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[S. 2605 Reported in Senate (RS)]

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                                                       Calendar No. 186
118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2605

                          [Report No. 118-83]

Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, 
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 27, 2023

    Mr. Merkley, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the 
    following original bill; which was read twice and placed on the 
                                calendar

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                                 A BILL


 
Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, 
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums 
are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for the Department of the Interior, environment, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for 
other purposes, namely:

                                TITLE I

                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

                       Bureau of Land Management

                   management of lands and resources

    For necessary expenses for protection, use, improvement, 
development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classification, acquisition 
of easements and other interests in lands, and performance of other 
functions, including maintenance of facilities, as authorized by law, 
in the management of lands and their resources under the jurisdiction 
of the Bureau of Land Management, including the general administration 
of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral potential of public lands 
pursuant to section 1010(a) of Public Law 96-487 (16 U.S.C. 3150(a)), 
$1,371,619,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025; of which 
$76,187,000 for annual maintenance and deferred maintenance programs 
and $147,888,000 for the wild horse and burro program, as authorized by 
Public Law 92-195 (16 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), shall remain available 
until expended:  Provided, That amounts in the fee account of the BLM 
Permit Processing Improvement Fund may be used for any bureau-related 
expenses associated with the processing of oil and gas applications for 
permits to drill and related use of authorizations:  Provided further, 
That of the amounts made available under this heading, up to $1,000,000 
may be made available for the purposes described in section 
122(e)(1)(A) of division G of Public Law 115-31 (43 U.S.C. 
1748c(e)(1)(A)):  Provided further, That of the amounts made available 
under this heading, not to exceed $15,000 may be for official reception 
and representation expenses:  Provided further, That of the amounts 
made available under this heading, $150,000 is for projects specified 
for Land Management Priorities in the table titled ``Congressionally 
Directed Spending Items'' in the report accompanying this Act.
    In addition, $42,696,000 is for Mining Law Administration program 
operations, including the cost of administering the mining claim fee 
program, to remain available until expended, to be reduced by amounts 
collected by the Bureau and credited to this appropriation from mining 
claim maintenance fees and location fees that are hereby authorized for 
fiscal year 2024, so as to result in a final appropriation estimated at 
not more than $1,371,619,000, and $2,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, from communication site rental fees established by the Bureau 
for the cost of administering communication site activities.

                   oregon and california grant lands

    For expenses necessary for management, protection, and development 
of resources and for construction, operation, and maintenance of access 
roads, reforestation, and other improvements on the revested Oregon and 
California Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Oregon 
and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and on adjacent rights-
of-way; and acquisition of lands or interests therein, including 
existing connecting roads on or adjacent to such grant lands; 
$121,334,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That 25 
percent of the aggregate of all receipts during the current fiscal year 
from the revested Oregon and California Railroad grant lands is hereby 
made a charge against the Oregon and California land-grant fund and 
shall be transferred to the General Fund in the Treasury in accordance 
with the second paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of 
August 28, 1937 (43 U.S.C. 2605).

                           range improvements

    For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of lands and 
interests therein, and improvement of Federal rangelands pursuant to 
section 401 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 
U.S.C. 1751), notwithstanding any other Act, sums equal to 50 percent 
of all moneys received during the prior fiscal year under sections 3 
and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 315b, 315m) and the amount 
designated for range improvements from grazing fees and mineral leasing 
receipts from Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the Department of the 
Interior pursuant to law, but not less than $10,000,000, to remain 
available until expended:  Provided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall 
be available for administrative expenses.

               service charges, deposits, and forfeitures

    For administrative expenses and other costs related to processing 
application documents and other authorizations for use and disposal of 
public lands and resources, for costs of providing copies of official 
public land documents, for monitoring construction, operation, and 
termination of facilities in conjunction with use authorizations, and 
for rehabilitation of damaged property, such amounts as may be 
collected under Public Law 94-579 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), and under 
section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 185), to remain 
available until expended:  Provided, That notwithstanding any provision 
to the contrary of section 305(a) of Public Law 94-579 (43 U.S.C. 
1735(a)), any moneys that have been or will be received pursuant to 
that section, whether as a result of forfeiture, compromise, or 
settlement, if not appropriate for refund pursuant to section 305(c) of 
that Act (43 U.S.C. 1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended 
under the authority of this Act by the Secretary of the Interior to 
improve, protect, or rehabilitate any public lands administered through 
the Bureau of Land Management which have been damaged by the action of 
a resource developer, purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized person, 
without regard to whether all moneys collected from each such action 
are used on the exact lands damaged which led to the action:  Provided 
further, That any such moneys that are in excess of amounts needed to 
repair damage to the exact land for which funds were collected may be 
used to repair other damaged public lands.

                       miscellaneous trust funds

    In addition to amounts authorized to be expended under existing 
laws, there is hereby appropriated such amounts as may be contributed 
under section 307 of Public Law 94-579 (43 U.S.C. 1737), and such 
amounts as may be advanced for administrative costs, surveys, 
appraisals, and costs of making conveyances of omitted lands under 
section 211(b) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1721(b)), to remain available 
until expended.

                       administrative provisions

    The Bureau of Land Management may carry out the operations funded 
under this Act by direct expenditure, contracts, grants, cooperative 
agreements, and reimbursable agreements with public and private 
entities, including with States. Appropriations for the Bureau shall be 
available for purchase, erection, and dismantlement of temporary 
structures, and alteration and maintenance of necessary buildings and 
appurtenant facilities to which the United States has title; up to 
$100,000 for payments, at the discretion of the Secretary, for 
information or evidence concerning violations of laws administered by 
the Bureau; miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement 
activities authorized or approved by the Secretary and to be accounted 
for solely on the Secretary's certificate, not to exceed $10,000:  
Provided, That notwithstanding Public Law 90-620 (44 U.S.C. 501), the 
Bureau may, under cooperative cost-sharing and partnership arrangements 
authorized by law, procure printing services from cooperators in 
connection with jointly produced publications for which the cooperators 
share the cost of printing either in cash or in services, and the 
Bureau determines the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted quality 
standards:  Provided further, That projects to be funded pursuant to a 
written commitment by a State government to provide an identified 
amount of money in support of the project may be carried out by the 
Bureau on a reimbursable basis.

                United States Fish and Wildlife Service

                          resource management

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service, as authorized by law, and for scientific and economic studies, 
general administration, and for the performance of other authorized 
functions related to such resources, $1,586,086,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2025, of which not to exceed $15,000 may 
be for official reception and representation expenses:  Provided, That 
not to exceed $23,398,000 shall be used for implementing subsections 
(a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 
1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533) (except for processing petitions, developing and 
issuing proposed and final regulations, and taking any other steps to 
implement actions described in subsection (c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or 
(c)(2)(B)(ii) of such section):  Provided further, That of the amount 
appropriated under this heading, $44,920,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2025, shall be for projects specified for Stewardship 
Priorities in the table titled ``Congressionally Directed Spending 
Items'' in the report accompanying this Act:  Provided further, That 
amounts in the preceding proviso may be transferred to the appropriate 
program, project, or activity under this heading and shall continue to 
only be available for the purposes and in such amounts as such funds 
were originally appropriated.

                              construction

    For construction, improvement, acquisition, or removal of buildings 
and other facilities required in the conservation, management, 
investigation, protection, and utilization of fish and wildlife 
resources, and the acquisition of lands and interests therein; 
$29,904,000, to remain available until expended.

            cooperative endangered species conservation fund

    For expenses necessary to carry out section 6 of the Endangered 
Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1535), $24,564,000, to remain available 
until expended, to be derived from the Cooperative Endangered Species 
Conservation Fund.

                     national wildlife refuge fund

    For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 17, 1978 (16 
U.S.C. 715s), $13,228,000.

               north american wetlands conservation fund

    For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the North 
American Wetlands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4401 et seq.), 
$50,150,000, to remain available until expended.

                neotropical migratory bird conservation

    For expenses necessary to carry out the Neotropical Migratory Bird 
Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 6101 et seq.), $5,100,000, to remain 
available until expended.

                multinational species conservation fund

    For expenses necessary to carry out the African Elephant 
Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.), the Asian Elephant 
Conservation Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 4261 et seq.), the Rhinoceros and 
Tiger Conservation Act of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Great Ape 
Conservation Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), and the Marine 
Turtle Conservation Act of 2004 (16 U.S.C. 6601 et seq.), $21,000,000, 
to remain available until expended.

                    state and tribal wildlife grants

    For wildlife conservation grants to States and to the District of 
Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, the 
Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Indian tribes under the 
provisions of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 and the Fish and 
Wildlife Coordination Act, for the development and implementation of 
programs for the benefit of wildlife and their habitat, including 
species that are not hunted or fished, $73,812,000, to remain available 
until expended:  Provided, That of the amount provided herein, 
$6,200,000 is for a competitive grant program for Indian tribes not 
subject to the remaining provisions of this appropriation:  Provided 
further, That $7,612,000 is for a competitive grant program to 
implement approved plans for States, territories, and other 
jurisdictions and at the discretion of affected States, the regional 
Associations of fish and wildlife agencies, not subject to the 
remaining provisions of this appropriation:  Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall, after deducting $13,812,000 and administrative 
expenses, apportion the amount provided herein in the following manner: 
(1) to the District of Columbia and to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
each a sum equal to not more than one-half of 1 percent thereof; and 
(2) to Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, each a sum equal to not 
more than one-fourth of 1 percent thereof:  Provided further, That the 
Secretary of the Interior shall apportion the remaining amount in the 
following manner: (1) one-third of which is based on the ratio to which 
the land area of such State bears to the total land area of all such 
States; and (2) two-thirds of which is based on the ratio to which the 
population of such State bears to the total population of all such 
States:  Provided further, That the amounts apportioned under this 
paragraph shall be adjusted equitably so that no State shall be 
apportioned a sum which is less than 1 percent of the amount available 
for apportionment under this paragraph for any fiscal year or more than 
5 percent of such amount:  Provided further, That the Federal share of 
planning grants shall not exceed 75 percent of the total costs of such 
projects and the Federal share of implementation grants shall not 
exceed 65 percent of the total costs of such projects:  Provided 
further, That the non-Federal share of such projects may not be derived 
from Federal grant programs:  Provided further, That any amount 
apportioned in 2024 to any State, territory, or other jurisdiction that 
remains unobligated as of September 30, 2024, shall be reapportioned, 
together with funds appropriated in 2025, in the manner provided 
herein.

                       administrative provisions

    The United States Fish and Wildlife Service may carry out the 
operations of Service programs by direct expenditure, contracts, 
grants, cooperative agreements and reimbursable agreements with public 
and private entities. Appropriations and funds available to the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for repair of 
damage to public roads within and adjacent to reservation areas caused 
by operations of the Service; options for the purchase of land at not 
to exceed one dollar for each option; facilities incident to such 
public recreational uses on conservation areas as are consistent with 
their primary purpose; and the maintenance and improvement of aquaria, 
buildings, and other facilities under the jurisdiction of the Service 
and to which the United States has title, and which are used pursuant 
to law in connection with management, and investigation of fish and 
wildlife resources:  Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the 
Service may, under cooperative cost sharing and partnership 
arrangements authorized by law, procure printing services from 
cooperators in connection with jointly produced publications for which 
the cooperators share at least one-half the cost of printing either in 
cash or services and the Service determines the cooperator is capable 
of meeting accepted quality standards:  Provided further, That the 
Service may accept donated aircraft as replacements for existing 
aircraft:  Provided further, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, all 
fees collected for non-toxic shot review and approval shall be 
deposited under the heading ``United States Fish and Wildlife Service--
Resource Management'' and shall be available to the Secretary, without 
further appropriation, to be used for expenses of processing of such 
non-toxic shot type or coating applications and revising regulations as 
necessary, and shall remain available until expended.

                         National Park Service

                 operation of the national park system

    For expenses necessary for the management, operation, and 
maintenance of areas and facilities administered by the National Park 
Service and for the general administration of the National Park 
Service, $2,935,004,000, of which $11,661,000 for planning and 
interagency coordination in support of Everglades restoration and 
$135,980,000 for maintenance, repair, or rehabilitation projects for 
constructed assets and $190,184,000 for cyclic maintenance projects for 
constructed assets and cultural resources and $10,000,000 for uses 
authorized by section 101122 of title 54, United States Code shall 
remain available until September 30, 2025, and not to exceed $15,000 
may be for official reception and representative expenses:  Provided, 
That funds appropriated under this heading in this Act are available 
for the purposes of section 5 of Public Law 95-348:  Provided further, 
That notwithstanding section 9 of the 400 Years of African-American 
History Commission Act (36 U.S.C. note prec. 101; Public Law 115-102), 
$3,300,000 of the funds provided under this heading shall be made 
available for the purposes specified by that Act:  Provided further, 
That sections 7(b) and 8 of that Act shall be amended by striking 
``July 1, 2024'' and inserting ``July 1, 2025''.
    In addition, for purposes described in section 2404 of Public Law 
116-9, an amount equal to the amount deposited in this fiscal year into 
the National Park Medical Services Fund established pursuant to such 
section of such Act, to remain available until expended, shall be 
derived from such Fund.

                  national recreation and preservation

    For expenses necessary to carry out recreation programs, natural 
programs, cultural programs, heritage partnership programs, 
environmental compliance and review, international park affairs, and 
grant administration, not otherwise provided for, $93,433,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2025, of which $1,640,000 shall be 
for projects specified for Statutory and Contractual Aid in the table 
titled ``Congressionally Directed Spending Items'' in the report 
accompanying this Act.

                       historic preservation fund

    For expenses necessary in carrying out the National Historic 
Preservation Act (division A of subtitle III of title 54, United States 
Code), $195,166,000, to be derived from the Historic Preservation Fund 
and to remain available until September 30, 2025, of which $19,766,000 
shall be for Save America's Treasures grants for preservation of 
nationally significant sites, structures and artifacts as authorized by 
section 7303 of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (54 
U.S.C. 3089):  Provided, That an individual Save America's Treasures 
grant shall be matched by non-Federal funds:  Provided further, That 
individual projects shall only be eligible for one grant:  Provided 
further, That all projects to be funded shall be approved by the 
Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations:  Provided further, That of the funds 
provided for the Historic Preservation Fund, $1,250,000 is for 
competitive grants for the survey and nomination of properties to the 
National Register of Historic Places and as National Historic Landmarks 
associated with communities currently under-represented, as determined 
by the Secretary; $29,000,000 is for competitive grants to preserve the 
sites and stories of the African American Civil Rights movement; 
$5,000,000 is for competitive grants to preserve sites related to the 
struggle of all people to achieve equal rights in America; $11,000,000 
is for grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities; 
$12,500,000 is for competitive grants for the restoration of historic 
properties of national, State, and local significance listed on or 
eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, to 
be made without imposing the usage or direct grant restrictions of 
section 101(e)(3) (54 U.S.C. 302904) of the National Historical 
Preservation Act; $10,000,000 is for a competitive grant program to 
honor the semiquincentennial anniversary of the United States by 
restoring and preserving sites and structures listed on the National 
Register of Historic Places that commemorate the founding of the 
nation; and $19,766,000 is for projects specified for the Historic 
Preservation Fund in the table titled ``Congressionally Directed 
Spending Items'' in the report accompanying this Act:  Provided 
further, That such competitive grants shall be made without imposing 
the matching requirements in section 302902(b)(3) of title 54, United 
States Code to States and Indian tribes as defined in chapter 3003 of 
such title, Native Hawaiian organizations, local governments, including 
Certified Local Governments, and non-profit organizations.

                              construction

    For construction, improvements, repair, or replacement of physical 
facilities, and related equipment, and compliance and planning for 
programs and areas administered by the National Park Service, 
$232,862,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, for any project initially 
funded in fiscal year 2024 with a future phase indicated in the 
National Park Service 5-Year Line Item Construction Plan, a single 
procurement may be issued which includes the full scope of the project: 
 Provided further, That the solicitation and contract shall contain the 
clause availability of funds found at 48 CFR 52.232-18:  Provided 
further, That National Park Service Donations, Park Concessions 
Franchise Fees, and Recreation Fees may be made available for the cost 
of adjustments and changes within the original scope of effort for 
projects funded by the National Park Service Construction 
appropriation:  Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior 
shall consult with the Committees on Appropriations, in accordance with 
current reprogramming thresholds, prior to making any charges 
authorized by this section.

                          centennial challenge

    For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of section 
101701 of title 54, United States Code, relating to challenge cost 
share agreements, $15,000,000, to remain available until expended, for 
Centennial Challenge projects and programs:  Provided, That not less 
than 50 percent of the total cost of each project or program shall be 
derived from non-Federal sources in the form of donated cash, assets, 
or a pledge of donation guaranteed by an irrevocable letter of credit.

                       administrative provisions

             (including transfer and rescissions of funds)

    In addition to other uses set forth in section 101917(c)(2) of 
title 54, United States Code, franchise fees credited to a sub-account 
shall be available for expenditure by the Secretary, without further 
appropriation, for use at any unit within the National Park System to 
extinguish or reduce liability for Possessory Interest or leasehold 
surrender interest. Such funds may only be used for this purpose to the 
extent that the benefitting unit anticipated franchise fee receipts 
over the term of the contract at that unit exceed the amount of funds 
used to extinguish or reduce liability. Franchise fees at the 
benefitting unit shall be credited to the sub-account of the 
originating unit over a period not to exceed the term of a single 
contract at the benefitting unit, in the amount of funds so expended to 
extinguish or reduce liability.
    For the costs of administration of the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund grants authorized by section 105(a)(2)(B) of the Gulf of Mexico 
Energy Security Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-432), the National Park 
Service may retain up to 3 percent of the amounts which are authorized 
to be disbursed under such section, such retained amounts to remain 
available until expended.
    National Park Service funds may be transferred to the Federal 
Highway Administration (FHWA), Department of Transportation, for 
purposes authorized under 23 U.S.C. 203. Transfers may include a 
reasonable amount for FHWA administrative support costs.
    Of the unobligated balances from amounts made available under the 
heading ``Centennial Challenge'', $5,000,000 is permanently rescinded:  
Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were 
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a 
concurrent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
    Of the unobligated balances from amounts made available under the 
heading ``Construction'' from fiscal year 2021 or before, $5,500,000 is 
permanently rescinded:  Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded from 
amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
    Of the unobligated balances from amounts made available under the 
heading ``Construction'' from fiscal year 2023 for equipment 
replacement, $4,000,000 is permanently rescinded:  Provided, That no 
amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent 
resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985.

                    United States Geological Survey

                 surveys, investigations, and research

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For expenses necessary for the United States Geological Survey to 
perform surveys, investigations, and research covering topography, 
geology, hydrology, biology, and the mineral and water resources of the 
United States, its territories and possessions, and other areas as 
authorized by 43 U.S.C. 31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as to their 
mineral and water resources; give engineering supervision to power 
permittees and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission licensees; 
administer the minerals exploration program (30 U.S.C. 641); conduct 
inquiries into the economic conditions affecting mining and materials 
processing industries (30 U.S.C. 3, 21a, and 1603; 50 U.S.C. 98g(a)(1)) 
and related purposes as authorized by law; and to publish and 
disseminate data relative to the foregoing activities; $1,515,452,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2025; of which $104,184,000 
shall remain available until expended for satellite operations; and of 
which $74,840,000 shall be available until expended for deferred 
maintenance and capital improvement projects that exceed $100,000 in 
cost:  Provided, That none of the funds provided for the ecosystem 
research activity shall be used to conduct new surveys on private 
property, unless specifically authorized in writing by the property 
owner:  Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be 
used to pay more than one-half the cost of topographic mapping or water 
resources data collection and investigations carried on in cooperation 
with States and municipalities:  Provided further, That of the amount 
appropriated under this heading, $5,237,000 shall be for projects 
specified for Special Initiatives in the table titled ``Congressionally 
Directed Spending Items'' in the report accompanying this Act:  
Provided further, That amounts in the preceding proviso may be 
transferred to the appropriate program, project, or activity under this 
heading and shall continue to only be available for the purposes and in 
such amounts as such funds were originally appropriated:  Provided 
further, That of the amount appropriated under this heading, not to 
exceed $15,000 may be for official reception and representation 
expenses.

                       administrative provisions

    From within the amount appropriated for activities of the United 
States Geological Survey such sums as are necessary shall be available 
for contracting for the furnishing of topographic maps and for the 
making of geophysical or other specialized surveys when it is 
administratively determined that such procedures are in the public 
interest; construction and maintenance of necessary buildings and 
appurtenant facilities; acquisition of lands for gauging stations, 
observation wells, and seismic equipment; expenses of the United States 
National Committee for Geological Sciences; and payment of compensation 
and expenses of persons employed by the Survey duly appointed to 
represent the United States in the negotiation and administration of 
interstate compacts:  Provided, That activities funded by 
appropriations herein made may be accomplished through the use of 
contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements (including noncompetitive 
cooperative agreements with Tribes) as defined in section 6302 of title 
31, United States Code:  Provided further, That the United States 
Geological Survey may enter into contracts or cooperative agreements 
directly with individuals or indirectly with institutions or nonprofit 
organizations, without regard to 41 U.S.C. 6101, for the temporary or 
intermittent services of students or recent graduates, who shall be 
considered employees for the purpose of chapters 57 and 81 of title 5, 
United States Code, relating to compensation for travel and work 
injuries, and chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code, relating to 
tort claims, but shall not be considered to be Federal employees for 
any other purposes.

