[House Prints, 110th Congress]
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[House Appropriations Committee Print]
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008
(H.R. 2764; Public Law 110-161)
DIVISION F--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED
AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2008
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CONTENTS, DIVISION F
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Legislative Text:
Title I--Departmental of the Interior........................ 1166
Title II--Environmental Protection Agency.................... 1193
Title III--Related Agencies.................................. 1197
Title IV--General Provisions................................. 1214
Title V--Wildfire Suppression Emergency Appropriations....... 1224
Explanatory Statement:
Title I--Departmental of the Interior........................ 1226
Title II--Environmental Protection Agency.................... 1251
Title III--Related Agencies.................................. 1268
Title IV--General Provisions................................. 1284
Title V--Wildfire Suppression Emergency Appropriations....... 1287
Earmark Disclosure........................................... 1287
Table........................................................ 1288
[Clerk's note: Six sections which precede division A in the
Consolidated Appropriations Act apply to all divisions of the
Act, including this one. The text of these sections is as
follows:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Consolidated Appropriations
Act, 2008''.
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
[Text omitted for purposes of this note]
SEC. 3. REFERENCES.
Except as expressly provided otherwise, any reference to
``this Act'' contained in any division of this Act shall be
treated as referring only to the provisions of that division.
SEC. 4. EXPLANATORY STATEMENT.
The explanatory statement regarding the consolidated
appropriations amendment of the House of Representatives to the
amendment of the Senate to H.R. 2764, printed in the House
section of the Congressional Record on or about December 17,
2007 by the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the
House, shall have the same effect with respect to the
allocation of funds and implementation of divisions A through K
of this Act as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a
committee of conference.
SEC. 5. EMERGENCY DESIGNATIONS.
Any designation in any division of this Act referring to
this section is a designation of an amount as an emergency
requirement and necessary to meet emergency needs pursuant to
subsections (a) and (b) of section 204 of S. Con. Res. 21
(110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for
fiscal year 2008.
SEC. 6. STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS.
The following sums in this Act are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2008.
Reproduced below is the text of division F of the
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (H.R. 2764; P.L. 110-161)
as presented to the President for signature.]
Legislative Text, Division F
DIVISION F--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED
AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2008
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 Public Law 96-487 (16 U.S.C. 3150(a)),
$867,463,000, to remain available until expended, of which not
to exceed $91,629,000 is available for oil and gas management;
and of which $1,500,000 is for high priority projects, to be
carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps; and of which
$2,900,000 shall be available in fiscal year 2008 subject to a
match by at least an equal amount by the National Fish and
Wildlife Foundation for cost-shared projects supporting
conservation of Bureau lands; and such funds shall be advanced
to the Foundation as a lump sum grant without regard to when
expenses are incurred.
In addition, $25,500,000 is for the processing of
applications for permit to drill and related use
authorizations, to remain available until expended, to be
reduced by amounts collected by the Bureau and credited to this
appropriation that shall be derived from $4,000 per new
application for permit to drill that the Bureau shall collect
upon submission of each new application, and in addition,
$34,696,000 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 annual mining claim fees so as to result in
a final appropriation estimated at not more than $867,463,000,
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.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction of buildings, recreation facilities, roads,
trails, and appurtenant facilities, $6,476,000, to remain
available until expended.
LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 206, and
318(d) of Public Law 94-579, including administrative expenses
and acquisition of lands or waters, or interests therein,
$9,081,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation
Fund and to remain available until expended.
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; $110,242,000, 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 (50 Stat. 876).
FOREST ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND
(REVOLVING FUND, SPECIAL ACCOUNT)
In addition to the purposes authorized in Public Law 102-381,
funds made available in the Forest Ecosystem Health and
Recovery Fund can be used for the purpose of planning,
preparing, implementing and monitoring salvage timber sales and
forest ecosystem health and recovery activities, such as
release from competing vegetation and density control
treatments. The Federal share of receipts (defined as the
portion of salvage timber receipts not paid to the counties
under 43 U.S.C. 1181f and 43 U.S.C. 1181f-1 et seq., and Public
Law 106-393) derived from treatments funded by this account
shall be deposited into the Forest Ecosystem Health and
Recovery Fund.
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. 1701), 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. 315 et seq.) 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, as amended, and Public Law
93-153, 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 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 the Act of October 21, 1976
(43 U.S.C. 1701), 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,
to remain available until expended.
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, suppression
operations, fire science and research, emergency
rehabilitation, hazardous fuels reduction, and rural fire
assistance by the Department of the Interior, $820,878,000, to
remain available until expended, of which not to exceed
$6,234,000 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 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 hazardous
fuels reduction activities, and for training and monitoring
associated with such hazardous fuels reduction 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 hazardous fuels
reduction 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 non-profit 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 head 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
non-competitive sole source 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 $10,000,000, between the Departments when such transfers
would facilitate and expedite jointly funded 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 Public Law 110-116, division B, section 157(b)(2)
is amended by inserting after ``to other accounts'' the phrase
``and non-suppression budget activities''.
administrative provisions
Appropriations for the Bureau of Land Management 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 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.
Section 28 of title 30, United States Code, is amended: (1)
in section 28 by striking the phrase ``shall commence at 12
o'clock meridian on the 1st day of September'' and inserting
``shall commence at 12:01 ante meridian on the first day of
September''; (2) in section 28f(a), by striking the phrase
``for years 2004 through 2008''; and (3) in section 28g, by
striking the phrase ``and before September 30, 2008,''.
Sums not to exceed 1 percent of the total value of
procurements received by the Bureau of Land Management from
vendors under enterprise information technology-procurements
that the Department of the Interior and other Federal
Government agencies may use to order information technology
hereafter may be deposited into the Management of Lands and
Resources account to offset costs incurred in conducting the
procurement.
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
resource management
For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service, as authorized by law, and for scientific and economic
studies, maintenance of the herd of long-horned cattle on the
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, general administration, and
for the performance of other authorized functions related to
such resources by direct expenditure, contracts, grants,
cooperative agreements and reimbursable agreements with public
and private entities, $1,099,772,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2009 except as otherwise provided herein:
Provided, That $2,500,000 is for high priority projects, which
shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps: Provided
further, That not to exceed $18,263,000 shall be used for
implementing subsections (a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 4 of
the Endangered Species Act, as amended, for species that are
indigenous to the United States (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 which not to exceed $9,926,000 shall be used
for any activity regarding the designation of critical habitat,
pursuant to subsection (a)(3), excluding litigation support,
for species listed pursuant to subsection (a)(1) prior to
October 1, 2007: Provided further, That of the amount available
for law enforcement, up to $400,000, to remain available until
expended, may at the discretion of the Secretary be used for
payment for information, rewards, or evidence concerning
violations of laws administered by the Service, and
miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement activity,
authorized or approved by the Secretary and to be accounted for
solely on the Secretary's certificate: Provided further, That
of the amount provided for environmental contaminants, up to
$1,000,000 may remain available until expended for contaminant
sample analyses.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction, improvement, acquisition, or removal of
buildings and other facilities required in the conservation,
management, investigation, protection, and utilization of
fishery and wildlife resources, and the acquisition of lands
and interests therein; $33,688,000, to remain available until
expended.
land acquisition
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and Water
Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l-4
through 11), including administrative expenses, and for
acquisition of land or waters, or interest therein, in
accordance with statutory authority applicable to the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service, $35,144,000, to be derived
from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and to remain
available until expended, of which, notwithstanding 16 U.S.C.
460l-9, not more than $1,750,000 shall be for land conservation
partnerships authorized by the Highlands Conservation Act of
2004: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated for
specific land acquisition projects can be used to pay for any
administrative overhead, planning or other management costs.
COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out section 6 of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), as
amended, $75,001,000, to remain available until expended, of
which $25,228,000 is to be derived from the Cooperative
Endangered Species Conservation Fund, $5,066,666 of which shall
be for the Idaho Salmon and Clearwater River Basins Habitat
Account pursuant to the Snake River Water Rights Act of 2004;
and of which $49,773,000 is to be derived from the Land and
Water Conservation Fund.
national wildlife refuge fund
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 17,
1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $14,202,000.
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the
North American Wetlands Conservation Act, Public Law 101-233,
as amended, $42,646,000, to remain available until expended.
NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION
For expenses necessary to carry out the Neotropical Migratory
Bird Conservation Act, as amended, (16 U.S.C. 6101 et seq.),
$4,500,000, to remain available until expended.
MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND
For expenses necessary to carry out the African Elephant
Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201-4203, 4211-4213, 4221-4225,
4241-4245, and 1538), the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of
1997 (16 U.S.C. 4261-4266), the Rhinoceros and Tiger
Conservation Act of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 5301-5306), the Great Ape
Conservation Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 6301-6305), and the Marine
Turtle Conservation Act of 2004 (16 U.S.C. 6601-6606),
$8,000,000, 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 federally-recognized 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, $75,000,000,
to remain available until expended: Provided, That of the
amount provided herein, $6,282,000 is for a competitive grant
program for Indian tribes not subject to the remaining
provisions of this appropriation: Provided further, That
$5,000,000 is for a competitive grant program for States,
territories, and other jurisdictions with approved plans, not
subject to the remaining provisions of this appropriation:
Provided further, That the Secretary shall, after deducting
said $11,282,000 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 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
50 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 no
State, territory, or other jurisdiction shall receive a grant
if its comprehensive wildlife conservation plan is disapproved
and such funds that would have been distributed to such State,
territory, or other jurisdiction shall be distributed equitably
to States, territories, and other jurisdictions with approved
plans: Provided further, That any amount apportioned in 2008 to
any State, territory, or other jurisdiction that remains
unobligated as of September 30, 2009, shall be reapportioned,
together with funds appropriated in 2010, in the manner
provided herein.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
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 $1 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, notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the Service may use up to $2,000,000 from
funds provided for contracts for employment-related legal
services: Provided further, That the Service may accept donated
aircraft as replacements for existing aircraft: Provided
further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Secretary of the Interior may not spend any of the funds
appropriated in this Act for the purchase of lands or interests
in lands to be used in the establishment of any new unit of the
National Wildlife Refuge System unless the purchase is approved
in advance by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations
in compliance with the reprogramming procedures contained in
the statement of the managers accompanying this Act.
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 (including expenses to carry out programs
of the United States Park Police), and for the general
administration of the National Park Service, $2,001,809,000, of
which $9,965,000 is for planning and interagency coordination
in support of Everglades restoration and shall remain available
until expended; of which $101,164,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2009, is for maintenance, repair or
rehabilitation projects for constructed assets, operation of
the National Park Service automated facility management
software system, and comprehensive facility condition
assessments; and of which $3,000,000 shall be for the Youth
Conservation Corps for high priority projects.
CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE
For expenses necessary to carry out provisions of section
814(g) of Public Law 104-333 relating to challenge cost share
agreements, $25,000,000, to remain available until expended for
Centennial Challenge signature projects and programs: Provided,
That not less than 50 percent of the total cost of each project
or program is derived from non-Federal sources in the form of
donated cash, assets, in-kind services, or a pledge of donation
guaranteed by an irrevocable letter of credit.
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, statutory or contractual aid for other
activities, and grant administration, not otherwise provided
for, $68,481,000, of which not to exceed $7,500,000 may be for
Preserve America grants to States, Tribes, and local
communities for projects that preserve important historic
resources through the promotion of heritage tourism: Provided,
That any individual Preserve America grant shall be matched by
non-Federal funds: Provided further, That individual projects
shall only be eligible for one grant: Provided further, That
grants shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior in
consultation with the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations, and in consultation with the Advisory Council
on Historic Preservation prior to the commitment of grant
funds.
historic preservation fund
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For expenses necessary in carrying out the Historic
Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470), and the
Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 (Public
Law 104-333), $71,500,000, to be derived from the Historic
Preservation Fund and to remain available until September 30,
2009; of which $25,000,000 shall be for Save America's
Treasures for preservation of nationally significant sites,
structures, and artifacts: Provided, That any individual Save
America's Treasures grant shall be matched by non-Federal
funds; individual projects shall only be eligible for one
grant; and 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
Save America's Treasures funds allocated for Federal projects,
following approval, shall be available by transfer to
appropriate accounts of individual agencies.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction, improvements, repair or replacement of
physical facilities, including the modifications authorized by
section 104 of the Everglades National Park Protection and
Expansion Act of 1989, $221,985,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That funds provided under this heading for
implementation of modified water deliveries to Everglades
National Park shall be expended consistent with the
requirements of the fifth proviso under this heading in Public
Law 108-108: Provided further, That funds provided under this
heading for implementation of modified water deliveries to
Everglades National Park shall be available for obligation only
if matching funds are appropriated to the Army Corps of
Engineers for the same purpose: Provided further, That none of
the funds provided under this heading for implementation of
modified water deliveries to Everglades National Park shall be
available for obligation if any of the funds appropriated to
the Army Corps of Engineers for the purpose of implementing
modified water deliveries, including finalizing detailed
engineering and design documents for a bridge or series of
bridges for the Tamiami Trail component of the project, becomes
unavailable for obligation: Provided further, That of the funds
made available under this heading, not to exceed $3,800,000 is
authorized to be used for the National Park Service's
proportionate cost of upgrading the West Yellowstone/Hebgen
Basin (Gallatin County, Montana) municipal solid waste disposal
system for the processing and disposal of municipal solid waste
generated within Yellowstone National Park: Provided further,
That future fees paid by the National Park Service to the West
Yellowstone/Hebgen Basin Solid Waste District will be
restricted to operations and maintenance costs of the facility,
given the capital contribution made by the National Park
Service.
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND
(RESCISSION)
The contract authority provided for fiscal year 2008 by 16
U.S.C. 460l-10a is rescinded.
LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and Water
Conservation Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l-4 through
11), including administrative expenses, and for acquisition of
lands or waters, or interest therein, in accordance with the
statutory authority applicable to the National Park Service,
$70,070,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Conservation
Fund and to remain available until expended, of which
$25,000,000 is for the State assistance program.
administrative provisions
For fiscal year 2008 and hereafter, if the Secretary of the
Interior, or either party to a value determination proceeding
conducted under a National Park Service concession contract
issued prior to November 13, 1998, considers that the value
determination decision issued pursuant to the proceeding
misinterprets or misapplies relevant contractual requirements
or their underlying legal authority, the Secretary or either
party may seek, within 180 days of any such decision, the de
novo review of the value determination decision by the United
States Court of Federal Claims. This court may make an order
affirming, vacating, modifying or correcting the determination
decision.
In addition to other uses set forth in section 407(d) of
Public Law 105-391, 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 benefiting 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
benefiting 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 benefiting unit, in the amount of funds
so expended to extinguish or reduce liability.
A willing seller from whom the Service acquires title to real
property may be considered a ``displaced person'' for purposes
of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property
Acquisition Policy Act and its implementing regulations,
whether or not the Service has the authority to acquire such
property by eminent domain.
Section 3(f) of the Act of August 21, 1935 (16 U.S.C.
463(f)), related to the National Park System Advisory Board, is
amended in the first sentence by striking ``2007'' and
inserting ``2009''.
United States Geological Survey
surveys, investigations, and research
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(1)) and related purposes as
authorized by law; and to publish and disseminate data relative
to the foregoing activities; $1,022,430,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2009, of which $63,845,000 shall
be available only for cooperation with States or municipalities
for water resources investigations; of which $40,150,000 shall
remain available until expended for satellite operations; and
of which $8,023,000 shall be available until expended for
deferred maintenance and capital improvement projects:
Provided, That none of the funds provided for the biological
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.
administrative provisions
From within the amount appropriated for activities of the
United States Geological Survey such sums as are necessary
shall be available for reimbursement to the General Services
Administration for security guard services; 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 and observation wells; expenses of the United
States National Committee on Geology; and payment of
compensation and expenses of persons on the rolls of 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 as defined in 31 U.S.C. 6302 et seq.:
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. 5, 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.
Minerals Management Service
ROYALTY AND OFFSHORE MINERALS MANAGEMENT
For expenses necessary for minerals leasing and environmental
studies, regulation of industry operations, and collection of
royalties, as authorized by law; for enforcing laws and
regulations applicable to oil, gas, and other minerals leases,
permits, licenses and operating contracts; for energy-related
or other authorized marine-related purposes on the Outer
Continental Shelf; and for matching grants or cooperative
agreements, $157,202,000, to remain available until September
30, 2009, of which $82,371,000 shall be available for royalty
management activities; and an amount not to exceed
$135,730,000, to be credited to this appropriation and to
remain available until expended, from additions to receipts
resulting from increases to rates in effect on August 5, 1993,
from rate increases to fee collections for Outer Continental
Shelf administrative activities performed by the Minerals
Management Service (MMS) over and above the rates in effect on
September 30, 1993, and from additional fees for Outer
Continental Shelf administrative activities established after
September 30, 1993 that the Secretary of the Interior shall
collect in fiscal year 2008 and retain and use for the
necessary expenses of this appropriation: Provided, That to the
extent $135,730,000 in addition to receipts are not realized
from the sources of receipts stated above, the amount needed to
reach $135,730,000 shall be credited to this appropriation from
receipts resulting from rental rates for Outer Continental
Shelf leases in effect before August 5, 1993: 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 notwithstanding any
other provision of law, $15,000 under this heading shall be
available for refunds of overpayments in connection with
certain Indian leases in which the Director of MMS concurred
with the claimed refund due, to pay amounts owed to Indian
allottees or tribes, or to correct prior unrecoverable
erroneous payments: Provided further, That for the costs of
administration of the Coastal Impact Assistance Program
authorized by section 31 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands
Act, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1456a), MMS in fiscal years 2008
through 2010 may retain up to 3 percent of the amounts which
are disbursed under section 31(b)(1), such retained amounts to
remain available until expended.
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, $6,403,000,
which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund,
to remain available until expended.
administrative provisions
The eighth proviso under the heading of ``Minerals Management
Service'' in division E, title I, of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108-447), is amended by
inserting ``and Indian accounts'' after ``States'', replacing
the term ``provision'' with ``provisions'', and inserting ``and
(d)'' after 30 U.S.C. 1721(b).
