heading for direct loans or commitments to guarantee 13
loans for any project shall be in accordance with the cri-14
teria published in the Federal Register on June 30, 2020 15
(85 FR 39189) pursuant to the fourth proviso under the 16
heading ‘‘Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation 17
Program Account’’ in division D of the Further Consoli-18
dated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94): 19
Provided further, That none of the direct loans or loan 20
guarantee authority made available under this heading 21
shall be available for any project unless the Administrator 22
and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 23
have certified in advance in writing that the direct loan 24
or loan guarantee, as applicable, and the project comply 25 102 
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with the criteria referenced in the previous proviso: Pro-1
vided further, That, for the purposes of carrying out the 2
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Director of the 3
Congressional Budget Office may request, and the Admin-4
istrator shall promptly provide, documentation and infor-5
mation relating to a project identified in a Letter of Inter-6
est submitted to the Administrator pursuant to a Notice 7
of Funding Availability for applications for credit assist-8
ance under the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innova-9
tion Act Program, including with respect to a project that 10
was initiated or completed before the date of enactment 11
of this Act. 12
In addition, fees authorized to be collected pursuant 13
to sections 5029 and 5030 of the Water Infrastructure 14
Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 shall be deposited 15
in this account, to remain available until expended. 16
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 17
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, notwithstanding 18
section 5033 of the Water Infrastructure Finance and In-19
novation Act of 2014, $7,744,000, to remain available 20
until September 30, 2026. 21 103 
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ADMINISTRATIVEPROVISIONS—ENVIRONMENTAL 1
P
ROTECTIONAGENCY 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 3
For fiscal year 2025, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 4
6303(1) and 6305(1), the Administrator of the Environ-5
mental Protection Agency, in carrying out the Agency’s 6
function to implement directly Federal environmental pro-7
grams required or authorized by law in the absence of an 8
acceptable tribal program, may award cooperative agree-9
ments to federally recognized Indian tribes or Intertribal 10
consortia, if authorized by their member tribes, to assist 11
the Administrator in implementing Federal environmental 12
programs for Indian tribes required or authorized by law, 13
except that no such cooperative agreements may be award-14
ed from funds designated for State financial assistance 15
agreements. 16
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 17
Agency is authorized to collect and obligate pesticide reg-18
istration service fees in accordance with section 33 of the 19
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 20
U.S.C. 136w–8), to remain available until expended. 21
Notwithstanding section 33(d)(2) of the Federal In-22
secticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 23
U.S.C. 136w–8(d)(2)), the Administrator of the Environ-24 104 
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mental Protection Agency may assess fees under section 1
33 of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136w–8) for fiscal year 2025. 2
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 3
Agency is authorized to collect and obligate fees in accord-4
ance with section 3024 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act 5
(42 U.S.C. 6939g) for fiscal year 2025, to remain avail-6
able until expended. 7
The Administrator is authorized to transfer up to 8
$371,000,000 of the funds appropriated for the Great 9
Lakes Restoration Initiative under the heading ‘‘Environ-10
mental Programs and Management’’ to the head of any 11
Federal department or agency, with the concurrence of 12
such head, to carry out activities that would support the 13
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and Great Lakes 14
Water Quality Agreement programs, projects, or activities; 15
to enter into an interagency agreement with the head of 16
such Federal department or agency to carry out these ac-17
tivities; and to make grants to governmental entities, non-18
profit organizations, institutions, and individuals for plan-19
ning, research, monitoring, outreach, and implementation 20
in furtherance of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative 21
and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. 22
The Science and Technology, Environmental Pro-23
grams and Management, Office of Inspector General, Haz-24
ardous Substance Superfund, and Leaking Underground 25 105 
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Storage Tank Trust Fund Program Accounts, are avail-1
able for the construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, 2
and renovation of facilities, provided that the cost does 3
not exceed $300,000 per project. 4
For fiscal year 2025, and notwithstanding section 5
518(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 6
U.S.C. 1377(f)), the Administrator is authorized to use 7
the amounts appropriated for any fiscal year under section 8
319 of the Act to make grants to Indian tribes pursuant 9
to sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act. 10
The Administrator is authorized to use the amounts 11
appropriated under the heading ‘‘Environmental Pro-12
grams and Management’’ for fiscal year 2025 to provide 13
grants to implement the Southeast New England Water-14
shed Restoration Program. 15
Notwithstanding the limitations on amounts in sec-16
tion 320(i)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 17
Act, not less than $2,535,714 of the funds made available 18
under this title for the National Estuary Program shall 19
be for making competitive awards described in section 20
320(g)(4). 21
For fiscal year 2025, the Office of Chemical Safety 22
and Pollution Prevention and the Office of Water may, 23
using funds appropriated under the headings ‘‘Environ-24
mental Programs and Management’’ and ‘‘Science and 25 106 
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Technology’’, contract directly with individuals or indi-1
rectly with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without 2
regard to 41 U.S.C. 5, for the temporary or intermittent 3
personal services of students or recent graduates, who 4
shall be considered employees for the purposes of chapters 5
57 and 81 of title 5, United States Code, relating to com-6
pensation for travel and work injuries, and chapter 171 7
of title 28, United States Code, relating to tort claims, 8
but shall not be considered to be Federal employees for 9
any other purpose: Provided, That amounts used for this 10
purpose by the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution 11
Prevention and the Office of Water collectively may not 12
exceed $2,000,000. 13
In this fiscal year and each fiscal year through 2030, 14
the Administrator may, after consultation with the Office 15
of Personnel Management, employ up to 75 persons at any 16
one time in the Office of Research and Development and 17
25 persons at any one time in the Office of Chemical Safe-18
ty and Pollution Prevention pursuant to the authority pro-19
vided in 42 U.S.C. 209. 20
The Environmental Protection agency shall provide 21
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-22
resentatives and Senate with copies of any available De-23
partment of Treasury quarterly certification of trust fund 24
receipts collected from section 13601 of Public Law 117– 25 107 
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169 and section 80201 of Public Law 117–58, an annual 1
operating plan for such receipts showing amounts allo-2
cated by program area and program project, and quarterly 3
reports for such receipts of obligated balances by program 4
area and program project. 5 108 
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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, $1,207,128,000, 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 25 109 
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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
Provided further, That of the funds made available under 12
this heading, $550,600,000 is designated by the Congress 13
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-14
tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-15
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 16
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH 17
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland re-18
search as authorized by law, $319,124,000, to remain 19
available through September 30, 2028: Provided, That of 20
the funds provided, $33,697,000 is for the forest inventory 21
and analysis program: Provided further, That all authori-22
ties for the use of funds, including the use of contracts, 23
grants, and cooperative agreements, available to execute 24
the Forest and Rangeland Research appropriation, are 25 110 
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also available in the utilization of these funds for Fire 1
Science Research. 2
STATE, PRIVATE, AND TRIBAL FORESTRY 3
For necessary expenses of cooperating with and pro-4
viding technical and financial assistance to States, terri-5
tories, possessions, tribes, and others, and for forest 6
health management, including for invasive plants, and 7
conducting an international program and trade activities 8
as authorized, $314,481,000, to remain available through 9
September 30, 2028, as authorized by law, of which 10
$14,923,000 shall be for projects specified for Forest Re-11
source Information and Analysis in the table titled ‘‘Con-12
gressionally Directed Spending Items’’ in the report ac-13
companying this Act. 14
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM 15
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 16
otherwise provided for, for management, protection, im-17
provement, and utilization of the National Forest System, 18
and for hazardous fuels management on or adjacent to 19
such lands, $2,009,697,000, to remain available through 20
September 30, 2028: Provided, That of the funds pro-21
vided, $34,000,000 shall be deposited in the Collaborative 22
Forest Landscape Restoration Fund for ecological restora-23
tion treatments as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 7303(f): Pro-24
vided further, That for the funds provided in the preceding 25 111 
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proviso, section 4003(d)(3)(A) of the Omnibus Public 1
Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 2
7303(d)(3)(A)) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘20’’ for 3
‘‘10’’ and section 4003(d)(3)(B) of the Omnibus Public 4
Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 5
7303(d)(3)(B)) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘4’’ for 6
‘‘2’’: Provided further, That of the funds provided, 7
$42,000,000 shall be for forest products: Provided further, 8
That of the funds provided, $208,548,000 shall be for haz-9
ardous fuels management activities, of which not to exceed 10
$30,000,000 may be used to make grants, using any au-11
thorities available to the Forest Service under the ‘‘State, 12
Private, and Tribal Forestry’’ appropriation, for the pur-13
pose of creating incentives for increased use of biomass 14
from National Forest System lands: Provided further, 15
That of the funds provided for hazardous fuels manage-16
ment activities, no more than 15 percent of such funds 17
may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture to, with re-18
spect to Federal land, or on non-Federal land if the Sec-19
retary determines such activities benefit resources on Fed-20
eral land, enter into procurement contracts or cooperative 21
agreements for hazardous fuels management activities, 22
issue grants for procurement contracts or cooperative 23
agreements for hazardous fuels management activities, or 24
pay for training or monitoring associated with such haz-25 112 
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ardous fuels management activities on Federal land, or on 1
non-Federal land if the Secretary determines such activi-2
ties benefit resources on Federal land: Provided further, 3
That funds made available to implement the Community 4
Forest Restoration Act, Public Law 106–393, title VI, 5
shall be available for use on non-Federal lands in accord-6