                   Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

                        ocean energy management

    For expenses necessary for granting and administering leases, 
easements, rights-of-way, and agreements for use for oil and gas, other 
minerals, energy, and marine-related purposes on the Outer Continental 
Shelf and approving operations related thereto, as authorized by law; 
for environmental studies, as authorized by law; for implementing other 
laws and to the extent provided by Presidential or Secretarial 
delegation; and for matching grants or cooperative agreements, 
$219,960,000, of which $163,960,000 is to remain available until 
September 30, 2025, and of which $56,000,000 is to remain available 
until expended:  Provided, That this total appropriation shall be 
reduced by amounts collected by the Secretary of the Interior and 
credited to this appropriation from additions to receipts resulting 
from increases to lease rental rates in effect on August 5, 1993, and 
from cost recovery fees from activities conducted by the Bureau of 
Ocean Energy Management pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 
Act, including studies, assessments, analysis, and miscellaneous 
administrative activities:  Provided further, That the sum herein 
appropriated shall be reduced as such collections are received during 
the fiscal year, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2024 
appropriation estimated at not more than $163,960,000:  Provided 
further, That not to exceed $3,000 shall be available for reasonable 
expenses related to promoting volunteer beach and marine cleanup 
activities:  Provided further, That not to exceed $5,000 shall be 
available for official reception and representation.

             Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

             offshore safety and environmental enforcement

    For expenses necessary for the regulation of operations related to 
leases, easements, rights-of-way, and agreements for use for oil and 
gas, other minerals, energy, and marine-related purposes on the Outer 
Continental Shelf, as authorized by law; for enforcing and implementing 
laws and regulations as authorized by law and to the extent provided by 
Presidential or Secretarial delegation; and for matching grants or 
cooperative agreements, $175,886,000, of which $144,886,000, including 
not to exceed $3,000 for official reception and representation 
expenses, is to remain available until September 30, 2025, and of which 
$31,000,000 is to remain available until expended, including $3,000,000 
for offshore decommissioning activities:  Provided, That this total 
appropriation shall be reduced by amounts collected by the Secretary of 
the Interior and credited to this appropriation from additions to 
receipts resulting from increases to lease rental rates in effect on 
August 5, 1993, and from cost recovery fees from activities conducted 
by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement pursuant to the 
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, including studies, assessments, 
analysis, and miscellaneous administrative activities:  Provided 
further, That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as such 
collections are received during the fiscal year, so as to result in a 
final fiscal year 2024 appropriation estimated at not more than 
$147,886,000.
    For an additional amount, $33,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, to be reduced by amounts collected by the Secretary and 
credited to this appropriation, which shall be derived from non-
refundable inspection fees collected in fiscal year 2024, as provided 
in this Act:  Provided, That to the extent that amounts realized from 
such inspection fees exceed $33,000,000, the amounts realized in excess 
of $33,000,000 shall be credited to this appropriation and remain 
available until expended:  Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024, 
not less than 50 percent of the inspection fees expended by the Bureau 
of Safety and Environmental Enforcement will be used to fund personnel 
and mission-related costs to expand capacity and expedite the orderly 
development, subject to environmental safeguards, of the Outer 
Continental Shelf pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 
U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), including the review of applications for permits 
to drill.

                           oil spill research

    For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 1016; title 
IV, sections 4202 and 4303; title VII; and title VIII, section 8201 of 
the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, $15,099,000, which shall be derived from 
the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended.

          Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

                       regulation and technology

    For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, Public Law 95-87, 
$121,026,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, of which 
$65,000,000 shall be available for State and tribal regulatory grants, 
and of which not to exceed $5,000 may be for official reception and 
representation expenses:  Provided, That appropriations for the Office 
of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement may provide for the 
travel and per diem expenses of State and tribal personnel attending 
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored 
training.
    In addition, for costs to review, administer, and enforce permits 
issued by the Office pursuant to section 507 of Public Law 95-87 (30 
U.S.C. 1257), $40,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, 
That fees assessed and collected by the Office pursuant to such section 
507 shall be credited to this account as discretionary offsetting 
collections, to remain available until expended:  Provided further, 
That the sum herein appropriated from the general fund shall be reduced 
as collections are received during the fiscal year, so as to result in 
a fiscal year 2024 appropriation estimated at not more than 
$121,026,000.

                    abandoned mine reclamation fund

    For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the Surface Mining 
Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, Public Law 95-87, $33,904,000, to 
be derived from receipts of the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to 
remain available until expended:  Provided, That pursuant to Public Law 
97-365, the Department of the Interior is authorized to use up to 20 
percent from the recovery of the delinquent debt owed to the United 
States Government to pay for contracts to collect these debts:  
Provided further, That funds made available under title IV of Public 
Law 95-87 may be used for any required non-Federal share of the cost of 
projects funded by the Federal Government for the purpose of 
environmental restoration related to treatment or abatement of acid 
mine drainage from abandoned mines:  Provided further, That such 
projects must be consistent with the purposes and priorities of the 
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act:  Provided further, That 
amounts provided under this heading may be used for the travel and per 
diem expenses of State and tribal personnel attending Office of Surface 
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored training:  Provided 
further, That of the amounts provided under this heading, not to exceed 
$5,000 shall be available for official reception and representation 
expenses.
    In addition, $135,000,000, to remain available until expended, for 
grants to States and federally recognized Indian Tribes for reclamation 
of abandoned mine lands and other related activities in accordance with 
the terms and conditions described in the report accompanying this Act: 
 Provided, That such additional amount shall be used for economic and 
community development in conjunction with the priorities in section 
403(a) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 
U.S.C. 1233(a)):  Provided further, That of such additional amount, 
0.75 percent shall be available to the Office of Surface Mining 
Reclamation and Enforcement for program administration:  Provided 
further, That of such additional amount, $88,042,000 shall be 
distributed in equal amounts to the three Appalachian States with the 
greatest amount of unfunded needs to meet the priorities described in 
paragraphs (1) and (2) of such section, $35,218,000 shall be 
distributed in equal amounts to the three Appalachian States with the 
subsequent greatest amount of unfunded needs to meet such priorities, 
and $11,740,000 shall be for grants to federally recognized Indian 
Tribes without regard to their status as certified or uncertified under 
the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 
1233(a)), for reclamation of abandoned mine lands and other related 
activities in accordance with the terms and conditions described in the 
report accompanying this Act and shall be used for economic and 
community development in conjunction with the priorities in section 
403(a) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977:  
Provided further, That such additional amount shall be allocated to 
States and Indian Tribes within 60 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act.

                             Indian Affairs

                        Bureau of Indian Affairs

                      operation of indian programs

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian programs, as 
authorized by law, including the Snyder Act of November 2, 1921 (25 
U.S.C. 13) and the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance 
Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), $1,934,548,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2025, except as otherwise provided 
herein; of which not to exceed $15,000 may be for official reception 
and representation expenses; of which not to exceed $78,494,000 shall 
be for welfare assistance payments:  Provided, That in cases of 
designated Federal disasters, the Secretary of the Interior may exceed 
such cap for welfare payments from the amounts provided herein, to 
provide for disaster relief to Indian communities affected by the 
disaster:  Provided further, That federally recognized Indian tribes 
and tribal organizations of federally recognized Indian tribes may use 
their tribal priority allocations for unmet welfare assistance costs:  
Provided further, That not to exceed $71,402,000 shall remain available 
until expended for housing improvement, road maintenance, land 
acquisition, attorney fees, litigation support, land records 
improvement, hearings and appeals, and the Navajo-Hopi Settlement 
Program:  Provided further, That of the amount appropriated under this 
heading, $841,000 shall be for projects specified for Special 
Initiatives (CDS) in the table titled ``Congressionally Directed 
Spending Items'' in the report accompanying this Act:  Provided 
further, That any forestry funds allocated to a federally recognized 
tribe which remain unobligated as of September 30, 2025, may be 
transferred during fiscal year 2026 to an Indian forest land assistance 
account established for the benefit of the holder of the funds within 
the holder's trust fund account:  Provided further, That any such 
unobligated balances not so transferred shall expire on September 30, 
2026:  Provided further, That in order to enhance the safety of Bureau 
field employees, the Bureau may use funds to purchase uniforms or other 
identifying articles of clothing for personnel:  Provided further, That 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs may accept transfers of funds from United 
States Customs and Border Protection to supplement any other funding 
available for reconstruction or repair of roads owned by the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs as identified on the National Tribal Transportation 
Facility Inventory, 23 U.S.C. 202(b)(1):  Provided further, That 
section 5 of the Indian Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934 (25 U.S.C. 
5108) shall be applied by substituting ``$12,000,000'' for 
``$2,000,000''.

                       indian land consolidation

    For the acquisition of fractional interests to further land 
consolidation as authorized under the Indian Land Consolidation Act 
Amendments of 2000 (Public Law 106-462), and the American Indian 
Probate Reform Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-374), $8,000,000, to remain 
available until expended:  Provided, That any provision of the Indian 
Land Consolidation Act Amendments of 2000 (Public Law 106-462) that 
requires or otherwise relates to application of a lien shall not apply 
to the acquisitions funded herein.

                         contract support costs

    For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for contract 
support costs associated with Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the 
Bureau of Indian Education for fiscal year 2024, such sums as may be 
necessary, which shall be available for obligation through September 
30, 2025:  Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
no amounts made available under this heading shall be available for 
transfer to another budget account.

                       payments for tribal leases

    For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for leases pursuant 
to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5324(l)) for fiscal year 2024, such sums as 
may be necessary, which shall be available for obligation through 
September 30, 2025:  Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, no amounts made available under this heading shall be available 
for transfer to another budget account.

                              construction

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For construction, repair, improvement, and maintenance of 
irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, and other 
facilities, including architectural and engineering services by 
contract; acquisition of lands, and interests in lands; and preparation 
of lands for farming, and for construction of the Navajo Indian 
Irrigation Project pursuant to Public Law 87-483; $154,809,000, to 
remain available until expended:  Provided, That such amounts as may be 
available for the construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project 
may be transferred to the Bureau of Reclamation:  Provided further, 
That any funds provided for the Safety of Dams program pursuant to the 
Act of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), shall be made available on a 
nonreimbursable basis:  Provided further, That this appropriation may 
be reimbursed from the Office of the Special Trustee for American 
Indians appropriation for the appropriate share of construction costs 
for space expansion needed in agency offices to meet trust reform 
implementation:  Provided further, That of the funds made available 
under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be derived from the Indian 
Irrigation Fund established by section 3211 of the WIIN Act (Public Law 
114-322; 130 Stat. 1749):  Provided further, That amounts provided 
under this heading are made available for the modernization of Federal 
field communication capabilities, in addition to amounts otherwise made 
available for such purpose.

 indian land and water claim settlements and miscellaneous payments to 
                                indians

    For payments and necessary administrative expenses for 
implementation of Indian land and water claim settlements pursuant to 
Public Laws 99-264, and 101-618, and for implementation of other land 
and water rights settlements, $976,000, to remain available until 
expended.

                 indian guaranteed loan program account

    For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, $14,884,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2025, of which $2,680,000 is for 
administrative expenses, as authorized by the Indian Financing Act of 
1974:  Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying such 
loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974:  Provided further, That these funds are available to 
subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed 
or insured, not to exceed $150,213,551.

                       Bureau of Indian Education

                 operation of indian education programs

    For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian education 
programs, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act of November 2, 
1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Education 
Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001-2019), and the Tribally Controlled 
Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), $1,136,725,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2025, except as otherwise provided 
herein:  Provided, That federally recognized Indian tribes and tribal 
organizations of federally recognized Indian tribes may use their 
tribal priority allocations for unmet welfare assistance costs:  
Provided further, That not to exceed $838,700,000 for school operations 
costs of Bureau-funded schools and other education programs shall 
become available on July 1, 2024, and shall remain available until 
September 30, 2025:  Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, including but not limited to the Indian Self-
Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) and section 1128 of 
the Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2008), not to exceed 
$95,822,000 within and only from such amounts made available for school 
operations shall be available for administrative cost grants associated 
with grants approved prior to July 1, 2024:  Provided further, That in 
order to enhance the safety of Bureau field employees, the Bureau may 
use funds to purchase uniforms or other identifying articles of 
clothing for personnel.

                         education construction

    For construction, repair, improvement, and maintenance of 
buildings, utilities, and other facilities necessary for the operation 
of Indian education programs, including architectural and engineering 
services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests in lands; 
$270,326,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That in 
order to ensure timely completion of construction projects, the 
Secretary of the Interior may assume control of a project and all funds 
related to the project, if, not later than 18 months after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, any Public Law 100-297 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et 
seq.) grantee receiving funds appropriated in this Act or in any prior 
Act, has not completed the planning and design phase of the project and 
commenced construction.

                       administrative provisions

    The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian Education may 
carry out the operation of Indian programs by direct expenditure, 
contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and grants, either 
directly or in cooperation with States and other organizations.
    Notwithstanding Public Law 87-279 (25 U.S.C. 15), the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs may contract for services in support of the management, 
operation, and maintenance of the Power Division of the San Carlos 
Irrigation Project.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available to 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau of Indian Education for 
central office oversight and Executive Direction and Administrative 
Services (except Executive Direction and Administrative Services 
funding for Tribal Priority Allocations, regional offices, and 
facilities operations and maintenance) shall be available for 
contracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative agreements with the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs or the Bureau of Indian Education under the 
provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the Tribal Self-
Governance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-413).
    In the event any tribe returns appropriations made available by 
this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Bureau of Indian 
Education, this action shall not diminish the Federal Government's 
trust responsibility to that tribe, or the government-to-government 
relationship between the United States and that tribe, or that tribe's 
ability to access future appropriations.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available to 
the Bureau of Indian Education, other than the amounts provided herein 
for assistance to public schools under 25 U.S.C. 452 et seq., shall be 
available to support the operation of any elementary or secondary 
school in the State of Alaska.
    No funds available to the Bureau of Indian Education shall be used 
to support expanded grades for any school or dormitory beyond the grade 
structure in place or approved by the Secretary of the Interior at each 
school in the Bureau of Indian Education school system as of October 1, 
1995, except that the Secretary of the Interior may waive this 
prohibition to support expansion of up to one additional grade when the 
Secretary determines such waiver is needed to support accomplishment of 
the mission of the Bureau of Indian Education, or more than one grade 
to expand the elementary grade structure for Bureau-funded schools with 
a K-2 grade structure on October 1, 1996. Appropriations made available 
in this or any prior Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be 
available, in accordance with the Bureau's funding formula, only to the 
schools in the Bureau school system as of September 1, 1996, and to any 
school or school program that was reinstated in fiscal year 2012. Funds 
made available under this Act may not be used to establish a charter 
school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term is defined in section 
1141 of the Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2021)), except that 
a charter school that is in existence on the date of the enactment of 
this Act and that has operated at a Bureau-funded school before 
September 1, 1999, may continue to operate during that period, but only 
if the charter school pays to the Bureau a pro rata share of funds to 
reimburse the Bureau for the use of the real and personal property 
(including buses and vans), the funds of the charter school are kept 
separate and apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau does not assume 
any obligation for charter school programs of the State in which the 
school is located if the charter school loses such funding. Employees 
of Bureau-funded schools sharing a campus with a charter school and 
performing functions related to the charter school's operation and 
employees of a charter school shall not be treated as Federal employees 
for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including section 113 
of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106-113, if in fiscal year 2003 
or 2004 a grantee received indirect and administrative costs pursuant 
to a distribution formula based on section 5(f) of Public Law 101-301, 
the Secretary shall continue to distribute indirect and administrative 
cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) distribution formula.
    Funds available under this Act may not be used to establish 
satellite locations of schools in the Bureau school system as of 
September 1, 1996, except that the Secretary may waive this prohibition 
in order for an Indian tribe to provide language and cultural immersion 
educational programs for non-public schools located within the 
jurisdictional area of the tribal government which exclusively serve 
tribal members, do not include grades beyond those currently served at 
the existing Bureau-funded school, provide an educational environment 
with educator presence and academic facilities comparable to the 
Bureau-funded school, comply with all applicable Tribal, Federal, or 
State health and safety standards, and the Americans with Disabilities 
Act, and demonstrate the benefits of establishing operations at a 
satellite location in lieu of incurring extraordinary costs, such as 
for transportation or other impacts to students such as those caused by 
busing students extended distances:  Provided, That no funds available 
under this Act may be used to fund operations, maintenance, 
rehabilitation, construction, or other facilities-related costs for 
such assets that are not owned by the Bureau:  Provided further, That 
the term ``satellite school'' means a school location physically 
separated from the existing Bureau school by more than 50 miles but 
that forms part of the existing school in all other respects.
    Funds made available for Tribal Priority Allocations within 
Operation of Indian Programs and Operation of Indian Education Programs 
may be used to execute requested adjustments in tribal priority 
allocations initiated by an Indian Tribe.

           Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians

                         federal trust programs

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the operation of trust programs for Indians by direct 
expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and grants, 
$104,176,000, to remain available until expended, of which not to 
exceed $17,867,000 from this or any other Act, may be available for 
historical accounting:  Provided, That funds for trust management 
improvements and litigation support may, as needed, be transferred to 
or merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, ``Operation of Indian 
Programs'' and Bureau of Indian Education, ``Operation of Indian 
Education Programs'' accounts; the Office of the Solicitor, ``Salaries 
and Expenses'' account; and the Office of the Secretary, ``Departmental 
Operations'' account:  Provided further, That funds made available 
through contracts or grants obligated during fiscal year 2024, as 
authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 
et seq.), shall remain available until expended by the contractor or 
grantee:  Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Secretary shall not be required to provide a quarterly 
statement of performance for any Indian trust account that has not had 
activity for at least 15 months and has a balance of $15 or less:  
Provided further, That the Secretary shall issue an annual account 
statement and maintain a record of any such accounts and shall permit 
the balance in each such account to be withdrawn upon the express 
written request of the account holder:  Provided further, That not to 
exceed $100,000 is available for the Secretary to make payments to 
correct administrative errors of either disbursements from or deposits 
to Individual Indian Money or Tribal accounts after September 30, 2002: 
 Provided further, That erroneous payments that are recovered shall be 
credited to and remain available in this account for this purpose:  
Provided further, That the Secretary shall not be required to reconcile 
Special Deposit Accounts with a balance of less than $500 unless the 
Office of the Special Trustee receives proof of ownership from a 
Special Deposit Accounts claimant:  Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 102 of the American Indian Trust Fund 
Management Reform Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-412) or any other 
provision of law, the Secretary may aggregate the trust accounts of 
individuals whose whereabouts are unknown for a continuous period of at 
least 5 years and shall not be required to generate periodic statements 
of performance for the individual accounts:  Provided further, That 
with respect to the preceding proviso, the Secretary shall continue to 
maintain sufficient records to determine the balance of the individual 
accounts, including any accrued interest and income, and such funds 
shall remain available to the individual account holders.

                          Departmental Offices

                        Office of the Secretary

                        departmental operations

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses for management of the Department of the 
Interior and for grants and cooperative agreements, as authorized by 
law, $142,278,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025; of 
which not to exceed $15,000 may be for official reception and 
representation expenses; of which up to $1,000,000 shall be available 
for workers compensation payments and unemployment compensation 
payments associated with the orderly closure of the United States 
Bureau of Mines; and of which $14,295,000 for Indian land, mineral, and 
resource valuation activities shall remain available until expended:  
Provided, That funds for Indian land, mineral, and resource valuation 
activities may, as needed, be transferred to and merged with the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs ``Operation of Indian Programs'' and Bureau of Indian 
Education ``Operation of Indian Education Programs'' accounts and the 
Office of the Special Trustee ``Federal Trust Programs'' account:  
Provided further, That funds made available through contracts or grants 
obligated during fiscal year 2024, as authorized by the Indian Self-
Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), shall remain 
available until expended by the contractor or grantee.

                       administrative provisions

    For fiscal year 2024, up to $400,000 of the payments authorized by 
chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, may be retained for 
administrative expenses of the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Program:  
Provided, That the amounts provided under this Act specifically for the 
Payments in Lieu of Taxes program are the only amounts available for 
payments authorized under chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code:  
Provided further, That in the event the sums appropriated for any 
fiscal year for payments pursuant to this chapter are insufficient to 
make the full payments authorized by that chapter to all units of local 
government, then the payment to each local government shall be made 
proportionally:  Provided further, That the Secretary may make 
adjustments to payment to individual units of local government to 
correct for prior overpayments or underpayments:  Provided further, 
That no payment shall be made pursuant to that chapter to otherwise 
eligible units of local government if the computed amount of the 
payment is less than $100.