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 35(b) of the
Mineral Leasing Act, as amended (30 U.S.C. 191(b)), the
Secretary shall deduct 2 percent from the amount payable to
each State in fiscal year 2008 and deposit the amount deducted
to miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury.
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, as amended, $120,237,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2009: Provided, That the Secretary of the
Interior, pursuant to regulations, may use directly or through
grants to States, moneys collected in fiscal year 2008 for
civil penalties assessed under section 518 of the Surface
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1268), to
reclaim lands adversely affected by coal mining practices after
August 3, 1977, to remain available until expended: Provided
further, 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.
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,
as amended, $52,774,000, 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 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.
administrative provision
With funds available for the Technical Innovation and
Professional Services program in this Act, the Secretary may
transfer title for computer hardware, software and other
technical equipment to State and tribal regulatory and
reclamation programs.
Bureau of Indian Affairs
operation of indian programs
(INCLUDING TRANSFER 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), the Indian Self-Determination and
Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), as
amended, 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.), as amended, $2,080,261,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2009 except as otherwise provided
herein; of which not to exceed $8,500 may be for official
reception and representation expenses; and of which not to
exceed $80,179,000 shall be for welfare assistance payments:
Provided, That in cases of designated Federal disasters, the
Secretary may exceed such cap, from the amounts provided
herein, to provide for disaster relief to Indian communities
affected by the disaster; notwithstanding any other provision
of law, including but not limited to the Indian Self-
Determination Act of 1975, as amended, not to exceed
$149,628,000 shall be available for payments for contract
support costs associated with ongoing contracts, grants,
compacts, or annual funding agreements entered into with the
Bureau prior to or during fiscal year 2008, as authorized by
such Act, except that tribes and tribal organizations may use
their tribal priority allocations for unmet contract support
costs of ongoing contracts, grants, or compacts, or annual
funding agreements and for unmet welfare assistance costs; of
which not to exceed $487,500,000 for school operations costs of
Bureau-funded schools and other education programs shall become
available on July 1, 2008, and shall remain available until
September 30, 2009; and of which not to exceed $60,222,000
shall remain available until expended for housing improvement,
road maintenance, attorney fees, litigation support, the Indian
Self-Determination Fund, land records improvement, and the
Navajo-Hopi Settlement Program: Provided further, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, including but not
limited to the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as
amended, and 25 U.S.C. 2008, not to exceed $44,060,000 within
and only from such amounts made available for school operations
shall be available for administrative cost grants associated
with ongoing grants entered into with the Bureau prior to or
during fiscal year 2007 for the operation of Bureau-funded
schools, and up to $500,000 within and only from such amounts
made available for school operations shall be available for the
transitional costs of initial administrative cost grants to
grantees that enter into grants for the operation on or after
July 1, 2007, of Bureau-operated schools: Provided further,
That any forestry funds allocated to a tribe which remain
unobligated as of September 30, 2009, may be transferred during
fiscal year 2010 to an Indian forest land assistance account
established for the benefit of the holder of the funds within
the tribe's trust fund account: Provided further, That any such
unobligated balances not so transferred shall expire on
September 30, 2010.
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,
$206,983,000, 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 not to exceed 6
percent of contract authority available to the Bureau of Indian
Affairs from the Federal Highway Trust Fund may be used to
cover the road program management costs of the Bureau: Provided
further, That any funds provided for the Safety of Dams program
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 13 shall be made available on a
nonreimbursable basis: Provided further, That for fiscal year
2008, in implementing new construction or facilities
improvement and repair project grants in excess of $100,000
that are provided to grant schools under Public Law 100-297, as
amended, the Secretary of the Interior shall use the
Administrative and Audit Requirements and Cost Principles for
Assistance Programs contained in 43 CFR part 12 as the
regulatory requirements: Provided further, That such grants
shall not be subject to section 12.61 of 43 CFR; the Secretary
and the grantee shall negotiate and determine a schedule of
payments for the work to be performed: Provided further, That
in considering applications, the Secretary shall consider
whether such grantee would be deficient in assuring that the
construction projects conform to applicable building standards
and codes and Federal, tribal, or State health and safety
standards as required by 25 U.S.C. 2005(b), with respect to
organizational and financial management capabilities: Provided
further, That if the Secretary declines an application, the
Secretary shall follow the requirements contained in 25 U.S.C.
2504(f): Provided further, That any disputes between the
Secretary and any grantee concerning a grant shall be subject
to the disputes provision in 25 U.S.C. 2507(e): Provided
further, That in order to ensure timely completion of
replacement school construction projects, the Secretary may
assume control of a project and all funds related to the
project, if, within eighteen months of the date of enactment of
this Act, any 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 of the
replacement school: 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.
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, 100-580, 101-618, 107-331, 108-
447, 109-379, and 109-479, and for implementation of other land
and water rights settlements, $34,069,000, to remain available
until expended.
indian guaranteed loan program account
For the cost of guaranteed and insured loans, $6,276,000, of
which $700,000 is for administrative expenses, as authorized by
the Indian Financing Act of 1974, as amended: 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, not to exceed $85,506,098.
administrative provisions
The Bureau of Indian Affairs 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 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.
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (except the
revolving fund for loans, the Indian loan guarantee and
insurance fund, and the Indian Guaranteed Loan Program account)
shall be available for expenses of exhibits.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds
available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office
oversight and Executive Direction and Administrative Services
(except executive direction and administrative services funding
for Tribal Priority Allocations and regional offices) shall be
available for contracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative
agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs 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, 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, 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.
Appropriations made available in this or any other Act for
schools funded by the Bureau shall be available only to the
schools in the Bureau school system as of September 1, 1996. No
funds available to the Bureau 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 school system as of October 1, 1995. 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 1146 of the Education Amendments of 1978 (25
U.S.C. 2026)), 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 25 U.S.C. 2007(d), and implementing
regulations, the funds reserved from the Indian Student
Equalization Program to meet emergencies and unforeseen
contingencies affecting education programs appropriated herein
and in Public Law 109-54 may be used for costs associated with
significant student enrollment increases at Bureau-funded
schools during the relevant school year.
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.
Departmental Offices
Office of the Secretary
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses for management of the Department of
the Interior, $101,151,000; of which not to exceed $15,000 may
be for official reception and representation expenses; and 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.
Insular Affairs
assistance to territories
For expenses necessary for assistance to territories under
the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior,
$78,613,000, of which: (1) $70,137,000 shall remain available
until expended for technical assistance, including maintenance
assistance, disaster assistance, insular management controls,
coral reef initiative 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) $8,476,000 shall be
available until September 30, 2009 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
of the amounts provided for technical assistance, sufficient
funds shall be made available for a grant to the Pacific Basin
Development Council: Provided further, That of the amounts
provided for technical assistance, sufficient funding shall be
made available for a grant to the Close Up Foundation: 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, $5,362,000, to remain
available until expended, as provided for in sections
221(a)(2), 221(b), 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.
Office of the Solicitor
salaries and expenses
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor,
$59,250,000.
Office of Inspector General
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General,
$44,572,000.
Office of Special Trustee for American Indians
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by direct
expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and
grants, $182,331,000, to remain available until expended, of
which not to exceed $56,384,000 from this or any other Act,
shall 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'' account; the
Office of the Solicitor, ``Salaries and Expenses'' account; and
the Office of the Secretary, ``Salaries and Expenses'' account:
Provided further, That funds made available through contracts
or grants obligated during fiscal year 2008, as authorized by
the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 450 et
seq.), shall remain available until expended by the contractor
or grantee: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the statute of limitations shall not commence
to run on any claim, including any claim in litigation pending
on the date of the enactment of this Act, concerning losses to
or mismanagement of trust funds, until the affected tribe or
individual Indian has been furnished with an accounting of such
funds from which the beneficiary can determine whether there
has been a loss: 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 18 months
and has a balance of $15.00 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 $50,000 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.
INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION
For consolidation of fractional interests in Indian lands and
expenses associated with redetermining and redistributing
escheated interests in allotted lands, and for necessary
expenses to carry out the Indian Land Consolidation Act of
1983, as amended, by direct expenditure or cooperative
agreement, $10,000,000, to remain available until expended, and
which may be transferred to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and
Office of the Secretary accounts.
Department-wide Programs
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of October 20,
1976, as amended (31 U.S.C. 6901-6907), $232,528,000, of which
not to exceed $400,000 shall be available for administrative
expenses: Provided, That no payment shall be made to otherwise
eligible units of local government if the computed amount of
the payment is less than $100.
central hazardous materials fund
For necessary expenses of the Department of the Interior and
any of its component offices and bureaus for the remedial
action, including associated activities, of hazardous waste
substances, pollutants, or contaminants pursuant to the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), $9,954,000,
to remain available until expended: Provided, That hereafter,
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, sums recovered from or paid by
a party in advance of or as reimbursement for remedial action
or response activities conducted by the Department pursuant to
section 107 or 113(f) of such Act, shall be credited to this
account, to be available until expended without further
appropriation: Provided further, That hereafter such sums
recovered from or paid by any party are not limited to monetary
payments and may include stocks, bonds or other personal or
real property, which may be retained, liquidated, or otherwise
disposed of by the Secretary and which shall be credited to
this account.
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND RESTORATION
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND
To conduct natural resource damage assessment and restoration
activities by the Department of the Interior necessary to carry
out the provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9601 et
seq.), the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (33
U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C.
2701 et seq.), and Public Law 101-337, as amended (16 U.S.C.
19jj et seq.), $6,300,000, to remain available until expended.
WORKING CAPITAL FUND
For the acquisition of a departmental financial and business
management system, $40,727,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That none of the funds in this Act or
previous appropriations Acts 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 House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
administrative provisions
There is hereby authorized for acquisition from available
resources within the Working Capital Fund, 15 aircraft, 10 of
which shall be for replacement and 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.
General Provisions, Department of the Interior
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
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, 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.
Sec. 102. The Secretary 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; 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 1773(b) of Public Law 99-198 (99 Stat. 1658); 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, 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 operations'' 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.
Sec. 103. Appropriations made to the Department of the
Interior in this title shall be available for services as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, when authorized by the Secretary,
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.
Sec. 104. No funds provided in this title may be expended by
the Department of the Interior for the conduct of offshore
preleasing, leasing and related activities placed under
restriction in the President's moratorium statement of June 12,
1998, in the areas of northern, central, and southern
California; the North Atlantic; Washington and Oregon; and the
eastern Gulf of Mexico south of 26 degrees north latitude and
east of 86 degrees west longitude.
Sec. 105. No funds provided in this title may be expended by
the Department of the Interior to conduct oil and natural gas
preleasing, leasing and related activities in the Mid-Atlantic
and South Atlantic planning areas.
Sec. 106. Appropriations made in this Act under the headings
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Office of 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, excluding litigation costs.
Total funding for historical accounting activities shall not
exceed amounts specifically designated in this Act for such
purpose.
Sec. 107. 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 2008. Under
circumstances of dual enrollment, overlapping service areas or
inaccurate distribution methodologies, the 10 percent
limitation does not apply.
Sec. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in
conveying the Twin Cities Research Center under the authority
provided by Public Law 104-134, as amended by Public Law 104-
208, the Secretary may accept and retain land and other forms
of reimbursement: Provided, That the Secretary may retain and
use any such reimbursement until expended and without further
appropriation: (1) for the benefit of the National Wildlife
Refuge System within the State of Minnesota; and (2) for all
activities authorized by 16 U.S.C. 460zz.
Sec. 109. The Secretary of the Interior may hereafter use or
contract for the use of helicopters or motor vehicles on the
Sheldon and Hart National Wildlife Refuges for the purpose of
capturing and transporting horses and burros. The provisions of
subsection (a) of the Act of September 8, 1959 (18 U.S.C.
47(a)) shall not be applicable to such use. Such use shall be
in accordance with humane procedures prescribed by the
Secretary.
Sec. 110. None of the funds in this or any other Act can be
used to compensate the Special Master and the Special Master-
Monitor, and all variations thereto, appointed by the United
States District Court for the District of Columbia in the
Cobell v. Kempthorne litigation at an annual rate that exceeds
200 percent of the highest Senior Executive Service rate of pay
for the Washington-Baltimore locality pay area.
Sec. 111. The Secretary of the Interior may use discretionary
funds to pay private attorney fees and costs for employees and
former employees of the Department of the Interior reasonably
incurred in connection with Cobell v. Kempthorne to the extent
that such fees and costs are not paid by the Department of
Justice or by private insurance. In no case shall the Secretary
make payments under this section that would result in payment
of hourly fees in excess of the highest hourly rate approved by
the District Court for the District of Columbia for counsel in
Cobell v. Kempthorne.
Sec. 112. No funds appropriated for the Department of the
Interior by this Act or any other Act shall be used to study or
implement any plan to drain Lake Powell or to reduce the water
level of the lake below the range of water levels required for
the operation of the Glen Canyon Dam.
Sec. 113. 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.
Sec. 114. Notwithstanding any implementation of the
Department of the Interior's trust reorganization or
reengineering plans, or the implementation of the ``To Be''
Model, funds appropriated for fiscal year 2008 shall be
available to the tribes within the California Tribal Trust
Reform Consortium and to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian
Community, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the
Flathead Reservation and the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky
Boys Reservation through the same methodology as funds were
distributed in fiscal year 2003. This Demonstration Project
shall continue to operate separate and apart from the
Department of the Interior's trust reform and reorganization
and the Department shall not impose its trust management
infrastructure upon or alter the existing trust resource
management systems of the above referenced tribes having a
self-governance compact and operating in accordance with the
Tribal Self-Governance Program set forth in 25 U.S.C. 458aa-
458hh: Provided, That the California Trust Reform Consortium
and any other participating tribe agree to carry out their
responsibilities under the same written and implemented
fiduciary standards as those being carried by the Secretary of
the Interior: Provided further, That they demonstrate to the
satisfaction of the Secretary that they have the capability to
do so: Provided further, That the Department shall provide
funds to the tribes in an amount equal to that required by 25
U.S.C. 458cc(g)(3), including funds specifically or
functionally related to the provision of trust services to the
tribes or their members.
Sec. 115. 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.
Sec. 116. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
including 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., nonrenewable grazing permits
authorized in the Jarbidge Field Office, Bureau of Land
Management since March 1, 1997 shall be renewed. The Animal
Unit Months, authorized in any nonrenewable grazing permit from
March 1, 1997 to present shall continue in effect under the
renewed permit. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to
extend the renewed permit beyond the standard 1-year term. The
period of this provision will be until all of the grazing
permits in the Jarbidge Field Office are renewed after the
completion of the Record of Decision for the Jarbidge Resource
Management Plan/Final Environmental Impact Statement.
Sec. 117. Oil and Gas Leasing Internet Pilot Program.
Notwithstanding section 17(b)(1)(A) of the Mineral Leasing Act
(30 U.S.C 226(b)(1)(A)), the Secretary of the Interior shall
establish an oil and gas leasing Internet pilot program, under
which the Secretary may conduct lease sales through methods
other than oral bidding. To carry out the pilot program, the
Secretary of the Interior may use not more than $250,000 of
funds in the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund described
in section 35(c)(2)(B) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C.
191(c)(2)(B)).
Sec. 118. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Secretary of the Interior is directed to sell property within
the Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge and the
Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge to the Washington State
Department of Transportation.
Sec. 119. No funds appropriated or otherwise made available
to the Department of the Interior may be used, in relation to
any proposal to store water for the purpose of export, for
approval of any right-of-way or similar authorization on the
Mojave National Preserve or lands managed by the Needles Field
Office of the Bureau of Land Management, or for carrying out
any activities associated with such right-of-way or similar
approval.
Sec. 120. Section 460ccc-4 of the Red Rock Canyon National
Conservation Area Establishment Act authorization (16 U.S.C.
460ccc) is amended--
(1) in section (a)(1), by striking ``with donated or
appropriated funds'';
(2) by striking section (a)(2);
(3) in section (a)(3), by striking ``(3)'' and
replacing with ``(2)''; and
(4) in section (a)(4), by striking ``(4)'' and
replacing with ``(3)''.
Sec. 121. Title 43 U.S.C. 1473 is amended by inserting at the
end of that section before the period the following: ``,
including, in fiscal year 2008 only, contributions of money and
services to conduct work in support of the orderly exploration
and development of Outer Continental Shelf resources, including
but not limited to, preparation of environmental documents such
as impact statements and assessments, studies, and related
research''.
Sec. 122. Section 1077(c) of Public Law 109-364 is repealed.
Sec. 123. Section 144 of division E of Public Law 108-447, as
amended, is amended in paragraph (b)(2) by striking ``November
12, 2004'' and inserting ``May 4, 2005.''
Sec. 124. Section 105(f)(1)(B) of the Compact of Free
Association Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921d(f)(1)(B))
is amended in clause (ix) by--
(1) striking ``Republic'' both places it appears and
inserting ``government, institutions, and people'';
(2) striking ``2007'' and inserting ``2009''; and
(3) striking ``was'' and inserting ``were''.
Sec. 125. The Secretary of the Interior may enter into
cooperative agreements with a State or political subdivision
(including any agency thereof), or any not-for-profit
organization if the agreement will: (1) serve a mutual interest
of the parties to the agreement in carrying out the programs
administered by the Department of the Interior; and (2) all
parties will contribute resources to the accomplishment of
these objectives. At the discretion of the Secretary, such
agreements shall not be subject to a competitive process.
Sec. 126. The Federal properties commonly referred to as the
Barnes Ranch and Agency Lake Ranch (the properties) in Klamath
County, Oregon, managed by the Bureau of Reclamation shall be
transferred to the Upper Klamath National Wildlife Refuge
(Refuge) in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding
between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Klamath Basin
National Wildlife Refuge Complex and the Bureau of Reclamation
Klamath Basin Area Office and The Nature Conservancy dated
March 2, 2007, as expeditiously as possible and no later than
December 2008: Provided, That these Federal properties and all
Federal refuge lands within the adjusted boundary area for the
Refuge, as approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(Service) in June 2005 under the Land Protection Plan of 2005,
shall be made a part of the Refuge and shall be managed by the
Service as such: Provided further, That each year after the
properties become part of the Refuge, those increments of water
passively stored on the properties shall be applied and
credited toward the requirements of any consultation or
reconsultation over Klamath Project operations pursuant to
section 7 of the Endangered Species Act, consistent with
Federal law and State water law.