ance with authorities made available to the Forest Service 7
under the ‘‘State, Private, and Tribal Forestry’’ appro-8
priation: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 9
33 of the Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 10
1012), the Secretary of Agriculture, in calculating a fee 11
for grazing on a National Grassland, may provide a credit 12
of up to 50 percent of the calculated fee to a Grazing As-13
sociation or direct permittee for a conservation practice 14
approved by the Secretary in advance of the fiscal year 15
in which the cost of the conservation practice is incurred, 16
and that the amount credited shall remain available to the 17
Grazing Association or the direct permittee, as appro-18
priate, in the fiscal year in which the credit is made and 19
each fiscal year thereafter for use on the project for con-20
servation practices approved by the Secretary: Provided 21
further, That funds appropriated to this account shall be 22
available for the base salary and expenses of employees 23
that carry out the functions funded by the ‘‘Capital Im-24
provement and Maintenance’’ account, the ‘‘Range Better-25 113 
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ment Fund’’ account, and the ‘‘Management of National 1
Forest Lands for Subsistence Uses’’ account. 2
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE 3
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 4
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not 5
otherwise provided for, $179,701,000, to remain available 6
through September 30, 2028, for construction, capital im-7
provement, maintenance, and acquisition of buildings and 8
other facilities and infrastructure; for construction, recon-9
struction, and decommissioning of roads that are no 10
longer needed, including unauthorized roads that are not 11
part of the transportation system; and for maintenance 12
of forest roads and trails by the Forest Service as author-13
ized by 16 U.S.C. 532–538 and 23 U.S.C. 101 and 205: 14
Provided, That $6,000,000 shall be for activities author-15
ized by 16 U.S.C. 538(a): Provided further, That 16
$21,201,000 shall be for projects specified for Construc-17
tion Projects in the table titled ‘‘Congressionally Directed 18
Spending Items’’ in the report accompanying this Act: 19
Provided further, That funds becoming available in fiscal 20
year 2025 under the Act of March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 21
501) shall be transferred to the General Fund of the 22
Treasury and shall not be available for transfer or obliga-23
tion for any other purpose unless the funds are appro-24
priated. 25 114 
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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 25 115 
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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-25 116 
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tem lands and water, $2,438,611,000, 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 funds made available under this head-20
ing in this Act and unobligated balances made available 21
under this heading in prior Acts, other than amounts des-22
ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-23
quirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the 24
budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 25 117 
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Control Act of 1985, shall be available, in addition to any 1
other funds made available for such purpose, to continue 2
uninterrupted the Federal wildland firefighter base salary 3
increases provided under section 40803(d)(4)(B) of Public 4
Law 117–58: Provided further, That of the funds made 5
available under this heading, $2,438,611,000 is des-6
ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-7
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-8
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: 9
Provided further, That of the funds provided under this 10
heading, $1,011,000,000 shall be available for wildfire 11
suppression operations, and is provided to meet the terms 12
of section 251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of the Balanced Budget and 13
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 14
WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND 15
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 16
In addition to the amounts provided under the head-17
ing ‘‘Department of Agriculture—Forest Service— 18
Wildland Fire Management’’ for wildfire suppression oper-19
ations, $2,390,000,000, to remain available until trans-20
ferred, is additional new budget authority as specified for 21
purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget 22
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided, 23
That such amounts may be transferred to and merged 24
with amounts made available under the headings ‘‘Depart-25 118 
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ment of the Interior—Department-Wide Programs— 1
Wildland Fire Management’’ and ‘‘Department of Agri-2
culture—Forest Service—Wildland Fire Management’’ for 3
wildfire suppression operations in the fiscal year in which 4
such amounts are transferred: Provided further, That 5
amounts may be transferred to the ‘‘Wildland Fire Man-6
agement’’ accounts in the Department of the Interior or 7
the Department of Agriculture only upon the notification 8
of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 9
that all wildfire suppression operations funds appropriated 10
under that heading in this and prior appropriations Acts 11
to the agency to which the funds will be transferred will 12
be obligated within 30 days: Provided further, That the 13
transfer authority provided under this heading is in addi-14
tion to any other transfer authority provided by law: Pro-15
vided further, That, in determining whether all wildfire 16
suppression operations funds appropriated under the 17
heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ in this and prior 18
appropriations Acts to either the Department of Agri-19
culture or the Department of the Interior will be obligated 20
within 30 days pursuant to the preceding proviso, any 21
funds transferred or permitted to be transferred pursuant 22
to any other transfer authority provided by law shall be 23
excluded. 24 119 
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COMMUNICATIONS SITE ADMINISTRATION 1
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 2
Amounts collected in this fiscal year pursuant to sec-3
tion 8705(f)(2) of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 4
2018 (Public Law 115–334), shall be deposited in the spe-5
cial account established by section 8705(f)(1) of such Act, 6
shall be available to cover the costs described in subsection 7
(c)(3) of such section of such Act, and shall remain avail-8
able until expended: Provided, That such amounts shall 9
be transferred to the ‘‘National Forest System’’ account. 10
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —FOREST SERVICE 11
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 12
Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current 13
fiscal year shall be available for: (1) purchase of passenger 14
motor vehicles; acquisition of passenger motor vehicles 15
from excess sources, and hire of such vehicles; purchase, 16
lease, operation, maintenance, and acquisition of aircraft 17
to maintain the operable fleet for use in Forest Service 18
wildland fire programs and other Forest Service programs; 19
notwithstanding other provisions of law, existing aircraft 20
being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or 21
trade-in value used to offset the purchase price for the 22
replacement aircraft; (2) services pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 23
2225, and not to exceed $100,000 for employment under 24
5 U.S.C. 3109; (3) purchase, erection, and alteration of 25 120 
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buildings and other public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); 1
(4) acquisition of land, waters, and interests therein pur-2
suant to 7 U.S.C. 428a; (5) for expenses pursuant to the 3
Volunteers in the National Forest Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 4
558a, 558d, and 558a note); (6) the cost of uniforms as 5
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; and (7) for debt col-6
lection contracts in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c). 7
Funds made available to the Forest Service in this 8
Act may be transferred between accounts affected by the 9
Forest Service budget restructure outlined in section 435 10
of division D of the Further Consolidated Appropriations 11
Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94): Provided, That any 12
transfer of funds pursuant to this paragraph shall not in-13
crease or decrease the funds appropriated to any account 14
in this fiscal year by more than ten percent: Provided fur-15
ther, That such transfer authority is in addition to any 16
other transfer authority provided by law. 17
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest 18
Service may be transferred to the Wildland Fire Manage-19
ment appropriation for forest firefighting, emergency re-20
habilitation of burned-over or damaged lands or waters 21
under its jurisdiction, and fire preparedness due to severe 22
burning conditions upon the Secretary of Agriculture’s no-23
tification of the House and Senate Committees on Appro-24
priations that all fire suppression funds appropriated 25 121 
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under the heading ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’ will be 1
obligated within 30 days: Provided, That all funds used 2
pursuant to this paragraph must be replenished by a sup-3
plemental appropriation which must be requested as 4
promptly as possible. 5
Not more than $50,000,000 of funds appropriated to 6
the Forest Service shall be available for expenditure or 7
transfer to the Department of the Interior for wildland 8
fire management, hazardous fuels management, and State 9
fire assistance when such transfers would facilitate and 10
expedite wildland fire management programs and projects. 11
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 12
Forest Service may transfer unobligated balances of dis-13
cretionary funds appropriated to the Forest Service by 14
this Act to or within the National Forest System Account, 15
or reprogram funds to be used for the purposes of haz-16
ardous fuels management and urgent rehabilitation of 17
burned-over National Forest System lands and water: Pro-18
vided, That such transferred funds shall remain available 19
through September 30, 2028: Provided further, That none 20
of the funds transferred pursuant to this paragraph shall 21
be available for obligation without written notification to 22
and the prior approval of the Committees on Appropria-23
tions of both Houses of Congress. 24 122 
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Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 1
available for assistance to or through the Agency for Inter-2
national Development in connection with forest and range-3
land research, technical information, and assistance in for-4
eign countries, and shall be available to support forestry 5
and related natural resource activities outside the United 6
States and its territories and possessions, including tech-7
nical assistance, education and training, and cooperation 8
with United States government, private sector, and inter-9
national organizations: Provided, That the Forest Service, 10
acting for the International Program, may sign direct 11
funding agreements with foreign governments and institu-12
tions as well as other domestic agencies (including the 13
U.S. Agency for International Development, the Depart-14
ment of State, and the Millennium Challenge Corpora-15
tion), United States private sector firms, institutions and 16
organizations to provide technical assistance and training 17
programs on forestry and rangeland management: Pro-18
vided further, That to maximize effectiveness of domestic 19
and international research and cooperation, the Inter-20
national Program may utilize all authorities related to for-21
estry, research, and cooperative assistance regardless of 22
program designations. 23
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 24
available to enter into a cooperative agreement with the 25 123 
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section 509(a)(3) Supporting Organization, ‘‘Forest Serv-1
ice International Foundation’’ to assist the Foundation in 2
meeting administrative, project, and other expenses, and 3
may provide for the Foundation’s use of Forest Service 4