                            Insular Affairs

                       assistance to territories

    For expenses necessary for assistance to territories under the 
jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior and other jurisdictions 
identified in section 104(e) of Public Law 108-188, $114,357,000, of 
which: (1) $104,140,000 shall remain available until expended for 
territorial assistance, including general technical assistance, 
maintenance assistance, disaster assistance, coral reef initiative and 
natural resources activities, and brown tree snake control and 
research; grants to the judiciary in American Samoa for compensation 
and expenses, as authorized by law (48 U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the 
Government of American Samoa, in addition to current local revenues, 
for construction and support of governmental functions; grants to the 
Government of the Virgin Islands, as authorized by law; grants to the 
Government of Guam, as authorized by law; and grants to the Government 
of the Northern Mariana Islands, as authorized by law (Public Law 94-
241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $10,217,000 shall be available until 
September 30, 2025, for salaries and expenses of the Office of Insular 
Affairs:  Provided, That all financial transactions of the territorial 
and local governments herein provided for, including such transactions 
of all agencies or instrumentalities established or used by such 
governments, may be audited by the Government Accountability Office, at 
its discretion, in accordance with chapter 35 of title 31, United 
States Code:  Provided further, That Northern Mariana Islands Covenant 
grant funding shall be provided according to those terms of the 
Agreement of the Special Representatives on Future United States 
Financial Assistance for the Northern Mariana Islands approved by 
Public Law 104-134:  Provided further, That the funds for the program 
of operations and maintenance improvement are appropriated to 
institutionalize routine operations and maintenance improvement of 
capital infrastructure with territorial participation and cost sharing 
to be determined by the Secretary based on the grantee's commitment to 
timely maintenance of its capital assets:  Provided further, That any 
appropriation for disaster assistance under this heading in this Act or 
previous appropriations Acts may be used as non-Federal matching funds 
for the purpose of hazard mitigation grants provided pursuant to 
section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170c).

                      compact of free association

    For grants and necessary expenses, $3,463,000, to remain available 
until expended, as provided for in sections 221(a)(2) and 233 of the 
Compact of Free Association for the Republic of Palau; and section 
221(a)(2) of the Compacts of Free Association for the Government of the 
Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of 
Micronesia, as authorized by Public Law 99-658 and Public Law 108-188.

                       Administrative Provisions

                     (including transfer of funds)

    At the request of the Governor of Guam, the Secretary may transfer 
discretionary funds or mandatory funds provided under section 104(e) of 
Public Law 108-188 and Public Law 104-134, that are allocated for Guam, 
to the Secretary of Agriculture for the subsidy cost of direct or 
guaranteed loans, plus not to exceed three percent of the amount of the 
subsidy transferred for the cost of loan administration, for the 
purposes authorized by the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and 
section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act 
for construction and repair projects in Guam, and such funds shall 
remain available until expended:  Provided, That such costs, including 
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974:  Provided further, That such 
loans or loan guarantees may be made without regard to the population 
of the area, credit elsewhere requirements, and restrictions on the 
types of eligible entities under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 
and section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
Act:  Provided further, That any funds transferred to the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall be in addition to funds otherwise made available to 
make or guarantee loans under such authorities.

                        Office of the Solicitor

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, $97,950,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2025.

                      Office of Inspector General

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General, 
$67,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025.

                        Department-Wide Programs

                        wildland fire management

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, fire suppression 
operations, fire science and research, emergency rehabilitation, fuels 
management activities, and rural fire assistance by the Department of 
the Interior, $1,116,286,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which not to exceed $12,500,000 shall be for the renovation or 
construction of fire facilities:  Provided, That such funds are also 
available for repayment of advances to other appropriation accounts 
from which funds were previously transferred for such purposes:  
Provided further, That of the funds provided $247,000,000 is for fuels 
management activities:  Provided further, That of the funds provided 
$20,470,000 is for burned area rehabilitation:  Provided further, That 
persons hired pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence 
and lodging without cost from funds available from this appropriation:  
Provided further, That notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 1856d, sums received 
by a bureau or office of the Department of the Interior for fire 
protection rendered pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1856 et seq., protection of 
United States property, may be credited to the appropriation from which 
funds were expended to provide that protection, and are available 
without fiscal year limitation:  Provided further, That using the 
amounts designated under this title of this Act, the Secretary of the 
Interior may enter into procurement contracts, grants, or cooperative 
agreements, for fuels management activities, and for training and 
monitoring associated with such fuels management activities on Federal 
land, or on adjacent non-Federal land for activities that benefit 
resources on Federal land:  Provided further, That the costs of 
implementing any cooperative agreement between the Federal Government 
and any non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutually agreed on by the 
affected parties:  Provided further, That notwithstanding requirements 
of the Competition in Contracting Act, the Secretary, for purposes of 
fuels management activities, may obtain maximum practicable competition 
among: (1) local private, nonprofit, or cooperative entities; (2) Youth 
Conservation Corps crews, Public Lands Corps (Public Law 109-154), or 
related partnerships with State, local, or nonprofit youth groups; (3) 
small or micro-businesses; or (4) other entities that will hire or 
train locally a significant percentage, defined as 50 percent or more, 
of the project workforce to complete such contracts:  Provided further, 
That in implementing this section, the Secretary shall develop written 
guidance to field units to ensure accountability and consistent 
application of the authorities provided herein:  Provided further, That 
funds appropriated under this heading may be used to reimburse the 
United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine 
Fisheries Service for the costs of carrying out their responsibilities 
under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) to 
consult and conference, as required by section 7 of such Act, in 
connection with wildland fire management activities:  Provided further, 
That the Secretary of the Interior may use wildland fire appropriations 
to enter into leases of real property with local governments, at or 
below fair market value, to construct capitalized improvements for fire 
facilities on such leased properties, including but not limited to fire 
guard stations, retardant stations, and other initial attack and fire 
support facilities, and to make advance payments for any such lease or 
for construction activity associated with the lease:  Provided further, 
That the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may 
authorize the transfer of funds appropriated for wildland fire 
management, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000,000 between 
the Departments when such transfers would facilitate and expedite 
wildland fire management programs and projects:  Provided further, That 
funds provided for wildfire suppression shall be available for support 
of Federal emergency response actions:  Provided further, That funds 
appropriated under this heading shall be available for assistance to or 
through the Department of State in connection with forest and rangeland 
research, technical information, and assistance in foreign countries, 
and, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, shall be available 
to support forestry, wildland fire management, and related natural 
resource activities outside the United States and its territories and 
possessions, including technical assistance, education and training, 
and cooperation with United States and international organizations:  
Provided further, That of the funds made available under this heading, 
$831,816,000 is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985:  Provided further, That of 
the funds provided under this heading, $383,657,000 shall be available 
for wildfire suppression operations and is provided to meet the terms 
of section 251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

              wildfire suppression operations reserve fund

                     (including transfers of funds)

    In addition to the amounts provided under the heading ``Department 
of the Interior--Department-Wide Programs--Wildland Fire Management'' 
for wildfire suppression operations, $350,000,000, to remain available 
until transferred, is additional new budget authority as specified for 
purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended:  Provided, That such amounts 
may be transferred to and merged with amounts made available under the 
headings ``Department of Agriculture--Forest Service--Wildland Fire 
Management'' and ``Department of the Interior--Department-Wide 
Programs--Wildland Fire Management'' for wildfire suppression 
operations in the fiscal year in which such amounts are transferred:  
Provided further, That amounts may be transferred to the ``Wildland 
Fire Management'' accounts in the Department of Agriculture or the 
Department of the Interior only upon the notification of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations that all wildfire suppression 
operations funds appropriated under that heading in this and prior 
appropriations Acts to the agency to which the funds will be 
transferred will be obligated within 30 days:  Provided further, That 
the transfer authority provided under this heading is in addition to 
any other transfer authority provided by law:  Provided further, That, 
in determining whether all wildfire suppression operations funds 
appropriated under the heading ``Wildland Fire Management'' in this and 
prior appropriations Acts to either the Department of Agriculture or 
the Department of the Interior will be obligated within 30 days 
pursuant to the preceding proviso, any funds transferred or permitted 
to be transferred pursuant to any other transfer authority provided by 
law shall be excluded.

                    central hazardous materials fund

    For necessary expenses of the Department of the Interior and any of 
its component offices and bureaus for the response action, including 
associated activities, performed pursuant to the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 
et seq.), $10,064,000, to remain available until expended.

                energy community revitalization program

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Department of the Interior to 
inventory, assess, decommission, reclaim, respond to hazardous 
substance releases, remediate lands pursuant to section 40704 of Public 
Law 117-58 (30 U.S.C. 1245), and carry out the purposes of section 349 
of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15907), as amended, 
$5,000,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That such 
amount shall be in addition to amounts otherwise available for such 
purposes:  Provided further, That amounts appropriated under this 
heading are available for program management and oversight of these 
activities:  Provided further, That the Secretary may transfer the 
funds provided under this heading in this Act to any other account in 
the Department to carry out such purposes, and may expend such funds 
directly, or through grants:  Provided further, That these amounts are 
not available to fulfill Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) obligations 
agreed to in settlement or imposed by a court, whether for payment of 
funds or for work to be performed.

           natural resource damage assessment and restoration

                natural resource damage assessment fund

    To conduct natural resource damage assessment, restoration 
activities, and onshore oil spill preparedness by the Department of the 
Interior necessary to carry out the provisions of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 
et seq.), the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et 
seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), and 54 
U.S.C. 100721 et seq., $8,037,000, to remain available until expended.

                          working capital fund

    For the operation and maintenance of a departmental financial and 
business management system, data management, information technology 
improvements of general benefit to the Department, cybersecurity, and 
the consolidation of facilities and operations throughout the 
Department, $112,198,000, to remain available until expended:  
Provided, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act or any other 
Act may be used to establish reserves in the Working Capital Fund 
account other than for accrued annual leave and depreciation of 
equipment without prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate:  Provided further, That 
the Secretary of the Interior may assess reasonable charges to State, 
local, and tribal government employees for training services provided 
by the National Indian Program Training Center, other than training 
related to Public Law 93-638:  Provided further, That the Secretary may 
lease or otherwise provide space and related facilities, equipment, or 
professional services of the National Indian Program Training Center to 
State, local and tribal government employees or persons or 
organizations engaged in cultural, educational, or recreational 
activities (as defined in section 3306(a) of title 40, United States 
Code) at the prevailing rate for similar space, facilities, equipment, 
or services in the vicinity of the National Indian Program Training 
Center:  Provided further, That all funds received pursuant to the two 
preceding provisos shall be credited to this account, shall be 
available until expended, and shall be used by the Secretary for 
necessary expenses of the National Indian Program Training Center:  
Provided further, That the Secretary may enter into grants and 
cooperative agreements to support the Office of Natural Resource 
Revenue's collection and disbursement of royalties, fees, and other 
mineral revenue proceeds, as authorized by law.

                        administrative provision

    There is hereby authorized for acquisition from available resources 
within the Working Capital Fund, aircraft which may be obtained by 
donation, purchase, or through available excess surplus property:  
Provided, That existing aircraft being replaced may be sold, with 
proceeds derived or trade-in value used to offset the purchase price 
for the replacement aircraft.

                  office of natural resources revenue

    For necessary expenses for management of the collection and 
disbursement of royalties, fees, and other mineral revenue proceeds, 
and for grants and cooperative agreements, as authorized by law, 
$174,934,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025; of which 
$69,751,000 shall remain available until expended for the purpose of 
mineral revenue management activities:  Provided, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, $15,000 shall be available for refunds of 
overpayments in connection with certain Indian leases in which the 
Secretary of the Interior concurred with the claimed refund due, to pay 
amounts owed to Indian allottees or tribes, or to correct prior 
unrecoverable erroneous payments.

             General Provisions, Department of the Interior

                     (including transfers of funds)

               emergency transfer authority--intra-bureau

    Sec. 101.  Appropriations made in this title shall be available for 
expenditure or transfer (within each bureau or office), with the 
approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the emergency 
reconstruction, replacement, or repair of aircraft, buildings, 
utilities, or other facilities or equipment damaged or destroyed by 
fire, flood, storm, or other unavoidable causes:  Provided, That no 
funds shall be made available under this authority until funds 
specifically made available to the Department of the Interior for 
emergencies shall have been exhausted:  Provided further, That all 
funds used pursuant to this section must be replenished by a 
supplemental appropriation, which must be requested as promptly as 
possible.

             emergency transfer authority--department-wide

    Sec. 102.  The Secretary of the Interior may authorize the 
expenditure or transfer of any no year appropriation in this title, in 
addition to the amounts included in the budget programs of the several 
agencies, for the suppression or emergency prevention of wildland fires 
on or threatening lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of the 
Interior; for the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands under 
its jurisdiction; for emergency actions related to potential or actual 
earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or other unavoidable causes; 
for contingency planning subsequent to actual oil spills; for response 
and natural resource damage assessment activities related to actual oil 
spills or releases of hazardous substances into the environment; for 
the prevention, suppression, and control of actual or potential 
grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks on lands under the 
jurisdiction of the Secretary, pursuant to the authority in section 
417(b) of Public Law 106-224 (7 U.S.C. 7717(b)); for emergency 
reclamation projects under section 410 of Public Law 95-87; and shall 
transfer, from any no year funds available to the Office of Surface 
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, such funds as may be necessary to 
permit assumption of regulatory authority in the event a primacy State 
is not carrying out the regulatory provisions of the Surface Mining 
Act:  Provided, That appropriations made in this title for wildland 
fire operations shall be available for the payment of obligations 
incurred during the preceding fiscal year, and for reimbursement to 
other Federal agencies for destruction of vehicles, aircraft, or other 
equipment in connection with their use for wildland fire operations, 
with such reimbursement to be credited to appropriations currently 
available at the time of receipt thereof:  Provided further, That for 
wildland fire operations, no funds shall be made available under this 
authority until the Secretary determines that funds appropriated for 
``wildland fire suppression'' shall be exhausted within 30 days:  
Provided further, That all funds used pursuant to this section must be 
replenished by a supplemental appropriation, which must be requested as 
promptly as possible:  Provided further, That such replenishment funds 
shall be used to reimburse, on a pro rata basis, accounts from which 
emergency funds were transferred.

                        authorized use of funds

    Sec. 103.  Appropriations made to the Department of the Interior in 
this title shall be available for services as authorized by section 
3109 of title 5, United States Code, when authorized by the Secretary 
of the Interior, in total amount not to exceed $500,000; purchase and 
replacement of motor vehicles, including specially equipped law 
enforcement vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; purchase of reprints; payment for 
telephone service in private residences in the field, when authorized 
under regulations approved by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, 
when authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in societies 
or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price 
to members lower than to subscribers who are not members.

            authorized use of funds, indian trust management

    Sec. 104.  Appropriations made in this Act under the headings 
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education, and Office of 
the Special Trustee for American Indians and any unobligated balances 
from prior appropriations Acts made under the same headings shall be 
available for expenditure or transfer for Indian trust management and 
reform activities. Total funding for historical accounting activities 
shall not exceed amounts specifically designated in this Act for such 
purpose. The Secretary shall notify the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations within 60 days of the expenditure or transfer of any 
funds under this section, including the amount expended or transferred 
and how the funds will be used.

           redistribution of funds, bureau of indian affairs

    Sec. 105.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of the Interior is authorized to redistribute any Tribal 
Priority Allocation funds, including tribal base funds, to alleviate 
tribal funding inequities by transferring funds to address identified, 
unmet needs, dual enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate 
distribution methodologies. No tribe shall receive a reduction in 
Tribal Priority Allocation funds of more than 10 percent in fiscal year 
2024. Under circumstances of dual enrollment, overlapping service areas 
or inaccurate distribution methodologies, the 10 percent limitation 
does not apply.

                 ellis, governors, and liberty islands

    Sec. 106.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire lands, waters, or 
interests therein, including the use of all or part of any pier, dock, 
or landing within the State of New York and the State of New Jersey, 
for the purpose of operating and maintaining facilities in the support 
of transportation and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, Governors, 
and Liberty Islands, and of other program and administrative 
activities, by donation or with appropriated funds, including franchise 
fees (and other monetary consideration), or by exchange; and the 
Secretary is authorized to negotiate and enter into leases, subleases, 
concession contracts, or other agreements for the use of such 
facilities on such terms and conditions as the Secretary may determine 
reasonable.

                outer continental shelf inspection fees

    Sec. 107. (a) In fiscal year 2024, the Secretary of the Interior 
shall collect a nonrefundable inspection fee, which shall be deposited 
in the ``Offshore Safety and Environmental Enforcement'' account, from 
the designated operator for facilities subject to inspection under 43 
U.S.C. 1348(c).
    (b) Annual fees shall be collected for facilities that are above 
the waterline, excluding drilling rigs, and are in place at the start 
of the fiscal year. Fees for fiscal year 2024 shall be--
            (1) $10,500 for facilities with no wells, but with 
        processing equipment or gathering lines;
            (2) $17,000 for facilities with 1 to 10 wells, with any 
        combination of active or inactive wells; and
            (3) $31,500 for facilities with more than 10 wells, with 
        any combination of active or inactive wells.
    (c) Fees for drilling rigs shall be assessed for all inspections 
completed in fiscal year 2024. Fees for fiscal year 2024 shall be--
            (1) $30,500 per inspection for rigs operating in water 
        depths of 500 feet or more; and
            (2) $16,700 per inspection for rigs operating in water 
        depths of less than 500 feet.
    (d) Fees for inspection of well operations conducted via non-rig 
units as outlined in title 30 CFR 250 subparts D, E, F, and Q shall be 
assessed for all inspections completed in fiscal year 2024. Fees for 
fiscal year 2024 shall be--
            (1) $13,260 per inspection for non-rig units operating in 
        water depths of 2,500 feet or more;
            (2) $11,530 per inspection for non-rig units operating in 
        water depths between 500 and 2,499 feet; and
            (3) $4,470 per inspection for non-rig units operating in 
        water depths of less than 500 feet.
    (e) The Secretary shall bill designated operators under subsection 
(b) quarterly, with payment required within 30 days of billing. The 
Secretary shall bill designated operators under subsection (c) within 
30 days of the end of the month in which the inspection occurred, with 
payment required within 30 days of billing. The Secretary shall bill 
designated operators under subsection (d) with payment required by the 
end of the following quarter.

  contracts and agreements for wild horse and burro holding facilities

    Sec. 108.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior may enter into multiyear cooperative 
agreements with nonprofit organizations and other appropriate entities, 
and may enter into multiyear contracts in accordance with the 
provisions of section 3903 of title 41, United States Code (except that 
the 5-year term restriction in subsection (a) shall not apply), for the 
long-term care and maintenance of excess wild free roaming horses and 
burros by such organizations or entities on private land. Such 
cooperative agreements and contracts may not exceed 10 years, subject 
to renewal at the discretion of the Secretary.

                       mass marking of salmonids

    Sec. 109.  The United States Fish and Wildlife Service shall, in 
carrying out its responsibilities to protect threatened and endangered 
species of salmon, implement a system of mass marking of salmonid 
stocks, intended for harvest, that are released from federally operated 
or federally financed hatcheries including but not limited to fish 
releases of coho, chinook, and steelhead species. Marked fish must have 
a visible mark that can be readily identified by commercial and 
recreational fishers.

              contracts and agreements with indian affairs

    Sec. 110.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during 
fiscal year 2024, in carrying out work involving cooperation with 
State, local, and tribal governments or any political subdivision 
thereof, Indian Affairs may record obligations against accounts 
receivable from any such entities, except that total obligations at the 
end of the fiscal year shall not exceed total budgetary resources 
available at the end of the fiscal year.

        department of the interior experienced services program

    Sec. 111. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law relating 
to Federal grants and cooperative agreements, the Secretary of the 
Interior is authorized to make grants to, or enter into cooperative 
agreements with, private nonprofit organizations designated by the 
Secretary of Labor under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 to 
utilize the talents of older Americans in programs authorized by other 
provisions of law administered by the Secretary and consistent with 
such provisions of law.
    (b) Prior to awarding any grant or agreement under subsection (a), 
the Secretary shall ensure that the agreement would not--
            (1) result in the displacement of individuals currently 
        employed by the Department, including partial displacement 
        through reduction of non-overtime hours, wages, or employment 
        benefits;
            (2) result in the use of an individual under the Department 
        of the Interior Experienced Services Program for a job or 
        function in a case in which a Federal employee is in a layoff 
        status from the same or substantially equivalent job within the 
        Department; or
            (3) affect existing contracts for services.

                          obligation of funds

    Sec. 112.  Amounts appropriated by this Act to the Department of 
the Interior shall be available for obligation and expenditure not 
later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

                         separation of accounts

    Sec. 113.  The Secretary of the Interior, in order to implement an 
orderly transition to separate accounts of the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
and the Bureau of Indian Education, may transfer funds among and 
between the successor offices and bureaus affected by the 
reorganization only in conformance with the reprogramming guidelines 
described in this Act.

                    payments in lieu of taxes (pilt)

    Sec. 114.  Section 6906 of title 31, United States Code, shall be 
applied by substituting ``fiscal year 2024'' for ``fiscal year 2019''.

        disclosure of departure or alternate procedure approval

    Sec. 115. (a) Subject to subsection (b), in any case in which the 
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement or the Bureau of Ocean 
Energy Management prescribes or approves any departure or use of 
alternate procedure or equipment, in regards to a plan or permit, under 
30 CFR 585.103; 30 CFR 550.141; 30 CFR 550.142; 30 CFR 250.141; or 30 
CFR 250.142, the head of such bureau shall post a description of such 
departure or alternate procedure or equipment use approval on such 
bureau's publicly available website not more than 15 business days 
after such issuance.
    (b) The head of each bureau may exclude confidential business 
information.