Sec. 127. Corinth Unit of Shiloh National Military Park
Boundary Expansion. The Corinth Battlefield Preservation Act of
2000 (16 U.S.C. 430f-6 et seq.) is amended--
(1) in section 3(1) (16 U.S.C. 430f-7(1)), by
striking ``304/80,007, and dated October 1998'' and
inserting ``304A/80009, and dated April 2007'';
(2) in section 4(b) (16 U.S.C. 430f-8(b)), by
striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
``(1) approximately 950 acres, as generally depicted
on the Map; and'';
(3) in section 5(a) (16 U.S.C. 430f-9(a)), by
striking ``as depicted on the Map'' and inserting
``described in section 4(b)'';
(4) by striking section 7 (16 U.S.C. 430f-11); and
(5) by redesignating section 8 (16 U.S.C. 430f-12) as
section 7.
Sec. 128. In section 5(8) of Public Law 107-226, strike
``acquire'' and all that follows and insert, ``acquire the land
or interests in land for the memorial by donation, purchase
with donated or appropriated funds, exchange or condemnation
with donated or appropriated funds; and''.
Sec. 129. Clarification of Concessionaire Historic Rights.
(a) In implementing section 1307 of Public Law 96-487 (96 Stat.
2479), the Secretary shall deem Denali National Park Wilderness
Centers, Ltd., a corporation organized and existing under the
laws of the State of Alaska, to be a person who, on or before
January 1, 1979, was engaged in adequately providing the
following scope and level of visitor services within what is
currently Denali National Park and Preserve:
(1) Guided interpretive hiking services in the
Kantishna area new park additions (i.e. park area added
in 1980 to former Mount McKinley National Park), not to
exceed 14 guided interpretive hikes per week.
(2) Gold panning outings in the Kantishna area new
park additions, not to exceed 3 gold panning outings
per week.
(3) Guided interpretive trips, including an average
of four vehicle trips per day, not to exceed 28 trips
per week, into the Old Park (i.e. former Mount McKinley
National Park).
(4) Guided and unguided canoeing on Wonder Lake,
including the storage of five canoes on Wonder Lake.
(5) Transportation over the road between the north
boundary of the Old Park and Wonder Lake, including
Wonder Lake Campground, for an average of 10 trips per
day not to exceed 70 trips per week.
(b) For purpose of implementing this section, the term
``person'' means the person who has a controlling interest in
the entity described under subsection (a) or his lineal
descendants born prior to January 1, 1979.
Sec. 130. Section 16 of the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights
Settlement Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-585; 102 Stat. 2913; 114
Stat. 2763A-263)) is amended--
(1) in subsection (c)(3)(B)(iii), by striking ``by
requiring'' and all that follows through
``enhancement'' and inserting the following: ``, the
plan shall provide that not less than \1/3\ of the
funds referred to in clause (i) shall be expended for
municipal or rural water development and that annual
expenditures under that provision shall be reported to
the Secretary each year''; and
(2) in the third sentence of subsection (f), by
striking ``December 31, 2012'' and inserting ``the date
that is 5 years after the date of the final settlement
of the tribal claims under section 18''.
Sec. 131. Funds provided in this Act for Federal land
acquisition by the National Park Service for Shenandoah Valley
Battlefields National Historic District and Ice Age National
Scenic Trail may be used for a grant to a State, a local
government, or any other land management entity for the
acquisition of lands without regard to any restriction on the
use of Federal land acquisition funds provided through the Land
and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 as amended.
Sec. 132. From within amounts provided to the National Park
Service Land Acquisition account by this Act, $2,000,000 shall
be made available to the State of Mississippi pursuant to a
grant agreement with the National Park Service, in order that
the State may acquire land or interests in land on Cat Island,
which is located within the Gulf Islands National Seashore.
Funds provided to the State of Mississippi through such grant
agreement shall not be contingent upon matching funds provided
by the State. Any lands or interests acquired with funds under
this section shall be owned by the Federal Government and
administered as part of the National Seashore.
Sec. 133. Mesa Verde National Park Boundary Change. (a)
Acquisition of Land.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary may acquire the land
or an interest in the land described in subsection (b)
for addition to the Mesa Verde National Park.
(2) Means.--An acquisition of land under paragraph
(1) may be made by donation, purchase from a willing
seller with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange.
(b) Description of Land.--The land referred to in subsection
(a)(1) is the approximately 360 acres of land adjacent to the
Park, as generally depicted on the map, entitled ``Mesa Verde
National Park Proposed Boundary Adjustment'', numbered 307/
80,180, and dated March 1, 2007.
(c) Availability of Map.--The map shall be on file and
available for inspection in the appropriate offices of the
National Park Service.
(d) Boundary Modification.--The boundary of the Park shall be
revised to reflect the acquisition of the land under subsection
(a).
(e) Administration.--The Secretary shall administer any land
or interest in land acquired under subsection (a)(1) as part of
the Park in accordance with the laws (including regulations)
applicable to the Park.
Sec. 134. In implementing section 1307 of Public Law 96-487
(4 Stat. 2479), the Secretary shall deem the present holders of
entry permit CP-GLBA005-00 and entry permit CP-GLBA004-00 each
to be a person who, on or before January 1, 1979, was engaged
in adequately providing visitor services of the type authorized
in said permit within Glacier Bay National Park.
Sec. 135. Funds provided under Public Law 109-54 may be
granted to the Alice Ferguson Foundation for site planning and
design and rehabilitation of the Potomac River Habitat Study
Complex and the Wareham Lodge.
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, as amended;
necessary expenses for personnel and related costs and travel
expenses, including uniforms, or allowances therefor, as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; services as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per
diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable for senior
level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; procurement of laboratory
equipment and supplies; other operating expenses in support of
research and development; construction, alteration, repair,
rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed
$85,000 per project, $772,129,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2009.
Environmental Programs and Management
For environmental programs and management, including
necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for personnel
and related costs and travel expenses, including uniforms, or
allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902;
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for
individuals 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; 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; construction,
alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of
facilities, not to exceed $85,000 per project; and not to
exceed $9,000 for official reception and representation
expenses, $2,364,854,000, to remain available until September
30, 2009, including administrative costs of the brownfields
program under the Small Business Liability Relief and
Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002.
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, as amended, and for construction, alteration, repair,
rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed
$85,000 per project, $41,750,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2009.
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, $34,801,000, 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), as amended, including sections 111(c)(3), (c)(5),
(c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and for construction,
alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of
facilities, not to exceed $85,000 per project; $1,273,871,000,
to remain available until expended, consisting of such sums as
are available in the Trust Fund on September 30, 2007, as
authorized by section 517(a) of the Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) and up to $1,273,871,000 as
a payment from general revenues to the Hazardous Substance
Superfund for purposes as authorized by section 517(b) of SARA,
as amended: 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, $11,668,000
shall be paid to the ``Office of Inspector General''
appropriation to remain available until September 30, 2009, and
$26,126,000 shall be paid to the ``Science and Technology''
appropriation to remain available until September 30, 2009.
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, as amended, and for construction,
alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of
Environmental Protection Agency facilities, not to exceed
$85,000 per project, $107,493,000, to remain available until
expended, of which $76,493,000 shall be for carrying out
leaking underground storage tank cleanup activities authorized
by section 9003(h) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended;
$31,000,000 shall be for carrying out the other provisions of
the Solid Waste Disposal Act specified in section 9508(c) of
the Internal Revenue Code, as amended: 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.
Oil Spill Response
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environmental
Protection Agency's responsibilities under the Oil Pollution
Act of 1990, $17,326,000, to be derived from the Oil Spill
Liability trust fund, to remain available until expended.
State And Tribal Assistance Grants
For environmental programs and infrastructure assistance,
including capitalization grants for State revolving funds and
performance partnership grants, $2,972,595,000, to remain
available until expended, of which $700,000,000 shall be for
making capitalization grants for the Clean Water State
Revolving Funds under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act, as amended (the ``Act''); of which up to
$75,000,000 shall be available for loans, including interest
free loans as authorized by 33 U.S.C. 1383(d)(1)(A), to
municipal, inter-municipal, interstate, or State agencies or
nonprofit entities for projects that provide treatment for or
that minimize sewage or stormwater discharges using one or more
approaches which include, but are not limited to, decentralized
or distributed stormwater controls, decentralized wastewater
treatment, low-impact development practices, conservation
easements, stream buffers, or wetlands restoration;
$842,167,000 shall be for capitalization grants for the
Drinking Water State Revolving Funds under section 1452 of the
Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended; $20,000,000 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; $25,000,000 shall be for grants
to the State of Alaska to address drinking water and waste
infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska Native Villages:
Provided, That, of these funds: (1) the State of Alaska shall
provide a match of 25 percent; (2) no more than 5 percent of
the funds may be used for administrative and overhead expenses;
and (3) not later than October 1, 2005, the State of Alaska
shall make awards consistent with the State-wide priority list
established in 2004 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; $135,000,000 shall be for making
special project grants 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 explanatory statement
accompanying this Act, and, for purposes of these grants, each
grantee shall contribute not less than 45 percent of the cost
of the project unless the grantee is approved for a waiver by
the Agency; $95,000,000 shall be to carry out section 104(k) of
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including grants,
interagency agreements, and associated program support costs;
$50,000,000 shall be for grants under title VII, subtitle G of
the Energy Policy Act of 2005, as amended; $10,000,000 shall be
for grants for cost-effective emission reduction projects in
accordance with the terms and conditions of the explanatory
statement accompanying this Act; and $1,095,428,000 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, of which $49,495,000 shall be for carrying out
section 128 of CERCLA, as amended, $10,000,000 shall be for
Environmental Information Exchange Network grants, including
associated program support costs, $18,500,000 of the funds
available for grants under section 106 of the Act shall be for
water quality monitoring activities, $10,000,000 shall be for
making competitive targeted watershed grants, and, 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, as amended, $2,500,000 shall be for
financial assistance to States under section 2007(f)(2) of the
Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended: 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
2008 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 2008, and notwithstanding section
518(f) of the Act, the Administrator is authorized to use the
amounts appropriated for any fiscal year under section 319 of
that Act to make grants to federally-recognized Indian tribes
pursuant to sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that Act: Provided
further, That for fiscal year 2008, notwithstanding the
limitation on amounts in section 518(c) of the Act, up to a
total of 1\1/2\ percent of the funds appropriated for State
Revolving Funds under title VI of that Act may be reserved by
the Administrator for grants under section 518(c) of that Act:
Provided further, 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.
Administrative Provisions, Environmental Protection Agency
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS)
For fiscal year 2008, 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 (as added by
subsection (f)(2) of the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act
of 2003), as amended.
None of the funds provided in this Act may be used, directly
or through grants, to pay or to provide reimbursement for
payment of the salary of a consultant (whether retained by the
Federal Government or a grantee) at more than the daily
equivalent of the rate paid for level IV of the Executive
Schedule, unless specifically authorized by law.
From unobligated balances to carry out projects and
activities authorized under section 206(a) of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act, $5,000,000 are hereby rescinded.
None of the funds made available by this Act may be used in
contravention of, or to delay the implementation of, Executive
Order No. 12898 of February 11, 1994 (59 Fed. Reg. 7629;
relating to Federal actions to address environmental justice in
minority populations and low-income populations).
Of the funds provided in the Environmental Programs and
Management account, not less than $3,500,000 shall be provided
for activities to develop and publish a draft rule not later
than 9 months after the date of enactment of this Act, and a
final rule not later than 18 months after the date of enactment
of this Act, to require mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas
emissions above appropriate thresholds in all sectors of the
economy of the United States.
TITLE III
RELATED AGENCIES
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH
For necessary expenses of forest and rangeland research as
authorized by law, $290,457,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That of the funds provided, $61,329,000 is
for the forest inventory and analysis program.
state and private 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 treatments of pests, pathogens, and invasive or
noxious plants and for restoring and rehabilitating forests
damaged by pests or invasive plants, cooperative forestry, and
education and land conservation activities and conducting an
international program as authorized, $266,974,000, to remain
available until expended, as authorized by law; of which
$7,500,000 is for the International Program; and of which
$53,146,000 is to be derived from the Land and Water
Conservation Fund.
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise
provided for, for management, protection, improvement, and
utilization of the National Forest System, $1,492,868,000, to
remain available until expended, which shall include 50 percent
of all moneys received during prior fiscal years as fees
collected under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of
1965, as amended, in accordance with section 4 of the Act (16
U.S.C. 460l-6a(i)): Provided, That unobligated balances under
this heading available at the start of fiscal year 2008 shall
be displayed by budget line item in the fiscal year 2009 budget
justification: Provided further, That of the funds provided
under this heading for Forest Products, $4,000,000 shall be
allocated to the Alaska Region, in addition to its normal
allocation for the purposes of preparing additional timber for
sale, to establish a 3-year timber supply and such funds may be
transferred to other appropriations accounts as necessary to
maximize accomplishment.
capital improvement and maintenance
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Forest Service, not otherwise
provided for, $456,895,000, to remain available until expended,
for construction, capital improvement, maintenance and
acquisition of buildings and other facilities, and
infrastructure; and for construction, capital improvement,
decommissioning, and 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; and in addition $25,000,000 to be
transferred from the timber roads purchaser election fund and
merged with this account, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That $40,000,000 shall be designated for urgently
needed road decommissioning, road and trail repair and
maintenance and associated activities, and removal of fish
passage barriers, especially in areas where Forest Service
roads may be contributing to water quality problems in streams
and water bodies which support threatened, endangered or
sensitive species or community water sources and for urgently
needed road repairs required due to recent storm events:
Provided further, That up to $40,000,000 of the funds provided
herein for road maintenance shall be available for the
decommissioning of roads, including unauthorized roads not part
of the transportation system, which are no longer needed:
Provided further, That no funds shall be expended to
decommission any system road until notice and an opportunity
for public comment has been provided on each decommissioning
project: Provided further, That the decommissioning of
unauthorized roads not part of the official transportation
system shall be expedited in response to threats to public
safety, water quality, or natural resources: Provided further,
That funds becoming available in fiscal year 2008 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: Provided further, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law, the Forest Service shall provide
$1,197,000 appropriated in Public Law 110-5 within the Capital
Improvement and Maintenance appropriation as an advance direct
lump sum payment to West Virginia University for the planning
and construction of a research greenhouse facility as the
Federal share in the construction of the new facility.
LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the
Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16
U.S.C. 460l-4 through 11), including administrative expenses,
and for acquisition of land or waters, or interest therein, in
accordance with statutory authority applicable to the Forest
Service, $42,490,000, to be derived from the Land and Water
Conservation Fund and to remain available until expended.
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, as authorized by law, $1,053,000, 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, as amended (16 U.S.C. 484a), to
remain available until expended. (16 U.S.C. 4601-516-617a,
555a; Public Law 96-586; Public Law 76-589, 76-591; and 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, as amended, to remain
available until expended, 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), $56,000, to
remain available until expended, 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 (Public
Law 96-487), $5,053,000, to remain available until expended.
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for forest fire presuppression
activities on National Forest System lands, for emergency fire
suppression on or adjacent to such lands or other lands under
fire protection agreement, hazardous fuels reduction on or
adjacent to such lands, and for emergency rehabilitation of
burned-over National Forest System lands and water,
$1,974,276,000, 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 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
not less than 50 percent of any unobligated balances remaining
(exclusive of amounts for hazardous fuels reduction) at the end
of fiscal year 2007 shall be transferred to the fund
established pursuant to section 3 of Public Law 71-319 (16
U.S.C. 576 et seq.) if necessary to reimburse the fund for
unpaid past advances: Provided further, That, notwithstanding
any other provision of law, $8,000,000 of funds appropriated
under this appropriation shall be used for Fire Science
Research in support of 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: Provided further, That funds
provided shall be available for emergency rehabilitation and
restoration, hazardous fuels reduction activities in the urban-
wildland interface, support to Federal emergency response, and
wildfire suppression activities of the Forest Service: Provided
further, That of the funds provided, $315,000,000 is for
hazardous fuels reduction activities, $11,000,000 is for
rehabilitation and restoration, $23,892,000 is for research
activities and to make competitive research grants pursuant to
the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act, as
amended (16 U.S.C. 1641 et seq.), $48,727,000 is for State fire
assistance, $8,000,000 is for volunteer fire assistance,
$14,252,000 is for forest health activities on Federal lands
and $10,014,000 is for forest health activities on State and
private lands: Provided further, That amounts in this paragraph
may be transferred to the ``State and Private Forestry'',
``National Forest System'', and ``Forest and Rangeland
Research'' accounts to fund State fire assistance, volunteer
fire assistance, forest health management, forest and rangeland
research, the Joint Fire Science Program, vegetation and
watershed management, heritage site rehabilitation, and
wildlife and fish habitat management and restoration: Provided
further, That transfers of any amounts in excess of those
authorized in this paragraph, shall require approval of the
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in compliance
with reprogramming procedures contained in the explanatory
statement accompanying this Act: Provided further, That up to
$10,000,000 of the funds provided under this heading for
hazardous fuels treatments may be transferred to and made a
part of the ``National Forest System'' account at the sole
discretion of the Chief of the Forest Service thirty days after
notifying the House and the Senate Committees on
Appropriations: 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 in addition to funds provided for State Fire Assistance
programs, and subject to all authorities available to the
Forest Service under the State and Private Forestry
Appropriation, up to $15,000,000 may be used on adjacent non-
Federal lands for the purpose of protecting communities when
hazard reduction activities are planned on national forest
lands that have the potential to place such communities at
risk: 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 available to the Forest Service
under the State and Private Forestry Appropriation: 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 $10,000,000, between the Departments when such transfers
would facilitate and expedite jointly funded wildland fire
management programs and projects: Provided further, That of the
funds provided for hazardous fuels reduction, not to exceed
$7,000,000, may be used to make grants, using any authorities
available to the Forest Service under the State and Private
Forestry appropriation, for the purpose of creating incentives
for increased use of biomass from national forest lands:
Provided further, That funds designated for wildfire
suppression shall be assessed for cost pools on the same basis
as such assessments are calculated against other agency
programs.
administrative provisions, forest service
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 from excess sources 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).