personnel and facilities. 5
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 6
available for expenditure or transfer to the Department 7
of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, for removal, 8
preparation, and adoption of excess wild horses and burros 9
from National Forest System lands, and for the perform-10
ance of cadastral surveys to designate the boundaries of 11
such lands. 12
None of the funds made available to the Forest Serv-13
ice in this Act or any other Act with respect to any fiscal 14
year shall be subject to transfer under the provisions of 15
section 702(b) of the Department of Agriculture Organic 16
Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257), section 442 of Public Law 17
106–224 (7 U.S.C. 7772), or section 10417(b) of Public 18
Law 107–171 (7 U.S.C. 8316(b)). 19
Not more than $82,000,000 of funds available to the 20
Forest Service shall be transferred to the Working Capital 21
Fund of the Department of Agriculture and not more than 22
$14,500,000 of funds available to the Forest Service shall 23
be transferred to the Department of Agriculture for De-24
partment Reimbursable Programs, commonly referred to 25 124 
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as Greenbook charges: Provided, That nothing in this 1
paragraph shall prohibit or limit the use of reimbursable 2
agreements requested by the Forest Service in order to 3
obtain information technology services, including tele-4
communications and system modifications or enhance-5
ments, from the Working Capital Fund of the Department 6
of Agriculture. 7
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, up to 8
$5,000,000 shall be available for priority projects within 9
the scope of the approved budget, which shall be carried 10
out by the Youth Conservation Corps and shall be carried 11
out under the authority of the Public Lands Corps Act 12
of 1993 (16 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.). 13
Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $4,000 14
is available to the Chief of the Forest Service for official 15
reception and representation expenses. 16
Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public 17
Law 101–593, of the funds available to the Forest Service, 18
up to $3,000,000 may be advanced in a lump sum to the 19
National Forest Foundation to aid conservation partner-20
ship projects in support of the Forest Service mission, 21
without regard to when the Foundation incurs expenses, 22
for projects on or benefitting National Forest System 23
lands or related to Forest Service programs: Provided, 24
That of the Federal funds made available to the Founda-25 125 
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tion, no more than $300,000 shall be available for admin-1
istrative expenses: Provided further, That the Foundation 2
shall obtain, by the end of the period of Federal financial 3
assistance, private contributions to match funds made 4
available by the Forest Service on at least a one-for-one 5
basis: Provided further, That the Foundation may transfer 6
Federal funds to a Federal or a non-Federal recipient for 7
a project at the same rate that the recipient has obtained 8
the non-Federal matching funds. 9
Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98–244, 10
up to $3,000,000 of the funds available to the Forest 11
Service may be advanced to the National Fish and Wildlife 12
Foundation in a lump sum to aid cost-share conservation 13
projects, without regard to when expenses are incurred, 14
on or benefitting National Forest System lands or related 15
to Forest Service programs: Provided, That such funds 16
shall be matched on at least a one-for-one basis by the 17
Foundation or its sub-recipients: Provided further, That 18
the Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a Federal 19
or non-Federal recipient for a project at the same rate 20
that the recipient has obtained the non-Federal matching 21
funds. 22
Any amounts made available to the Forest Service 23
in this fiscal year, including available collections, may be 24
used by the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the 25 126 
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Chief of the Forest Service, to enter into Federal financial 1
assistance grants and cooperative agreements to support 2
forest or grassland collaboratives in the accomplishment 3
of activities benefitting both the public and the National 4
Forest System, Federal lands and adjacent non-Federal 5
lands. Eligible activities are those that will improve or en-6
hance Federal investments, resources, or lands, including 7
for collaborative and collaboration-based activities, includ-8
ing but not limited to facilitation, planning, and imple-9
menting projects, technical assistance, administrative 10
functions, operational support, participant costs, and 11
other capacity support needs, as identified by the Forest 12
Service. Eligible recipients are Indian tribal entities (de-13
fined at 25 U.S.C. 5304(e)), state government, local gov-14
ernments, private and nonprofit entities, for-profit organi-15
zations, and educational institutions. The Secretary of Ag-16
riculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, 17
may enter into such cooperative agreements notwith-18
standing chapter 63 of title 31 when the Secretary deter-19
mines that the public interest will be benefited and that 20
there exists a mutual interest other than monetary consid-21
erations. Transactions subject to Title 2 of the Code of 22
Federal Regulations shall be publicly advertised and re-23
quire competition when required by such Title 2. For those 24
transactions not subject to Title 2 of the Code of Federal 25 127 
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Regulations, the agency may require public advertising 1
and competition when deemed appropriate. The term ‘‘for-2
est and grassland collaboratives’’ means groups of individ-3
uals or entities with diverse interests participating in a 4
cooperative process to share knowledge, ideas, and re-5
sources about the protection, restoration, or enhancement 6
of natural and other resources on Federal and adjacent 7
non-Federal lands, the improvement or maintenance of 8
public access to Federal lands, or the reduction of risk 9
to such lands caused by natural disasters. 10
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service under the 11
headings ‘‘National Forest System’’ and ‘‘Forest and 12
Rangeland Research’’ may be used for expenses associated 13
with primary and secondary schooling for dependents of 14
agency personnel stationed in Puerto Rico, who are sub-15
ject to transfer and reassignment to other locations in the 16
United States, at a cost not in excess of those authorized 17
for the Department of Defense for the same area, when 18
it is determined by the Chief of the Forest Service that 19
public schools available in the locality are unable to pro-20
vide adequately for the education of such dependents; Pro-21
vided, That Congress hereby ratifies and approves pay-22
ments for such purposes to agency employees stationed in 23
Puerto Rico made by the Forest Service after August 2, 24
2005, in accordance with the 19th unnumbered paragraph 25 128 
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under the heading ‘‘Administrative Provisions, Forest 1
Service’’ in title III of Public Law 109–54, as amended. 2
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 3
available for interactions with and providing technical as-4
sistance to rural communities and natural resource-based 5
businesses for sustainable rural development purposes. 6
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 7
available for payments to counties within the Columbia 8
River Gorge National Scenic Area, pursuant to section 9
14(c)(1) and (2), and section 16(a)(2) of Public Law 99– 10
663. 11
Any funds appropriated to the Forest Service may 12
be used to meet the non-Federal share requirement in sec-13
tion 502(c) of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 14
U.S.C. 3056(c)(2)). 15
The Forest Service shall not assess funds for the pur-16
pose of performing fire, administrative, and other facilities 17
maintenance and decommissioning. 18
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of any 19
appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service, 20
not to exceed $500,000 may be used to reimburse the Of-21
fice of the General Counsel (OGC), Department of Agri-22
culture, for travel and related expenses incurred as a re-23
sult of OGC assistance or participation requested by the 24
Forest Service at meetings, training sessions, management 25 129 
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reviews, land purchase negotiations, and similar matters 1
unrelated to civil litigation: Provided, That future budget 2
justifications for both the Forest Service and the Depart-3
ment of Agriculture should clearly display the sums pre-4
viously transferred and the sums requested for transfer. 5
An eligible individual who is employed in any project 6
funded under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 7
(42 U.S.C. 3056 et seq.) and administered by the Forest 8
Service shall be considered to be a Federal employee for 9
purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code. 10
The Forest Service may employ or contract with an 11
individual who is enrolled in a training program at a long-12
standing Civilian Conservation Center (as defined in sec-13
tion 147(d) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 14
Act (29 U.S.C. 3197(d))) at regular rates of pay for nec-15
essary hours of work on National Forest System lands. 16
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be 17
available to pay, from a single account, the base salary 18
and expenses of employees who carry out functions funded 19
by other accounts for Enterprise Program, Geospatial 20
Technology and Applications Center, National Applica-21
tions Liaison Office, Job Corps, and National Technology 22
and Development Program. 23 130 
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 1
SERVICES 2
I
NDIANHEALTHSERVICE 3
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES 4
For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of Au-5
gust 5, 1954 (68 Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determina-6
tion and Education Assistance Act, the Indian Health 7
Care Improvement Act, and titles II and III of the Public 8
Health Service Act with respect to the Indian Health Serv-9
ice, $249,761,000, to remain available until September 30, 10
2026, except as otherwise provided herein, which shall be 11
in addition to funds previously appropriated under this 12
heading that become available on October 1, 2024; in ad-13
dition, $278,018,000, to remain available until September 14
30, 2026, for the Electronic Health Record System and 15
the Indian Healthcare Improvement Fund, of which 16
$74,138,000 is for the Indian Health Care Improvement 17
Fund and may be used, as needed, to carry out activities 18
typically funded under the Indian Health Facilities ac-19
count; and, in addition, $4,933,790,000, which shall be-20
come available on October 1, 2025, and remain available 21
through September 30, 2027, except as otherwise provided 22
herein; together with payments received during the fiscal 23
year pursuant to sections 231(b) and 233 of the Public 24
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 238(b) and 238b), for serv-25 131 
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ices furnished by the Indian Health Service: Provided, 1
That funds made available to tribes and tribal organiza-2
tions through contracts, grant agreements, or any other 3
agreements or compacts authorized by the Indian Self-De-4
termination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 5
U.S.C. 450), shall be deemed to be obligated at the time 6
of the grant or contract award and thereafter shall remain 7
available to the tribe or tribal organization without fiscal 8
year limitation: Provided further, That from the amounts 9
that become available on October 1, 2025, $2,500,000 10
shall be available for grants or contracts with public or 11
private institutions to provide alcohol or drug treatment 12
services to Indians, including alcohol detoxification serv-13
ices: Provided further, That from the amounts that become 14
available on October 1, 2025, $1,005,356,000 shall remain 15
available until expended for Purchased/Referred Care: 16
Provided further, That of the total amount specified in the 17
preceding proviso for Purchased/Referred Care, 18
$54,000,000 shall be for the Indian Catastrophic Health 19
Emergency Fund: Provided further, That from the 20