                          long bridge project

    Sec. 116. (a) Authorization of Conveyance.--On request by the State 
of Virginia or the District of Columbia for the purpose of the 
construction of rail and other infrastructure relating to the Long 
Bridge Project, the Secretary of the Interior may convey to the State 
or the District of Columbia, as applicable, all right, title, and 
interest of the United States in and to any portion of the 
approximately 4.4 acres of National Park Service land depicted as 
``Permanent Impact to NPS Land'' on the Map dated May 15, 2020, that is 
identified by the State or the District of Columbia.
    (b) Terms and Conditions.--Such conveyance of the National Park 
Service land under subsection (a) shall be subject to any terms and 
conditions that the Secretary may require. If such conveyed land is no 
longer being used for the purposes specified in this section, the lands 
or interests therein shall revert to the National Park Service after 
they have been restored or remediated to the satisfaction of the 
Secretary.
    (c) Corrections.--The Secretary and the State or the District of 
Columbia, as applicable, by mutual agreement, may--
            (1) make minor boundary adjustments to the National Park 
        Service land to be conveyed to the State or the District of 
        Columbia under subsection (a); and
            (2) correct any minor errors in the Map referred to in 
        subsection (a).
    (d) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
            (1) Long bridge project.--The term ``Long Bridge Project'' 
        means the rail project, as identified by the Federal Railroad 
        Administration, from Rosslyn (RO) Interlocking in Arlington, 
        Virginia, to L'Enfant (LE) Interlocking in Washington, DC, 
        which includes a bicycle and pedestrian bridge.
            (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National 
        Park Service.
            (3) State.--The term ``State'' means the State of Virginia.

                         interagency motor pool

    Sec. 117.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law or Federal 
regulation, federally recognized Indian tribes or authorized tribal 
organizations that receive Tribally-Controlled School Grants pursuant 
to Public Law 100-297 may obtain interagency motor vehicles and related 
services for performance of any activities carried out under such 
grants to the same extent as if they were contracting under the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.

                        appraiser pay authority

    Sec. 118.  For fiscal year 2024, funds made available in this or 
any other Act or otherwise made available to the Department of the 
Interior for the Appraisal and Valuation Services Office may be used by 
the Secretary of the Interior to establish higher minimum rates of 
basic pay for employees of the Department of the Interior in the 
Appraiser (GS-1171) job series at grades 11 through 15 carrying out 
appraisals of real property and appraisal reviews conducted in support 
of the Department's realty programs at rates no greater than 15 percent 
above the minimum rates of basic pay normally scheduled, and such 
higher rates shall be consistent with subsections (e) through (h) of 
section 5305 of title 5, United States Code.

                              sage-grouse

    Sec. 119.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior to write or issue 
pursuant to section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1533)--
            (1) a proposed rule for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus 
        urophasianus);
            (2) a proposed rule for the Columbia basin distinct 
        population segment of greater sage-grouse.

                       state conservation grants

    Sec. 120.  For expenses necessary to carry out section 200305 of 
title 54, United States Code, the National Park Service may retain up 
to 7 percent of the State Conservation Grants program to provide to 
States, the District of Columbia, and insular areas, as matching grants 
to support state program administrative costs.

                 retention of concession franchise fees

    Sec. 121.  Section 101917(c) of title 54, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) Reduction.--The Secretary may reduce the percentage 
        allocation otherwise applicable under paragraph (2) to a unit 
        or area of the National Park Service for a fiscal year if the 
        Secretary determines that the revenues collected at the unit or 
        area exceed the reasonable needs of the unit or area for which 
        expenditures may be made for that fiscal year. In no event may 
        a percentage allocation be reduced below 60 percent.''.

                  historic preservation fund deposits

    Sec. 122.  Section 303102 of title 54, United States Code, shall be 
applied by substituting ``fiscal year 2024'' for ``fiscal year 2023''.

                        decommissioning account

    Sec. 123.  The matter under the amended heading ``Royalty and 
Offshore Minerals Management'' for the Minerals Management Service in 
Public Law 101-512 (104 Stat. 1926, as amended) (43 U.S.C. 1338a) is 
further amended by striking the fifth and sixth provisos in their 
entirety and inserting the following: ``Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, United States Code, any 
moneys hereafter received as a result of the forfeiture of a bond or 
other security by an Outer Continental Shelf permittee, lessee, or 
right-of-way holder that does not fulfill the requirements of its 
permit, lease, or right-of-way or does not comply with the regulations 
of the Secretary, or as a bankruptcy distribution or settlement 
associated with such failure or noncompliance, shall be credited to a 
separate account established in the Treasury for decommissioning 
activities and shall be available to the Bureau of Ocean Energy 
Management without further appropriation or fiscal year limitation to 
cover the cost to the United States of any improvement, protection, 
rehabilitation, or decommissioning work rendered necessary by the 
action or inaction that led to the forfeiture or bankruptcy 
distribution or settlement, to remain available until expended: 
Provided further, That amounts deposited into the decommissioning 
account may be allocated to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental 
Enforcement for such costs: Provided further, That any moneys received 
for such costs currently held in the Ocean Energy Management account 
shall be transferred to the decommissioning account: Provided further, 
That any portion of the moneys so credited shall be returned to the 
bankruptcy estate, permittee, lessee, or right-of-way holder to the 
extent that the money is in excess of the amount expended in performing 
the work necessitated by the action or inaction which led to their 
receipt or, if the bond or security was forfeited for failure to pay 
the civil penalty, in excess of the civil penalty imposed.''.

                       nonrecurring expenses fund

    Sec. 124.  There is hereby established in the Treasury of the 
United States a fund to be known as the ``Department of the Interior 
Nonrecurring Expenses Fund'' (the Fund):  Provided, That unobligated 
balances of expired discretionary funds appropriated for this or any 
succeeding fiscal year from the General Fund of the Treasury to the 
Department of the Interior by this or any other Act may be transferred 
(not later than the end of the fifth fiscal year after the last fiscal 
year for which such funds are available for the purposes for which 
appropriated) into the Fund:  Provided further, That amounts deposited 
in the Fund shall be available until expended, and in addition to such 
other funds as may be available for such purposes, for information and 
business technology system modernization and facilities infrastructure 
improvements and associated administrative expenses, including 
nonrecurring maintenance, necessary for the operation of the Department 
or its bureaus, subject to approval by the Office of Management and 
Budget:  Provided further, That amounts in the Fund may be obligated 
only after the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate are notified at least 30 days in advance 
of the planned use of funds.

                ebey's landing national historic reserve

    Sec. 125.  Section 508(f) of Public Law 95-625 (92 stat. 3509) is 
amended by striking ``not to exceed $5,000,000'' and inserting ``such 
sums as may be necessary''.

                        service first authority

    Sec. 126.  Section 330 of the Department of the Interior and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106-291; 43 
U.S.C. 1703) is amended in the second sentence, by inserting after 
``responsibilities'' the following: ``and enter into inter or intra-
agency agreements''.

                                TITLE II

                    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

                         Science and Technology

    For science and technology, including research and development 
activities, which shall include research and development activities 
under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980; necessary expenses for personnel and related 
costs, for executive oversight of regional laboratories, and travel 
expenses; procurement of laboratory equipment and supplies; hire, 
maintenance, and operation of aircraft; and other operating expenses in 
support of research and development, $795,055,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2025:  Provided, That of the funds included under 
this heading, $19,530,000 shall be for Research: National Priorities as 
specified in the report accompanying this Act, of which $2,030,000 
shall be for projects specified for Science and Technology in the table 
titled ``Congressionally Directed Spending Items'' in the report 
accompanying this Act.

                 Environmental Programs and Management

    For environmental programs and management, including necessary 
expenses not otherwise provided for, for personnel and related costs 
and travel expenses; hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire, 
maintenance, and operation of aircraft; purchase of reprints; library 
memberships in societies or associations which issue publications to 
members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are 
not members; administrative costs of the brownfields program under the 
Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 
2002; implementation of a coal combustion residual permit program under 
section 2301 of the Water and Waste Act of 2016; and not to exceed 
$9,000 for official reception and representation expenses, 
$3,321,727,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025:  
Provided, That funds included under this heading may be used for 
environmental justice implementation and training grants, and 
associated program support costs:  Provided further, That of the funds 
included under this heading--
            (1) $32,700,000 shall be for Environmental Protection: 
        National Priorities as specified in the report accompanying 
        this Act;
            (2) $694,102,000, to remain available until September 30, 
        2027, shall be for Geographic Programs as specified in the 
        report accompanying this Act; and
            (3) $30,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall 
        be for grants, including grants that may be awarded on a non-
        competitive basis, interagency agreements, and associated 
        program support costs to establish and implement a program to 
        assist Alaska Native Regional Corporations, Alaskan Native 
        Village Corporations, federally-recognized tribes in Alaska, 
        Alaska Native Non-Profit Organizations and Alaska Native 
        Nonprofit Associations, and intertribal consortia comprised of 
        Alaskan tribal entities to address contamination on lands 
        conveyed under or pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims 
        Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) that were or are 
        contaminated at the time of conveyance and are on an inventory 
        of such lands developed and maintained by the Environmental 
        Protection Agency:  Provided, That grants awarded using funds 
        made available in this paragraph may be used by a recipient to 
        supplement other funds provided by the Environmental Protection 
        Agency through individual media or multi-media grants or 
        cooperative agreements:  Provided further, That of the amounts 
        made available in this paragraph, in addition to amounts 
        otherwise available for such purposes, the Environmental 
        Protection Agency may reserve up to $2,000,000 for salaries, 
        expenses, and administration of the program and for grants 
        related to such program that address contamination on lands 
        conveyed under or pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims 
        Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) that were or are 
        contaminated at the time of conveyance and are on the EPA 
        inventory of such lands.
In addition, $9,000,000, to remain available until expended, for 
necessary expenses of activities described in section 26(b)(1) of the 
Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2625(b)(1)):  Provided, That 
fees collected pursuant to that section of that Act and deposited in 
the ``TSCA Service Fee Fund'' as discretionary offsetting receipts in 
fiscal year 2024 shall be retained and used for necessary salaries and 
expenses in this appropriation and shall remain available until 
expended:  Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated in this 
paragraph from the general fund for fiscal year 2024 shall be reduced 
by the amount of discretionary offsetting receipts received during 
fiscal year 2024, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2024 
appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more than $0:  
Provided further, That to the extent that amounts realized from such 
receipts exceed $9,000,000, those amount in excess of $9,000,000 shall 
be deposited in the ``TSCA Service Fee Fund'' as discretionary 
offsetting receipts in fiscal year 2024, shall be retained and used for 
necessary salaries and expenses in this account, and shall remain 
available until expended:  Provided further, That of the funds included 
in the first paragraph under this heading, the Chemical Risk Review and 
Reduction program project shall be allocated for this fiscal year, 
excluding the amount of any fees appropriated, not less than the amount 
of appropriations for that program project for fiscal year 2014.

                      Office of Inspector General

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
$44,030,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025:  Provided, 
That of these funds included under this heading, the Office of 
Inspector General is subject to the terms, conditions, and requirements 
specified in the report accompanying this Act.

                        Buildings and Facilities

    For construction, repair, improvement, extension, alteration, and 
purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, or for use by, the 
Environmental Protection Agency, $48,752,000, to remain available until 
expended.

                     Hazardous Substance Superfund

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), including 
sections 111(c)(3), (c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and 
hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft, $1,000,676,000, to remain 
available until expended, consisting of such sums as are available in 
the Trust Fund on September 30, 2023, and not otherwise appropriated 
from the Trust Fund, as authorized by section 517(a) of the Superfund 
Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) and up to 
$1,000,676,000 as a payment from general revenues to the Hazardous 
Substance Superfund for purposes as authorized by section 517(b) of 
SARA:  Provided, That funds appropriated under this heading may be 
allocated to other Federal agencies in accordance with section 111(a) 
of CERCLA:  Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under this 
heading, $11,800,000 shall be paid to the ``Office of Inspector 
General'' appropriation to remain available until September 30, 2025, 
and $31,607,000 shall be paid to the ``Science and Technology'' 
appropriation to remain available until September 30, 2025.

          Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program

    For necessary expenses to carry out leaking underground storage 
tank cleanup activities authorized by subtitle I of the Solid Waste 
Disposal Act, $93,145,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
$67,365,000 shall be for carrying out leaking underground storage tank 
cleanup activities authorized by section 9003(h) of the Solid Waste 
Disposal Act; $25,780,000 shall be for carrying out the other 
provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act specified in section 9508(c) 
of the Internal Revenue Code:  Provided, That the Administrator is 
authorized to use appropriations made available under this heading to 
implement section 9013 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide 
financial assistance to federally recognized Indian tribes for the 
development and implementation of programs to manage underground 
storage tanks.

                       Inland Oil Spill Programs

    For expenses necessary to carry out the Environmental Protection 
Agency's responsibilities under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 
including hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft, $22,031,000, to 
be derived from the Oil Spill Liability trust fund, to remain available 
until expended.

                   State and Tribal Assistance Grants

                    (including rescission of funds)

    For environmental programs and infrastructure assistance, including 
capitalization grants for State revolving funds and performance 
partnership grants, $4,521,262,000, to remain available until expended, 
of which--
            (1) $1,638,861,000 shall be for making capitalization 
        grants for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under title VI 
        of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; and of which 
        $1,126,101,000 shall be for making capitalization grants for 
        the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds under section 1452 of 
        the Safe Drinking Water Act:  Provided, That of the funds 
        herein and hereafter appropriated under this heading for 
        capitalization grants for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds 
        and for capitalization grants for the Drinking Water State 
        Revolving Funds, in addition to amounts otherwise available for 
        such purposes, the Administrator may reserve up to $19,000,000 
        for salaries, expenses and administration of Community Project 
        Funding Items/Congressionally Directed Spending Items:  
        Provided further, That none of the amounts made available for 
        salaries, expenses, and administration of Community Project 
        Funding Items/Congressionally Directed Spending Items shall be 
        available for obligation or expenditure until the report is 
        received by the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
        Representatives and the Senate in accordance with the report 
        accompanying this Act:  Provided further, That $345,125,000 of 
        the funds made available for capitalization grants for the 
        Clean Water State Revolving Funds and $243,639,000 of the funds 
        made available for capitalization grants for the Drinking Water 
        State Revolving Funds shall be for the construction of drinking 
        water, wastewater, and storm water infrastructure and for water 
        quality protection in accordance with the terms and conditions 
        specified for such grants in the report accompanying this Act 
        for projects specified for ``STAG--Drinking Water SRF'' and 
        ``STAG--Clean Water SRF'' in the table titled ``Congressionally 
        Directed Spending Items'' in the report accompanying this Act, 
        and, for purposes of these grants, each grantee shall 
        contribute not less than 20 percent of the cost of the project 
        unless the grantee is approved for a waiver by the Agency:  
        Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024, to the extent 
        there are sufficient eligible project applications and projects 
        are consistent with State Intended Use Plans, not less than 10 
        percent of the funds made available under this title to each 
        State for Clean Water State Revolving Fund capitalization 
        grants shall be used by the State for projects to address green 
        infrastructure, water or energy efficiency improvements, or 
        other environmentally innovative activities:  Provided further, 
        That for fiscal year 2024, funds made available under this 
        title to each State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund 
        capitalization grants may, at the discretion of each State, be 
        used for projects to address green infrastructure, water or 
        energy efficiency improvements, or other environmentally 
        innovative activities:  Provided further, That the 
        Administrator is authorized to use up to $1,500,000 of funds 
        made available for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under 
        this heading under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution 
        Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1381) to conduct the Clean Watersheds 
        Needs Survey:  Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
        603(d)(7) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the 
        limitation on the amounts in a State water pollution control 
        revolving fund that may be used by a State to administer the 
        fund shall not apply to amounts included as principal in loans 
        made by such fund in fiscal year 2024 and prior years where 
        such amounts represent costs of administering the fund to the 
        extent that such amounts are or were deemed reasonable by the 
        Administrator, accounted for separately from other assets in 
        the fund, and used for eligible purposes of the fund, including 
        administration:  Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024, 
        notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (g)(1), (h), and 
        (l) of section 201 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 
        grants made under title II of such Act for American Samoa, 
        Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, the United 
        States Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia may also be 
        made for the purpose of providing assistance: (1) solely for 
        facility plans, design activities, or plans, specifications, 
        and estimates for any proposed project for the construction of 
        treatment works; and (2) for the construction, repair, or 
        replacement of privately owned treatment works serving one or 
        more principal residences or small commercial establishments:  
        Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding 
        the provisions of such subsections (g)(1), (h), and (l) of 
        section 201 and section 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution 
        Control Act, funds reserved by the Administrator for grants 
        under section 518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
        may also be used to provide assistance: (1) solely for facility 
        plans, design activities, or plans, specifications, and 
        estimates for any proposed project for the construction of 
        treatment works; and (2) for the construction, repair, or 
        replacement of privately owned treatment works serving one or 
        more principal residences or small commercial establishments:  
        Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding 
        any provision of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and 
        regulations issued pursuant thereof, up to a total of 
        $2,000,000 of the funds reserved by the Administrator for 
        grants under section 518(c) of such Act may also be used for 
        grants for training, technical assistance, and educational 
        programs relating to the operation and management of the 
        treatment works specified in section 518(c) of such Act:  
        Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024, funds reserved 
        under section 518(c) of such Act shall be available for grants 
        only to Indian tribes, as defined in section 518(h) of such Act 
        and former Indian reservations in Oklahoma (as determined by 
        the Secretary of the Interior) and Native Villages as defined 
        in Public Law 92-203:  Provided further, That for fiscal year 
        2024, notwithstanding the limitation on amounts in section 
        518(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, up to a 
        total of 2 percent of the funds appropriated, or $30,000,000, 
        whichever is greater, and notwithstanding the limitation on 
        amounts in section 1452(i) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, up 
        to a total of 2 percent of the funds appropriated, or 
        $20,000,000, whichever is greater, for State Revolving Funds 
        under such Acts may be reserved by the Administrator for grants 
        under section 518(c) and section 1452(i) of such Acts:  
        Provided further, That for fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding 
        the amounts specified in section 205(c) of the Federal Water 
        Pollution Control Act, up to 1.5 percent of the aggregate funds 
        appropriated for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund program 
        under the Act less any sums reserved under section 518(c) of 
        the Act, may be reserved by the Administrator for grants made 
        under title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act for 
        American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern 
        Marianas, and United States Virgin Islands:  Provided further, 
        That for fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding the limitations on 
        amounts specified in section 1452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water 
        Act, up to 1.5 percent of the funds appropriated for the 
        Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs under the Safe 
        Drinking Water Act may be reserved by the Administrator for 
        grants made under section 1452(j) of the Safe Drinking Water 
        Act:  Provided further, That 10 percent of the funds made 
        available under this title to each State for Clean Water State 
        Revolving Fund capitalization grants and 14 percent of the 
        funds made available under this title to each State for 
        Drinking Water State Revolving Fund capitalization grants shall 
        be used by the State to provide additional subsidy to eligible 
        recipients in the form of forgiveness of principal, negative 
        interest loans, or grants (or any combination of these), and 
        shall be so used by the State only where such funds are 
        provided as initial financing for an eligible recipient or to 
        buy, refinance, or restructure the debt obligations of eligible 
        recipients only where such debt was incurred on or after the 
        date of enactment of this Act, or where such debt was incurred 
        prior to the date of enactment of this Act if the State, with 
        concurrence from the Administrator, determines that such funds 
        could be used to help address a threat to public health from 
        heightened exposure to lead in drinking water or if a Federal 
        or State emergency declaration has been issued due to a threat 
        to public health from heightened exposure to lead in a 
        municipal drinking water supply before the date of enactment of 
        this Act:  Provided further, That in a State in which such an 
        emergency declaration has been issued, the State may use more 
        than 14 percent of the funds made available under this title to 
        the State for Drinking Water State Revolving Fund 
        capitalization grants to provide additional subsidy to eligible 
        recipients:  Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
        1452(o) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-12(o)), 
        the Administrator shall reserve $12,000,000 of the amounts made 
        available for fiscal year 2024 for making capitalization grants 
        for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds to pay the costs 
        of monitoring for unregulated contaminants under section 
        1445(a)(2)(C) of such Act:  Provided further, That of the 
        unobligated balances available in the ``State and Tribal 
        Assistance Grants'' account appropriated prior to fiscal year 
        2012 for ``special project grants'' or ``special needs 
        infrastructure grants,'' or for the administration, management, 
        and oversight of such grants, $1,500,000 are permanently 
        rescinded:  Provided further, That no amounts may be rescinded 
        from amounts that were designated by the Congress as an 
        emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on 
        the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
        Act of 1985;
            (2) $37,386,000 shall be for architectural, engineering, 
        planning, design, construction and related activities in 
        connection with the construction of high priority water and 
        wastewater facilities in the area of the United States-Mexico 
        Border, after consultation with the appropriate border 
        commission:  Provided, That no funds provided by this 
        appropriations Act to address the water, wastewater and other 
        critical infrastructure needs of the colonias in the United 
        States along the United States-Mexico border shall be made 
        available to a county or municipal government unless that 
        government has established an enforceable local ordinance, or 
        other zoning rule, which prevents in that jurisdiction the 
        development or construction of any additional colonia areas, or 
        the development within an existing colonia the construction of 
        any new home, business, or other structure which lacks water, 
        wastewater, or other necessary infrastructure;
            (3) $41,000,000 shall be for grants to the State of Alaska 
        to address drinking water and wastewater infrastructure needs 
        of rural and Alaska Native Villages:  Provided, That of these 
        funds: (A) the State of Alaska shall provide a match of 25 
        percent; (B) no more than 5 percent of the funds may be used 
        for administrative and overhead expenses; and (C) the State of 
        Alaska shall make awards consistent with the Statewide priority 
        list established in conjunction with the Agency and the U.S. 
        Department of Agriculture for all water, sewer, waste disposal, 
        and similar projects carried out by the State of Alaska that 
        are funded under section 221 of the Federal Water Pollution 
        Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) or the Consolidated Farm and Rural 
        Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) which shall allocate 
        not less than 25 percent of the funds provided for projects in 
        regional hub communities;
            (4) $101,000,000 shall be to carry out section 104(k) of 
        the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
        Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), including grants, interagency 
        agreements, and associated program support costs:  Provided, 
        That at least 10 percent shall be allocated for assistance in 
        persistent poverty counties:  Provided further, That for 
        purposes of this section, the term ``persistent poverty 
        counties'' means any county that has had 20 percent or more of 
        its population living in poverty over the past 30 years, as 
        measured by the 1993 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, 
        the 2000 decennial census, and the most recent Small Area 
        Income and Poverty Estimates, or any territory or possession of 
        the United States;
            (5) $100,000,000 shall be for grants under title VII, 
        subtitle G of the Energy Policy Act of 2005;
            (6) $69,927,000 shall be for targeted airshed grants in 
        accordance with the terms and conditions in the report 
        accompanying this Act;
            (7) $30,158,000 shall be for grants under subsections (a) 
        through (j) of section 1459A of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 
        U.S.C. 300j-19a):  Provided, That for fiscal year 2024, in 
        addition to supporting a community described in section 1459A, 
        subsection (c)(2), of the Safe Drinking Water Act, funds 
        provided under subsections (a) through (j) of section 1459A of 
        the Safe Drinking Water Act may be used by a State to provide 
        assistance to benefit one or more owners of drinking water 
        wells that are not public water systems or connected to a 
        public water system for necessary and appropriate activities 
        related to a contaminant pursuant to subsection (j) of section 
        1459A of the Safe Drinking Water Act;
            (8) $30,500,000 shall be for grants under section 1464(d) 
        of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-24(d));
            (9) $25,011,000 shall be for grants under section 1459B of 
        the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-19b);
            (10) $7,000,000 shall be for grants under section 1459A(l) 
        of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-19a(l));
            (11) $28,000,000 shall be for grants under section 
        104(b)(8) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
        1254(b)(8));
            (12) $50,000,000 shall be for grants under section 221 of 
        the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301);
            (13) $6,000,000 shall be for grants under section 4304(b) 
        of the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (Public Law 
        115-270);
            (14) $6,500,000 shall be for carrying out section 302(a) of 
        the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (33 U.S.C. 4283(a)), of which not 
        more than 2 percent shall be for administrative costs to carry 
        out such section:  Provided, That notwithstanding section 
        302(a) of such Act, the Administrator may also provide grants 
        pursuant to such authority to intertribal consortia consistent 
        with the requirements in 40 CFR 35.504(a), to former Indian 
        reservations in Oklahoma (as determined by the Secretary of the 
        Interior), and Alaska Native Villages as defined in Public Law 
        92-203;
            (15) $9,000,000 shall be for grants under section 103(b)(3) 
        of the Clean Air Act for wildfire smoke preparedness grants in 
        accordance with the terms and conditions in the report 
        accompanying this Act:  Provided, That not more than 3 percent 
        shall be for administrative costs to carry out such section;
            (16) $38,693,000 shall be for State and Tribal Assistance 
        Grants to be allocated in the amounts specified for those 
        projects and for the purposes delineated in the table titled 
        ``Congressionally Directed Spending Items'' in the report 
        accompanying this Act for remediation, construction, and 
        related environmental management activities in accordance with 
        the terms and conditions specified for such grants in the 
        report accompanying this Act;
            (17) $5,000,000 shall be for grants under section 1459F of 
        the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-19g);
            (18) $5,000,000 shall be for carrying out section 2001 of 
        the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-
        270, 42 U.S.C. 300j-3c note):  Provided, That the Administrator 
        may award grants to and enter into contracts with tribes, 
        intertribal consortia, public or private agencies, 
        institutions, organizations, and individuals, without regard to 
        section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and section 6101 of title 
        41, United States Code, and enter into interagency agreements 
        as appropriate;
            (19) $3,000,000 shall be for grants under section 50217(b) 
        of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (33 U.S.C. 
        1302f(b); Public Law 117-58);
            (20) $4,000,000 shall be for grants under section 124 of 
        the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1276); and
            (21) $1,160,625,000 shall be for grants, including 
        associated program support costs, to States, federally 
        recognized Tribes, interstate agencies, tribal consortia, and 
        air pollution control agencies for multi-media or single media 
        pollution prevention, control and abatement, and related 
        activities, including activities pursuant to the provisions set 
        forth under this heading in Public Law 104-134, and for making 
        grants under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for particulate 
        matter monitoring and data collection activities subject to 
        terms and conditions specified by the Administrator, and under 
        section 2301 of the Water and Waste Act of 2016 to assist 
        States in developing and implementing programs for control of 
        coal combustion residuals, of which: $47,195,000 shall be for 
        carrying out section 128 of CERCLA; $10,836,000 shall be for 
        Environmental Information Exchange Network grants, including 
        associated program support costs; $1,505,000 shall be for 
        grants to States under section 2007(f)(2) of the Solid Waste 
        Disposal Act, which shall be in addition to funds appropriated 
        under the heading ``Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund 
        Program'' to carry out the provisions of the Solid Waste 
        Disposal Act specified in section 9508(c) of the Internal 
        Revenue Code other than section 9003(h) of the Solid Waste 
        Disposal Act; $18,512,000 of the funds available for grants 
        under section 106 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
        shall be for State participation in national- and State-level 
        statistical surveys of water resources and enhancements to 
        State monitoring programs.

      Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program Account

    For the cost of direct loans and for the cost of guaranteed loans, 
as authorized by the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 
2014, $68,000,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That 
such costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as 
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974:  
Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize gross 
obligations for the principal amount of direct loans, including 
capitalized interest, and total loan principal, including capitalized 
interest, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed 
$12,500,000,000:  Provided further, That of the funds made available 
under this heading, $5,000,000 shall be used solely for the cost of 
direct loans and for the cost of guaranteed loans for projects 
described in section 5026(9) of the Water Infrastructure Finance and 
Innovation Act of 2014 to State infrastructure financing authorities, 
as authorized by section 5033(e) of such Act:  Provided further, That 
the use of direct loans or loan guarantee authority under this heading 
for direct loans or commitments to guarantee loans for any project 
shall be in accordance with the criteria published in the Federal 
Register on June 30, 2020 (85 FR 39189) pursuant to the fourth proviso 
under the heading ``Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program 
Account'' in division D of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
2020 (Public Law 116-94):  Provided further, That none of the direct 
loans or loan guarantee authority made available under this heading 
shall be available for any project unless the Administrator and the 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget have certified in 
advance in writing that the direct loan or loan guarantee, as 
applicable, and the project comply with the criteria referenced in the 
previous proviso:  Provided further, That, for the purposes of carrying 
out the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Director of the 
Congressional Budget Office may request, and the Administrator shall 
promptly provide, documentation and information relating to a project 
identified in a Letter of Interest submitted to the Administrator 
pursuant to a Notice of Funding Availability for applications for 
credit assistance under the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation 
Act Program, including with respect to a project that was initiated or 
completed before the date of enactment of this Act.
    In addition, fees authorized to be collected pursuant to sections 
5029 and 5030 of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 
2014 shall be deposited in this account, to remain available until 
expended.
    In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the direct 
and guaranteed loan programs, notwithstanding section 5033 of the Water 
Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014, $7,640,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2025.

       Administrative Provisions--Environmental Protection Agency

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For fiscal year 2024, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 6303(1) and 
6305(1), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in 
carrying out the Agency's function to implement directly Federal 
environmental programs required or authorized by law in the absence of 
an acceptable tribal program, may award cooperative agreements to 
federally recognized Indian tribes or Intertribal consortia, if 
authorized by their member tribes, to assist the Administrator in 
implementing Federal environmental programs for Indian tribes required 
or authorized by law, except that no such cooperative agreements may be 
awarded from funds designated for State financial assistance 
agreements.
    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is 
authorized to collect and obligate pesticide registration service fees 
in accordance with section 33 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, 
and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. 136w-8), to remain available until 
expended.
    Notwithstanding section 33(d)(2) of the Federal Insecticide, 
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 U.S.C. 136w-8(d)(2)), the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may assess fees 
under section 33 of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136w-8) for fiscal year 2024.
    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is 
authorized to collect and obligate fees in accordance with section 3024 
of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6939g) for fiscal year 2024, 
to remain available until expended.
    The Administrator is authorized to transfer up to $373,000,000 of 
the funds appropriated for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative under 
the heading ``Environmental Programs and Management'' to the head of 
any Federal department or agency, with the concurrence of such head, to 
carry out activities that would support the Great Lakes Restoration 
Initiative and Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement programs, projects, 
or activities; to enter into an interagency agreement with the head of 
such Federal department or agency to carry out these activities; and to 
make grants to governmental entities, nonprofit organizations, 
institutions, and individuals for planning, research, monitoring, 
outreach, and implementation in furtherance of the Great Lakes 
Restoration Initiative and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
    The Science and Technology, Environmental Programs and Management, 
Office of Inspector General, Hazardous Substance Superfund, and Leaking 
Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program Accounts, are available for 
the construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of 
facilities, provided that the cost does not exceed $300,000 per 
project.
    For fiscal year 2024, and notwithstanding section 518(f) of the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1377(f)), the 
Administrator is authorized to use the amounts appropriated for any 
fiscal year under section 319 of the Act to make grants to Indian 
tribes pursuant to sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act.
    The Administrator is authorized to use the amounts appropriated 
under the heading ``Environmental Programs and Management'' for fiscal 
year 2024 to provide grants to implement the Southeastern New England 
Watershed Restoration Program.
    Notwithstanding the limitations on amounts in section 320(i)(2)(B) 
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, not less than $2,500,000 of 
the funds made available under this title for the National Estuary 
Program shall be for making competitive awards described in section 
320(g)(4).
    The Environmental Protection Agency Working Capital Fund, 
established by Public Law 104-204 (42 U.S.C. 4370e), is available for 
expenses and equipment necessary for modernization and development of 
information technology of, or for use by, the Environmental Protection 
Agency.
    For fiscal year 2024, the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution 
Prevention and the Office of Water may, using funds appropriated under 
the headings ``Environmental Programs and Management'' and ``Science 
and Technology'', contract directly with individuals or indirectly with 
institutions or nonprofit organizations, without regard to 41 U.S.C. 5, 
for the temporary or intermittent personal services of students or 
recent graduates, who shall be considered employees for the purposes of 
chapters 57 and 81 of title 5, United States Code, relating to 
compensation for travel and work injuries, and chapter 171 of title 28, 
United States Code, relating to tort claims, but shall not be 
considered to be Federal employees for any other purpose:  Provided, 
That amounts used for this purpose by the Office of Chemical Safety and 
Pollution Prevention and the Office of Water collectively may not 
exceed $2,000,000.
    The Environmental Protection agency shall provide the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate with copies 
of any available Department of Treasury quarterly certification of 
trust fund receipts collected from section 13601 of Public Law 117-169 
and section 80201 of Public Law 117-58, an annual operating plan for 
such receipts showing amounts allocated by program area and program 
project, and quarterly reports for such receipts of obligated balances 
by program area and program project.

                               TITLE III

                            RELATED AGENCIES

                       DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

  office of the under secretary for natural resources and environment

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary for 
Natural Resources and Environment, $1,000,000:  Provided, That funds 
made available by this Act to any agency in the Natural Resources and 
Environment mission area for salaries and expenses are available to 
fund up to one administrative support staff for the office.

                             Forest Service

                       forest service operations

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, $1,152,744,000, to remain available through September 30, 
2027:  Provided, That a portion of the funds made available under this 
heading shall be for the base salary and expenses of employees in the 
Chief's Office, the Work Environment and Performance Office, the 
Business Operations Deputy Area, and the Chief Financial Officer's 
Office to carry out administrative and general management support 
functions:  Provided further, That funds provided under this heading 
shall be available for the costs of facility maintenance, repairs, and 
leases for buildings and sites where these administrative, general 
management and other Forest Service support functions take place; the 
costs of all utility and telecommunication expenses of the Forest 
Service, as well as business services; and, for information technology, 
including cyber security requirements:  Provided further, That funds 
provided under this heading may be used for necessary expenses to carry 
out administrative and general management support functions of the 
Forest Service not otherwise provided for and necessary for its 
operation.

                     forest and rangeland research

    For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland research as 
authorized by law, $307,273,000, to remain available through September 
30, 2027:  Provided, That of the funds provided, $32,197,000 is for the 
forest inventory and analysis program:  Provided further, That of the 
funds provided, $4,500,000 is for the Joint Fire Science Program:  
Provided further, That all authorities for the use of funds, including 
the use of contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements, available to 
execute the Forest and Rangeland Research appropriation, are also 
available in the utilization of these funds for Fire Science Research.

                  state, private, and tribal forestry

    For necessary expenses of cooperating with and providing technical 
and financial assistance to States, territories, possessions, and 
others, and for forest health management, including for invasive 
plants, and conducting an international program and trade compliance 
activities as authorized, $327,397,000, to remain available through 
September 30, 2027, as authorized by law, of which $19,806,000 shall be 
for projects specified for Forest Resource Information and Analysis in 
the table titled ``Congressionally Directed Spending Items'' in the 
report accompanying this Act.

                         national forest system

    For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, for management, protection, improvement, and utilization 
of the National Forest System, and for hazardous fuels management on or 
adjacent to such lands, $1,978,388,000, to remain available through 
September 30, 2027:  Provided, That of the funds provided, $32,000,000 
shall be deposited in the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration 
Fund for ecological restoration treatments as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 
7303(f):  Provided further, That for the funds provided in the 
preceding proviso, section 4003(d)(3)(A) of the Omnibus Public Land 
Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 7303(d)(3)(A)) shall be applied by 
substituting ``20'' for ``10'' and section 4003(d)(3)(B) of the Omnibus 
Public Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 7303(d)(3)(B)) shall be 
applied by substituting ``4'' for ``2'':  Provided further, That of the 
funds provided, $41,000,000 shall be for forest products:  Provided 
further, That of the funds provided, $207,000,000 shall be for 
hazardous fuels management activities, of which not to exceed 
$30,000,000 may be used to make grants, using any authorities available 
to the Forest Service under the ``State, Private, and Tribal Forestry'' 
appropriation, for the purpose of creating incentives for increased use 
of biomass from National Forest System lands:  Provided further, That 
$20,000,000 may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into 
procurement contracts or cooperative agreements or to issue grants for 
hazardous fuels management activities, and for training or monitoring 
associated with such hazardous fuels management activities on Federal 
land, or on non-Federal land if the Secretary determines such 
activities benefit resources on Federal land:  Provided further, That 
funds made available to implement the Community Forest Restoration Act, 
Public Law 106-393, title VI, shall be available for use on non-Federal 
lands in accordance with authorities made available to the Forest 
Service under the ``State, Private, and Tribal Forestry'' 
appropriation:  Provided further, That notwithstanding section 33 of 
the Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1012), the Secretary of 
Agriculture, in calculating a fee for grazing on a National Grassland, 
may provide a credit of up to 50 percent of the calculated fee to a 
Grazing Association or direct permittee for a conservation practice 
approved by the Secretary in advance of the fiscal year in which the 
cost of the conservation practice is incurred, and that the amount 
credited shall remain available to the Grazing Association or the 
direct permittee, as appropriate, in the fiscal year in which the 
credit is made and each fiscal year thereafter for use on the project 
for conservation practices approved by the Secretary:  Provided 
further, That funds appropriated to this account shall be available for 
the base salary and expenses of employees that carry out the functions 
funded by the ``Capital Improvement and Maintenance'' account, the 
``Range Betterment Fund'' account, and the ``Management of National 
Forest Lands for Subsistence Uses'' account.

                  capital improvement and maintenance

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise 
provided for, $161,630,000, to remain available through September 30, 
2027, for construction, capital improvement, maintenance, and 
acquisition of buildings and other facilities and infrastructure; for 
construction, reconstruction, and decommissioning of roads that are no 
longer needed, including unauthorized roads that are not part of the 
transportation system; and for maintenance of forest roads and trails 
by the Forest Service as authorized by 16 U.S.C. 532-538 and 23 U.S.C. 
101 and 205:  Provided, That $6,000,000 shall be for activities 
authorized by 16 U.S.C. 538(a):  Provided further, That $5,130,000 
shall be for projects specified for Construction Projects in the table 
titled ``Congressionally Directed Spending Items'' in the report 
accompanying this Act:  Provided further, That funds becoming available 
in fiscal year 2024 under the Act of March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501) 
shall be transferred to the General Fund of the Treasury and shall not 
be available for transfer or obligation for any other purpose unless 
the funds are appropriated.

         acquisition of lands for national forests special acts

    For acquisition of lands within the exterior boundaries of the 
Cache, Uinta, and Wasatch National Forests, Utah; the Toiyabe National 
Forest, Nevada; and the Angeles, San Bernardino, Sequoia, and Cleveland 
National Forests, California; and the Ozark-St. Francis and Ouachita 
National Forests, Arkansas; as authorized by law, $664,000, to be 
derived from forest receipts.

            acquisition of lands to complete land exchanges

    For acquisition of lands, such sums, to be derived from funds 
deposited by State, county, or municipal governments, public school 
districts, or other public school authorities, and for authorized 
expenditures from funds deposited by non-Federal parties pursuant to 
Land Sale and Exchange Acts, pursuant to the Act of December 4, 1967 
(16 U.S.C. 484a), to remain available through September 30, 2027, (16 
U.S.C. 516-617a, 555a; Public Law 96-586; Public Law 76-589, Public Law 
76-591; and Public Law 78-310).

                         range betterment fund

    For necessary expenses of range rehabilitation, protection, and 
improvement, 50 percent of all moneys received during the prior fiscal 
year, as fees for grazing domestic livestock on lands in National 
Forests in the 16 Western States, pursuant to section 401(b)(1) of 
Public Law 94-579, to remain available through September 30, 2027, of 
which not to exceed 6 percent shall be available for administrative 
expenses associated with on-the-ground range rehabilitation, 
protection, and improvements.

    gifts, donations and bequests for forest and rangeland research

    For expenses authorized by 16 U.S.C. 1643(b), $45,000, to remain 
available through September 30, 2027, to be derived from the fund 
established pursuant to the above Act.

        management of national forest lands for subsistence uses

    For necessary expenses of the Forest Service to manage Federal 
lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under title VIII of the Alaska 
National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3111 et seq.), 
$1,099,000, to remain available through September 30, 2027.