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 notification of the House and Senate Committees
on Appropriations and if and only if all previously
appropriated emergency contingent funds under the heading
``Wildland Fire Management'' have been released by the
President and apportioned and all wildfire suppression funds
under the heading ``Wildland Fire Management'' are obligated.
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 and
international organizations.
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 107-107 (7 U.S.C. 8316(b)).
None of the funds available to the Forest Service may be
reprogrammed without the advance approval of the House and
Senate Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the
reprogramming procedures contained in the explanatory statement
accompanying this Act.
Not more than $73,285,000 of funds available to the Forest
Service shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund of the
Department of Agriculture and not more than $24,021,000 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. Nothing in
this paragraph shall prohibit or limit the use of reimbursable
agreements requested by the Forest Service in order to obtain
services from the Department of Agriculture's National
Information Technology Center.
Funds available to the Forest Service shall be available to
conduct a program of up to $5,000,000 for priority projects
within the scope of the approved budget, of which $2,500,000
shall be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps and
$2,500,000 shall be carried out under the authority of the
Public Lands Corps Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2005,
Public Law 109-154.
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, $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 administrative expenses or projects on or
benefitting National Forest System lands or related to Forest
Service programs: Provided, That the Foundation shall obtain,
by the end of the period of Federal financial assistance,
private contributions to match on at least one-for-one basis
funds made available by the Forest Service: Provided further,
That the Foundation may transfer Federal funds to a non-Federal
recipient for a project at the same rate that the recipient has
obtained the non-Federal matching funds: Provided further, That
authorized investments of Federal funds held by the Foundation
may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of the United
States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and
interest by the United States.
Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 98-244, $2,650,000
of the funds available to the Forest Service shall 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 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.
An eligible individual who is employed in any project funded
under title V of the Older American 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.
Any funds appropriated to the Forest Service may be used to
meet the non-Federal share requirement in section 502(c) of the
Older American Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3056(c)(2)).
Funds available to the Forest Service, not to exceed
$45,000,000, shall be assessed for the purpose of performing
facilities maintenance. Such assessments shall occur using a
square foot rate charged on the same basis the agency uses to
assess programs for payment of rent, utilities, and other
support services.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 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 non-litigation related matters. Future
budget justifications for both the Forest Service and the
Department of Agriculture should clearly display the sums
previously transferred and the requested funding transfers.
None of the funds made available under this Act shall be
obligated or expended to abolish any region, to move or close
any regional office for National Forest System administration
of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture without the
consent of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
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 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, $3,018,624,000, together with payments received during
the fiscal year pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 238(b) 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 $588,515,000 for contract medical care, including
$27,000,000 for the Indian Catastrophic Health Emergency Fund,
shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That
no less than $35,094,000 is provided for maintaining operations
of the urban Indian health program: Provided further, That of
the funds provided, up to $32,000,000 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 $14,000,000 is provided for a
methamphetamine and suicide prevention and treatment
initiative, of which up to $5,000,000 may be used for mental
health, suicide prevention, and behavioral issues associated
with methamphetamine use: Provided further, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, these funds shall
be allocated outside all other distribution methods and
formulas 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 one-
year contracts and grants which are to be performed in two
fiscal years, so long as the total obligation is recorded in
the year for which 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 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 (exclusive of planning, design, or
construction of new facilities): Provided further, That funding
contained herein, and in any earlier appropriations Acts 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, notwithstanding any
other provision of law, of the amounts provided herein, not to
exceed $271,636,000 shall be for payments to tribes and tribal
organizations for contract or grant support costs associated
with contracts, grants, self-governance compacts, or annual
funding agreements between the Indian Health Service and a
tribe or tribal organization pursuant to the Indian Self-
Determination Act of 1975, as amended, prior to or during
fiscal year 2008, of which not to exceed $5,000,000 may be used
for contract support costs associated with new or expanded
self-determination contracts, grants, self-governance compacts,
or annual funding agreements: Provided further, That the Bureau
of Indian Affairs may collect from the Indian Health Service
and 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 funds available for the
Indian Health Care Improvement Fund may be used, as needed, to
carry out activities typically funded under the Indian Health
Facilities account.
INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES
For construction, repair, maintenance, 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, $380,583,000,
to remain available until expended: Provided, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appropriated
for the planning, design, construction or renovation of health
facilities for the benefit of an Indian tribe or tribes may be
used to purchase land for sites to construct, improve, or
enlarge health or related facilities: Provided further, That
not to exceed $500,000 shall be used 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
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: Provided further, That not to
exceed $1,000,000 from this account and the ``Indian Health
Services'' account shall be used by the Indian Health Service
to obtain ambulances for the Indian Health Service and tribal
facilities in conjunction with an existing interagency
agreement between the Indian Health Service and the General
Services Administration: Provided further, That not to exceed
$500,000 shall be placed in a Demolition Fund, available until
expended, to be used by the Indian Health Service for
demolition of Federal buildings.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
Appropriations in this Act to the Indian Health Service shall
be available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but 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; and for uniforms or allowances
therefor as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; and for expenses
of attendance at meetings which are concerned with the
functions or activities for which the appropriation is made or
which will contribute to improved conduct, supervision, or
management of those functions or activities.
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. 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, as amended.
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.
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.
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), 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.
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.
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 payment in advance
with subsequent adjustment. 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 that provided
the funding, with such amounts to remain available until
expended.
Reimbursements for training, technical assistance, or
services provided by the Indian Health Service will contain
total costs, including direct, administrative, and overhead
associated with the provision of goods, services, or technical
assistance.
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, as amended,
and section 126(g) of the Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act of 1986, $78,775,000.
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), 111(c)(4), and 111(c)(14) of the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended; section 118(f) of
the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986
(SARA), as amended; and section 3019 of the Solid Waste
Disposal Act, as amended, $75,212,000, of which up to
$1,500,000, to remain available until expended, is for
Individual Learning Accounts for full-time equivalent employees
of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry:
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
health care 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.
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, $2,703,000:
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, as amended, 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, $9,410,000: 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,
$9,000,000, to remain available until expended: 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 25 U.S.C. 640d-
10.
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 title XV
of Public Law 99-498, as amended (20 U.S.C. 56 part A),
$7,297,000.
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 (for terms not to
exceed 30 years), and protection of buildings, facilities, and
approaches; not to exceed $100,000 for services as authorized
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; up to five replacement passenger vehicles;
purchase, rental, repair, and cleaning of uniforms for
employees, $571,347,000, of which not to exceed $19,968,000 for
the instrumentation program, collections acquisition,
exhibition reinstallation, the National Museum of African
American History and Culture, and the repatriation of skeletal
remains program shall remain available until expended; and of
which $1,578,000 for fellowships and scholarly awards shall
remain available until September 30, 2009; 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.
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, $107,100,000, to
remain available until expended, of which not to exceed $10,000
is for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
Legacy Fund
For major restoration, renovation, and rehabilitation of
existing Smithsonian facilities, $15,000,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That funds shall only be
available after being matched by no less than $30,000,000 in
private donations, which shall not include in-kind
contributions: Provided further, That none of the funds made
available under this heading or any required matching funds
shall be used for day-to-day maintenance, general salaries and
expenses, or programmatic purposes.
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, Seventy-
sixth 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, $101,718,000, of which not to exceed
$3,350,000 for the special exhibition program shall remain
available until expended.
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS
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, as
authorized, $18,017,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, 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,
$20,200,000.
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, $23,150,000, 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, $10,000,000.
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, as amended,
$147,000,000 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: Provided, That funds appropriated herein shall
be expended in accordance with sections 309 and 311 of Public
Law 108-447.
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, as amended,
$132,490,000, shall be available to the National Endowment for
the Humanities for support of activities in the humanities,
pursuant to section 7(c) of the Act, and for administering the
functions of the Act, to remain available until expended.
MATCHING GRANTS
To carry out the provisions of section 10(a)(2) of the
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965,
as amended, $14,510,000, to remain available until expended, of
which $9,479,000 shall be available to the National Endowment
for the Humanities for the purposes of section 7(h): Provided,
That this appropriation shall be available for obligation only
in such amounts as may be equal to the total amounts of gifts,
bequests, and devises of money, and other property accepted by
the chairman or by grantees of the Endowment under the
provisions of subsections 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 this amount does not exceed 5 percent of the
sums appropriated for grant-making 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:
Provided further, That section 309(1) of division E, Public Law
108-447, is amended by inserting ``National Opera Fellowship,''
after ``National Heritage Fellowship,''.
Commission of Fine Arts
salaries and expenses
For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing a
Commission of Fine Arts (40 U.S.C. 104), $2,092,000: 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.
National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs
For necessary expenses as authorized by Public Law 99-190 (20
U.S.C. 956a), as amended, $8,500,000.
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Advisory Council on Historic
Preservation (Public Law 89-665, as amended), $5,348,000:
Provided, That none of these funds shall be available for
compensation of level V of the Executive Schedule or higher
positions.
National Capital Planning Commission
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, as authorized by the National Capital
Planning Act of 1952 (40 U.S.C. 71-71i), including services as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $8,265,000: 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), $45,496,000, of
which $515,000 for the equipment replacement program shall
remain available until September 30, 2010; and $1,900,000 for
the museum's repair and rehabilitation program and $1,264,000
for the museum's exhibition design and production program shall
remain available until expended.
Presidio Trust
PRESIDIO TRUST FUND
For necessary expenses to carry out title I of the Omnibus
Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996, $22,400,000
shall be available to the Presidio Trust, to remain available
until expended.
White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the White House Commission on the
National Moment of Remembrance, $200,000, which shall be
transferred to the Department of Veterans Affairs,
``Departmental Administration, General Operating Expenses''
account and be administered by the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER MEMORIAL COMMISSION
Salaries and Expenses
For necessary expenses, including the costs of construction
design, of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission,
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended.
TITLE IV
GENERAL PROVISIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
Sec. 401. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act
for any consulting service through procurement contract,
pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts
where such expenditures are a matter of public record and
available for public inspection, except where otherwise
provided under existing law, or under existing Executive Order
issued pursuant to existing law.
Sec. 402. 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.
Sec. 403. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal
year unless expressly so provided herein.
Sec. 404. None of the funds provided in this Act to any
department or agency shall be obligated or expended to provide
a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants to any
officer or employee of such department or agency except as
otherwise provided by law.
Sec. 405. Estimated overhead charges, deductions, reserves or
holdbacks 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.
Changes to such estimates shall be presented to the Committees
on Appropriations for approval.
Sec. 406. None of the funds made available in this Act may be
transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of
the United States Government except pursuant to a transfer made
by, or transfer provided in, this Act or any other Act.
Sec. 407. None of the funds in this Act may be used to plan,
prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classified as
giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which are located on
National Forest System or Bureau of Land Management lands in a
manner different than such sales were conducted in fiscal year
2006.
Sec. 408. (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.--The provisions of 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
and 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, 2008, the Secretary of the
Interior shall file with the House and Senate Committees on
Appropriations and the Committee on Resources of the House of
Representatives 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 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.
Sec. 409. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts
appropriated to or otherwise designated in committee reports
for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service
by Public Laws 103-138, 103-332, 104-134, 104-208, 105-83, 105-
277, 106-113, 106-291, 107-63, 108-7, 108-108, 108-447, 109-54,
109-289, division B and Continuing Appropriations Resolution,
2007 (division B of Public Law 109-289, as amended by Public
Law 110-5) for payments for contract support costs associated
with self-determination or self-governance contracts, grants,
compacts, or annual funding agreements with the Bureau of
Indian Affairs or the Indian Health Service as funded by such
Acts, are the total amounts available for fiscal years 1994
through 2007 for such purposes, except that for the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, tribes and tribal organizations may use their
tribal priority allocations for unmet contract support costs of
ongoing contracts, grants, self-governance compacts, or annual
funding agreements.
Sec. 410. Prior to October 1, 2008, the Secretary of
Agriculture shall not be considered to be in violation of
subparagraph 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.
Sec. 411. No timber sale in Region 10 shall be advertised if
the indicated rate is deficit when appraised using a residual
value approach that assigns domestic Alaska values for western
redcedar. Program accomplishments shall be based on volume
sold. Should Region 10 sell, in the current fiscal year, the
annual average portion of the decadal allowable sale quantity
called for in the current Tongass Land Management Plan in sales
which are not deficit when appraised using a residual value
approach that assigns domestic Alaska values for western
redcedar, all of the western redcedar timber from those sales
which is surplus to the needs of domestic processors in Alaska,
shall be made available to domestic processors in the
contiguous 48 United States at prevailing domestic prices.
Should Region 10 sell, in the current fiscal year, less than
the annual average portion of the decadal allowable sale
quantity called for in the Tongass Land Management Plan in
sales which are not deficit when appraised using a residual
value approach that assigns domestic Alaska values for western
redcedar, the volume of western redcedar timber available to
domestic processors at prevailing domestic prices in the
contiguous 48 United States shall be that volume: (1) which is
surplus to the needs of domestic processors in Alaska; and (2)
is that percent of the surplus western redcedar volume
determined by calculating the ratio of the total timber volume
which has been sold on the Tongass to the annual average
portion of the decadal allowable sale quantity called for in
the current Tongass Land Management Plan. The percentage shall
be calculated by Region 10 on a rolling basis as each sale is
sold (for purposes of this amendment, a ``rolling basis'' shall
mean that the determination of how much western redcedar is
eligible for sale to various markets shall be made at the time
each sale is awarded). Western redcedar shall be deemed
``surplus to the needs of domestic processors in Alaska'' when
the timber sale holder has presented to the Forest Service
documentation of the inability to sell western redcedar logs
from a given sale to domestic Alaska processors at a price
equal to or greater than the log selling value stated in the
contract. All additional western redcedar 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.
Sec. 412. 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.
Sec. 413. In entering into agreements with foreign countries
pursuant to the Wildfire Suppression Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.
1856m) the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the
Interior are authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements in
which the individuals furnished under said agreements to
provide wildfire services are considered, for purposes of tort
liability, employees of the country receiving said services
when the individuals are engaged in fire suppression: Provided,
That the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the
Interior shall not enter into any agreement under this
provision unless the foreign country (either directly or
through its fire organization) agrees to assume any and all
liability for the acts or omissions of American firefighters
engaged in firefighting in a foreign country: Provided further,
That when an agreement is reached for furnishing fire fighting
services, the only remedies for acts or omissions committed
while fighting fires shall be those provided under the laws of
the host country, and those remedies shall be the exclusive
remedies for any claim arising out of fighting fires in a
foreign country: Provided further, That neither the sending
country nor any legal organization associated with the
firefighter shall be subject to any legal action whatsoever
pertaining to or arising out of the firefighter's role in fire
suppression.
Sec. 414. In awarding a Federal contract with funds made
available by this Act, notwithstanding Federal Government
procurement and contracting laws, the Secretary of Agriculture
and the Secretary of the Interior (the ``Secretaries'') may, in
evaluating bids and proposals, give consideration to local
contractors who are from, and who provide employment and
training for, dislocated and displaced workers in an
economically disadvantaged rural community, including those
historically timber-dependent areas that have been affected by
reduced timber harvesting on Federal lands and other forest-
dependent rural communities isolated from significant
alternative employment opportunities: Provided, That
notwithstanding Federal Government procurement and contracting
laws the Secretaries may award contracts, grants or cooperative
agreements to local non-profit entities, Youth Conservation
Corps or related partnerships with State, local or non-profit
youth groups, or small or micro-business or disadvantaged
business: Provided further, That the contract, grant, or
cooperative agreement is for forest hazardous fuels reduction,
watershed or water quality monitoring or restoration, wildlife
or fish population monitoring, or habitat restoration or
management: Provided further, That the terms ``rural
community'' and ``economically disadvantaged'' shall have the
same meanings as in section 2374 of Public Law 101-624:
Provided further, That the Secretaries shall develop guidance
to implement this section: Provided further, That nothing in
this section shall be construed as relieving the Secretaries of
any duty under applicable procurement laws, except as provided
in this section.
Sec. 415. (a) Limitation on Competitive Sourcing Studies.--
(1) Of the funds made available by this or any other
Act to the Department of the Interior for fiscal year
2008, not more than $3,450,000 may be used by the
Secretary of the Interior to initiate or continue
competitive sourcing studies in fiscal year 2008 for
programs, projects, and activities for which funds are
appropriated by this Act.
(2) None of the funds made available by this or any
other Act may be used in fiscal year 2008 for
competitive sourcing studies and any related activities
involving Forest Service personnel.
(b) Competitive Sourcing Study Defined.--In this section, the
term ``competitive sourcing study'' means a study on subjecting
work performed by Federal Government employees or private
contractors to public-private competition or on converting the
Federal Government employees or the work performed by such
employees to private contractor performance under the Office of
Management and Budget Circular A-76 or any other administrative
regulation, directive, or policy.
(c) Competitive Sourcing Exemption for Forest Service Studies
Conducted Prior to Fiscal Year 2006.--The Forest Service is
hereby exempted from implementing the Letter of Obligation and
post-competition accountability guidelines where a competitive
sourcing study involved 65 or fewer full-time equivalents, the
performance decision was made in favor of the agency provider,
no net savings was achieved by conducting the study, and the
study was completed prior to the date of this Act.
(d) In preparing any reports to the Committees on
Appropriations on competitive sourcing activities, agencies
funded in this Act shall include all costs attributable to
conducting the competitive sourcing competitions and staff work
to prepare for competitions or to determine the feasibility of
starting competitions, including costs attributable to paying
outside consultants and contractors and, in accordance with
full cost accounting principles, all costs attributable to
developing, implementing, supporting, managing, monitoring, and
reporting on competitive sourcing, including personnel,
consultant, travel, and training costs associated with program
management.
(e) In carrying out any competitive sourcing study involving
Department of the Interior employees, the Secretary of the
Interior shall--
(1) determine whether any of the employees concerned
are also qualified to participate in wildland fire
management activities; and
(2) take into consideration the effect that
contracting with a private sector source would have on
the ability of the Department of the Interior to
effectively and efficiently fight and manage wildfires.