amounts that become available on October 1, 2025, up to 21
$51,000,000 shall remain available until expended for im-22
plementation of the loan repayment program under section 23
108 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act: Provided 24
further, That from the amounts that become available on 25 132 
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October 1, 2025, $58,000,000, to remain available until 1
expended, shall be for costs related to or resulting from 2
accreditation emergencies, including supplementing activi-3
ties funded under the heading ‘‘Indian Health Facilities’’, 4
of which up to $4,000,000 may be used to supplement 5
amounts otherwise available for Purchased/Referred Care: 6
Provided further, That the amounts collected by the Fed-7
eral Government as authorized by sections 104 and 108 8
of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 9
1613a and 1616a) during the preceding fiscal year for 10
breach of contracts shall be deposited in the Fund author-11
ized by section 108A of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a–1) and 12
shall remain available until expended and, notwithstanding 13
section 108A(c) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a–1(c)), funds 14
shall be available to make new awards under the loan re-15
payment and scholarship programs under sections 104 16
and 108 of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1613a and 1616a): Pro-17
vided further, That the amounts made available within this 18
account for the Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention 19
Program, for Opioid Prevention, Treatment and Recovery 20
Services, for the Domestic Violence Prevention Program, 21
for the Zero Suicide Initiative, for the housing subsidy au-22
thority for civilian employees, for Aftercare Pilot Pro-23
grams at Youth Regional Treatment Centers, for trans-24
formation and modernization costs of the Indian Health 25 133 
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Service Electronic Health Record system, for national 1
quality and oversight activities, to improve collections from 2
public and private insurance at Indian Health Service and 3
tribally operated facilities, for an initiative to treat or re-4
duce the transmission of HIV and HCV, for a maternal 5
health initiative, for the Telebehaviorial Health Center of 6
Excellence, for Alzheimer’s activities, for Village Built 7
Clinics, for a produce prescription pilot, and for accredita-8
tion emergencies shall be allocated at the discretion of the 9
Director of the Indian Health Service and shall remain 10
available until expended: Provided further, That funds pro-11
vided in this Act may be used for annual contracts and 12
grants that fall within 2 fiscal years, provided the total 13
obligation is recorded in the year the funds are appro-14
priated: Provided further, That the amounts collected by 15
the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the 16
authority of title IV of the Indian Health Care Improve-17
ment Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available until 18
expended for the purpose of achieving compliance with the 19
applicable conditions and requirements of titles XVIII and 20
XIX of the Social Security Act, except for those related 21
to the planning, design, or construction of new facilities: 22
Provided further, That funding contained herein for schol-23
arship programs under the Indian Health Care Improve-24
ment Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available until 25 134 
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expended: Provided further, That amounts received by 1
tribes and tribal organizations under title IV of the Indian 2
Health Care Improvement Act shall be reported and ac-3
counted for and available to the receiving tribes and tribal 4
organizations until expended: Provided further, That the 5
Bureau of Indian Affairs may collect from the Indian 6
Health Service, and from tribes and tribal organizations 7
operating health facilities pursuant to Public Law 93–638, 8
such individually identifiable health information relating 9
to disabled children as may be necessary for the purpose 10
of carrying out its functions under the Individuals with 11
Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.): Pro-12
vided further, That none of the funds provided that become 13
available on October 1, 2025, may be used for implemen-14
tation of the Electronic Health Record System or the In-15
dian Health Care Improvement Fund: Provided further, 16
That none of the funds appropriated by this Act, or any 17
other Act, to the Indian Health Service for the Electronic 18
Health Record system shall be available for obligation or 19
expenditure for the selection or implementation of a new 20
Information Technology infrastructure system, unless the 21
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-22
atives and the Senate are consulted 90 days in advance 23
of such obligation. 24 135 
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CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS 1
For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for 2
contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter-3
mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with 4
the Indian Health Service for fiscal year 2025, such sums 5
as may be necessary: Provided, That notwithstanding any 6
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 7
this heading shall be available for transfer to another 8
budget account: Provided further, That amounts obligated 9
but not expended by a tribe or tribal organization for con-10
tract support costs for such agreements for the current 11
fiscal year shall be applied to contract support costs due 12
for such agreements for subsequent fiscal years. 13
PAYMENTS FOR TRIBAL LEASES 14
For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for 15
leases pursuant to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Deter-16
mination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 17
5324(l)) for fiscal year 2025, such sums as may be nec-18
essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-19
tember 30, 2026: Provided, That notwithstanding any 20
other provision of law, no amounts made available under 21
this heading shall be available for transfer to another 22
budget account. 23 136 
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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, $16,890,000, to remain available until expended, 15
which shall be in addition to funds previously appropriated 16
under this heading that become available on October 1, 17
2024; in addition, $367,850,000, to remain available until 18
expended, for Sanitation Facilities Construction and 19
Health Care Facilities Construction; and, in addition, 20
$523,744,000, which shall become available on October 1, 21
2025, and remain available until expended: Provided, That 22
notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appro-23
priated for the planning, design, construction, renovation, 24
or expansion of health facilities for the benefit of an In-25 137 
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dian tribe or tribes may be used to purchase land on which 1
such facilities will be located: Provided further, That not 2
to exceed $500,000 may be used for fiscal year 2026 by 3
the Indian Health Service to purchase TRANSAM equip-4
ment from the Department of Defense for distribution to 5
the Indian Health Service and tribal facilities: Provided 6
further, That none of the funds provided that become 7
available on October 1, 2025, may be used for Health Care 8
Facilities Construction or for Sanitation Facilities Con-9
struction: Provided further, That of the amount appro-10
priated under this heading for fiscal year 2025 for Sanita-11
tion Facilities Construction, $10,806,000 shall be for 12
projects specified for Sanitation Facilities Construction in 13
the table titled ‘‘Congressionally Directed Spending 14
Items’’ in the report accompanying this Act: Provided fur-15
ther, That none of the funds appropriated to the Indian 16
Health Service may be used for sanitation facilities con-17
struction for new homes funded with grants by the hous-18
ing programs of the United States Department of Housing 19
and Urban Development. 20
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS —INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 21
Appropriations provided in this Act to the Indian 22
Health Service shall be available for services as authorized 23
by 5 U.S.C. 3109 at rates not to exceed the per diem rate 24
equivalent to the maximum rate payable for senior-level 25 138 
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positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger motor 1
vehicles and aircraft; purchase of medical equipment; pur-2
chase of reprints; purchase, renovation, and erection of 3
modular buildings and renovation of existing facilities; 4
payments for telephone service in private residences in the 5
field, when authorized under regulations approved by the 6
Secretary of Health and Human Services; uniforms, or al-7
lowances therefor as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; 8
and for expenses of attendance at meetings that relate to 9
the functions or activities of the Indian Health Service: 10
Provided, That in accordance with the provisions of the 11
Indian Health Care Improvement Act, non-Indian patients 12
may be extended health care at all tribally administered 13
or Indian Health Service facilities, subject to charges, and 14
the proceeds along with funds recovered under the Federal 15
Medical Care Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 2651–2653) shall 16
be credited to the account of the facility providing the 17
service and shall be available without fiscal year limitation: 18
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other law or 19
regulation, funds transferred from the Department of 20
Housing and Urban Development to the Indian Health 21
Service shall be administered under Public Law 86–121, 22
the Indian Sanitation Facilities Act and Public Law 93– 23
638: Provided further, That funds appropriated to the In-24
dian Health Service in this Act, except those used for ad-25 139 
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ministrative and program direction purposes, shall not be 1
subject to limitations directed at curtailing Federal travel 2
and transportation: Provided further, That none of the 3
funds made available to the Indian Health Service in this 4
Act shall be used for any assessments or charges by the 5
Department of Health and Human Services unless such 6
assessments or charges are identified in the budget jus-7
tification and provided in this Act, or approved by the 8
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations through 9
the reprogramming process: Provided further, That not-10
withstanding any other provision of law, funds previously 11
or herein made available to a tribe or tribal organization 12
through a contract, grant, or agreement authorized by 13
title I or title V of the Indian Self-Determination and 14
Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et 15
seq.), may be deobligated and reobligated to a self-deter-16
mination contract under title I, or a self-governance agree-17
ment under title V of such Act and thereafter shall remain 18
available to the tribe or tribal organization without fiscal 19
year limitation: Provided further, That none of the funds 20
made available to the Indian Health Service in this Act 21
shall be used to implement the final rule published in the 22
Federal Register on September 16, 1987, by the Depart-23
ment of Health and Human Services, relating to the eligi-24
bility for the health care services of the Indian Health 25 140 
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Service until the Indian Health Service has submitted a 1
budget request reflecting the increased costs associated 2
with the proposed final rule, and such request has been 3
included in an appropriations Act and enacted into law: 4
Provided further, That with respect to functions trans-5
ferred by the Indian Health Service to tribes or tribal or-6
ganizations, the Indian Health Service is authorized to 7
provide goods and services to those entities on a reimburs-8
able basis, including payments in advance with subsequent 9
adjustment, and the reimbursements received therefrom, 10
along with the funds received from those entities pursuant 11
to the Indian Self-Determination Act, may be credited to 12
the same or subsequent appropriation account from which 13
the funds were originally derived, with such amounts to 14
remain available until expended: Provided further, That re-15