                        wildland fire management

                     (including transfers of funds)

    For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression activities on 
National Forest System lands, for emergency wildland fire suppression 
on or adjacent to such lands or other lands under fire protection 
agreement, and for emergency rehabilitation of burned-over National 
Forest System lands and water, $2,123,956,000, to remain available 
until expended:  Provided, That such funds, including unobligated 
balances under this heading, are available for repayment of advances 
from other appropriations accounts previously transferred for such 
purposes:  Provided further, That any unobligated funds appropriated in 
a previous fiscal year for hazardous fuels management may be 
transferred to the ``National Forest System'' account:  Provided 
further, That such funds shall be available to reimburse State and 
other cooperating entities for services provided in response to 
wildfire and other emergencies or disasters to the extent such 
reimbursements by the Forest Service for non-fire emergencies are fully 
repaid by the responsible emergency management agency:  Provided 
further, That funds provided shall be available for support to Federal 
emergency response:  Provided further, That the costs of implementing 
any cooperative agreement between the Federal Government and any non-
Federal entity may be shared, as mutually agreed on by the affected 
parties:  Provided further, That of the funds made available under this 
heading, $1,363,184,000 is designated by the Congress as being for an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985:  Provided 
further, That of the funds provided under this heading, $1,011,000,000 
shall be available for wildfire suppression operations and is provided 
to meet the terms of section 251(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.

              wildfire suppression operations reserve fund

                     (including transfers of funds)

    In addition to the amounts provided under the heading ``Department 
of Agriculture--Forest Service--Wildland Fire Management'' for wildfire 
suppression operations, $2,300,000,000, to remain available until 
transferred, is additional new budget authority as specified for 
purposes of section 251(b)(2)(F) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended:  Provided, That such amounts 
may be transferred to and merged with amounts made available under the 
headings ``Department of the Interior--Department-Wide Programs--
Wildland Fire Management'' and ``Department of Agriculture--Forest 
Service--Wildland Fire Management'' for wildfire suppression operations 
in the fiscal year in which such amounts are transferred:  Provided 
further, That amounts may be transferred to the ``Wildland Fire 
Management'' accounts in the Department of the Interior or the 
Department of Agriculture only upon the notification of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations that all wildfire suppression 
operations funds appropriated under that heading in this and prior 
appropriations Acts to the agency to which the funds will be 
transferred will be obligated within 30 days:  Provided further, That 
the transfer authority provided under this heading is in addition to 
any other transfer authority provided by law:  Provided further, That, 
in determining whether all wildfire suppression operations funds 
appropriated under the heading ``Wildland Fire Management'' in this and 
prior appropriations Acts to either the Department of Agriculture or 
the Department of the Interior will be obligated within 30 days 
pursuant to the preceding proviso, any funds transferred or permitted 
to be transferred pursuant to any other transfer authority provided by 
law shall be excluded.

                   communications site administration

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses of communications site administration, 
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended, to be deposited in the 
special account established by section 8705(f)(1) of the Agriculture 
Improvement Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-334):  Provided, That amounts 
collected in this fiscal year pursuant to section 8705(f)(2) of such 
Act shall be deposited in the special account established by section 
8705(f)(1) of such Act, shall be available to cover the costs described 
in subsection (c)(3) of such section of such Act, and shall remain 
available until expended:  Provided further, That amounts made 
available under this heading shall be transferred to the ``National 
Forest System'' account.

               administrative provisions--forest service

                     (including transfers of funds)

    Appropriations to the Forest Service for the current fiscal year 
shall be available for: (1) purchase of passenger motor vehicles; 
acquisition of passenger motor vehicles from excess sources, and hire 
of such vehicles; purchase, lease, operation, maintenance, and 
acquisition of aircraft to maintain the operable fleet for use in 
Forest Service wildland fire programs and other Forest Service 
programs; notwithstanding other provisions of law, existing aircraft 
being replaced may be sold, with proceeds derived or trade-in value 
used to offset the purchase price for the replacement aircraft; (2) 
services pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2225, and not to exceed $100,000 for 
employment under 5 U.S.C. 3109; (3) purchase, erection, and alteration 
of buildings and other public improvements (7 U.S.C. 2250); (4) 
acquisition of land, waters, and interests therein pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 
428a; (5) for expenses pursuant to the Volunteers in the National 
Forest Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 558a, 558d, and 558a note); (6) the cost 
of uniforms as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; and (7) for debt 
collection contracts in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3718(c).
    Funds made available to the Forest Service in this Act may be 
transferred between Forest Service accounts for the purposes of 
unforeseen or emerging information technology costs:  Provided, That 
any transfer of funds pursuant to this paragraph shall not increase or 
decrease the funds appropriated to any account in this fiscal year by 
more than ten percent:  Provided further, That such transfer authority 
is in addition to any other transfer authority provided by law:  
Provided further, That none of the funds transferred pursuant to this 
paragraph shall be available for obligation without written 
notification to and the prior approval of the Committees on 
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
    Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest Service may be 
transferred to the Wildland Fire Management appropriation for forest 
firefighting, emergency rehabilitation of burned-over or damaged lands 
or waters under its jurisdiction, and fire preparedness due to severe 
burning conditions upon the Secretary of Agriculture's notification of 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations that all fire 
suppression funds appropriated under the heading ``Wildland Fire 
Management'' will be obligated within 30 days:  Provided, That all 
funds used pursuant to this paragraph must be replenished by a 
supplemental appropriation which must be requested as promptly as 
possible.
    Not more than $50,000,000 of funds appropriated to the Forest 
Service shall be available for expenditure or transfer to the 
Department of the Interior for wildland fire management, hazardous 
fuels management, and State fire assistance when such transfers would 
facilitate and expedite wildland fire management programs and projects.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Forest Service 
may transfer unobligated balances of discretionary funds appropriated 
to the Forest Service by this Act to or within the National Forest 
System Account, or reprogram funds to be used for the purposes of 
hazardous fuels management and urgent rehabilitation of burned-over 
National Forest System lands and water:  Provided, That such 
transferred funds shall remain available through September 30, 2027:  
Provided further, That none of the funds transferred pursuant to this 
paragraph shall be available for obligation without written 
notification to and the prior approval of the Committees on 
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress.
    Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available for 
assistance to or through the Agency for International Development in 
connection with forest and rangeland research, technical information, 
and assistance in foreign countries, and shall be available to support 
forestry and related natural resource activities outside the United 
States and its territories and possessions, including technical 
assistance, education and training, and cooperation with United States 
government, private sector, and international organizations:  Provided, 
That the Forest Service, acting for the International Program, may sign 
direct funding agreements with foreign governments and institutions as 
well as other domestic agencies (including the U.S. Agency for 
International Development, the Department of State, and the Millennium 
Challenge Corporation), United States private sector firms, 
institutions and organizations to provide technical assistance and 
training programs on forestry and rangeland management:  Provided 
further, That to maximize effectiveness of domestic and international 
research and cooperation, the International Program may utilize all 
authorities related to forestry, research, and cooperative assistance 
regardless of program designations.
    Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available to 
enter into a cooperative agreement with the section 509(a)(3) 
Supporting Organization, ``Forest Service International Foundation'' to 
assist the Foundation in meeting administrative, project, and other 
expenses, and may provide for the Foundation's use of Forest Service 
personnel and facilities.
    Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available for 
expenditure or transfer to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of 
Land Management, for removal, preparation, and adoption of excess wild 
horses and burros from National Forest System lands, and for the 
performance of cadastral surveys to designate the boundaries of such 
lands.
    None of the funds made available to the Forest Service in this Act 
or any other Act with respect to any fiscal year shall be subject to 
transfer under the provisions of section 702(b) of the Department of 
Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257), section 442 of Public 
Law 106-224 (7 U.S.C. 7772), or section 10417(b) of Public Law 107-171 
(7 U.S.C. 8316(b)).
    Not more than $82,000,000 of funds available to the Forest Service 
shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund of the Department of 
Agriculture and not more than $14,500,000 of funds available to the 
Forest Service shall be transferred to the Department of Agriculture 
for Department Reimbursable Programs, commonly referred to as Greenbook 
charges:  Provided, That nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit or 
limit the use of reimbursable agreements requested by the Forest 
Service in order to obtain information technology services, including 
telecommunications and system modifications or enhancements, from the 
Working Capital Fund of the Department of Agriculture.
    Of the funds available to the Forest Service, up to $5,000,000 
shall be available for priority projects within the scope of the 
approved budget, which shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation 
Corps and shall be carried out under the authority of the Public Lands 
Corps Act of 1993 (16 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.).
    Of the funds available to the Forest Service, $4,000 is available 
to the Chief of the Forest Service for official reception and 
representation expenses.
    Pursuant to sections 405(b) and 410(b) of Public Law 101-593, of 
the funds available to the Forest Service, up to $3,000,000 may be 
advanced in a lump sum to the National Forest Foundation to aid 
conservation partnership projects in support of the Forest Service 
mission, without regard to when the Foundation incurs expenses, for 
projects on or benefitting National Forest System lands or related to 
Forest Service programs:  Provided, That of the Federal funds made 
available to the Foundation, no more than $300,000 shall be available 
for administrative expenses:  Provided further, That the Foundation 
shall obtain, by the end of the period of Federal financial assistance, 
private contributions to match funds made available by the Forest 
Service on at least a one-for-one basis:  Provided further, That the 
Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a Federal or a non-Federal 
recipient for a project at the same rate that the recipient has 
obtained the non-Federal matching funds.
    Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98-244, up to $3,000,000 
of the funds available to the Forest Service may be advanced to the 
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in a lump sum to aid cost-share 
conservation projects, without regard to when expenses are incurred, on 
or benefitting National Forest System lands or related to Forest 
Service programs:  Provided, That such funds shall be matched on at 
least a one-for-one basis by the Foundation or its sub-recipients:  
Provided further, That the Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a 
Federal or non-Federal recipient for a project at the same rate that 
the recipient has obtained the non-Federal matching funds.
    Funds appropriated to the Forest Service under the National Forest 
System heading shall be available for the Secretary of Agriculture to 
enter into cooperative agreements with other Federal agencies, tribes, 
States, local governments, private and nonprofit entities, and 
educational institutions to support the work of forest or grassland 
collaboratives on activities benefitting Federal lands and adjacent 
non-Federal lands, including for technical assistance, administrative 
functions or costs, and other capacity support needs identified by the 
Forest Service.
    Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available for 
interactions with and providing technical assistance to rural 
communities and natural resource-based businesses for sustainable rural 
development purposes.
    Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available for 
payments to counties within the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic 
Area, pursuant to section 14(c)(1) and (2), and section 16(a)(2) of 
Public Law 99-663.
    Any funds appropriated to the Forest Service may be used to meet 
the non-Federal share requirement in section 502(c) of the Older 
Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3056(c)(2)).
    The Forest Service shall not assess funds for the purpose of 
performing fire, administrative, and other facilities maintenance and 
decommissioning.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of any appropriations 
or funds available to the Forest Service, not to exceed $500,000 may be 
used to reimburse the Office of the General Counsel (OGC), Department 
of Agriculture, for travel and related expenses incurred as a result of 
OGC assistance or participation requested by the Forest Service at 
meetings, training sessions, management reviews, land purchase 
negotiations, and similar matters unrelated to civil litigation:  
Provided, That future budget justifications for both the Forest Service 
and the Department of Agriculture should clearly display the sums 
previously transferred and the sums requested for transfer.
    An eligible individual who is employed in any project funded under 
title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3056 et seq.) and 
administered by the Forest Service shall be considered to be a Federal 
employee for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, from this point forward 
the Forest Service may employ or contract with an individual who is 
enrolled in a training program at a Civilian Conservation Center (as 
defined in section 147(d) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 
Act (29 U.S.C. 3197(d))) at regular rates of pay for necessary hours of 
work on National Forest System lands.
    Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be available to pay, 
from a single account, the base salary and expenses of employees who 
carry out functions funded by other accounts for Enterprise Program, 
Geospatial Technology and Applications Center, remnant Natural Resource 
Manager, Job Corps, and National Technology and Development Program.

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

                         Indian Health Service

                         indian health services

    For expenses necessary to carry out the Act of August 5, 1954 (68 
Stat. 674), the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, 
the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, and titles II and III of the 
Public Health Service Act with respect to the Indian Health Service, 
$91,818,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, except as 
otherwise provided herein, which shall be in addition to funds 
previously appropriated under this heading that became available on 
October 1, 2023; in addition, $291,702,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2025, for the Electronic Health Record System and the 
Indian Healthcare Improvement Fund; and, in addition, $4,719,786,000, 
which shall become available on October 1, 2024, and remain available 
through September 30, 2026, except as otherwise provided herein; 
together with payments received during the fiscal year pursuant to 
sections 231(b) and 233 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
238(b) and 238b), for services furnished by the Indian Health Service:  
Provided, That funds made available to tribes and tribal organizations 
through contracts, grant agreements, or any other agreements or 
compacts authorized by the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450), shall be deemed to be obligated 
at the time of the grant or contract award and thereafter shall remain 
available to the tribe or tribal organization without fiscal year 
limitation:  Provided further, That $2,500,000 shall be available for 
fiscal year 2025 for grants or contracts with public or private 
institutions to provide alcohol or drug treatment services to Indians, 
including alcohol detoxification services:  Provided further, That of 
the total amount of funds provided, $998,755,000 shall remain available 
until expended for Purchased/Referred Care, of which $1,000,000 shall 
be in addition to funds previously appropriated under this heading that 
became available on October 1, 2023, and $997,755,000 shall be from 
funds that become available on October 1, 2024:  Provided further, That 
of the total amount specified in the preceding proviso for Purchased/
Referred Care, $54,000,000 shall be from funds that become available on 
October 1, 2024, for the Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund:  
Provided further, That for fiscal year 2025, up to $51,000,000 shall 
remain available until expended for implementation of the loan 
repayment program under section 108 of the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Act:  Provided further, That of the total amount of funds 
provided, $58,000,000 shall be from funds that become available on 
October 1, 2024 for costs related to or resulting from accreditation 
emergencies, including supplementing activities funded under the 
heading ``Indian Health Facilities'', of which up to $4,000,000 for 
fiscal year 2025 may be used to supplement amounts otherwise available 
for Purchased/Referred Care:  Provided further, That the amounts 
collected by the Federal Government as authorized by sections 104 and 
108 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1613a and 
1616a) during the preceding fiscal year for breach of contracts shall 
be deposited in the Fund authorized by section 108A of that Act (25 
U.S.C. 1616a-1) and shall remain available until expended and, 
notwithstanding section 108A(c) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 1616a-1(c)), 
funds shall be available to make new awards under the loan repayment 
and scholarship programs under sections 104 and 108 of that Act (25 
U.S.C. 1613a and 1616a):  Provided further, That the amounts made 
available within this account for the Substance Abuse and Suicide 
Prevention Program, for Opioid Prevention, Treatment and Recovery 
Services, for the Domestic Violence Prevention Program, for the Zero 
Suicide Initiative, for the housing subsidy authority for civilian 
employees, for Aftercare Pilot Programs at Youth Regional Treatment 
Centers, for transformation and modernization costs of the Indian 
Health Service Electronic Health Record system, for national quality 
and oversight activities, to improve collections from public and 
private insurance at Indian Health Service and tribally operated 
facilities, for an initiative to treat or reduce the transmission of 
HIV and HCV, for a maternal health initiative, for the Telebehaviorial 
Health Center of Excellence, for Alzheimer's grants, for Village Built 
Clinics, for a produce prescription pilot, and for accreditation 
emergencies shall be allocated at the discretion of the Director of the 
Indian Health Service and shall remain available until expended:  
Provided further, That funds provided in this Act may be used for 
annual contracts and grants that fall within 2 fiscal years, provided 
the total obligation is recorded in the year the funds are 
appropriated:  Provided further, That the amounts collected by the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services under the authority of title IV 
of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain 
available until expended for the purpose of achieving compliance with 
the applicable conditions and requirements of titles XVIII and XIX of 
the Social Security Act, except for those related to the planning, 
design, or construction of new facilities:  Provided further, That 
funding contained herein for scholarship programs under the Indian 
Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1613) shall remain available 
until expended:  Provided further, That amounts received by tribes and 
tribal organizations under title IV of the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Act shall be reported and accounted for and available to 
the receiving tribes and tribal organizations until expended:  Provided 
further, That the Bureau of Indian Affairs may collect from the Indian 
Health Service, and from tribes and tribal organizations operating 
health facilities pursuant to Public Law 93-638, such individually 
identifiable health information relating to disabled children as may be 
necessary for the purpose of carrying out its functions under the 
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.):  
Provided further, That none of the funds provided that become available 
on October 1, 2024, may be used for implementation of the Electronic 
Health Record System or the Indian Health Care Improvement Fund:  
Provided further, That of the funds provided, $74,138,000 is for the 
Indian Health Care Improvement Fund and may be used, as needed, to 
carry out activities typically funded under the Indian Health 
Facilities account:  Provided further, That none of the funds 
appropriated by this Act, or any other Act, to the Indian Health 
Service for the Electronic Health Record system shall be available for 
obligation or expenditure for the selection or implementation of a new 
Information Technology infrastructure system, unless the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate are 
consulted 90 days in advance of such obligation.

                         contract support costs

    For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for contract 
support costs associated with Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act agreements with the Indian Health Service for fiscal 
year 2024, such sums as may be necessary:  Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, no amounts made available 
under this heading shall be available for transfer to another budget 
account:  Provided further, That amounts obligated but not expended by 
a tribe or tribal organization for contract support costs for such 
agreements for the current fiscal year shall be applied to contract 
support costs due for such agreements for subsequent fiscal years.

                       payments for tribal leases

    For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for leases pursuant 
to section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5324(l)) for fiscal year 2024, such sums as 
may be necessary, which shall be available for obligation through 
September 30, 2025:  Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, no amounts made available under this heading shall be available 
for transfer to another budget account.

                        indian health facilities

    For construction, repair, maintenance, demolition, improvement, and 
equipment of health and related auxiliary facilities, including 
quarters for personnel; preparation of plans, specifications, and 
drawings; acquisition of sites, purchase and erection of modular 
buildings, and purchases of trailers; and for provision of domestic and 
community sanitation facilities for Indians, as authorized by section 7 
of the Act of August 5, 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2004a), the Indian Self-
Determination Act, and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, and for 
expenses necessary to carry out such Acts and titles II and III of the 
Public Health Service Act with respect to environmental health and 
facilities support activities of the Indian Health Service, $6,836,000, 
to remain available until expended, which shall be in addition to funds 
previously appropriated under this heading that became available on 
October 1, 2023; in addition, $457,063,000, to remain available until 
expended, for Sanitation Facilities Construction and Health Care 
Facilities Construction; and, in addition, $508,326,000, which shall 
become available on October 1, 2024, and remain available until 
expended:  Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
funds appropriated for the planning, design, construction, renovation, 
or expansion of health facilities for the benefit of an Indian tribe or 
tribes may be used to purchase land on which such facilities will be 
located:  Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000 may be used for 
fiscal year 2025 by the Indian Health Service to purchase TRANSAM 
equipment from the Department of Defense for distribution to the Indian 
Health Service and tribal facilities:  Provided further, That none of 
the funds provided that become available on October 1, 2024, may be 
used for Health Care Facilities Construction or for Sanitation 
Facilities Construction:  Provided further, That of the amount 
appropriated under this heading for fiscal year 2024 for Sanitation 
Facilities Construction, $17,023,000 shall be for projects specified 
for Sanitation Facilities Construction (CDS) in the table titled 
``Congressionally Directed Spending Items'' in the report accompanying 
this Act:  Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated to the 
Indian Health Service may be used for sanitation facilities 
construction for new homes funded with grants by the housing programs 
of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

            administrative provisions--indian health service

    Appropriations provided in this Act to the Indian Health Service 
shall be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 at rates 
not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable 
for senior-level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles and aircraft; purchase of medical equipment; purchase of 
reprints; purchase, renovation, and erection of modular buildings and 
renovation of existing facilities; payments for telephone service in 
private residences in the field, when authorized under regulations 
approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services; uniforms, or 
allowances therefor as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; and for 
expenses of attendance at meetings that relate to the functions or 
activities of the Indian Health Service:  Provided, That in accordance 
with the provisions of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, non-
Indian patients may be extended health care at all tribally 
administered or Indian Health Service facilities, subject to charges, 
and the proceeds along with funds recovered under the Federal Medical 
Care Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 2651-2653) shall be credited to the 
account of the facility providing the service and shall be available 
without fiscal year limitation:  Provided further, That notwithstanding 
any other law or regulation, funds transferred from the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development to the Indian Health Service shall be 
administered under Public Law 86-121, the Indian Sanitation Facilities 
Act and Public Law 93-638:  Provided further, That funds appropriated 
to the Indian Health Service in this Act, except those used for 
administrative and program direction purposes, shall not be subject to 
limitations directed at curtailing Federal travel and transportation:  
Provided further, That none of the funds made available to the Indian 
Health Service in this Act shall be used for any assessments or charges 
by the Department of Health and Human Services unless identified in the 
budget justification and provided in this Act, or approved by the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations through the reprogramming 
process:  Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, funds previously or herein made available to a tribe or tribal 
organization through a contract, grant, or agreement authorized by 
title I or title V of the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), may be deobligated and 
reobligated to a self-determination contract under title I, or a self-
governance agreement under title V of such Act and thereafter shall 
remain available to the tribe or tribal organization without fiscal 
year limitation:  Provided further, That none of the funds made 
available to the Indian Health Service in this Act shall be used to 
implement the final rule published in the Federal Register on September 
16, 1987, by the Department of Health and Human Services, relating to 
the eligibility for the health care services of the Indian Health 
Service until the Indian Health Service has submitted a budget request 
reflecting the increased costs associated with the proposed final rule, 
and such request has been included in an appropriations Act and enacted 
into law:  Provided further, That with respect to functions transferred 
by the Indian Health Service to tribes or tribal organizations, the 
Indian Health Service is authorized to provide goods and services to 
those entities on a reimbursable basis, including payments in advance 
with subsequent adjustment, and the reimbursements received therefrom, 
along with the funds received from those entities pursuant to the 
Indian Self-Determination Act, may be credited to the same or 
subsequent appropriation account from which the funds were originally 
derived, with such amounts to remain available until expended:  
Provided further, That reimbursements for training, technical 
assistance, or services provided by the Indian Health Service will 
contain total costs, including direct, administrative, and overhead 
costs associated with the provision of goods, services, or technical 
assistance:  Provided further, That the Indian Health Service may 
provide to civilian medical personnel serving in hospitals operated by 
the Indian Health Service housing allowances equivalent to those that 
would be provided to members of the Commissioned Corps of the United 
States Public Health Service serving in similar positions at such 
hospitals:  Provided further, That the appropriation structure for the 
Indian Health Service may not be altered without advance notification 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.

                     National Institutes of Health

          national institute of environmental health sciences

    For necessary expenses for the National Institute of Environmental 
Health Sciences in carrying out activities set forth in section 311(a) 
of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9660(a)) and section 126(g) of the 
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, $83,035,000.

            Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

            toxic substances and environmental public health

    For necessary expenses for the Agency for Toxic Substances and 
Disease Registry (ATSDR) in carrying out activities set forth in 
sections 104(i) and 111(c)(4) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and section 
3019 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, $85,020,000:  Provided, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, in lieu of performing a 
health assessment under section 104(i)(6) of CERCLA, the Administrator 
of ATSDR may conduct other appropriate health studies, evaluations, or 
activities, including, without limitation, biomedical testing, clinical 
evaluations, medical monitoring, and referral to accredited healthcare 
providers:  Provided further, That in performing any such health 
assessment or health study, evaluation, or activity, the Administrator 
of ATSDR shall not be bound by the deadlines in section 104(i)(6)(A) of 
CERCLA:  Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under 
this heading shall be available for ATSDR to issue in excess of 40 
toxicological profiles pursuant to section 104(i) of CERCLA during 
fiscal year 2024, and existing profiles may be updated as necessary.