Sec. 416. Section 331 of the Department of the Interior and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000, regarding the pilot
program to enhance Forest Service administration of rights-of-
way (as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(3) of Public Law
106-113; 113 Stat. 1501A-196; 16 U.S.C. 497 note), as amended,
is amended--
(1) in subsection (a) by striking ``2006'' and
inserting ``2012''; and
(2) in subsection (b) by striking ``2006'' and
inserting ``2012''.
Sec. 417. Section 321 of the Department of the Interior and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003, regarding Forest
Service cooperative agreements with third parties that are of
mutually significant benefit (division F of Public Law 108-7;
117 Stat. 274; 16 U.S.C. 565a-1 note) is amended by striking
``September 30, 2007'' and inserting ``September 30, 2010''.
Sec. 418. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and
until October 1, 2009, the Indian Health Service may not
disburse funds for the provision of health care services
pursuant to Public Law 93-638 (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.) to any
Alaska Native village or Alaska Native village corporation that
is located within the area served by an Alaska Native regional
health entity.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit
the disbursal of funds to any Alaska Native village or Alaska
Native village corporation under any contract or compact
entered into prior to May 1, 2006, or to prohibit the renewal
of any such agreement.
(c) For the purpose of this section, Eastern Aleutian Tribes,
Inc. and the Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments shall be
treated as Alaska Native regional health entities to which
funds may be disbursed under this section.
Sec. 419. 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.
Sec. 420. Section 337(a) of the Department of the Interior
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108-
447; 118 Stat. 3012) is amended by striking ``September 30,
2006'' and inserting ``September 30, 2008''.
Sec. 421. Section 339 of division E of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108-447; 118 Stat. 3103)
is amended--
(1) by striking ``2005 through 2007''and inserting
``2005 through 2008''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sentence:
``The categorical exclusion under this section shall
not apply with respect to any allotment in a federally
designated wilderness area.''.
Sec. 422. A permit fee collected during fiscal year 2007 by
the Secretary of Agriculture under the Act of March 4, 1915 (16
U.S.C. 497) for a marina on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest
shall be deposited in a special account in the Treasury
established for the Secretary of Agriculture, and shall remain
available to the Secretary of Agriculture until expended,
without further appropriation, for purposes stated in section
808(a)(3)(A-D) of title VIII of division J of Public Law 108-
447 (16 U.S.C. 6807), and for direct operating or capital costs
associated with the issuance of a marina permit.
Sec. 423. The Forest Service shall allocate to the Regions of
the Forest Service, $15,000,000 from the current balance in the
``timber roads purchaser election fund'', to remain available
until expended, for the following purposes: vegetative
treatments in timber stands at high risk of fire due to insect,
disease, or drought; road work in support of vegetative
treatments to support forest health objectives; and maintaining
infrastructure for the processing of woody fiber in Regions
where it is critical to sustaining local economies and
fulfilling the forest health objectives of the Forest Service.
Sec. 424. (a) Land Sale Authorization.--To offset the acreage
acquired by the Federal Government upon the acquisition of the
Elkhorn Ranch in Medora, North Dakota, the Secretary of
Agriculture (in this section referred to as the ``Secretary'')
shall sell all right, title, and interest of the United States
to between 5,195 or 5,205 acres of National Forest System lands
located in Billings County, North Dakota. It is the intent of
Congress that there will be no net gain in federally owned land
in North Dakota as a result of these land conveyances.
(b) Land Sales.--The Secretary may prescribe reservations,
terms, and conditions of sale under this section, and may
configure the descriptions of the land to be sold under this
section to enhance the marketability of the land or for
management purposes. The Secretary may utilize brokers or other
third parties in the sale of land and, from the proceeds of the
sale, may pay reasonable commissions or fees for services
rendered.
(c) Consideration.--As consideration for the purchase of land
sold under this section, the purchaser shall pay to the
Secretary an amount, in cash, equal to the fair market value of
the land, as determined by the Secretary by appraisal or
competitive sale consistent with Federal law applicable to land
sales. The Secretary may reject any offer made under this
section if the Secretary determines, in the absolute discretion
of the Secretary, that the offer is not adequate or not in the
public interest.
(d) Initial Offer.--Under such terms, conditions, and
procedures as the Secretary may prescribe, any base property
landowner holding a current permit to graze any land authorized
for sale under this section shall have a non-assignable first
right to buy the land, provided that right must be exercised
within 6 months after the date of the offer from the Secretary.
(e) Treatment of Proceeds.--Using the proceeds from the sale
of land under this section, the Secretary shall cover direct
expenses incurred by the Secretary in conducting the sale. Any
remaining proceeds shall be deposited into the fund established
by the Act of December 4, 1967 (commonly known as the Sisk Act;
16 U.S.C. 484a), and shall be available, until expended, for
the acquisition of land for inclusion in the National Forest
System.
(f) Land Transfers.--The lands are to be conveyed from fiscal
years 2008 to 2009. In the conveyance of any land authorized by
this section, the Secretary shall not be required to conduct
additional environmental analysis, including heritage resource
analysis, and no sale, offer to sell, or conveyance shall be
subject to administrative appeal.
(g) Elkhorn Ranch.--The grazing land lease terms in effect on
the date of the enactment of this Act relating to the acquired
Elkhorn Ranch in Medora, North Dakota, shall remain in effect
until December 31, 2009. After that date, Federal land grazing
use of the Elkhorn Ranch shall be managed through the grazing
agreement between the Medora Grazing Association and the Forest
Service. The Animal Unit Months (AUMs) for both Federal and
private lands encompassing the Elkhorn Ranch shall become part
of the grazing agreement held by Medora Grazing Association to
be reallocated to its members in accordance with their rules in
effect as of the date of the enactment of this Act.
(h) The multiple uses of the acquired Elkhorn Ranch shall
continue.
Sec. 425. In fiscal year 2008 and thereafter, the Forest
Service shall not change the eligibility requirements for base
property, and livestock ownership as they relate to leasing of
base property and shared livestock agreements for grazing
permits on the Dakota Prairie Grasslands that were in effect as
of July 18, 2005.
Sec. 426. The Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act (Public Law
94-158) is amended--
(1) in section 3(a) by striking ``(B) the exhibition
of which is'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``(B) in
the case of international exhibitions,''; and
(2) in section 5(b), by inserting before the period
``for international exhibitions, and $5,000,000,000 at
any one time for domestic exhibitions''; and
(3) in section 5(c), by inserting before the period
``for international exhibitions, or $750,000,000 for
domestic exhibitions''.
Sec. 427. In accordance with authorities available in section
428, of Public Law 109-54, the Secretary of Agriculture and the
Secretary of the Interior shall execute an agreement that
transfers management and oversight of the Great Onyx, Harper's
Ferry, and Oconaluftee Job Corps Centers to the Forest Service.
These Job Corps centers shall continue to be administered as
described in section 147(c) of Public Law 105-220, Workforce
Investment Act of 1998.
Sec. 428. The United States Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service shall seek to collaborate with stakeholders or parties
in Sierra Forest Legacy, et al v. Weingardt, et al, Civil No. C
07-001654 (E.D. Cal.), and Sierra Club, et al v. Bosworth, et
al, Civil No. C 05-00397 (N.D. Cal.), regarding harvest
operations outside of the Giant Sequoia National Monument in
relation to the decisions approving the Revised Ice Timber Sale
and Fuels Reduction Project and the Frog Project, and taking
into account the terms of the contracts for those projects, and
in relation to the Record of Decision for the Kings River
Project, and as appropriate in regard to other disputed fuel
reduction projects in the area.
Sec. 429. (a) In General.--Section 636 of division A of the
Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations
Act, 1997 (5 U.S.C. prec. 5941 note; Public Law 104-208), is
amended--
(1) in subsection (b)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``or'';
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking the period
and inserting ``; or''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
``(3) a temporary fire line manager.''; and
(2) in subsection (c)--
(A) in paragraph (3), by striking ``, and''
and inserting a semicolon;
(B) in paragraph (4)(B), by striking the
period at the end and inserting ``; and''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
``(5) notwithstanding the definition of the terms
`supervisor' and `management official' under section
7103(a) of title 5, United States Code, the term
`temporary fire line manager' means an employee of the
Forest Service or the Department of the Interior, whose
duties include, as determined by the employing agency--
``(A) temporary supervision or management of
personnel engaged in wildland or managed fire
activities;
``(B) providing analysis or information that
affects a decision by a supervisor or manager
about a wildland or managed fire; or
(C) directing the deployment of equipment for
a wildland or managed fire.''.
(b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a)
shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.
Sec. 430. Global Climate Change. (a) The Congress finds
that--
(1) greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere
are causing average temperatures to rise at a rate
outside the range of natural variability and are posing
a substantial risk of rising sea-levels, altered
patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation, and
increased frequency and severity of floods, droughts,
and wildfires;
(2) there is a growing scientific consensus that
human activity is a substantial cause of greenhouse gas
accumulation in the atmosphere; and
(3) mandatory steps will be required to slow or stop
the growth of greenhouse gas emissions into the
atmosphere.
(b) It is the sense of the Congress that there should be
enacted a comprehensive and effective national program of
mandatory, market-based limits and incentives on emissions of
greenhouse gases that slow, stop, and reverse the growth of
such emissions at a rate and in a manner that: (1) will not
significantly harm the United States economy; and (2) will
encourage comparable action by other nations that are major
trading partners and key contributors to global emissions.
Sec. 431. None of the funds made available in this Act may be
used to purchase light bulbs unless the light bulbs have the
``ENERGY STAR'' or ``Federal Energy Management Program''
designation, except in instances where the agency determines
that ENERGY STAR or FEMP designated light bulbs are not cost-
effective over the life of the light bulbs or are not
reasonably available to meet the functional requirements of the
agency.
Sec. 432. None of the funds made available under this Act may
be used to promulgate or implement the Environmental Protection
Agency proposed regulations published in the Federal Register
on January 3, 2007 (72 Fed. Reg. 69).
Sec. 433. None of the funds made available by this Act shall
be used to prepare or publish final regulations regarding a
commercial leasing program for oil shale resources on public
lands pursuant to section 369(d) of the Energy Policy Act of
2005 (Public Law 109-58) or to conduct an oil shale lease sale
pursuant to subsection 369(e) of such Act.
Sec. 434. Section 401 of the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library
Group Forest Recovery Act, Public Law 105-277, division A,
section 101(e) (title IV), 112 Stat. 2681-305, is amended--
(1) In section (g) by striking ``until'' and all that
follows and inserting ``until September 30, 2012.'';
(2) By striking subsection (i) and inserting the
following: ``By June 1, 2008, the Forest Service shall
initiate a collaborative process with the Plaintiffs in
Sierra Nevada Forest Prot. Campaign v. Rey, Case No.
CIV-S-05-0205 MCE/GGH (E.D. Cal.), appeal docketed sub
nom. Sierra Forest Legacy v. Rey, No. 07-16892 (9th
Cir. Oct. 23, 2007) and the Quincy Library Group to
determine whether modifications to the Pilot Project
are appropriate for the remainder of the Pilot
Project.''; and
(3) By adding at the end the following:
``(m) Sections 104-106 of Public Law 108-148 shall apply to
projects authorized by this Act.''.
Sec. 435. In addition to the amounts otherwise provided to
the Environmental Protection Agency in this Act, $8,000,000, to
remain available until expended, is provided to EPA to be
transferred to the Department of the Navy for clean-up
activities at the Treasure Island Naval Station--Hunters Point
Annex.
Sec. 436. In addition to amounts provided to the
Environmental Protection Agency in this Act, the Oklahoma
Department of Environmental Quality is provided the amount of
$3,000,000 for a grant to the Oklahoma Department of
Environmental Quality for ongoing relocation assistance as
administered by the Lead Impacted Communities Relocation
Assistance Trust and as conducted consistent with the use of
prior unexpended funding for relocation assistance, including
buy outs of properties, in accordance with section 2301 of
Public Law 109-234 (120 Stat. 455-466).
Sec. 437. (a) Across-the-Board Rescissions.--There is hereby
rescinded an amount equal to 1.56 percent of the budget
authority provided for fiscal year 2008 for any discretionary
appropriation in titles I through IV of this Act.
(b) Proportionate Application.--Any rescission made by
subsection (a) shall be applied proportionately--
(1) to each discretionary account and each item of
budget authority described in subsection (a); and
(2) within each such account and item, to each
program, project, and activity (with programs,
projects, and activities as delineated in the
appropriation Act or accompanying reports for the
relevant fiscal year covering such account or item, or
for accounts and items not included in appropriation
Acts, as delineated in the most recently submitted
President's budget).
(c) Indian Land and Water Claim Settlements.--Under the
heading ``Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Land and Water Claim
Settlements and Miscellaneous Payments to Indians'', the
across-the-board rescission in this section, and any subsequent
across-the-board rescission for fiscal year 2008, shall apply
only to the first dollar amount in the paragraph and the
distribution of the rescission shall be at the discretion of
the Secretary of the Interior who shall submit a report on such
distribution and the rationale therefor to the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations.
(d) OMB Report.--Within 30 days after the date of the
enactment of this section the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget shall submit to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate a
report specifying the account and amount of each rescission
made pursuant to this section.
TITLE V
WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For an additional amount for ``Wildland Fire Management'',
$78,000,000, to remain available until expended, for urgent
wildland fire suppression activities: Provided, That such funds
shall only become available if funds previously provided for
wildland fire suppression will be exhausted imminently and the
Secretary of the Interior notifies the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations in writing of the need for these
additional funds: Provided further, That such funds are also
available for repayment to other appropriations accounts from
which funds were transferred for wildfire suppression: Provided
further, That the amount provided by this paragraph is
designated as described in section 5 (in the matter preceding
division A of this consolidated Act).
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For an additional amount for ``Wildland Fire Management'',
$222,000,000, to remain available until expended, for urgent
wildland fire suppression activities: Provided, That such funds
shall only become available if funds provided previously for
wildland fire suppression will be exhausted imminently and the
Secretary of Agriculture notifies the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations in writing of the need for these
additional funds: Provided further, That such funds are also
available for repayment to other appropriation accounts from
which funds were transferred for wildfire suppression: Provided
further, That the amount provided by this paragraph is
designated as described in section 5 (in the matter preceding
division A of this consolidated Act).
This division may be cited as the ``Department of the
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2008''.
[Clerk's note: Reproduced below is the material relating
to division F contained in the ``Explanatory Statement
Submitted by Mr. Obey, Chairman of the House Committee on
Appropriations, Regarding the Consolidated Appropriations
Amendment of the House of Representatives to the Senate
Amendment to H.R. 2764''.\1\
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\1\ This Explanatory Statement was submitted for printing in the
Congressional Record on December 17, 2007, prior to House consideration
of the Consolidated Appropriations amendment and as directed by the
House of Representatives in section 3 of H. Res 869. The Statement
appears in books II and III of the December 17 Congressional Record,
with the division F portion beginning on page H16122 of book II.
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The amendment discussed in the Explanatory Statement was
agreed to without change by both the House of Representatives
and the Senate. Therefore, the ``amended bill'' referred to in
the Statement is the same as the legislation that has been
signed into law.
Section 4 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act provides
that this Explanatory Statement ``shall have the same effect
with respect to the allocation of funds and implementation of
divisions A through K of this Act as if it were a joint
explanatory statement of a committee of conference''.]
Explanatory Statement, Division F
DIVISION F--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED
AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2008
Following is an explanation of the effects of this Division
of the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 2764
(hereafter referred to as ``the amended bill'') relative to the
versions of the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2008 (H.R. 2643 and S. 1696) passed by the
House of Representatives and reported by the Senate
Appropriations Committee.
A detailed table has been included at the end of the
Division F portion of this statement showing amounts agreed to
by activity and sub-activity. The House and Senate
Appropriations Committees note that this statement remains
silent on many directives or instructions which were included
in the House Report (H. Rpt. 110-187) or the Senate Report (S.
Rpt. 110-91) accompanying this bill. The House or Senate report
language that is not changed by this statement should be
treated as approved when administering the appropriations
included in this Division.
Reprogramming Guidelines
The House and Senate Appropriations Committees have agreed
to the updated reprogramming guidelines for agencies funded by
Division F of this amended bill as recommended by the House and
set out in H. Rept. 110-187 (pages 190-191). The changes agreed
to principally update thresholds for reprogramming from
$500,000 to $1,000,000 and provide for procedural
simplifications. Nothing in these changes alters the
requirement that any use of eminent domain or condemnation
authorities must be approved in statute.
TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES
The amended bill provides $867,463,000 for management of
lands and resources instead of $888,628,000 as proposed by the
House and $902,883,000 as proposed by the Senate. A detailed
display of the funding for all programs and activities is in
the back of this Division. Specific changes to the House or
Senate recommendations are provided below.
The amended bill provides an increase $5,000,000 above the
request for the National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS),
instead of $10,000,000 as proposed by the House and $8,000,000
as proposed by the Senate. The Appropriations Committees direct
the Bureau to present line item program elements for National
Monuments, National Conservation Areas, and National Scenic and
Historic Trails in future budget justifications. To further
ensure fiscal accountability, the Committees direct the BLM to
present annual NLCS expenditure and outcome reports which break
out expenditures by unit and subactivity no later than December
31 of the subsequent fiscal year.
The Healthy Lands Initiative (HLI) is funded with
$5,000,000 instead of $15,000,000 as proposed by the House and
$6,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The Committees are
encouraged that the BLM intends to leverage millions of dollars
in partnership funds and looks forward to an accounting of the
partner contributions in next year's annual performance report.
The increases for the NLCS and the HLI are to be allocated
as specified in the following table:
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N.L.C.S. H.L.I.
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Soil, Water, and Air Management... $200,000 .................
Range Management.................. 300,000 2,500,000
Forestry Management............... 125,000 .................
Riparian Management............... 200,000 500,000
Cultural Resources Management..... 350,000 .................
Wildlife Management............... 225,000 1,500,000
Fisheries Management.............. 100,000 500,000
Threatened & Endangered Species... 225,000 .................
Wilderness Management............. 1,000,000 .................
Recreation Resources Management... 1,350,000 .................
Resource Management Planning...... 225,000 .................
Resource Protection and Law 150,000 .................
Enforcement......................
Operations........................ 100,000 .................
Annual Maintenance................ 350,000 .................