imbursements for training, technical assistance, or serv-16
ices provided by the Indian Health Service will contain 17
total costs, including direct, administrative, and overhead 18
costs associated with the provision of goods, services, or 19
technical assistance: Provided further, That the Indian 20
Health Service may provide to civilian medical personnel 21
serving in hospitals operated by the Indian Health Service 22
housing allowances equivalent to those that would be pro-23
vided to members of the Commissioned Corps of the 24
United States Public Health Service serving in similar po-25 141 
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sitions at such hospitals: Provided further, That the appro-1
priation structure for the Indian Health Service may not 2
be altered without advance notification to the House and 3
Senate Committees on Appropriations. 4
N
ATIONALINSTITUTES OFHEALTH 5
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 6
SCIENCES 7
For necessary expenses for the National Institute of 8
Environmental Health Sciences in carrying out activities 9
set forth in section 311(a) of the Comprehensive Environ-10
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 11
1980 (42 U.S.C. 9660(a)) and section 126(g) of the 12
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, 13
$81,614,000. 14
A
GENCY FORTOXICSUBSTANCES ANDDISEASE 15
R
EGISTRY 16
TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC 17
HEALTH 18
For necessary expenses for the Agency for Toxic Sub-19
stances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in carrying out 20
activities set forth in sections 104(i) and 111(c)(4) of the 21
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, 22
and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and section 3019 23
of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $83,089,000: Provided, 24
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, in lieu 25 142 
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of performing a health assessment under section 104(i)(6) 1
of CERCLA, the Administrator of ATSDR may conduct 2
other appropriate health studies, evaluations, or activities, 3
including, without limitation, biomedical testing, clinical 4
evaluations, medical monitoring, and referral to accredited 5
healthcare providers: Provided further, That in performing 6
any such health assessment or health study, evaluation, 7
or activity, the Administrator of ATSDR shall not be 8
bound by the deadlines in section 104(i)(6)(A) of 9
CERCLA: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-10
priated under this heading shall be available for ATSDR 11
to issue in excess of 40 toxicological profiles pursuant to 12
section 104(i) of CERCLA during fiscal year 2025, and 13
existing profiles may be updated as necessary. 14
OTHER RELATED AGENCIES 15
E
XECUTIVEOFFICE OF THEPRESIDENT 16
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF 17
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 18
For necessary expenses to continue functions as-19
signed to the Council on Environmental Quality and Office 20
of Environmental Quality pursuant to the National Envi-21
ronmental Policy Act of 1969, the Environmental Quality 22
Improvement Act of 1970, and Reorganization Plan No. 23
1 of 1977, and not to exceed $750 for official reception 24
and representation expenses, $4,746,000: Provided, That 25 143 
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notwithstanding section 202 of the National Environ-1
mental Policy Act of 1970, the Council shall consist of 2
one member, appointed by the President, by and with the 3
advice and consent of the Senate, serving as chairman and 4
exercising all powers, functions, and duties of the Council. 5
C
HEMICALSAFETY ANDHAZARDINVESTIGATIONBOARD 6
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 7
For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pur-8
suant to section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, including 9
hire of passenger vehicles, uniforms or allowances there-10
for, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, the rental of 11
space (to include multiple year leases) in the District of 12
Columbia and elsewhere, and for services authorized by 13
5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates for individuals not to exceed 14
the per diem equivalent to the maximum rate payable for 15
senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376, $14,634,000: 16
Provided, That the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investiga-17
tion Board (Board) shall have not more than three career 18
Senior Executive Service positions: Provided further, That 19
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the individual 20
appointed to the position of Inspector General of the Envi-21
ronmental Protection Agency (EPA) shall, by virtue of 22
such appointment, also hold the position of Inspector Gen-23
eral of the Board: Provided further, That notwithstanding 24
any other provision of law, the Inspector General of the 25 144 
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Board shall utilize personnel of the Office of Inspector 1
General of EPA in performing the duties of the Inspector 2
General of the Board, and shall not appoint any individ-3
uals to positions within the Board. 4
O
FFICE OFNAVAJO ANDHOPIINDIANRELOCATION 5
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 6
For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and 7
Hopi Indian Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93– 8
531, $3,500,000, to remain available until expended, 9
which shall be derived from unobligated balances from 10
prior year appropriations available under this heading: 11
Provided, That funds provided in this or any other appro-12
priations Act are to be used to relocate eligible individuals 13
and groups including evictees from District 6, Hopi-parti-14
tioned lands residents, those in significantly substandard 15
housing, and all others certified as eligible and not in-16
cluded in the preceding categories: Provided further, That 17
none of the funds contained in this or any other Act may 18
be used by the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Reloca-19
tion to evict any single Navajo or Navajo family who, as 20
of November 30, 1985, was physically domiciled on the 21
lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe unless a new or re-22
placement home is provided for such household: Provided 23
further, That no relocatee will be provided with more than 24
one new or replacement home: Provided further, That the 25 145 
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Office shall relocate any certified eligible relocatees who 1
have selected and received an approved homesite on the 2
Navajo reservation or selected a replacement residence off 3
the Navajo reservation or on the land acquired pursuant 4
to section 11 of Public Law 93–531 (88 Stat. 1716). 5
I
NSTITUTE OFAMERICANINDIAN ANDALASKANATIVE 6
C
ULTURE ANDARTSDEVELOPMENT 7
PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE 8
For payment to the Institute of American Indian and 9
Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, as author-10
ized by part A of title XV of Public Law 99–498 (20 11
U.S.C. 4411 et seq.), $13,642,000, which shall become 12
available on July 1, 2025, and shall remain available until 13
September 30, 2026. 14
S
MITHSONIANINSTITUTION 15
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 16
For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institu-17
tion, as authorized by law, including research in the fields 18
of art, science, and history; development, preservation, and 19
documentation of the National Collections; presentation of 20
public exhibits and performances; collection, preparation, 21
dissemination, and exchange of information and publica-22
tions; conduct of education, training, and museum assist-23
ance programs; maintenance, alteration, operation, lease 24
agreements of no more than 30 years including lease 25 146 
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agreements with the same terms as the multi-year con-1
tracting authority provided in section 3903 of title 41, 2
United States Code, except that notwithstanding such sec-3
tion, lease agreements may be for a period of not more 4
than 30 years, and protection of buildings, facilities, and 5
approaches; not to exceed $100,000 for services as author-6
ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and purchase, rental, repair, and 7
cleaning of uniforms for employees, $912,347,000, to re-8
main available until September 30, 2026, except as other-9
wise provided herein; of which not to exceed $28,000,000 10
for the instrumentation program, collections acquisition, 11
exhibition reinstallation, Smithsonian American Women’s 12
History Museum, National Museum of the American 13
Latino, and the repatriation of skeletal remains program 14
shall remain available until expended; and including such 15
funds as may be necessary to support American overseas 16
research centers: Provided, That funds appropriated here-17
in are available for advance payments to independent con-18
tractors performing research services or participating in 19
official Smithsonian presentations: Provided further, That 20
the Smithsonian Institution may expend Federal appro-21
priations designated in this Act for lease or rent payments, 22
as rent payable to the Smithsonian Institution, and such 23
rent payments may be deposited into the general trust 24
funds of the Institution to be available as trust funds for 25 147 
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expenses associated with the purchase of a portion of the 1
building at 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, 2
to the extent that federally supported activities will be 3
housed there: Provided further, That the use of such 4
amounts in the general trust funds of the Institution for 5
such purpose shall not be construed as Federal debt serv-6
ice for, a Federal guarantee of, a transfer of risk to, or 7
an obligation of the Federal Government: Provided further, 8
That no appropriated funds may be used directly to serv-9
ice debt which is incurred to finance the costs of acquiring 10
a portion of the building at 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, 11
Washington, DC, or of planning, designing, and con-12
structing improvements to such building: Provided further, 13
That any agreement entered into by the Smithsonian In-14
stitution for the sale of its ownership interest, or any por-15
tion thereof, in such building so acquired may not take 16
effect until the expiration of a 30 day period which begins 17
on the date on which the Secretary of the Smithsonian 18
submits to the Committees on Appropriations of the 19
House of Representatives and Senate, the Committees on 20
House Administration and Transportation and Infrastruc-21
ture of the House of Representatives, and the Committee 22
on Rules and Administration of the Senate a report, as 23
outlined in the explanatory statement described in section 24
4 of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 25 148 
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(Public Law 116–94; 133 Stat. 2536) on the intended 1
sale. 2
FACILITIES CAPITAL 3
For necessary expenses of repair, revitalization, and 4
alteration of facilities owned or occupied by the Smithso-5
nian Institution, by contract or otherwise, as authorized 6
by section 2 of the Act of August 22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623), 7
and for construction, including necessary personnel, 8
$197,645,000, to remain available until expended, of 9
which not to exceed $10,000 shall be for services as au-10
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 11
N
ATIONALGALLERY OFART 12
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 13
For the upkeep and operations of the National Gal-14
lery of Art, the protection and care of the works of art 15
therein, and administrative expenses incident thereto, as 16
authorized by the Act of March 24, 1937 (50 Stat. 51), 17
as amended by the public resolution of April 13, 1939 18
(Public Resolution 9, 76th Congress), including services 19
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in advance when 20
authorized by the treasurer of the Gallery for membership 21
in library, museum, and art associations or societies whose 22
publications or services are available to members only, or 23
to members at a price lower than to the general public; 24
purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards, and 25 149 
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uniforms, or allowances therefor, for other employees as 1
authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); purchase or 2