                         OTHER RELATED AGENCIES

                   Executive Office of the President

  council on environmental quality and office of environmental quality

    For necessary expenses to continue functions assigned to the 
Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality 
pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the 
Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970, and Reorganization Plan 
No. 1 of 1977, and not to exceed $750 for official reception and 
representation expenses, $5,176,000:  Provided, That notwithstanding 
section 202 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1970, the 
Council shall consist of one member, appointed by the President, by and 
with the advice and consent of the Senate, serving as chairman and 
exercising all powers, functions, and duties of the Council.

             Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pursuant to 
section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, including hire of passenger 
vehicles, uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901-5902, and for services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates 
for individuals not to exceed the per diem equivalent to the maximum 
rate payable for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376, 
$14,400,000:  Provided, That the Chemical Safety and Hazard 
Investigation Board (Board) shall have not more than three career 
Senior Executive Service positions:  Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the individual appointed to 
the position of Inspector General of the Environmental Protection 
Agency (EPA) shall, by virtue of such appointment, also hold the 
position of Inspector General of the Board:  Provided further, That 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Inspector General of 
the Board shall utilize personnel of the Office of Inspector General of 
EPA in performing the duties of the Inspector General of the Board, and 
shall not appoint any individuals to positions within the Board.

              Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian 
Relocation as authorized by Public Law 93-531, $5,024,000, to remain 
available until expended, which shall be derived from unobligated 
balances from prior year appropriations available under this heading:  
Provided, That funds provided in this or any other appropriations Act 
are to be used to relocate eligible individuals and groups including 
evictees from District 6, Hopi-partitioned lands residents, those in 
significantly substandard housing, and all others certified as eligible 
and not included in the preceding categories:  Provided further, That 
none of the funds contained in this or any other Act may be used by the 
Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation to evict any single Navajo 
or Navajo family who, as of November 30, 1985, was physically domiciled 
on the lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe unless a new or replacement 
home is provided for such household:  Provided further, That no 
relocatee will be provided with more than one new or replacement home:  
Provided further, That the Office shall relocate any certified eligible 
relocatees who have selected and received an approved homesite on the 
Navajo reservation or selected a replacement residence off the Navajo 
reservation or on the land acquired pursuant to section 11 of Public 
Law 93-531 (88 Stat. 1716).

    Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts 
                              Development

                        payment to the institute

    For payment to the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native 
Culture and Arts Development, as authorized by part A of title XV of 
Public Law 99-498 (20 U.S.C. 4411 et seq.), $13,482,000, which shall 
become available on July 1, 2024, and shall remain available until 
September 30, 2025.

                        Smithsonian Institution

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Smithsonian Institution, as 
authorized by law, including research in the fields of art, science, 
and history; development, preservation, and documentation of the 
National Collections; presentation of public exhibits and performances; 
collection, preparation, dissemination, and exchange of information and 
publications; conduct of education, training, and museum assistance 
programs; maintenance, alteration, operation, lease agreements of no 
more than 30 years, and protection of buildings, facilities, and 
approaches; not to exceed $100,000 for services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109; and purchase, rental, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for 
employees, $896,855,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025, 
except as otherwise provided herein; of which not to exceed $30,974,000 
for the instrumentation program, collections acquisition, exhibition 
reinstallation, Smithsonian American Women's History Museum, National 
Museum of the American Latino, and the repatriation of skeletal remains 
program shall remain available until expended; and including such funds 
as may be necessary to support American overseas research centers:  
Provided, That funds appropriated herein are available for advance 
payments to independent contractors performing research services or 
participating in official Smithsonian presentations:  Provided further, 
That the Smithsonian Institution may expend Federal appropriations 
designated in this Act for lease or rent payments, as rent payable to 
the Smithsonian Institution, and such rent payments may be deposited 
into the general trust funds of the Institution to be available as 
trust funds for expenses associated with the purchase of a portion of 
the building at 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, to the extent 
that federally supported activities will be housed there:  Provided 
further, That the use of such amounts in the general trust funds of the 
Institution for such purpose shall not be construed as Federal debt 
service for, a Federal guarantee of, a transfer of risk to, or an 
obligation of the Federal Government:  Provided further, That no 
appropriated funds may be used directly to service debt which is 
incurred to finance the costs of acquiring a portion of the building at 
600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC, or of planning, designing, and 
constructing improvements to such building:  Provided further, That any 
agreement entered into by the Smithsonian Institution for the sale of 
its ownership interest, or any portion thereof, in such building so 
acquired may not take effect until the expiration of a 30 day period 
which begins on the date on which the Secretary of the Smithsonian 
submits to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and Senate, the Committees on House Administration and 
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, and 
the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate a report, as 
outlined in the explanatory statement described in section 4 of the 
Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-94; 133 
Stat. 2536) on the intended sale.

                           facilities capital

    For necessary expenses of repair, revitalization, and alteration of 
facilities owned or occupied by the Smithsonian Institution, by 
contract or otherwise, as authorized by section 2 of the Act of August 
22, 1949 (63 Stat. 623), and for construction, including necessary 
personnel, $197,645,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
not to exceed $10,000 shall be for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109.

                        National Gallery of Art

                         salaries and expenses

    For the upkeep and operations of the National Gallery of Art, the 
protection and care of the works of art therein, and administrative 
expenses incident thereto, as authorized by the Act of March 24, 1937 
(50 Stat. 51), as amended by the public resolution of April 13, 1939 
(Public Resolution 9, 76th Congress), including services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; payment in advance when authorized by the treasurer 
of the Gallery for membership in library, museum, and art associations 
or societies whose publications or services are available to members 
only, or to members at a price lower than to the general public; 
purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for guards, and uniforms, or 
allowances therefor, for other employees as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 
5901-5902); purchase or rental of devices and services for protecting 
buildings and contents thereof, and maintenance, alteration, 
improvement, and repair of buildings, approaches, and grounds; and 
purchase of services for restoration and repair of works of art for the 
National Gallery of Art by contracts made, without advertising, with 
individuals, firms, or organizations at such rates or prices and under 
such terms and conditions as the Gallery may deem proper, $171,760,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2025, of which not to exceed 
$3,875,000 for the special exhibition program shall remain available 
until expended.

            repair, restoration and renovation of buildings

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses of repair, restoration, and renovation of 
buildings, grounds and facilities owned or occupied by the National 
Gallery of Art, by contract or otherwise, for operating lease 
agreements of no more than 10 years, that address space needs created 
by the ongoing renovations in the Master Facilities Plan, as 
authorized, $37,480,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, 
That of this amount, $24,574,000 shall be available for design and 
construction of an off-site art storage facility in partnership with 
the Smithsonian Institution and may be transferred to the Smithsonian 
Institution for such purposes:  Provided further, That contracts 
awarded for environmental systems, protection systems, and exterior 
repair or renovation of buildings of the National Gallery of Art may be 
negotiated with selected contractors and awarded on the basis of 
contractor qualifications as well as price.

             John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

                       operations and maintenance

    For necessary expenses for the operation, maintenance, and security 
of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, including rent 
of temporary office space in the District of Columbia during 
renovations of such Center, $29,027,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2025.

                     capital repair and restoration

    For necessary expenses for capital repair and restoration of the 
existing features of the building and site of the John F. Kennedy 
Center for the Performing Arts, $16,353,000, to remain available until 
expended.

            Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

                         salaries and expenses

    For expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of the 
Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 1356) including hire of 
passenger vehicles and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$15,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025.

           National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

                    National Endowment for the Arts

                       grants and administration

    For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, $207,000,000 shall be available to 
the National Endowment for the Arts for the support of projects and 
productions in the arts, including arts education and public outreach 
activities, through assistance to organizations and individuals 
pursuant to section 5 of the Act, for program support, and for 
administering the functions of the Act, to remain available until 
expended.

                 National Endowment for the Humanities

                       grants and administration

    For necessary expenses to carry out the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, $207,000,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which $188,250,000 shall be available for support of 
activities in the humanities, pursuant to section 7(c) of the Act and 
for administering the functions of the Act; and $18,750,000 shall be 
available to carry out the matching grants program pursuant to section 
10(a)(2) of the Act, including $15,750,000 for the purposes of section 
7(h):  Provided, That appropriations for carrying out section 10(a)(2) 
shall be available for obligation only in such amounts as may be equal 
to the total amounts of gifts, bequests, devises of money, and other 
property accepted by the chairman or by grantees of the National 
Endowment for the Humanities under the provisions of sections 
11(a)(2)(B) and 11(a)(3)(B) during the current and preceding fiscal 
years for which equal amounts have not previously been appropriated.

                       Administrative Provisions

    None of the funds appropriated to the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities may be used to process any grant or contract 
documents which do not include the text of 18 U.S.C. 1913:  Provided, 
That none of the funds appropriated to the National Foundation on the 
Arts and the Humanities may be used for official reception and 
representation expenses:  Provided further, That funds from 
nonappropriated sources may be used as necessary for official reception 
and representation expenses:  Provided further, That the Chairperson of 
the National Endowment for the Arts may approve grants of up to 
$10,000, if in the aggregate the amount of such grants does not exceed 
5 percent of the sums appropriated for grantmaking purposes per year:  
Provided further, That such small grant actions are taken pursuant to 
the terms of an expressed and direct delegation of authority from the 
National Council on the Arts to the Chairperson.

                        Commission of Fine Arts

                         salaries and expenses

    For expenses of the Commission of Fine Arts under chapter 91 of 
title 40, United States Code, $3,661,000:  Provided, That the 
Commission is authorized to charge fees to cover the full costs of its 
publications, and such fees shall be credited to this account as an 
offsetting collection, to remain available until expended without 
further appropriation:  Provided further, That the Commission is 
authorized to accept gifts, including objects, papers, artwork, 
drawings and artifacts, that pertain to the history and design of the 
Nation's Capital or the history and activities of the Commission of 
Fine Arts, for the purpose of artistic display, study, or education:  
Provided further, That one-tenth of one percent of the funds provided 
under this heading may be used for official reception and 
representation expenses.

               national capital arts and cultural affairs

    For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 99-190 (20 
U.S.C. 956a), $5,000,000:  Provided, That the item relating to 
``National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs'' in the Department of the 
Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986, as enacted into 
law by section 101(d) of Public Law 99-190 (20 U.S.C. 956a), shall be 
applied in fiscal year 2024 in the second paragraph by inserting ``, 
calendar year 2020 excluded'' before the first period:  Provided 
further, That in determining an eligible organization's annual income 
for calendar years 2021, 2022, and 2023, funds or grants received by 
the eligible organization from any supplemental appropriations Act 
related to coronavirus or any other law providing appropriations for 
the purpose of preventing, preparing for, or responding to coronavirus 
shall be counted as part of the eligible organization's annual income.

               Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on Historic 
Preservation (Public Law 89-665), $8,585,000.

                  National Capital Planning Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the National Capital Planning Commission 
under chapter 87 of title 40, United States Code, including services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $8,750,000:  Provided, That one-quarter of 
1 percent of the funds provided under this heading may be used for 
official reception and representational expenses associated with 
hosting international visitors engaged in the planning and physical 
development of world capitals.

                United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

                       holocaust memorial museum

    For expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, as authorized by 
Public Law 106-292 (36 U.S.C. 2301-2310), $65,231,000, of which 
$1,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2026, for the 
Museum's equipment replacement program; and of which $4,000,000 for the 
Museum's repair and rehabilitation program and $1,264,000 for the 
Museum's outreach initiatives program shall remain available until 
expended.

                             Presidio Trust

    The Presidio Trust is authorized to issue obligations to the 
Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to section 104(d)(3) of the Omnibus 
Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-333), in 
an amount not to exceed $45,000,000.

              United States Semiquincentennial Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the United States Semiquincentennial 
Commission to plan and coordinate observances and activities associated 
with the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, as 
authorized by Public Law 116-282, the technical amendments to Public 
Law 114-196, $15,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2025.

                                TITLE IV

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

             (including transfers and rescissions of funds)

                      restriction on use of funds

    Sec. 401.  No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available for any activity or the publication or distribution of 
literature that in any way tends to promote public support or 
opposition to any legislative proposal on which Congressional action is 
not complete other than to communicate to Members of Congress as 
described in 18 U.S.C. 1913.

                      obligation of appropriations

    Sec. 402.  No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein.

                 disclosure of administrative expenses

    Sec. 403.  The amount and basis of estimated overhead charges, 
deductions, reserves, or holdbacks, including working capital fund 
charges, from programs, projects, activities and subactivities to 
support government-wide, departmental, agency, or bureau administrative 
functions or headquarters, regional, or central operations shall be 
presented in annual budget justifications and subject to approval by 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate. Changes to such estimates shall be presented to the 
Committees on Appropriations for approval.

                          mining applications

    Sec. 404. (a) Limitation of Funds.--None of the funds appropriated 
or otherwise made available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or 
expended to accept or process applications for a patent for any mining 
or mill site claim located under the general mining laws.
    (b) Exceptions.--Subsection (a) shall not apply if the Secretary of 
the Interior determines that, for the claim concerned: (1) a patent 
application was filed with the Secretary on or before September 30, 
1994; and (2) all requirements established under sections 2325 and 2326 
of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) for vein or lode claims, 
sections 2329, 2330, 2331, and 2333 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 
35, 36, and 37) for placer claims, and section 2337 of the Revised 
Statutes (30 U.S.C. 42) for mill site claims, as the case may be, were 
fully complied with by the applicant by that date.
    (c) Report.--On September 30, 2025, the Secretary of the Interior 
shall file with the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and 
the Committee on Natural Resources of the House and the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a report on actions taken by 
the Department under the plan submitted pursuant to section 314(c) of 
the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1997 (Public Law 104-208).
    (d) Mineral Examinations.--In order to process patent applications 
in a timely and responsible manner, upon the request of a patent 
applicant, the Secretary of the Interior shall allow the applicant to 
fund a qualified third-party contractor to be selected by the Director 
of the Bureau of Land Management to conduct a mineral examination of 
the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent application as 
set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau of Land Management shall have 
the sole responsibility to choose and pay the third-party contractor in 
accordance with the standard procedures employed by the Bureau of Land 
Management in the retention of third-party contractors.

             contract support costs, prior year limitation

    Sec. 405.  Sections 405 and 406 of division F of the Consolidated 
and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 (Public Law 113-235) 
shall continue in effect in fiscal year 2024.

          contract support costs, fiscal year 2024 limitation

    Sec. 406.  Amounts provided by this Act for fiscal year 2024 under 
the headings ``Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health 
Service, Contract Support Costs'' and ``Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education, Contract 
Support Costs'' are the only amounts available for contract support 
costs arising out of self-determination or self-governance contracts, 
grants, compacts, or annual funding agreements for fiscal year 2024 
with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Education, and the 
Indian Health Service:  Provided, That such amounts provided by this 
Act are not available for payment of claims for contract support costs 
for prior years, or for repayments of payments for settlements or 
judgments awarding contract support costs for prior years.

                        forest management plans

    Sec. 407.  The Secretary of Agriculture shall not be considered to 
be in violation of section 6(f)(5)(A) of the Forest and Rangeland 
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604(f)(5)(A)) 
solely because more than 15 years have passed without revision of the 
plan for a unit of the National Forest System. Nothing in this section 
exempts the Secretary from any other requirement of the Forest and 
Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.) or 
any other law:  Provided, That if the Secretary is not acting 
expeditiously and in good faith, within the funding available, to 
revise a plan for a unit of the National Forest System, this section 
shall be void with respect to such plan and a court of proper 
jurisdiction may order completion of the plan on an accelerated basis.

                 prohibition within national monuments

    Sec. 408.  No funds provided in this Act may be expended to conduct 
preleasing, leasing and related activities under either the Mineral 
Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) or the Outer Continental Shelf 
Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) within the boundaries of a National 
Monument established pursuant to the Act of June 8, 1906 (16 U.S.C. 431 
et seq.) as such boundary existed on January 20, 2001, except where 
such activities are allowed under the Presidential proclamation 
establishing such monument.

                         limitation on takings

    Sec. 409.  Unless otherwise provided herein, no funds appropriated 
in this Act for the acquisition of lands or interests in lands may be 
expended for the filing of declarations of taking or complaints in 
condemnation without the approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations:  Provided, That this provision shall not apply to funds 
appropriated to implement the Everglades National Park Protection and 
Expansion Act of 1989, or to funds appropriated for Federal assistance 
to the State of Florida to acquire lands for Everglades restoration 
purposes.

                    prohibition on no-bid contracts

    Sec. 410.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act to executive branch agencies may be used to enter 
into any Federal contract unless such contract is entered into in 
accordance with the requirements of Chapter 33 of title 41, United 
States Code, or Chapter 137 of title 10, United States Code, and the 
Federal Acquisition Regulation, unless--
            (1) Federal law specifically authorizes a contract to be 
        entered into without regard for these requirements, including 
        formula grants for States, or federally recognized Indian 
        tribes;
            (2) such contract is authorized by the Indian Self-
        Determination and Education Assistance Act (Public Law 93-638, 
        25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.) or by any other Federal laws that 
        specifically authorize a contract within an Indian tribe as 
        defined in section 4(e) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(e)); or
            (3) such contract was awarded prior to the date of 
        enactment of this Act.

                           posting of reports

    Sec. 411. (a) Any agency receiving funds made available in this 
Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), post on the public 
website of that agency any report required to be submitted by the 
Congress in this or any other Act, upon the determination by the head 
of the agency that it shall serve the national interest.
    (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if--
            (1) the public posting of the report compromises national 
        security; or
            (2) the report contains proprietary information.
    (c) The head of the agency posting such report shall do so only 
after such report has been made available to the requesting Committee 
or Committees of Congress for no less than 45 days.

            national endowment for the arts grant guidelines

    Sec. 412.  Of the funds provided to the National Endowment for the 
Arts--
            (1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant to an 
        individual if such grant is awarded to such individual for a 
        literature fellowship, National Heritage Fellowship, or 
        American Jazz Masters Fellowship.
            (2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures to ensure 
        that no funding provided through a grant, except a grant made 
        to a State or local arts agency, or regional group, may be used 
        to make a grant to any other organization or individual to 
        conduct activity independent of the direct grant recipient. 
        Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit payments made in 
        exchange for goods and services.
            (3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support to a group, 
        unless the application is specific to the contents of the 
        season, including identified programs or projects.

           national endowment for the arts program priorities

    Sec. 413. (a) In providing services or awarding financial 
assistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities 
Act of 1965 from funds appropriated under this Act, the Chairperson of 
the National Endowment for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given 
to providing services or awarding financial assistance for projects, 
productions, workshops, or programs that serve underserved populations.
    (b) In this section:
            (1) The term ``underserved population'' means a population 
        of individuals, including urban minorities, who have 
        historically been outside the purview of arts and humanities 
        programs due to factors such as a high incidence of income 
        below the poverty line or to geographic isolation.
            (2) The term ``poverty line'' means the poverty line (as 
        defined by the Office of Management and Budget, and revised 
        annually in accordance with section 673(2) of the Community 
        Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2))) applicable to a 
        family of the size involved.
    (c) In providing services and awarding financial assistance under 
the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965 with 
funds appropriated by this Act, the Chairperson of the National 
Endowment for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given to providing 
services or awarding financial assistance for projects, productions, 
workshops, or programs that will encourage public knowledge, education, 
understanding, and appreciation of the arts.
    (d) With funds appropriated by this Act to carry out section 5 of 
the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965--
            (1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant category for 
        projects, productions, workshops, or programs that are of 
        national impact or availability or are able to tour several 
        States;
            (2) the Chairperson shall not make grants exceeding 15 
        percent, in the aggregate, of such funds to any single State, 
        excluding grants made under the authority of paragraph (1);
            (3) the Chairperson shall report to the Congress annually 
        and by State, on grants awarded by the Chairperson in each 
        grant category under section 5 of such Act; and
            (4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of grants to 
        improve and support community-based music performance and 
        education.

                  status of balances of appropriations

    Sec. 414.  The Department of the Interior, the Environmental 
Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the Indian Health Service 
shall provide the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and Senate quarterly reports on the status of balances 
of appropriations including all uncommitted, committed, and unobligated 
funds in each program and activity within 60 days of enactment of this 
Act.

                      extension of grazing permits

    Sec. 415.  The terms and conditions of section 325 of Public Law 
108-108 (117 Stat. 1307), regarding grazing permits issued by the 
Forest Service on any lands not subject to administration under section 
402 of the Federal Lands Policy and Management Act (43 U.S.C. 1752), 
shall remain in effect for fiscal year 2024.