Challenge Cost Share.............. 100,000 .................
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Total......................... 5,000,000 5,000,000
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Land Resources.--As described by the Senate, $1,000,000 is
provided for abandoned mine reclamation in California and
$1,000,000 is provided for the Idaho Department of Agriculture
weed control project. The Appropriations Committees urge the
Bureau to maintain its wild horse and burro management program
at current levels. Specific funding recommended by the Senate
for the slickspot peppergrass project in Idaho is not included,
but the Committees do not oppose the Bureau providing funding
for this effort if the project is needed to accomplish public
land management goals.
Wildlife and Fisheries Management.--The Administration
proposed reduction for the National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation (NFWF) is countered with increases above the request
of $575,000 in wildlife management and $75,000 in fisheries
management. Bill language is included providing a total of
$2,900,000 for the NFWF to use for activities benefitting the
Bureau.
Recreation Management.--Recreation resources management
funding includes an increase of $750,000 for National scenic
and historic trails as described by the House and $750,000 for
exhibits at the California National Historic Trail Center, NV,
as described by the Senate.
Energy and Minerals.--The amended bill provides a total of
$117,129,000 for oil and gas management instead of $112,129,000
recommended by the House and $119,318,000 as proposed by the
Senate. This funding level is equal to the fiscal year 2007
level, and is $28,167,000 above the fiscal year 2006 funding.
The amended bill modifies the House recommendation for a new
cost recovery program for applications for permits to drill oil
and gas wells (APD's). A similar program was requested by the
Administration. The recommendation requires $4,000 for each
application for a permit to drill, which is less than the
actual cost to the BLM. The estimated $25,500,000 in revenues
yielded will be used to offset appropriations for the oil and
gas management activity. The Appropriations Committees expect
that, given this new and additional cost to permittees, permits
will be processed as efficiently as possible with a high level
of public service, consistent with all applicable regulations
and within the timeframes directed by existing law. Note that
the President's budget for fiscal year 2008 had originally
estimated an APD workload of 12,000 permits but now the
Administration estimates that only 8,500 will be requested in
fiscal year 2008.
The recommendation does not include the Administration
request to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to stop the use
of $21,000,000 in mandatory funds for the pilot oil and gas
permitting offices.
The amended bill does not agree that the Bureau should
continue receiving the full requested $12,400,000 for Alaska
North Slope activities, but does recognize the ongoing need for
abandoned well remediation. Therefore, the recommendation
includes $6,000,000 for North Slope activities in the oil and
gas management activity, an increase of $6,000,000 from the
fiscal 2006 level. Increases in the request for monitoring and
enforcement are approved. Funds are not provided in this
account for the oil and gas leasing internet pilot program but
this effort is supported with funding provided in section 117.
Wilderness and wilderness study areas should be very carefully
examined and only used for oil and gas leasing when less
sensitive lands are not available and when existing permitted
areas are fully developed.
Realty Ownership and Management.--The Alaska conveyance
program receives $36,922,000 instead of $33,922,000 proposed by
the House and $39,972,000 proposed by the Senate. The cadastral
survey program includes $250,000 for GIS mapping in Utah and
$80,000 for Wyoming soil surveys.
Resource Protection and Maintenance.--The resource
protection and law enforcement activity receives a $4,000,000
increase above the request to assist law enforcement needs in
the vicinity of the southwestern border and as a general
program increase.
CONSTRUCTION
The amended bill provides $6,476,000 for construction as
proposed by the House instead of $11,476,000 as proposed by the
Senate. The President's budget should be followed in allocating
these funds.
LAND ACQUISITION
The amended bill provides $9,081,000 for land acquisition
instead of $18,634,000 as proposed by the House and $12,206,000
as proposed by the Senate. Funds are to be distributed as
follows:
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State Project description Amount
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MT Blackfoot River SRMA............. $500,000
CA California Desert Wilderness..... 500,000
OR Cascade-Siskiyou National 875,000
Monument.
CA Coachella Valley ACEC............ 400,000
NM El Malpais National Conservation 250,000
Area.
CO Gunnison Gorge National 856,000
Conservation Area.
CA Upper Sacramento River ACEC...... 1,250,000
ID Upper Snake/South Fork River ACEC/ 1,250,000
SRMA.
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Subtotal, Line Item Projects... 5,881,000
Acquisition Management........... 1,700,000
Inholdings, Emergencies, and 1,500,000
Hardships.
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Total, BLM Land Acquisition.... 9,081,000
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OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS
The amended bill provides $110,242,000 for Oregon and
California grant lands as proposed by both the House and the
Senate.
FOREST ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND
(REVOLVING FUND, SPECIAL ACCOUNT)
The amended bill provides authorities for Forest Ecosystem
Health and Recovery Fund as proposed by both the House and the
Senate.
RANGE IMPROVEMENTS
The amended bill provides an indefinite appropriation for
range improvements of not less than $10,000,000 as proposed by
the both the House and the Senate.
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES
The amended bill provides an indefinite appropriation for
service charges, deposits, and forfeitures, which is estimated
to be $25,905,000, as proposed by both the House and the
Senate.
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS
The amended bill provides an indefinite appropriation of
$12,405,000 for miscellaneous trust funds as proposed by both
the House and the Senate.
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
The amended bill provides $820,878,000 for wildland fire
management instead of $806,644,000 as proposed by the House and
$829,524,000 as proposed the Senate. The amended bill includes
the House and Senate recommendations unless contradicted by the
discussion below.
Funds are to be distributed as follows:
Program Amount
Preparedness............................................ $280,863,000
Fire suppression operations............................. 294,398,000
Hazardous fuels......................................... 202,792,000
Burned area rehabilitation.............................. 24,591,000
Fire facilities......................................... 6,234,000
Joint fire science...................................... 6,000,000
Rural fire assistance................................... 6,000,000
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Total............................................... 820,878,000
Bill Language.--Senate proposed items are included dealing
with authority for rural fire assistance, certain leases of
real property with local governments, and inter-departmental
transfers with the Forest Service of up to $10,000,000 for
jointly funded wildland fire management programs and projects.
A minor technical correction to the emergency suppression
funding language provided in P.L. 110-116 is included; this
correction allows repayment of funds borrowed within this
appropriation account at the Department of the Interior.
Preparedness.--The Appropriations Committees remain
dissatisfied that the Department of the Interior and the Forest
Service have failed to produce and deploy the Fire Program
Analysis system as an urgently needed fire preparedness
planning tool so the House and Senate direction should be
followed.
Fire Suppression Operations.--The amended bill includes
$294,398,000 for suppression operations as proposed by both the
House and the Senate. This provides the full amount of the ten-
year average cost of wildfire suppression increased for
inflation, an increase of $45,213,000 above the fiscal year
2007 funding level. Note that Title V includes $78,000,000 in
emergency funds in case next season has extreme needs beyond
the increased funding provided herein.
Hazardous fuels.--The amended bill provides an increase of
$3,005,000 over the fiscal year 2007 level. The joint report
with the Forest Service on hazardous fuels funding allocations
is required as directed by the House and should be delivered
120 days after enactment.
Burned Area Rehabilitation.--The Department of the Interior
and the Forest Service should provide a detailed accomplishment
report 120 days after enactment of this Act, including a plan
of future work, for the native plant materials program. The
House recommendation restricting reprogramming of
rehabilitation funds need not be followed.
Fire Facilities.--Funding is included to conduct all but
the lowest Administration priority project. The House
recommendation to request fire facilities funds in the various
bureau construction accounts need not be followed.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
The amended bill includes the House proposed language
concerning enterprise information technology procurements.
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
The amended bill provides $1,099,772,000 for resource
management instead of $1,104,572,000 as proposed by the House
and $1,079,772,000 as proposed by the Senate. A detailed
display of the funding for all programs and activities is
included in the back of the statement for this Division.
Ecological Services.--The amended bill provides
$267,570,000 for Ecological Services instead of $266,370,000 as
proposed by the House and $270,870,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
The amended bill moves $3,000,000 from the critical habitat
program to the listing program and has limited the total amount
of funding that can be spent on critical habitat to $9,926,000.
The amount provided for candidate conservation includes
$250,000 for the Idaho Office of Species Conservation sage
grouse project.
The amount provided for recovery includes increases above
the request of $1,500,000 for Pacific salmon grants with the
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation; $400,000 for work on
California Condor and Aplomado falcon recovery; $250,000 for
the Lahont cutthroat trout; $250,000 for wolf monitoring in
Idaho, Montana and Wyoming; and $200,000 for the White Sulphur
Springs National Fish Hatchery for freshwater mussel recovery.
Funding provided for the Aplomado falcon and California
condor recovery is in addition to the base funding included in
the Service's budget.
The amount provided for habitat conservation includes
$50,829,000 for partners for fish and wildlife; $31,961,000 for
project planning; $14,277,000 for coastal programs; and
$5,338,000 for the National wetlands inventory.
The amount provided for partners for fish and wildlife
include $1,000,000 for general program activities; $350,000 for
the Hawaii Invasive Species Council; $350,000 for the
Mississippi State University Natural Resources Economic
Enterprises program; $375,000 for the Nevada Biological
Research Center; and $1,000,000 to complete the spartina grass
eradication project at Willapa National Wildlife Refuge. The
Healthy Lands/Green River Basin initiative is reduced by
$500,000 below the request.
The amount provided for project planning includes $500,000
for general program activities and $275,000 for the Middle Rio
Grande Bosque program.
The amount provided for coastal programs includes
$1,000,000 for general program activities. The Service should
use this increase for base programs and continue to update and
transform the Coastal Barrier Resource Act maps to digital
format.
The amount provided for the national wetlands inventory
should be used to provide for general program activities and to
respond to increased demand for wetland inventory maps due to
climate change management.
In addition to other established methods, the Service is
encouraged to utilize biological pattern recognition technology
where appropriate for tagging threatened or endangered fish and
animal species.
The Service is encouraged to continue efforts to implement
the snakehead management plan and the brown bullhead catfish
cancer study in the Potomac River.
National Wildlife Refuge System.--The amended bill provides
$441,004,000 for the National Wildlife Refuge System instead of
$451,004,000 as proposed by the House and $413,804,000 as
proposed by the Senate. Within the amount provided for the
National Wildlife Refuge System, $301,335,000 is for operations
and $139,669,000 is for maintenance.
The increase includes $25,000,000 for wildlife and habitat;
$7,200,000 for visitor services; $5,000,000 for refuge law
enforcement; $1,000,000 for the invasive species eradication
with volunteers program; $1,000,000 for continued work on
comprehensive conservation plans; and $1,000,000 for the Refuge
System volunteer program. The amended bill includes $1,000,000
for spartina grass eradication at Willapa National Wildlife
Refuge but funding for this program is moved to the Partners
for Fish and Wildlife program.
The increased funding for refuge operations should be used
to re-establish basic operating capacity and staffing
shortfalls at all refuges nationwide. In addition, these funds
should be used to begin to alleviate the shortfalls identified
in the refuge workforce plans and should be distributed outside
the Refuge Operations Needs System (RONS) and other traditional
allocation formulas.
The Refuge System is directed to report to the House and
Senate Committees on Appropriations on the planned allocation
and expenditure of the increased funding within 60 days of
enactment of this bill.
The amount provided for refuge maintenance includes
increases of $3,000,000 for annual maintenance and $3,000,000
for maintenance support.
Migratory Birds and Law Enforcement.--The amended bill
includes $101,667,000 for migratory birds and law enforcement
as proposed by the House instead of $102,167,000 as proposed by
the Senate. Within the amount provided for migratory birds and
law enforcement, $41,082,000 is for the migratory bird
management program and $60,585,000 is for the law enforcement
program.
The Service's law enforcement program is vital to
protecting wildlife populations worldwide and the Service is
directed to increase the number of special agents nationwide
and to re-establish the special operations unit.
Fisheries and Aquatic Restoration.--The amended bill
includes $128,504,000 for fisheries and aquatic restoration
instead of $126,254,000 as proposed by the House and
$130,004,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the amount
provided for fisheries and aquatic restoration, $46,647,000 is
for national fish hatchery operations; $18,855,000 is for
national fish hatchery maintenance and equipment; $54,572,000
is for aquatic habitat and species conservation; $5,407,000 is
for aquatic invasive species; and $3,023,000 is for marine
mammals.
The amount provided for aquatic habitat and species
conservation includes $500,000 for Great Lakes Fish and
Wildlife restoration and $500,000 for Atlantic Salmon Penobscot
River restoration activities.
General Administration.--The amount provided for general
administration is $161,027,000 and follows the distribution in
the House proposal with the following exceptions: $1,600,000 in
additional funding is provided for the international affairs
program and $150,000 is provided for the Caddo Lake Ramsar
Center.
CONSTRUCTION
The amended bill provides $33,688,000 for construction
instead of $31,653,000 as proposed by the House and $36,700,000
as proposed by the Senate. Funds are distributed as follows:
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State Project Description Amount
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IL Crab Orchard NWR--Devils Kitchen $2,000,000
Dam, Phase II.
CA Don Edwards San Francisco Bay 5,000,000
NWR--Salt Ponds.
MI Great Lakes Fisheries--Mass 1,750,000
Marking Equipment.
HI Hakalau NWR--Fencing............. 900,000
WY Jackson NFH--Seismic 2,037,000
Rehabilitation.
PI Midway Atoll NWR................. 1,250,000
WV Ohio River Islands NWR........... 1,000,000
GA Okefenokee NWR--Repair Public Use 600,000
Facility.
MD Patuxent Research Refuge--Safety 4,000,000
Reconstruction.
WV White Sulphur Springs NFH-- 500,000
facility improvements.
Mult Office of Aircraft Services-- 500,000
Replace Survey Planes.
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Subtotal, Line Item Projects. 19,537,000
Visitor Facility Enhancements-- 3,000,000
NWRs and NFHs.
Dam Safety and Inspections....... 700,000
Bridge Safety Inspections........ 550,000
Nationwide Engineering Services.. 9,901,000
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Total, FWS Construction...... 33,688,000
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LAND ACQUISITION
The amended bill includes $35,144,000 for land acquisition
instead of $43,046,000 as proposed by the House and $43,044,000
as proposed by the Senate. Funds are distributed as follows:
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State Project Description Amount
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VA Back Bay NWR..................... $505,000
TX Balcones Canyonlands NWR......... 275,000
MD Blackwater NWR................... 400,000
WV Canaan Valley NWR................ 1,500,000
NJ Cape May NWR..................... 500,000
KY Clarks River NWR................. 500,000
SD, ND Dakota Tallgrass Prairie WMA..... 325,000
IA Driftless Area NWR............... 325,000
VA Eastern Shore of Virginia NWR.... 1,600,000
NJ Great Swamp NWR.................. 1,200,000
CT, NJ, NY, PA Highlands Conservation Act-- 1,750,000
easements.
HI James Campbell NWR............... 4,000,000
VA James River NWR.................. 1,600,000
TX Lower Rio Grande Valley NWR...... 500,000
FL National Key Deer NWR............ 1,044,000
MN, IA Northern Tallgrass Prairie NWR... 410,000
VA Rappahannock River Valley NWR.... 460,000
LA Red River NWR.................... 500,000
RI Rhode Island NWR Complex......... 500,000
MA, VT, NH, CT Silvio Conte NWR................. 2,000,000
CT Stewart B. McKinney NFWR......... 710,000
AK Yukon Flats NWR--Doyon Land 400,000
Exchange EIS.
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Subtotal, Line Item Projects. 21,004,000
Acquisition Management........... 8,140,000
Cost Allocation Methodology...... 1,500,000
Exchanges........................ 1,500,000
Inholdings, Emergencies, and 3,000,000
Hardships.
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Total, FWS Acquisition....... 35,144,000
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COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND
The amended bill includes $75,001,000 for the cooperative
endangered species conservation fund instead of $80,001,000 as
proposed by the Senate and $81,001,000 as proposed by the
House. This includes the use of $5,000,000 in prior year
balances from a project that is no longer needed for a total
program level of $80,001,000. Funding for the Nez Perce/Snake
River water settlement is included as proposed by the Senate.
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND
The amended bill includes $14,202,000 for the National
Wildlife Refuge Fund as proposed by both the House and Senate.
NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND
The amended bill includes $42,646,000 as proposed by both
the House and the Senate.
NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION
The amended bill includes $4,500,000 for the Neotropical
migratory bird conservation fund instead of $5,000,000 as
proposed by the House and $4,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.
MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND
The amended bill includes $8,000,000 for the multinational
species conservation fund as proposed by the Senate instead of
$10,000,000 as proposed by the House. This provides $1,500,000
for African elephant conservation; $2,000,000 for rhinoceros
and tiger conservation; $1,500,000 for Asian elephant
conservation; $2,000,000 for great ape conservation; and
$1,000,000 for marine turtle conservation.
STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS
The amended bill includes $75,000,000 for state and tribal
wildlife grants instead of $85,000,000 as proposed by the House
and $72,492,000 as proposed by the Senate. This amount includes
$63,718,000 for state formula grants, $6,282,000 for tribal
grants, and $5,000,000 for state competitive grants.
National Park Service
OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM
The amended bill provides $2,001,809,000 for operation of
the National Parks instead of $2,047,809,000 as proposed by the
House and instead of $1,958,687,000 as proposed by the Senate.
The amended bill includes $88,122,000 for the U.S. Park Police
within this amount, the same amount requested in the budget and
approved by the House. The Senate had provided the same amount
in a separate appropriations account for the Park Police.
The amended bill provides for an overall increase for Park
Service operations of $153,387,000 over the amount available in
fiscal year 2007. This amount fully funds all fixed costs, as
requested in the budget, as well as the $100,000,000 requested
to begin preparing the National Parks for the Centennial in
2016. The amount provided is $55,323,000 below the amount
requested; $25,000,000 of this reduction has been used as an
offset to provide interim funding of the new Centennial
Challenge matching program described below. Reductions below
the budget request should be allocated among initiatives
proposed in the budget as determined by the Director after
consultation with the Appropriations Committees.