rental of devices and services for protecting buildings and 3
contents thereof, and maintenance, alteration, improve-4
ment, and repair of buildings, approaches, and grounds; 5
and purchase of services for restoration and repair of 6
works of art for the National Gallery of Art by contracts 7
made, without advertising, with individuals, firms, or or-8
ganizations at such rates or prices and under such terms 9
and conditions as the Gallery may deem proper, 10
$186,471,000, to remain available until September 30, 11
2026, of which not to exceed $3,875,000 for the special 12
exhibition program shall remain available until expended. 13
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS 14
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 15
For necessary expenses of repair, restoration, and 16
renovation of buildings, grounds and facilities owned or 17
occupied by the National Gallery of Art, by contract or 18
otherwise, for operating lease agreements of no more than 19
10 years, that address space needs created by the ongoing 20
renovations in the Master Facilities Plan, as authorized, 21
$27,369,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-22
vided, That of this amount, $5,651,000 shall be available 23
for design and construction of an off-site art storage facil-24
ity in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution and 25 150 
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may be transferred to the Smithsonian Institution for such 1
purposes: Provided further, That contracts awarded for en-2
vironmental systems, protection systems, and exterior re-3
pair or renovation of buildings of the National Gallery of 4
Art may be negotiated with selected contractors and 5
awarded on the basis of contractor qualifications as well 6
as price. 7
J
OHNF. KENNEDYCENTER FOR THEPERFORMING 8
A
RTS 9
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 10
For necessary expenses for the operation, mainte-11
nance, and security of the John F. Kennedy Center for 12
the Performing Arts, including rent of temporary office 13
space in the District of Columbia during renovations of 14
such Center, $34,315,000, to remain available until Sep-15
tember 30, 2026. 16
CAPITAL REPAIR AND RESTORATION 17
For necessary expenses for capital repair and restora-18
tion of the existing features of the building and site of 19
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 20
$12,633,000, to remain available until expended. 21 151 
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WOODROWWILSONINTERNATIONALCENTER FOR 1
S
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, $15,000,000, 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
$209,000,000 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, 25 152 
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$209,000,000, to remain available until expended, of 1
which $192,000,000 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
$15,000,000 shall be available to carry out the matching 5
grants program pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Act, 6
including $13,000,000 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
A
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 25 153 
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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
C
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, $3,834,000: 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 24 154 
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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), $5,000,000: Provided, That the 5
item relating to ‘‘National Capital Arts and Cultural Af-6
fairs’’ in the Department of the Interior and Related 7
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986, as enacted into law 8
by section 101(d) of Public Law 99–190 (20 U.S.C. 9
956a), shall be applied in fiscal year 2025 in the second 10
paragraph by inserting ‘‘, calendar year 2020 excluded’’ 11
before the first period: Provided further, That in deter-12
mining an eligible organization’s annual income for cal-13
endar years 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, funds or grants 14
received by the eligible organization from any supple-15
mental appropriations made available in 2020 and 2021 16
in connection with the public health emergency declared 17
by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on Janu-18
ary 31, 2020 (including renewals thereof) shall be counted 19
as part of the eligible organization’s annual income. 20
A
DVISORYCOUNCIL ONHISTORICPRESERVATION 21
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 22
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on 23
Historic Preservation (Public Law 89–665), $8,735,000. 24 155 
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NATIONALCAPITALPLANNINGCOMMISSION 1
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2
For necessary expenses of the National Capital Plan-3
ning Commission under chapter 87 of title 40, United 4
States Code, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5
3109, $8,849,000: Provided, That one-quarter of 1 per-6
cent of the funds provided under this heading may be used 7
for official reception and representational expenses associ-8
ated with hosting international visitors engaged in the 9
planning and physical development of world capitals. 10
U
NITEDSTATESHOLOCAUSTMEMORIALMUSEUM 11
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 12
For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, as 13
authorized by Public Law 106–292 (36 U.S.C. 2301– 14
2310), $66,331,000, to remain available until September 15
30, 2026, of which $1,000,000 shall be for the Museum’s 16
equipment replacement program, $4,000,000 shall be for 17
the Museum’s repair and rehabilitation program, and 18
$1,264,000 shall be for the Museum’s outreach initiatives 19
program. 20
P
RESIDIOTRUST 21
The Presidio Trust is authorized to issue obligations 22
to the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to section 23
104(d)(3) of the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Man-24 156 
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agement Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–333), in an 1
amount not to exceed $45,000,000. 2
U
NITEDSTATESSEMIQUINCENTENNIAL COMMISSION 3
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 4
For necessary expenses of the United States 5
Semiquincentennial Commission to plan and coordinate 6
observances and activities associated with the 250th anni-7
versary of the founding of the United States, as authorized 8
by Public Law 116–282, the technical amendments to 9
Public Law 114–196, $15,250,000, to remain available 10
until September 30, 2026. 11 157 
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TITLE IV 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS 2
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 3
RESTRICTION ON USE OF FUNDS 4
S
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
S
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
S
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-25 158 
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mates shall be presented to the Committees on Appropria-1
tions for approval. 2
MINING APPLICATIONS 3
S
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 25 159 
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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 25 160 
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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 25 161 
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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 25 162 
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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), 25 163 
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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 25 164 
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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. 25 165 
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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 24 166 
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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
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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. 25 167 
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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 law 7
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-8
nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities. 9
HUMANE TRANSFER AND TREATMENT OF ANIMALS 10
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EC. 417. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 11
of law, the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to land 12
administered by the Bureau of Land Management, or the 13
Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to land adminis-14
tered by the Forest Service (referred to in this section as 15
the ‘‘Secretary concerned’’), may transfer excess wild 16
horses and burros that have been removed from land ad-17
ministered by the Secretary concerned to other Federal, 18
State, and local government agencies for use as work ani-19
mals. 20
(b) The Secretary concerned may make a transfer 21
under subsection (a) immediately on the request of a Fed-22
eral, State, or local government agency. 23
(c) An excess wild horse or burro transferred under 24
subsection (a) shall lose status as a wild free-roaming 25 168 
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horse or burro (as defined in section 2 of Public Law 92– 1
195 (commonly known as the ‘‘Wild Free-Roaming Horses 2
and Burros Act’’) (16 U.S.C. 1332)). 3
(d) A Federal, State, or local government agency re-4
ceiving an excess wild horse or burro pursuant to sub-5
section (a) shall not— 6
(1) destroy the horse or burro in a manner that 7
results in the destruction of the horse or burro into 8
a commercial product; 9
(2) sell or otherwise transfer the horse or burro 10
in a manner that results in the destruction of the 11
horse or burro for processing into a commercial 12
product; or 13
(3) euthanize the horse or burro, except on the 14
recommendation of a licensed veterinarian in a case 15
of severe injury, illness, or advanced age. 16
(e) Amounts appropriated by this Act shall not be 17
available for— 18
(1) the destruction of any healthy, unadopted, 19
and wild horse or burro under the jurisdiction of the 20
Secretary concerned (including a contractor); or 21
(2) the sale of a wild horse or burro that results 22
in the destruction of the wild horse or burro for 23
processing into a commercial product. 24 169 
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FOREST SERVICE FACILITY REALIGNMENT AND 1
ENHANCEMENT AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 2
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EC. 418. Section 503(f) of Public Law 109–54 (16 3
U.S.C. 580d note) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘Sep-4
tember 30, 2025’’ for ‘‘September 30, 2019’’. 5
USE OF AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL 6
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EC. 419. (a)(1) None of the funds made available 7
by a State water pollution control revolving fund as au-8
thorized by section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act 9
(42 U.S.C. 300j–12) shall be used for a project for the 10
construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public 11
water system or treatment works unless all of the iron and 12
steel products used in the project are produced in the 13
United States. 14
(2) In this section, the term ‘‘iron and steel’’ products 15
means the following products made primarily of iron or 16
steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers 17
and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, 18
pipe clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, rein-19
forced precast concrete, and construction materials. 20
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or cat-21
egory of cases in which the Administrator of the Environ-22
mental Protection Agency (in this section referred to as 23
the ‘‘Administrator’’) finds that— 24 170 
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(1) applying subsection (a) would be incon-1
sistent with the public interest; 2
(2) iron and steel products are not produced in 3
the United States in sufficient and reasonably avail-4
able quantities and of a satisfactory quality; or 5
(3) inclusion of iron and steel products pro-6
duced in the United States will increase the cost of 7
the overall project by more than 25 percent. 8
(c) If the Administrator receives a request for a waiv-9