                          funding prohibition

    Sec. 416. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
used to maintain or establish a computer network unless such network is 
designed to block access to pornography websites.
    (b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of funds 
necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law enforcement 
agency or any other entity carrying out criminal investigations, 
prosecution, or adjudication activities.

                humane transfer and treatment of animals

    Sec. 417. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of the Interior, with respect to land administered by the 
Bureau of Land Management, or the Secretary of Agriculture, with 
respect to land administered by the Forest Service (referred to in this 
section as the ``Secretary concerned''), may transfer excess wild 
horses and burros that have been removed from land administered by the 
Secretary concerned to other Federal, State, and local government 
agencies for use as work animals.
    (b) The Secretary concerned may make a transfer under subsection 
(a) immediately on the request of a Federal, State, or local government 
agency.
    (c) An excess wild horse or burro transferred under subsection (a) 
shall lose status as a wild free-roaming horse or burro (as defined in 
section 2 of Public Law 92-195 (commonly known as the ``Wild Free-
Roaming Horses and Burros Act'') (16 U.S.C. 1332)).
    (d) A Federal, State, or local government agency receiving an 
excess wild horse or burro pursuant to subsection (a) shall not--
            (1) destroy the horse or burro in a manner that results in 
        the destruction of the horse or burro into a commercial 
        product;
            (2) sell or otherwise transfer the horse or burro in a 
        manner that results in the destruction of the horse or burro 
        for processing into a commercial product; or
            (3) euthanize the horse or burro, except on the 
        recommendation of a licensed veterinarian in a case of severe 
        injury, illness, or advanced age.
    (e) Amounts appropriated by this Act shall not be available for--
            (1) the destruction of any healthy, unadopted, and wild 
        horse or burro under the jurisdiction of the Secretary 
        concerned (including a contractor); or
            (2) the sale of a wild horse or burro that results in the 
        destruction of the wild horse or burro for processing into a 
        commercial product.

   forest service facility realignment and enhancement authorization 
                               extension

    Sec. 418.  Section 503(f) of Public Law 109-54 (16 U.S.C. 580d 
note) shall be applied by substituting ``September 30, 2024'' for 
``September 30, 2019''.

                     use of american iron and steel

    Sec. 419. (a)(1) None of the funds made available by a State water 
pollution control revolving fund as authorized by section 1452 of the 
Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-12) shall be used for a project 
for the construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public 
water system or treatment works unless all of the iron and steel 
products used in the project are produced in the United States.
    (2) In this section, the term ``iron and steel'' products means the 
following products made primarily of iron or steel: lined or unlined 
pipes and fittings, manhole covers and other municipal castings, 
hydrants, tanks, flanges, pipe clamps and restraints, valves, 
structural steel, reinforced precast concrete, and construction 
materials.
    (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or category of cases 
in which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (in 
this section referred to as the ``Administrator'') finds that--
            (1) applying subsection (a) would be inconsistent with the 
        public interest;
            (2) iron and steel products are not produced in the United 
        States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and of 
        a satisfactory quality; or
            (3) inclusion of iron and steel products produced in the 
        United States will increase the cost of the overall project by 
        more than 25 percent.
    (c) If the Administrator receives a request for a waiver under this 
section, the Administrator shall make available to the public on an 
informal basis a copy of the request and information available to the 
Administrator concerning the request, and shall allow for informal 
public input on the request for at least 15 days prior to making a 
finding based on the request. The Administrator shall make the request 
and accompanying information available by electronic means, including 
on the official public Internet Web site of the Environmental 
Protection Agency.
    (d) This section shall be applied in a manner consistent with 
United States obligations under international agreements.
    (e) The Administrator may retain up to 0.25 percent of the funds 
appropriated in this Act for the Clean and Drinking Water State 
Revolving Funds for carrying out the provisions described in subsection 
(a)(1) for management and oversight of the requirements of this 
section.

local cooperator training agreements and transfers of excess equipment 
                       and supplies for wildfires

    Sec. 420.  The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter 
into grants and cooperative agreements with volunteer fire departments, 
rural fire departments, rangeland fire protection associations, and 
similar organizations to provide for wildland fire training and 
equipment, including supplies and communication devices. 
Notwithstanding section 121(c) of title 40, United States Code, or 
section 521 of title 40, United States Code, the Secretary is further 
authorized to transfer title to excess Department of the Interior 
firefighting equipment no longer needed to carry out the functions of 
the Department's wildland fire management program to such 
organizations.

                            recreation fees

    Sec. 421.  Section 810 of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement 
Act (16 U.S.C. 6809) shall be applied by substituting ``October 1, 
2025'' for ``September 30, 2019''.

                        reprogramming guidelines

    Sec. 422.  None of the funds made available in this Act, in this 
and prior fiscal years, may be reprogrammed without the advance 
approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in 
accordance with the reprogramming procedures contained in the report 
accompanying this Act.

                           local contractors

    Sec. 423.  Section 412 of division E of Public Law 112-74 shall be 
applied by substituting ``fiscal year 2024'' for ``fiscal year 2019''.

      shasta-trinity marina fee authority authorization extension

    Sec. 424.  Section 422 of division F of Public Law 110-161 (121 
Stat 1844), as amended, shall be applied by substituting ``fiscal year 
2024'' for ``fiscal year 2019''.

            interpretive association authorization extension

    Sec. 425.  Section 426 of division G of Public Law 113-76 (16 
U.S.C. 565a-1 note) shall be applied by substituting ``September 30, 
2024'' for ``September 30, 2019''.

             puerto rico schooling authorization extension

    Sec. 426.  The authority provided by the 19th unnumbered paragraph 
under heading ``Administrative Provisions, Forest Service'' in title 
III of Public Law 109-54, as amended, shall be applied by substituting 
``fiscal year 2024'' for ``fiscal year 2019''.

    forest botanical products fee collection authorization extension

    Sec. 427.  Section 339 of the Department of the Interior and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by 
Public Law 106-113; 16 U.S.C. 528 note), as amended by section 335(6) 
of Public Law 108-108 and section 432 of Public Law 113-76, shall be 
applied by substituting ``fiscal year 2024'' for ``fiscal year 2019''.

                              chaco canyon

    Sec. 428.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to accept a nomination for oil and gas leasing under 43 CFR 3120.3 et 
seq., or to offer for oil and gas leasing, any Federal lands within the 
withdrawal area identified on the map of the Chaco Culture National 
Historical Park prepared by the Bureau of Land Management and dated 
April 2, 2019, prior to the completion of the cultural resources 
investigation identified in the explanatory statement described in 
section 4 in the matter preceding division A of the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260).

                             tribal leases

    Sec. 429. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the 
case of any lease under section 105(l) of the Indian Self-Determination 
and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5324(l)), the initial lease 
term shall commence no earlier than the date of receipt of the lease 
proposal.
    (b) The Secretaries of the Interior and Health and Human Services 
shall, jointly or separately, during fiscal year 2024 consult with 
tribes and tribal organizations through public solicitation and other 
means regarding the requirements for leases under section 105(l) of the 
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 
5324(l)) on how to implement a consistent and transparent process for 
the payment of such leases.

               forest ecosystem health and recovery fund

    Sec. 430.  The authority provided under the heading ``Forest 
Ecosystem Health and Recovery Fund'' in title I of Public Law 111-88, 
as amended by section 117 of division F of Public Law 113-235, shall be 
applied by substituting ``fiscal year 2024'' for ``fiscal year 2020'' 
each place it appears.

     allocation of projects, national parks and public land legacy 
         restoration fund and land and water conservation fund

    Sec. 431. (a)(1) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall allocate amounts made available from 
the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund for fiscal 
year 2024 pursuant to subsection (c) of section 200402 of title 54, 
United States Code, and as provided in subsection (e) of such section 
of such title, to the agencies of the Department of the Interior and 
the Department of Agriculture specified, in the amounts specified, for 
the stations and unit names specified, and for the projects and 
activities specified in the table titled ``Allocation of Funds: 
National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund Fiscal Year 
2024'' in the report accompanying this Act.
    (2) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, shall 
allocate amounts made available for expenditure from the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund for fiscal year 2024 pursuant to subsection (a) of 
section 200303 of title 54, United States Code, to the agencies and 
accounts specified, in the amounts specified, and for the projects and 
activities specified in the table titled ``Allocation of Funds: Land 
and Water Conservation Fund Fiscal Year 2024'' in the report 
accompanying this Act.
    (b) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (c) of this section, 
neither the President nor his designee may allocate any amounts that 
are made available for any fiscal year under subsection (c) of section 
200402 of title 54, United States Code, or subsection (a) of section 
200303 of title 54, United States Code, other than in amounts and for 
projects and activities that are allocated by subsections (a)(1) and 
(a)(2) of this section:  Provided, That in any fiscal year, the matter 
preceding this proviso shall not apply to the allocation of amounts for 
continuing administration of programs allocated funds from the National 
Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund or the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund, which may be allocated only in amounts that are no 
more than the allocation for such purposes in subsections (a)(1) and 
(a)(2) of this section.
    (c) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture 
may reallocate amounts from each agency's ``Contingency Fund'' line in 
the table titled ``Allocation of Funds: National Parks and Public Land 
Legacy Restoration Fund Fiscal Year 2024'' to any project funded by the 
National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund within the same 
agency, from any fiscal year, that experienced a funding deficiency due 
to unforeseen cost overruns, in accordance with the following 
requirements:
            (1) ``Contingency Fund'' amounts may only be reallocated if 
        there is a risk to project completion resulting from unforeseen 
        cost overruns;
            (2) ``Contingency Fund'' amounts may only be reallocated 
        for cost of adjustments and changes within the original scope 
        of effort for projects funded by the National Parks and Public 
        Land Legacy Restoration Fund; and
            (3) The Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of 
        Agriculture must provide written notification to the Committees 
        on Appropriations 30 days before taking any actions authorized 
        by this subsection if the amount reallocated from the 
        ``Contingency Fund'' line for a project is projected to be 10 
        percent or greater than the following, as applicable:
                    (A) The amount allocated to that project in the 
                table titled ``Allocation of Funds: National Parks and 
                Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund Fiscal Year 2024'' 
                in the report accompanying this Act; or
                    (B) The initial estimate in the most recent report 
                submitted, prior to enactment of this Act, to the 
                Committees on Appropriations pursuant to section 431(e) 
                of division G of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
                2023 (Public Law 117-328).
    (d)(1) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the 
President for fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall each submit to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate project 
data sheets for the projects in the ``Submission of Annual List of 
Projects to Congress'' required by section 200402(h) of title 54, 
United States Code:  Provided, That the ``Submission of Annual List of 
Projects to Congress'' must include a ``Contingency Fund'' line for 
each agency within the allocations defined in subsection (e) of section 
200402 of title 54, United States Code:  Provided further, That in the 
event amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act for the National 
Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund are no longer needed to 
complete a specified project, such amounts may be reallocated in such 
submission to that agency's ``Contingency Fund'' line:  Provided 
further, That any proposals to change the scope of or terminate a 
previously approved project must be clearly identified in such 
submission.
    (2)(A) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the 
President for fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall each submit to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate a list of 
supplementary allocations for Federal land acquisition and Forest 
Legacy Projects at the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Forest 
Service that are in addition to the ``Submission of Cost Estimates'' 
required by section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, that 
are prioritized and detailed by account, program, and project, and that 
total no less than half the full amount allocated to each account for 
that land management Agency under the allocations submitted under 
section 200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code:  Provided, That 
in the event amounts allocated by this Act or any prior Act pursuant to 
subsection (a) of section 200303 of title 54, United States Code are no 
longer needed because a project has been completed or can no longer be 
executed, such amounts must be clearly identified if proposed for 
reallocation in the annual budget submission.
    (B) The Federal land acquisition and Forest Legacy projects in the 
``Submission of Cost Estimates'' required by section 200303(c)(1) of 
title 54, United States Code, and on the list of supplementary 
allocations required by subparagraph (A) shall be comprised only of 
projects for which a willing seller has been identified and for which 
an appraisal or market research has been initiated.
    (C) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the President 
for fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall each submit to the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate project data sheets in the 
same format and containing the same level of detailed information that 
is found on such sheets in the Budget Justifications annually submitted 
by the Department of the Interior with the President's Budget for the 
projects in the ``Submission of Cost Estimates'' required by section 
200303(c)(1) of title 54, United States Code, and in the same format 
and containing the same level of detailed information that is found on 
such sheets submitted to the Committees pursuant to section 427 of 
division D of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public 
Law 116-94) for the list of supplementary allocations required by 
subparagraph (A).
    (e) The Department of the Interior and the Department of 
Agriculture shall provide the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and Senate quarterly reports on the status of 
balances of projects and activities funded by the National Parks and 
Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund for amounts allocated pursuant to 
subsection (a)(1) of this section and the status of balances of 
projects and activities funded by the Land and Water Conservation Fund 
for amounts allocated pursuant to subsection (a)(2) of this section, 
including all uncommitted, committed, and unobligated funds, and, for 
amounts allocated pursuant to subsection (a)(1) of this section, 
National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund amounts 
reallocated pursuant to subsection (c) of this section.

                  policies relating to biomass energy

    Sec. 432.  To support the key role that forests in the United 
States can play in addressing the energy needs of the United States, 
the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall, consistent 
with their missions, jointly--
            (1) ensure that Federal policy relating to forest 
        bioenergy--
                    (A) is consistent across all Federal departments 
                and agencies; and
                    (B) recognizes the full benefits of the use of 
                forest biomass for energy, conservation, and 
                responsible forest management; and
            (2) establish clear and simple policies for the use of 
        forest biomass as an energy solution, including policies that--
                    (A) reflect the carbon neutrality of forest 
                bioenergy and recognize biomass as a renewable energy 
                source, provided the use of forest biomass for energy 
                production does not cause conversion of forests to non-
                forest use;
                    (B) encourage private investment throughout the 
                forest biomass supply chain, including in--
                            (i) working forests;
                            (ii) harvesting operations;
                            (iii) forest improvement operations;
                            (iv) forest bioenergy production;
                            (v) wood products manufacturing; or
                            (vi) paper manufacturing;
                    (C) encourage forest management to improve forest 
                health; and
                    (D) recognize State initiatives to produce and use 
                forest biomass.

                       small remote incinerators

    Sec. 433.  None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to implement or enforce the regulation issued on March 21, 2011 at 40 
CFR part 60 subparts CCCC and DDDD with respect to units in the State 
of Alaska that are defined as ``small, remote incinerator'' units in 
those regulations and, until a subsequent regulation is issued, the 
Administrator shall implement the law and regulations in effect prior 
to such date.

                        timber sale requirements

    Sec. 434.  No timber sale in Alaska's Region 10 shall be advertised 
if the indicated rate is deficit (defined as the value of the timber is 
not sufficient to cover all logging and stumpage costs and provide a 
normal profit and risk allowance under the Forest Service's appraisal 
process) when appraised using a residual value appraisal. The western 
red cedar timber from those sales which is surplus to the needs of the 
domestic processors in Alaska, shall be made available to domestic 
processors in the contiguous 48 United States at prevailing domestic 
prices. All additional western red cedar volume not sold to Alaska or 
contiguous 48 United States domestic processors may be exported to 
foreign markets at the election of the timber sale holder. All Alaska 
yellow cedar may be sold at prevailing export prices at the election of 
the timber sale holder.

 transfer authority to federal highway administration for the national 
             parks and public land legacy restoration fund

    Sec. 435.  Funds made available or allocated in this Act to the 
Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture that are 
subject to the allocations and limitations in 54 U.S.C. 200402(e) and 
prohibitions in 54 U.S.C. 200402(f) may be further allocated or 
reallocated to the Federal Highway Administration for transportation 
projects of the covered agencies defined in 54 U.S.C. 200401(2).

                      prohibition on use of funds

    Sec. 436.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds made available in this Act or any other Act may be used to 
promulgate or implement any regulation requiring the issuance of 
permits under title V of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7661 et seq.) for 
carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions 
resulting from biological processes associated with livestock 
production.

                 greenhouse gas reporting restrictions

    Sec. 437.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds made available in this or any other Act may be used to implement 
any provision in a rule, if that provision requires mandatory reporting 
of greenhouse gas emissions from manure management systems.

                          funding prohibition

    Sec. 438.  None of the funds made available by this or any other 
Act may be used to regulate the lead content of ammunition, ammunition 
components, or fishing tackle under the Toxic Substances Control Act 
(15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.) or any other law.

                          firefighter pay cap

    Sec. 439.  Section 1701 of division B of the Extending Government 
Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act (5 U.S.C. 5547 note), 
as amended by Public Law 117-103, is further amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking the last sentence and 
        inserting ``Any Services during a given calendar year that 
        generate payments payable in the subsequent calendar year shall 
        be disregarded in applying this subsection''; and
            (2) in subsections (a), (b), and (c) by inserting ``or 
        2024'' after ``or 2023'' each place it appears.

                          technical correction

    Sec. 440.  In the table entitled ``Interior and Environment 
Incorporation of Community Project Funding Items/Congressionally 
Directed Spending Items'' in the explanatory statement described in 
section 4 in the matter preceding division A of Public Law 117-328 and 
in the table under the heading ``Disclosure of Earmarks and 
Congressionally Directed Spending Items'' in such explanatory 
statement, the project relating to ``Historic Campbell Chapel 
Restoration Committee for the Restoration of Historic Campbell Chapel'' 
is deemed to be amended by striking ``Historic Preservation Fund--Save 
America's Treasures Grants'' and inserting ``Historic Preservation 
Fund--Historic Preservation Fund Grants''.

     alaska native regional health entities authorization extension

    Sec. 441.  Section 424(a) of title IV of division G of the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 113-76) shall be 
applied by substituting ``October 1, 2024'' for ``December 24, 2023''.

                         availability of funds

    Sec. 442.  Each amount designated in this Act by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 shall be 
available (or rescinded, if applicable) only if the President 
subsequently so designates all such amounts and transmits such 
designations to the Congress.

                        good neighbor authority

    Sec. 443.  Section 8206 of the Agriculture Act of 2014 (16 U.S.C. 
2113a), as amended by section 8624 of the Agriculture Improvement Act 
of 2018 (Public Law 115-334) and the Consolidated Appropriation Act, 
2023 (Public Law 117-328), is further amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(3)(A), by adding before the period: 
        ``; or''
                            ``(iii) National Park System land; or
                            ``(iv) National Wildlife Refuge Land'';
            (2) in subsection (a)(4)(B)(i), by striking ``or'' after 
        ``National Forest System'' and inserting ``,'';
            (3) in subsection (a)(4)(B)(i), by inserting ``, National 
        Park Service, or National Wildlife Refuge'' after ``Bureau of 
        Land Management'';
            (4) in subsection (b)(2)(C)(ii), by striking ``2023'' and 
        inserting ``2024'';
            (5) in subsection (b)(4) by striking ``land or'' and 
        inserting ``,''; and
            (6) in subsection (b)(4) by inserting ``, National Park 
        System, or U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service'' after ``Bureau of 
        Land Management''.

                forest service nonrecurring expense fund

    Sec. 444.  There is hereby established in the Treasury of the 
United States a fund to be known as the ``Forest Service Nonrecurring 
Expenses Fund'' (the Fund):  Provided, That unobligated balances of 
expired discretionary funds, and discretionary no-year funds at least 
four years old and deemed by the Chief of the Forest Service no longer 
needed for their intended purpose, appropriated for this or any 
succeeding fiscal year from the General Fund of the Treasury to the 
Forest Service by this or any other Act may be transferred into the 
Fund:  Provided further, That amounts deposited in the Fund shall be 
available until expended, and in addition to such other funds as may be 
available, for information technology; administrative expenses such as, 
but not limited to, utility and lease payments; facilities 
infrastructure maintenance, improvements, and construction; and roads 
infrastructure maintenance, subject to approval by the Office of 
Management and Budget:  Provided further, That amounts in the Fund may 
be obligated only after the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate are notified at least 15 days in 
advance of the planned use of funds.

                           cost share waiver

    Sec. 445.  The Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of 
Agriculture, may waive, in whole or in part, the non-Federal cost 
sharing requirement of any appropriate conservation project under 
section 212(a)(1) of the Public Lands Corps Act (16 U.S.C. 1729(a)(1)): 
 Provided, That in the event of such a waiver, the Secretary of the 
Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, is authorized 
to pay up to 100 percent of the costs of the appropriate conservation 
project.

                   world war i centennial commission

    Sec. 446.  In addition to the authority provided by section 6(g) of 
the World War I Centennial Commission Act, as authorized by the World 
War I Centennial Commission Act (Public Law 112-272) and the Carl Levin 
and Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 113-291), the World War I Commission may 
accept money, in-kind personnel services, contractual support, or any 
appropriate support from any executive branch agency for activities of 
the Commission.

                               rescission

    Sec. 447.  Of the unobligated balances from discretionary amounts 
made available in fiscal year 2020 or before for the National Park 
Service, and derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, 
$100,000,000 is hereby permanently rescinded from grant programs with 
an unobligated carryover balance:  Provided, That no amounts may be 
rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget 
or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

                               rescission

    Sec. 448.  Of the unobligated balances from amounts made available 
by section 11001 of Public Law 117-2 $350,000,000 are hereby 
permanently rescinded.

                           critical minerals

    Sec. 449.  In implementing regulations related to tailpipe 
greenhouse gas emissions standards under section 202(a) of the Clean 
Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency shall assess and report to 
Congress on the impact such regulations would have on the amount of 
critical minerals extracted, processed, or recycled by a foreign entity 
of concern (as defined in section 40207(a)(5) of the Infrastructure 
Investment and Jobs Act (42 U.S.C. 18741(a)(5))).
    This Act may be cited as the ``Department of the Interior, 
Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024''.
                                                       Calendar No. 186

118th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                S. 2605

                          [Report No. 118-83]

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                                 A BILL

Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, 
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and 
                          for other purposes.

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                             July 27, 2023

                 Read twice and placed on the calendar