In addition to the allocation of funds by activity included
in the detail table accompanying this statement, the amended
bill provides for the following:
Maintenance.--Within the amount provided for maintenance of
park facilities and properties, the amended bill provides
$50,000 for repairs at the Appomattox Courthouse NHP, $100,000
for the Booker T. Washington NM, and $200,000 to continue the
multi-year historic landscaping project at Gettysburg NMP. No
funding has been provided in fiscal year 2008 for the Hetch
Hetchy study requested in the President's Budget.
Park Support.--In addition to the amounts requested in the
budget, the amended bill provides $10,000,000 for the National
Trail System as provided by the House and Senate. The amended
bill also includes $1,500,000 for the National Wild and Scenic
Rivers program instead of $2,000,000 as proposed by the House
and $858,000 as proposed by the Senate. While the amended bill
does not provide the $1,000,000 increase proposed by the House
to expand the Park Service social science program, the
Appropriations Committees believe that, within the large
increase approved by the Congress, the Director should take
steps to enhance the Service's capacity to analyze and
understand variations in park use among different demographic
groups. This effort will be critical as the Parks prepare for a
new generation of users.
Funding for the National Underground Railroad program, the
Brown v. Board of Education Foundation, and the Chesapeake Bay
Gateways Network programs have been included in the National
Recreation and Preservation account as proposed by the Senate
rather than in this account as proposed by the House.
The Appropriations Committees are fully supportive of
National Park Service financial contributions towards the
Summer concerts series staged on the Capitol Grounds. Within
the amounts approved for park support, the funding for this
effort, which has not increased since 2003, is expected to be
increased by $300,000.
Japanese American Confinement Sites Act.--Legislation
passed at the end of the 109th Congress authorized a new
program of grant support to preserve Japanese American World
War II confinement sites through partnerships with local,
regional and national groups and/or institutions for the
purpose of identifying, researching, evaluating, interpreting,
protecting, restoring, repairing, and acquiring historic
confinement sites in order to educate and provide inspiration
to present and future generations ( P.L. 109-441). The
Committees are pleased that the Park Service has initiated the
planning process for implementing this legislation and direct
that the Service submit a report on progress in implementing
the law to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations
prior to the fiscal year 2009 appropriation hearings.
Staffing of National Park Service units in the Hawaiian
Islands.--The House and Senate Appropriations Committees have
been made aware of the Park Service efforts that have been
undertaken with respect to staffing levels in the State of
Hawaii. As such, staffing restrictions imposed in the Senate
report are no longer necessary.
Public Lands Corps.--The amended bill does not include a
specific set-aside of funds within the Park Service for the
Public Lands Corps as proposed by the House. The Committees are
fully supportive of the continuation of the Park Service
partnership with the Public Lands Corps but do not believe a
specific statutory allocation of funds is necessary.
CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE
The amended bill includes $25,000,000 for the Centennial
Challenge program instead of $50,000,000 as proposed by the
House. The Senate deferred consideration for this program when
it reported its bill from Committee. These funds have been
provided to initiate the new Centennial Challenge matching
grant program which has been proposed as a ten-year effort to
generate $2 billion for the renewal of the National Park system
for its next century of service following its Centennial
celebration in 2016. All funds must be matched on a 50/50
basis. The Appropriations Committees have agreed to these funds
as interim funding to allow the program to commence in 2008.
Funds will be administered under the existing challenge cost
share program structure. The Appropriations Committees expect
that permanent authorization will be enacted during the 110th
Congress for the full ten-year program effort. In carrying out
the interim program during fiscal year 2008, the Appropriations
Committees expect the National Park Service to follow the
guidelines for managing the Centennial Challenge program in
House Report 110-187. These will ensure that projects are
selected competitively and that they serve Park Service needs
and priorities.
NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION
The amended bill provides $68,481,000 for national
recreation and preservation programs instead of $62,881,000 as
proposed by the House and instead of $63,756,000 as proposed by
the Senate. In addition to the allocation of funds by activity
included in the detail table accompanying this statement, the
amended bill provides for the following:
Preserve America.--The amended bill includes $7,500,000 for
the Preserve America program under the National Recreation and
Preservation appropriations account instead of $5,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate. The House bill provided $10,000,000 for
Preserve America under the Historic Preservation account.
Heritage Partnerships.--The amended bill provides
$15,500,000 for the heritage partnerships program. The amended
bill does not earmark specific amounts for the 37 existing
individual heritage areas. The Park Service is continuing to
develop new competitive criteria for the distribution of this
funding and expects to make a formal proposal for a new system
as part of the fiscal year 2009 budget. As an interim process,
the Appropriations Committees have agreed that $13,000,000 of
the funds provided for heritage partnership grants should be
allocated in identical amounts to each grantee as was awarded
by the Park Service competitive process in 2007. In addition
$150,000 should be allocated to each of the 10 new heritage
area partnerships authorized during the 109th Congress. The
remaining $1,000,000 is provided to the Park Service to cover
national and regional administrative costs of this labor-
intensive program.
Cultural programs.--The amended bill includes $21,742,000
for cultural programs, the same level as provided by the House
and the Senate. Within this total, $750,000 is provided for the
National Underground Railroad program. The House bill provided
$1,000,000 for this purpose under the Park service operations
account.
Statutory and contractual aid.--The amended bill provides
$7,600,000 for the statutory and contractual aid program as
follows:
National Voting Rights Interpretive Center.............. $500,000
Angel Island Immigration Ctr............................ 1,125,000
Brown V Bd of Education Fdn............................. 300,000
SW Penn Heritage Presv. Comm............................ 1,200,000
Chesapeake Bay Gateway Ntw.............................. 1,700,000
Crossroads of the West.................................. 300,000
Fort Mandan, Fort Lincoln............................... 200,000
Jamestown 2007.......................................... 200,000
Keeweenaw NHP Advisory Commission....................... 200,000
Native Hawaiian Culture & Art........................... 500,000
Yosemite Schools........................................ 125,000
Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial (NPS support).. 500,000
National Law Enforcement Act (P.L. 106-492)............. 750,000
Funding for the Eisenhower Memorial Commission, provided
for under the statutory and contractual aid program in the
House bill, has been funded at a level of $2,000,000 as a
``related agency,'' as requested by the President.
Language proposed by the Senate related to cooperative
agreements under the rivers and trails program is not included
in the amended bill.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
The amended bill provides $71,500,000 for the historic
preservation fund program, instead of $81,500,000 as proposed
by the House and instead of $75,000,000 as proposed by the
Senate. Funding for the Preserve America program, funded in
this account by the House, has instead been funded under the
National Recreation and Preservation account as proposed by the
Senate. In addition to the allocation of funds by activity
included in the detail table accompanying this statement, the
amended bill provides for the following:
Save America's Treasures.--The amended bill provides that
$11,200,000 of the amount provided for the Save America's
Treasures historic preservation grants program be awarded under
the existing competitive process. The remaining $13,800,000 is
provided for the following projects:
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AL Bullock County Courthouse, $300,000
Union Springs.
AL Kymulga Grist Mill Historic 100,000
Preservation.
AL Ivy Green, Birthplace of Helen 100,000
Keller, Tuscumbia.
AL Old Cahawba Center, Cahawba.... 175,000
AR Clover Bend Historic Site...... 100,000
AR Lane House Theater, Eureka 150,000
Springs.
AZ George Washington Carver High 300,000
School, Phoenix.
CA Casa Grande, Santa Clara County 100,000
CA Maritime History Center for 100,000
Working Families, Richmond.
CA Mission San Luis Rey, Oceanside 650,000
CA Oroville Historic State Theater 200,000
CA San Juan Capistrano Historic 200,000
Adobe Preservation.
CO Chimney Rock Pueblo, Pagosa 245,000
Springs.
DE Grand Opera House, Wilmington.. 250,000
FL Fort DeSoto.................... 250,000
GA Old Fort Jackson, Savannah..... 300,000
GA Wesleyan College Historic 100,000
District, Macon.
IA City National Bank Building, 400,000
Mason City.
ID Chesterfield Schoolhouse, 300,000
Chesterfield.
ID Historic Wilson Theater, Rupert 200,000
IL Knox College, Galesburg........ 300,000
IL Scottish Rite Temple, 175,000
Bloomington.
IN St. Joseph's College Theatre 100,000
Renovation, Rensselaer.
KS Brown Mansion, Coffeyville..... 225,000
KS Butler County Courthouse....... 300,000
KY Perryville Battlefield 150,000
Merchants Row Restoration.
MA William Cullen Bryant Home 150,000
Homestead, Cummington.
MD Lloyd Synagogue, Baltimore..... 125,000
MD Poplar Hill, Clinton........... 160,000
MD Rackliffe Plantation House..... 100,000
MI Marquette Harbor Lighthouse, 300,000
Marquette.
MN Ripley Gardens, Minneapolis.... 300,000
MO Missouri Theater, Columbia..... 500,000
MS Curlee House, Corinth.......... 150,000
MS Immanuel Church, Winona........ 150,000
MS Walthall County Courthouse, 200,000
Tylertown.
NH Daniel Webster Farmhouse, 100,000
Franklin.
NH Littleton Opera House, 500,000
Littleton.
NM Santa Maria El Mirador, Alcalde 150,000
NM Zuni Pueblo Mission............ 100,000
NV Goldfield Historic District, 300,000
Goldfield.
NY DeSeversky Center Building..... 150,000
NY Maverick Concert Hall 150,000
Preservation.
NY Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester. 100,000
NY Restoration of 1883 Lighthouse, 100,000
Sleepy Hollow.
NY Seneca Knitting Mill, Seneca... 250,000
OH Fire Fighters' Hall, Columbus.. 100,000
OH Spring Hill Historic Home, 200,000
Massillon.
OK Wintersmith Dam................ 250,000
PA Embassy Theatre, Burnham....... 250,000
PA Payne Gallery, Moravian College 150,000
PA Philadelphia Art Museum 100,000
Exterior Facade.
PA Polish American Cultural 125,000
Center, Philadelphia.
PA W.A. Young & Sons Foundry, 150,000
Greene County.
PA Pittsburg Courier Historic 150,000
Archives.
RI John Brown House, Providence... 300,000
SC Carnegie Public Library, 150,000
Darlington.
SC Goodwill School, Maysville..... 100,000
SC Pompion Hill Chapel............ 100,000
SD Grand Opera House, Dell Rapids. 250,000
TN Agricultural Reform Movement 100,000
Building, Lewisburg.
TX Granbury Historic Opera House 100,000
Theater.
TX Knights of Pythias Building, 350,000
Cuero.
VA Gadsby's Historic Site, 50,000
Alexandria.
VA Henry County Courthouse........ 100,000
VA Lee-Fendall House, Alexandria.. 100,000
VT Bethel Town Hall, Bethel....... 305,000
WA Bremerton Public Library 250,000
Restoration.
WV Mother's Day Shrine, Grafton... 125,000
WV Wetzel County Courthouse, New 140,000
Martinsville.
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Total........................ $13,800,00
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Bill language.--The amended bill includes programmatic
requirements for the Save America's Treasures program as
proposed by the House rather than similar language proposed by
the Senate.
CONSTRUCTION
The amended bill provides $221,985,000 for Construction,
instead of $201,580,000 as proposed by the House and instead of
$227,154,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within this total,
$40,852,000 has been provided for Park Service construction
program management and operations activities, the same as
provided by the Senate and an increase of $1,010,000 over the
budget request and the House allocation. The amended bill
includes $132,721,000 for individual line item construction
projects with $8,240,000 of this amount financed through use of
prior year unobligated balances. The allocation of these funds
by project follows:
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AK..................... Kenai Fjords National Park..... $2,000,000
AR..................... Buffalo National River......... 2,057,000
CA..................... California National Parks...... 980,000
CA..................... Channel Islands National Park.. 9,295,000
CA..................... Joshua Tree National Park 300,000
(planning).
CA..................... Redwood National Park (roads).. 2,346,000
CA..................... Redwood National Park.......... 11,737,000
CA..................... San Francisco Maritime National 10,051,000
Historic Park.
CO..................... Rocky Mountain National Park... 2,817,000
DC..................... White House.................... 5,731,000
FL..................... Everglades National Park....... 14,526,000
HI..................... USS Arizona Memorial........... 4,545,000
IN..................... George Rogers Clark National 3,764,000
Historic Park.
KY..................... Abraham Lincoln Birthplace 350,000
Historic Site.
KY..................... Mammoth Cave National Park..... 1,353,000
MA..................... Cape Cod National Seashore..... 1,292,000
MD..................... George Washington Rkw (Glen 700,000
Echo).
MI..................... Keweenaw NHP (Union Bldg, 504,000
Interior).
MO..................... Jefferson National Expansion 1,500,000
Memorial.
MT..................... Glacier National Park.......... 900,000
MT..................... Yellowstone National Park...... 3,800,000
NC..................... Great Smokies NP-North Shore 6,000,000
Road (settlement).
NC..................... Blue Ridge Parkway............. 1,916,000
NY..................... Gateway National Recreation 1,042,000
Area.
OH..................... Cuyahoga Valley National Park.. 1,750,000
PA..................... Gettysburg NMP (complete 3,800,000
Cyclorama restoration).
PA..................... Benjamin Franklin Memorial..... 1,500,000
PA..................... Delaware Water Gap National 1,503,000
Recreation Area.
PA..................... Fort Necessity National 250,000
Battlefield.
SD..................... Wind Cave National Park........ 1,158,000
TN..................... Moccasin Bend National 2,000,000
Archeological District.
UT..................... Utah Public Lands Artifact 1,000,000
Preservation Act.
VA..................... Petersburg National Battlefield 3,045,000
VA..................... Shenandoah National Park....... 2,292,000
WA..................... Ft. Vancouver National Historic 850,000
Site.
WA..................... Mount Rainier National Park.... 1,812,000
WA..................... Olympic National Park.......... 20,000,000
WV..................... Harper's Ferry National 710,000
Historic Park.
WV..................... New River Gorge National Scenic 1,545,000
River.
Mult................... Use of unobligated balances.... -8,240,000
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Subtotal, Line Item 124,481,000
Projects.
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Bill language.--The amended bill does not include bill
language proposed by the Senate related to pre-approval of
National Park Service partnership agreements. The
Appropriations Committees, however, are agreed that the Park
Service should continue to follow pre-approval procedures for
projects with a value in excess of $5,000,000 as in previous
years. The amended bill includes bill language proposed by the
Senate related to the Yellowstone National Park municipal solid
waste construction project.
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND
(RESCISSION)
The amended bill includes the rescission of $30,000,000 in
annual contract authority as proposed in the budget request and
approved by the House and the Senate bills.
LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE
The amended bill includes $70,070,000 for land acquisition
and State assistance instead of $99,402,000 as proposed by the
House and $78,700,000 as proposed by the Senate. This includes
$25,000,000 for the State Assistance Program, instead of
$50,000,000 as proposed by the House and $30,000,000 as
proposed by the Senate. State assistance funding includes
$1,500,000 for federal administrative costs.
Federal land acquisition is funded at $45,070,000,
distributed as follows:
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State Project description Amount
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ME Acadia National Park............ $600,000
TX Big Thicket National Preserve... 1,250,000
MA Cape Cod National Seashore...... 2,000,000
GA Chattahoochee River National 2,000,000
Recreation Area.
TN Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP. 1,820,000
USA Civil War Battlefield 3,000,000
Preservation Grants.
KY, TN Cumberland Gap NHP.............. 1,900,000
WA Ebey's Landing National 500,000
Historical Reserve.
PA Flight 93 National Memorial..... 5,000,000
WV Gauley River National Recreation 500,000
Area.
CA Golden Gate National Recreation 2,000,000
Area.
MS Gulf Islands National Seashore-- 2,000,000
Cat Island.
WI Ice Age National Scenic Trail... 1,400,000
IN Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore 1,500,000
CO Mesa Verde National Park........ 1,600,000
WA Mt. Rainier National Park....... 1,200,000
WV New River Gorge National River.. 500,000
MI Sleeping Bear Dunes National 350,000
Lakeshore.
VA Shenandoah Valley Battlefield 1,000,000
Historic District.
MO Wilson's Creek National 450,000
Battlefield.
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Subtotal, Line Item Projects.. 30,570,000
Acquisition Management.......... 9,500,000
Inholdings and Exchanges........ 2,500,000
Emergencies, and Hardships...... 2,500,000
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Subtotal, Land Acquisition.... $45,070,000
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The amended bill provides $2,000,000 for a grant to the
State of Mississippi for acquisition of Cat Island in the Gulf
Island National Seashore. This completes the Service's
commitment for acquisition of land on Cat Island.
Bill language.--The amended bill does not include language
proposed by the Senate prohibiting States from establishing
contingency funds under the ``State Assistance'' grant program.
The House bill did not include this language. Nor does the
amended bill specify in statute an amount for federal
administrative costs of the State Assistance program as
proposed by the Senate.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
The amended bill modifies language included by the House
but not the Senate regarding rights of appeal related to
contested possessory interest determinations under the Park
Service concessions program. The revised language provides the
right of ``de novo'' appeal to both the Park Service and
private parties when disagreements cannot be resolved
administratively. The House language provided this right only
to the Park Service.
The amended bill includes language proposed by the House
allowing certain relocation benefits for individuals displaced
as a result of acquisitions. The amended bill also includes
language proposed by the House extending the legislative
authority for the National Park Service Advisory Board. The
Senate did not include similar provisions.
United States Geological Survey
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH
The amended bill provides $1,022,430,000 for Surveys,
Investigations, and Research instead of $1,032,764,000 as
proposed by the House and $1,009,933,000 as proposed by the
Senate. A detailed display of the funding for all programs and
activities is in the back of this Division. Specific changes to
the House or Senate recommendations are provided below.
Geographic Research, Investigations, and Remote Sensing.--A
total of $1,000,000 is provided for the national cooperative
geographic information system mapping effort. Funding for
geographic analysis and monitoring follows the House
recommendation to include $3,000,000 for the multi-hazard
initiative and restore ongoing geographic research which was
slated for reduction in the budget request. The Senate
recommendation for a priority ecosystems program increase is
not included.
Geologic Hazards, Resources and Processes.--The
recommendation increases funding above the request for
earthquake hazards and the multi-hazard initiative within
geologic hazards assessments by $2,000,000, and $500,000 above
the request for both volcano hazards and the global
seismographic network. Geologic landscape and coastal
assessments funding includes the $1,000,000 increase above the
request recommended by the House for national cooperative
mapping and a total of $1,000,000 for the ocean action plan.