er under this section, the Administrator shall make avail-10
able to the public on an informal basis a copy of the re-11
quest and information available to the Administrator con-12
cerning the request, and shall allow for informal public 13
input on the request for at least 15 days prior to making 14
a finding based on the request. The Administrator shall 15
make the request and accompanying information available 16
by electronic means, including on the official public Inter-17
net Web site of the Environmental Protection Agency. 18
(d) This section shall be applied in a manner con-19
sistent with United States obligations under international 20
agreements. 21
(e) The Administrator may retain up to 0.25 percent 22
of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Clean and 23
Drinking Water State Revolving Funds for carrying out 24 171 
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the provisions described in subsection (a)(1) for manage-1
ment and oversight of the requirements of this section. 2
LOCAL COOPERATOR TRAINING AGREEMENTS AND TRANS -3
FERS OF EXCESS EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES FOR 4
WILDFIRES 5
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EC. 420. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized 6
to enter into grants and cooperative agreements with vol-7
unteer fire departments, rural fire departments, rangeland 8
fire protection associations, and similar organizations to 9
provide for wildland fire training and equipment, including 10
supplies and communication devices. Notwithstanding sec-11
tion 121(c) of title 40, United States Code, or section 521 12
of title 40, United States Code, the Secretary is further 13
authorized to transfer title to excess Department of the 14
Interior firefighting equipment no longer needed to carry 15
out the functions of the Department’s wildland fire man-16
agement program to such organizations. 17
RECREATION FEES 18
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EC. 421. Section 810 of the Federal Lands Recre-19
ation Enhancement Act (16 U.S.C. 6809) shall be applied 20
by substituting ‘‘October 1, 2026’’ for ‘‘September 30, 21
2019’’. 22
REPROGRAMMING GUIDELINES 23
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EC. 422. None of the funds made available in this 24
Act, in this and prior fiscal years, may be reprogrammed 25 172 
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without the advance approval of the House and Senate 1
Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the re-2
programming procedures contained in the report accom-3
panying this Act. 4
LOCAL CONTRACTORS 5
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EC. 423. Section 412 of division E of Public Law 6
112–74 shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2025’’ 7
for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’. 8
SHASTA-TRINITY MARINA FEE AUTHORITY 9
AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 10
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EC. 424. Section 422 of division F of Public Law 11
110–161 (121 Stat 1844), as amended, shall be applied 12
by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2025’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 2019’’. 13
INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 14
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EC. 425. Section 426 of division G of Public Law 15
113–76 (16 U.S.C. 565a–1 note) shall be applied by sub-16
stituting ‘‘September 30, 2025’’ for ‘‘September 30, 17
2019’’. 18
FOREST BOTANICAL PRODUCTS FEE COLLECTION 19
AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 20
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EC. 426. Section 339 of the Department of the Inte-21
rior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as 22
enacted into law by Public Law 106–113; 16 U.S.C. 528 23
note), as amended by section 335(6) of Public Law 108– 24
108 and section 432 of Public Law 113–76, shall be ap-25 173 
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plied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2025’’ for ‘‘fiscal year 1
2019’’. 2
CHACO CANYON 3
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EC. 427. None of the funds made available by this 4
Act may be used to accept a nomination for oil and gas 5
leasing under 43 CFR 3120.3 et seq., or to offer for oil 6
and gas leasing, any Federal lands within the withdrawal 7
area identified on the map of the Chaco Culture National 8
Historical Park prepared by the Bureau of Land Manage-9
ment and dated April 2, 2019, prior to the completion of 10
the cultural resources investigation identified in the ex-11
planatory statement described in section 4 in the matter 12
preceding division A of the Consolidated Appropriations 13
Act, 2021 (Public Law 116–260). 14
TRIBAL LEASES 15
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EC. 428. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 16
of law, in the case of any lease under section 105(l) of 17
the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance 18
Act (25 U.S.C. 5324(l)), the initial lease term shall com-19
mence no earlier than the date of receipt of the lease pro-20
posal. 21
(b) The Secretaries of the Interior and Health and 22
Human Services shall, jointly or separately, during fiscal 23
year 2025 consult with tribes and tribal organizations 24
through public solicitation and other means regarding the 25 174 
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requirements for leases under section 105(l) of the Indian 1
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 2
U.S.C. 5324(l)) on how to implement a consistent and 3
transparent process for the payment of such leases. 4
FOREST ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND 5
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EC. 429. The authority provided under the heading 6
‘‘Forest Ecosystem Health and Recovery Fund’’ in title 7
I of Public Law 111–88, as amended by section 117 of 8
division F of Public Law 113–235, is further amended by 9
striking ‘‘through fiscal year 2020’’ each place it appears 10
and inserting ‘‘hereafter’’. 11
ALLOCATION OF PROJECTS , NATIONAL PARKS AND PUB -12
LIC LAND LEGACY RESTORATION FUND AND LAND 13
AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND 14
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EC. 430. (a)(1) Within 45 days of enactment of this 15
Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall allocate amounts 16
made available from the National Parks and Public Land 17
Legacy Restoration Fund for fiscal year 2025 pursuant 18
to subsection (c) of section 200402 of title 54, United 19
States Code, and as provided in subsection (e) of such sec-20
tion of such title, to the agencies of the Department of 21
the Interior and the Department of Agriculture specified, 22
in the amounts specified, for the stations and unit names 23
specified, and for the projects and activities specified in 24
the table titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: National Parks and 25 175 
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Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund Fiscal Year 2025’’ 1
in the report accompanying this Act. 2
(2) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Sec-3
retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, 4
as appropriate, shall allocate amounts made available for 5
expenditure from the Land and Water Conservation Fund 6
for fiscal year 2025 pursuant to subsection (a) of section 7
200303 of title 54, United States Code, to the agencies 8
and accounts specified, in the amounts specified, and for 9
the projects and activities specified in the table titled ‘‘Al-10
location of Funds: Land and Water Conservation Fund 11
Fiscal Year 2025’’ in the report accompanying this Act. 12
(b) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (c) 13
of this section, neither the President nor his designee may 14
allocate any amounts that are made available for any fiscal 15
year under subsection (c) of section 200402 of title 54, 16
United States Code, or subsection (a) of section 200303 17
of title 54, United States Code, other than in amounts 18
and for projects and activities that are allocated by sub-19
sections (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section: Provided, That 20
in any fiscal year, the matter preceding this proviso shall 21
not apply to the allocation of amounts for continuing ad-22
ministration of programs allocated funds from the Na-23
tional Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund 24
or the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which may 25 176 
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be allocated only in amounts that are no more than the 1
allocation for such purposes in subsections (a)(1) and 2
(a)(2) of this section. 3
(c) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary 4
of Agriculture may reallocate amounts from each agency’s 5
‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line in the table titled ‘‘Allocation 6
of Funds: National Parks and Public Land Legacy Res-7
toration Fund Fiscal Year 2025’’ to any project funded 8
by the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora-9
tion Fund within the same agency, from any fiscal year, 10
that experienced a funding deficiency due to unforeseen 11
cost overruns, in accordance with the following require-12
ments: 13
(1) ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ amounts may only be 14
reallocated if there is a risk to project completion re-15
sulting from unforeseen cost overruns; 16
(2) ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ amounts may only be 17
reallocated for cost of adjustments and changes 18
within the original scope of effort for projects fund-19
ed by the National Parks and Public Land Legacy 20
Restoration Fund; and 21
(3) The Secretary of the Interior or the Sec-22
retary of Agriculture must provide written notifica-23
tion to the Committees on Appropriations 30 days 24
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section if the amount reallocated from the ‘‘Contin-1
gency Fund’’ line for a project is projected to be 10 2
percent or greater than the following, as applicable: 3
(A) The amount allocated to that project 4
in the table titled ‘‘Allocation of Funds: Na-5
tional Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora-6
tion Fund Fiscal Year 2025’’ in the report ac-7
companying this Act; or 8
(B) The initial estimate in the most recent 9
report submitted, prior to enactment of this 10
Act, to the Committees on Appropriations pur-11
suant to section 430(e) of division E of the 12
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2025 (Public 13
Law 118–42). 14
(d)(1) Concurrent with the annual budget submission 15
of the President for fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of the 16
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each sub-17
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 18
of Representatives and the Senate project data sheets for 19
the projects in the ‘‘Submission of Annual List of Projects 20
to Congress’’ required by section 200402(h) of title 54, 21
United States Code: Provided, That the ‘‘Submission of 22
Annual List of Projects to Congress’’ must include a 23
‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line for each agency within the allo-24
cations defined in subsection (e) of section 200402 of title 25 178 
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54, United States Code: Provided further, That in the 1
event amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act for 2
the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration 3
Fund are no longer needed to complete a specified project, 4
such amounts may be reallocated in such submission to 5
that agency’s ‘‘Contingency Fund’’ line: Provided further, 6
That any proposals to change the scope of or terminate 7
a previously approved project must be clearly identified 8
in such submission. 9
(2)(A) Concurrent with the annual budget submission 10
of the President for fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of the 11
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each sub-12
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 13
of Representatives and the Senate a list of supplementary 14
allocations for Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy 15
Projects at the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and 16
Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and 17
the U.S. Forest Service that are in addition to the ‘‘Sub-18
mission of Cost Estimates’’ required by section 19
200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, that are 20
prioritized and detailed by account, program, and project, 21
and that total no less than half the full amount allocated 22
to each account for that land management Agency under 23
the allocations submitted under section 200303(c)(1) of 24
title 54, United States Code: Provided, That in the event 25 179 
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amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act pursuant 1
to subsection (a) of section 200303 of title 54, United 2
States Code are no longer needed because a project has 3
been completed or can no longer be executed, such 4
amounts must be clearly identified if proposed for realloca-5
tion in the annual budget submission. 6
(B) The Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy 7
projects in the ‘‘Submission of Cost Estimates’’ required 8
by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, 9
and on the list of supplementary allocations required by 10
subparagraph (A) shall be comprised only of projects for 11
which a willing seller has been identified and for which 12
an appraisal or market research has been initiated. 13
(C) Concurrent with the annual budget submission 14
of the President for fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of the 15
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each sub-16
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 17
of Representatives and the Senate project data sheets in 18
the same format and containing the same level of detailed 19
information that is found on such sheets in the Budget 20
Justifications annually submitted by the Department of 21
the Interior with the President’s Budget for the projects 22
in the ‘‘Submission of Cost Estimates’’ required by section 23
200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, and in the 24
same format and containing the same level of detailed in-25 180 
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formation that is found on such sheets submitted to the 1
Committees pursuant to section 427 of division D of the 2
Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public 3
Law 116–94) for the list of supplementary allocations re-4
quired by subparagraph (A). 5
(e) The Department of the Interior and the Depart-6
ment of Agriculture shall provide the Committees on Ap-7
propriations of the House of Representatives and Senate 8
quarterly reports on the status of balances of projects and 9
activities funded by the National Parks and Public Land 10
Legacy Restoration Fund for amounts allocated pursuant 11
to subsection (a)(1) of this section and the status of bal-12
ances of projects and activities funded by the Land and 13
Water Conservation Fund for amounts allocated pursuant 14
to subsection (a)(2) of this section, including all uncom-15
mitted, committed, and unobligated funds, and, for 16
amounts allocated pursuant to subsection (a)(1) of this 17
section, National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restora-18
tion Fund amounts reallocated pursuant to subsection (c) 19
of this section. 20
POLICIES RELATING TO BIOMASS ENERGY 21
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EC. 431. To support the key role that forests in the 22
United States can play in addressing the energy needs of 23
the United States, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary 24
of Agriculture, and the Administrator of the Environ-25 181 
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mental Protection Agency shall, consistent with their mis-1
sions, jointly— 2
(1) ensure that Federal policy relating to forest 3
bioenergy— 4
(A) is consistent across all Federal depart-5
ments and agencies; and 6
(B) recognizes the full benefits of the use 7
of forest biomass for energy, conservation, and 8
responsible forest management; and 9
(2) establish clear and simple policies for the 10
use of forest biomass as an energy solution, includ-11
ing policies that— 12
(A) reflect the carbon neutrality of forest 13
bioenergy and recognize biomass as a renewable 14
energy source, provided the use of forest bio-15
mass for energy production does not cause con-16
version of forests to non-forest use; 17
(B) encourage private investment through-18
out the forest biomass supply chain, including 19
in— 20
(i) working forests; 21
(ii) harvesting operations; 22
(iii) forest improvement operations; 23
(iv) forest bioenergy production; 24
(v) wood products manufacturing; or 25 182 
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(vi) paper manufacturing; 1
(C) encourage forest management to im-2
prove forest health; and 3
(D) recognize State initiatives to produce 4
and use forest biomass. 5
SMALL REMOTE INCINERATORS 6
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EC. 432. None of the funds made available in this 7
Act may be used to implement or enforce the regulation 8
issued on March 21, 2011 at 40 CFR part 60 subparts 9
CCCC and DDDD with respect to units in the State of 10
Alaska that are defined as ‘‘small, remote incinerator’’ 11
units in those regulations and, until a subsequent regula-12
tion is issued, the Administrator shall implement the law 13
and regulations in effect prior to such date. 14
TIMBER SALE REQUIREMENTS 15
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EC. 433. No timber sale in Alaska’s Region 10 shall 16
be advertised if the indicated rate is deficit (defined as 17
the value of the timber is not sufficient to cover all logging 18
and stumpage costs and provide a normal profit and risk 19
allowance under the Forest Service’s appraisal process) 20
when appraised using a residual value appraisal. The west-21
ern red cedar timber from those sales which is surplus 22
to the needs of the domestic processors in Alaska, shall 23
be made available to domestic processors in the contiguous 24
48 United States at prevailing domestic prices. All addi-25 183 
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tional western red cedar volume not sold to Alaska or con-1
tiguous 48 United States domestic processors may be ex-2
ported to foreign markets at the election of the timber sale 3
holder. All Alaska yellow cedar may be sold at prevailing 4
export prices at the election of the timber sale holder. 5
TRANSFER AUTHORITY TO FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINIS -6
TRATION FOR THE NATIONAL PARKS AND PUBLIC 7
LAND LEGACY RESTORATION FUND 8
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EC. 434. Funds made available or allocated in this 9
Act to the Department of the Interior or the Department 10
of Agriculture that are subject to the allocations and limi-11
tations in 54 U.S.C. 200402(e) and prohibitions in 54 12
U.S.C. 200402(f) may be further allocated or reallocated 13
to the Federal Highway Administration for transportation 14
projects of the covered agencies defined in 54 U.S.C. 15
200401(2). 16
PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS 17
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EC. 435. Notwithstanding any other provision of 18
law, none of the funds made available in this Act or any 19
other Act may be used to promulgate or implement any 20
regulation requiring the issuance of permits under title V 21
of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7661 et seq.) for carbon 22
dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions 23
resulting from biological processes associated with live-24
stock production. 25 184 
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GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING RESTRICTIONS 1
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EC. 436. Notwithstanding any other provision of 2
law, none of the funds made available in this or any other 3
Act may be used to implement any provision in a rule, 4
if that provision requires mandatory reporting of green-5
house gas emissions from manure management systems. 6
FUNDING PROHIBITION 7
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EC. 437. None of the funds made available by this 8
or any other Act may be used to regulate the lead content 9
of ammunition, ammunition components, or fishing tackle 10
under the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2601 11
et seq.) or any other law. 12
FIREFIGHTER PAY CAP 13
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EC. 438. Section 1701 of division B of the Extend-14
ing Government Funding and Delivering Emergency As-15
sistance Act (5 U.S.C. 5547 note), as amended by Public 16
Law 117–103, is further amended— 17
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking the last 18
sentence and inserting ‘‘Any Services during a given 19
calendar year that generate payments payable in the 20
subsequent calendar year shall be disregarded in ap-21
plying this subsection’’; and 22
(2) in subsections (a), (b), and (c) by inserting 23
‘‘or 2025’’ after ‘‘or 2024’’ each place it appears. 24 185 
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ALASKA NATIVE REGIONAL HEALTH ENTITIES 1
AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION 2
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EC. 439. Section 424(a) of title IV of division G of 3
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 4
113–76) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘October 1, 5
2025’’ for ‘‘December 24, 2022’’. 6
EXTENSION OF THE ALASKA NATIVE VIETNAM ERA 7
VETERANS LAND ALLOTMENT PROGRAM 8
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EC. 440. Section 1119(b)(3)(B) of the John D. Din-9
gell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act 10
(43 U.S.C. 1629g–1(b)(3)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘5- 11
year period’’ and inserting ‘‘10-year period’’. 12
COST SHARE WAIVER 13
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EC. 441. The Secretary of the Interior or the Sec-14
retary of Agriculture, may waive, in whole or in part, the 15
non-Federal cost sharing requirement of any appropriate 16
conservation project under section 212(a)(1) of the Public 17
Lands Corps Act (16 U.S.C. 1729(a)(1)): Provided, That 18
in the event of such a waiver, the Secretary of the Interior 19
or the Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, is author-20
ized to pay up to 100 percent of the costs of such con-21
servation project. 22 186 
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GOOD NEIGHBOR AUTHORITY 1
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EC. 442. Section 8206 of the Agriculture Act of 2
2014 (16 U.S.C. 2113a), as amended, shall be applied by 3
substituting ‘‘2025’’ for ‘‘2024’’. 4
CRITICAL MINERALS 5
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EC. 443. In implementing regulations related to tail-6
pipe greenhouse gas emissions standards under section 7
202(a) of the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection 8
Agency shall assess and report to Congress on the impact 9
such regulations would have on the amount of critical min-10
erals extracted, processed, or recycled by a foreign entity 11
of concern (as defined in section 40207(a)(5) of the Infra-12
structure Investment and Jobs Act (42 U.S.C. 13
18741(a)(5))). 14
AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS 15
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EC. 444. Each amount designated in this Act by the 16
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-17
tion 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-18
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 shall be available (or 19
repurposed, rescinded, or transferred, if applicable) only 20
if the President subsequently so designates all such 21
amounts and transmits such designations to the Congress. 22
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE 23
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EC. 445. (a) Sections 1 through 3 of S. 2272 (A 24
bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for 25 187 
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special base rates of pay for wildland firefighters, and for 1
other purposes) of the 118th Congress, as placed on the 2
calendar of the Senate on September 11, 2023, are hereby 3
enacted into law. 4
(b) In publishing this Act in slip form and in the 5
United States Statutes at large pursuant to section 112 6
of title 1, United States Code, the Archivist of the United 7
States shall include after the date of approval at the end 8
an appendix setting forth the text of the sections of the 9
bill referred to in subsection (a). 10
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-11
terior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations 12
Act, 2025’’. 13 Calendar No. 
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S. 4802 
[Report No. 118–201] 
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
25, 2024 
Read twice and placed on the calendar