The Appropriations Committees continue strong support for the
multi-hazards initiative and encourage its continuation and
enhancement. Note that the amended bill provides full support
for the minerals assessment program despite the
Administration's irresponsible proposal to decrease or
eliminate funding for this important Federal program.
Water Resources Investigations.--Funding is provided for
the following projects mentioned in the House or Senate
recommendations: $350,000 for the Memphis aquifer study (TN,
MS, AR); $200,000 for the Hood Canal dissolved oxygen study
(WA); $300,000 for the San Pedro partnership (AZ); $500,000 for
the Long-term Estuary Assessment Group (LA); and $500,000 for
the US-Mexico Aquifer Assessment Act (NM). A general increase
of $1,500,000 over the request is included for the national
streamflow information program and the multi-hazard initiative.
Funding for hydrologic networks and analysis includes the
Senate recommended $1,000,000 for the ocean action plan,
$500,000 for Lake Champlain toxic materials study (VT), and
$500,000 for Hawaii water monitoring. The Federal-State
cooperative water program is increased by $1,464,000 over the
request for a total funding level of $63,845,000. The water
resources research institutes allocation is $6,404,000 as
recommended by the House and Senate.
Biological Research.--Overall funding for biological
research and monitoring is $143,514,000, an increase of
$5,442,000 over the fiscal year 2007 level. Specific project or
program funding levels include: $1,500,000 for the new healthy
lands initiative; $2,779,000 for Pacific Northwest forest
biology as provided in fiscal year 2007; $2,000,000 for
contaminant/endocrine biology research; $150,000 for anadromous
fish research equipment (MA) as recommended by the House;
$43,900,000 for the overall wildlife, terrestrial and
endangered species research effort as provided in fiscal year
2007; $500,000 for Great Lakes research vessel infrastructure
(WI) as recommended by the House; $500,000 to support the San
Francisco salt ponds restoration (CA) recommended by the
Senate; and $800,000 recommended by the Senate for Leetown
Science Center (WV) molecular biology research. Funds are not
provided for the Senate recommendations for the Fish and
Wildlife Service science excellence program or the Leetown
endocrine research. The National Biological Information
Infrastructure effort receives a $500,000 increase over the
request for a total of $6,849,000. The Cooperative research
units funding is $16,430,000, a $1,000,000 increase over the
request.
Enterprise Information.--The amended bill includes the
House and Senate funding recommendation of $112,120,000.
Science Support.--The amended bill includes the Senate
funding recommendation of $68,231,000.
Facilities.--The amended bill includes the House and Senate
funding recommendation of $101,553,000.
Global Climate Change Research Increase.--The amended bill
includes a general program increase of $7,500,000 instead of
$10,000,000 as proposed by the House. The funds should be
allocated for high priority research efforts, and up to
$2,500,000 should be used by the Survey to establish the
National Global Warming and Wildlife Science Center. The Survey
is directed to notify the Committees on Appropriations of its
allocation of global climate change research funds within 60
days of enactment.
Minerals Management Service
ROYALTY AND OFFSHORE MINERALS MANAGEMENT
The amended bill provides $157,202,000 for royalty and
offshore minerals management instead of $153,552,000 as
proposed by the House and $159,948,000 as proposed by the
Senate. Non-competitive alternative energy lease sales receive
increases of $2,000,000 over the request in the leasing and
environmental program and $250,000 in the regulatory program.
The leasing and environmental program is reduced $500,000 below
the budget request. The Center for Marine Resources and
Environment, MS, allocation is $900,000 as recommended by the
Senate.
The amended bill modifies language proposed by the House
concerning lease sales in the North Aleutian Basin (NAB).
Bristol Bay is home to one of the world's great fisheries;
outer continental shelf drilling must only be conducted
pursuant to all applicable environmental laws because it is
vital that outer continental shelf oil or gas drilling be
conducted only after detailed studies and information are
available and ensure safety. MMS should continue to work with
technical and scientific bodies, State and local
representatives, and industry and environmental representatives
to document state-of-the-art oil spill containment and
responses to blowouts. The Appropriations Committees also
understand that oil spill response planning and compliance is a
comprehensive program that involves input from the MMS, the
U.S. Coast Guard, the Alaska Department of Environmental
Conservation and the Aleutians East Borough to ensure that
adequate oil spill resources and capabilities are available in
the event of a release. Operators are required to have
available, without delay, sufficient quantities of dedicated
response equipment and trained response personnel necessary to
meet the worst case discharge from their offshore activities.
Before making a decision to proceed with the proposed NAB sale,
MMS will complete an anticipated 2\1/2\ to 3 year pre-sale and
NEPA process, which will include preparation of an
environmental impact statement based on the most current and
best scientific information. The MMS will use new information
obtained through its Environmental Studies program and other
available information acquired from other research programs and
studies in that region. In addition, the Appropriations
Committees direct the MMS to coordinate with the National
Marine Fisheries Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the
National Meteorological Center and to conduct a gap-analysis
literature review of all available peer-reviewed scientific
papers to determine what studies must be subjected to further
analysis, including a literature review on the impacts of oil
spills on commercial fisheries and marine mammals. The GAO
study and other House report direction are not required at this
time. The Committees agree that the MMS should develop a
research agenda in association with stakeholders, scientists,
and government administrators.
OIL SPILL RESEARCH
The amended bill provides $6,403,000 for oil spill research
as proposed by both the House and the Senate.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Bill language is included, recommended by the House and by
the Senate (in Senate section 424) and consistent with the
Administration request, to allow State oil and gas payments to
help cover administrative costs of the program. The amended
bill does not include the House recommendation to prevent
transfers of funds into the Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional
Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Research Fund.
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY
The amended bill provides $120,337,000 for regulation and
technology instead of $117,437,000 as proposed by the House and
$121,460,000 proposed by the Senate. This total includes an
indefinite appropriation estimated to be $100,000 and a total
increase above the request of $5,000,000 for the State and
Tribal regulatory programs.
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND
The amended bill provides $52,774,000 for the abandoned
mine reclamation fund as proposed by the House instead of
$52,835,000 as proposed by the Senate.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION
The amended bill includes the provision recommended by the
House and Senate allowing the transfer of title for computer
hardware, software and other technical equipment to State and
Tribal regulatory and reclamation programs.
Bureau of Indian Affairs
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
The amended bill includes $2,080,261,000 for the operation
of Indian programs instead of $2,093,545,000 as proposed by the
House and $2,046,341,000 as proposed by the Senate. This
includes $862,309,000 for tribal priority allocations instead
of $866,250,000 as proposed by the House and $838,889,000 as
proposed by the Senate. A detailed display of the funding for
all programs and activities is included in the back of the
statement for this Division.
Tribal Government.--The amended bill provides $406,198,000
for tribal government instead of $403,009,000 as proposed by
the House and $406,398,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
funding distribution follows the Senate proposal except that
the funding for the Western Shoshone Claims Distribution Act is
$300,000.
Human Services.--The amended bill provides $141,548,000
instead of $146,548,000, as proposed by the House and
$134,128,000 as proposed by the Senate. The housing improvement
program is funded at $13,830,000.
Trust: Natural Resources Management.--The amended bill
provides $149,489,000 for natural resources management instead
of $152,684,000 as proposed by the House and $147,489,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
The amended bill includes $12,062,000 for irrigation
operations and maintenance instead of $11,062,000 as proposed
by the Senate.
The amended bill includes $1,740,000 for the Washington
Timber-Fish-Wildlife program; $4,134,000 for the U.S.-Canada
Pacific Salmon Treaty; $350,000 for Lake Roosevelt Management;
$315,000 for Upper Columbia United Tribes; $600,000 for Circle
of Flight; $1,000,000 for the Inter-Tribal Bison Cooperative;
and $1,247,000 for endangered species management.
The funding provided for the Inter-Tribal Bison Cooperative
should be distributed by the cooperative to participating
tribes and not used for administrative expenses.
Trust: Real Estate Services.--The amended bill includes
$150,722,000 as proposed by the House instead of $151,722,000
as proposed by the Senate.
Education.--The amended bill includes $700,540,000 instead
of $699,040,000 as proposed by the House and $685,540,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
This includes $487,500,000 for elementary education;
$75,803,000 for other elementary and secondary programs;
$113,520,000 for post secondary programs; and $23,717,000 for
education management.
The funding for elementary education should follow the
distribution as proposed by the House. The funding for other
elementary and secondary programs includes $14,000,000 for
Johnson O'Malley Education Assistance Grants. The funding for
post secondary programs includes $57,721,000 for tribal
colleges and universities and $30,050,000 for scholarships and
adult education. Also included is $2,000,000 for the Navajo
Technical College and $4,000,000 for the United Tribes
Technical College within the tribal technical colleges program
as proposed by the Senate.
Public Safety and Justice.--The amended bill includes
$247,518,000 instead of $250,018,000 as proposed by the House
and $237,818,000 as proposed by the Senate.
This funds law enforcement at $231,753,000, or proposed by
the House, tribal courts at $14,565,000, and the fire
protection program at $1,200,000.
Methamphetamine use, violence against women, and other
serious crimes have reached epidemic levels in certain areas of
Indian country. The Bureau is directed to use all available
existing authorities to increase the level of law enforcement
and criminal prosecution in Indian Country, particularly on
remote reservations, including locality pay, retention bonuses
and temporary housing for officers. Substantial increases are
included for Tribal law enforcement and the Secretary is
directed to allocate these additional funds outside the normal
allocation methods to reach the areas with the greatest need,
particularly remote reservations.
Community and Economic Development.--The amended bill
includes $40,061,000 for community and economic development
instead of $47,339,000 as proposed by the House and $39,061,000
as proposed by the Senate.
This includes $8,051,000 for job placement and training,
$4,603,000 for economic development, $25,981,000 for road
maintenance and $1,426,000 for Community Development oversight.
Within the increase for economic development funding there is
$600,000 for general development programs and $400,000 for the
National Ironworkers Training Program.
Executive Direction and Administrative Services.--The
amended bill includes $244,185,000 as proposed by both the
House and the Senate.
CONSTRUCTION
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
The amended bill includes $206,983,000 for construction
instead of $207,983,000 as proposed by the House and
$179,012,000 as proposed by the Senate. This includes
$145,200,000 for education construction; $14,621,000 for public
safety and justice construction; $38,916,000 for resources
management construction; $2,114,000 for general administration;
and $6,132,000 for construction management. Funding
distribution follows the House proposal except that irrigation
rehabilitation funding is reduced by $1,000,000.
The Bureau's plan for completing existing education school
construction and alleviating current construction shortfalls
before beginning new school construction projects is approved.
INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIMS SETTLEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO
INDIANS
The amended bill includes $34,069,000 as proposed by the
Senate instead of $39,136,000 as proposed by the House. The Nez
Perce/Snake River settlement is partially funded in the Fish
and Wildlife Service, Cooperative Endangered Species
Conservation Fund as proposed by the Senate rather than in this
account as proposed by the House.
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT
The amended bill includes $6,276,000 for the Indian
Guaranteed Loan Program Account as proposed by both the House
and the Senate.
Departmental Offices
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
The amended bill provides $101,151,000 for salaries and
expenses of the Office of the Secretary instead of $107,413,000
proposed by the House and $102,151,000 proposed by the Senate.
Funding for the financial and business management system (FBMS)
is provided in the working capital fund as proposed by the
Senate and not in this account. Senate proposed language
regarding the working capital fund has been included in the
Working Capital Fund appropriation. A total of $2,000,000 is
provided for the Eisenhower Memorial Commission in a separate
appropriation in Title III and not in this account as proposed
by the Senate or within the National Park Service as proposed
by the House.
INSULAR AFFAIRS
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES
The amended bill provides $78,613,000 for Assistance to
Territories instead of $78,292,000 as proposed by the House and
$77,821,000 as proposed by the Senate. Senate recommendations
for technical assistance are funded, including $300,000 for
judicial and court education; $750,000 for population and
workforce surveys of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas;
$1,000,000 for the Marshall Islands health care program and
$850,000 for the Prior Services Benefits Trust Fund. Funding
for the coral reef initiative follows the House recommendation
of $995,000. Funds shall be made available for grants to the
Pacific Basin Development Council and for the Close Up
Foundation.
The amended bill agrees with the House report concerning
the requirement that the Office of Insular Affairs and the
Secretary of the Interior work with all territorial
governmental bodies and the Congressional Delegate for American
Samoa to be sure that the highest priority construction
projects receive the covenant funding and that an open,
transparent, and fair process be implemented in selecting
capital improvement projects in American Samoa. In addition,
the Department should carefully consider the need for water
system improvements, such as Ofu-Olosega and Ta'u-Faleasao
water systems in Manu'a.
COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION
The amended bill provides $5,362,000 for the Compact of
Free Association as proposed by the House and the Senate.
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
The amended bill provides $59,250,000 for the Office of the
Solicitor as proposed by the House instead of $59,449,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
The amended bill provides $44,572,000 for the Office of
Inspector General instead of $43,822,000 as proposed by the
House and $45,572,000 proposed by the Senate. Changes to the
Administration request include increases of $1,250,000 for
audits, $750,000 for investigations and $250,000 for
administrative services/ information management. These
increases are to support the Inspector General to develop a
permanent capability for auditing and investigating outer
continental shelf oil and gas royalty and royalty-in-kind
programs.
OFFICE OF SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS
The amended bill includes $182,331,000 for Federal trust
programs instead of $182,542,000 as proposed by the House and
$185,947,000 as proposed by the Senate. This includes
$180,141,000 for Program operations, support, and improvements
and $2,190,000 for executive direction.
Bill Language.--The amended bill includes bill language
limiting the total amount of funding available for historical
accounting activities at $56,384,000.
INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION
The amended bill includes $10,000,000 for Indian land
consolidation programs as proposed by both the House and the
Senate.
DEPARTMENT-WIDE PROGRAMS
PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES
The amended bill provides $232,528,000 for payments in lieu
of taxes as proposed by the Senate instead of $252,676,000 as
proposed by the House and $190,000,000 requested by the
Administration.
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND
The amended bill provides $9,954,000 for the central
hazardous materials fund as proposed by the House and the
Senate.
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND RESTORATION
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND
The amended bill includes $6,300,000 for the natural
resource damage assessment fund as proposed by the Senate
instead of $6,224,000 as proposed by the House.
WORKING CAPITAL FUND
The amended bill provides $40,727,000 for the financial and
business management system (FBMS) in the working capital fund
instead of $37,069,000 as proposed by the Senate. This funds
project deployment for the FBMS, replacing amounts requested in
each of the bureaus, which this amended bill does not provide.
The House proposed no specific funding for this account but did
propose funding within the Office of the Secretary account,
which this amended bill does not provide. New bill language is
included limiting establishment of certain reserve accounts in
the working capital fund; this item was proposed by the Senate
under the Office of the Secretary heading.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
The amended bill does not include the bill language
proposed by the Senate under this heading regarding the working
capital fund and reimbursable support agreements. The annual
justification for Department-wide programs should describe
Working Capital Fund charges to bureaus and offices, including
methodologies on which charges are based. Furthermore,
departures from Working Capital Fund estimates in the budgets
should be presented to the Appropriations Committees for
approval and annual reports should be provided to the
Committees on reimbursable support agreements between Office of
the Secretary and National Business Center and the Bureaus and
offices of the Department, including the amounts billed
pursuant to such agreements.
General Provisions, Department of the Interior
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
Sec. 101: Retains a provision in section 101 of both the
House and Senate bills, providing Secretarial authority to
transfer program funds for expenditures in cases of emergency.
Sec. 102: Retains a provision in section 102 of both the
House and Senate bills, providing for expenditure or transfer
of funds by the Secretary in the event of actual or potential
emergencies including forest fires, range fires, earthquakes,
floods, volcanic eruptions, storms, oil spills, grasshopper and
Mormon cricket outbreaks, and surface mine reclamation
emergencies.
Sec. 103: Modifies a provision in section 103 of both the
House and Senate bills, continuing a provision providing for
use of appropriated funds for purchase and replacement of motor
vehicles, contracts, rental cars and aircraft, certain library
memberships, and certain telephone expenses.
Sec. 104: Retains identical provision in both the House and
Senate bills, continuing provisions prohibiting the expenditure
of funds for Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leasing activities
in the areas of northern, central, and southern California; the
North Atlantic; Washington and Oregon; and the eastern Gulf of
Mexico south of 26 degrees north latitude and east of 86
degrees west longitude.
Sec. 105: Retains identical provision in both the House and
Senate bills, continuing provisions prohibiting the expenditure
of funds for Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leasing activities
in the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic planning areas.
Sec. 106: Retains Senate language in section 106 continuing
a provision permitting the transfer of funds between the Bureau
of Indian Affairs and the Office of Special Trustee for
American Indians.
Sec. 107: Retains Senate language in section 107 continuing
a provision permitting the redistribution of tribal priority
allocation and tribal base funds to alleviate funding
inequities.
Sec. 108: Retains House language in section 108 continuing
a provision permitting the conveyance of the Twin Cities
Research Center of the former Bureau of Mines for the benefit
of the National Wildlife Refuge System.
Sec. 109: Retains a provision in section 109 of the House
bill making permanent a provision authorizing the Secretary of
the Interior to use helicopters or motor vehicles to capture
and transport horses and burros at the Sheldon and Hart
National Wildlife Refuges. The Senate bill did not make the
provision permanent.
Sec. 110: Retains an identical provision in section 113 of
both the House and Senate bills, continuing a provision
limiting compensation for the Special Master and Court Monitor
appointed by the Court in Cobell v. Kempthorne to 200 percent
of the highest Senior Executive Service rate of pay.
Sec. 111: Retains an identical provision in section 111 of
the House bill and section 111 of the Senate bill, continuing a
provision allowing the Secretary to pay private attorney fees
for employees and former employees incurred in connection with
Cobell v. Kempthorne.
Sec. 112. Retains a provision contained in section 112 of
the Senate bill, continuing a provision prohibiting the use of
funds to study or implement a plan to drain or reduce water
levels in Lake Powell.
Sec. 113: Retains a provision in section 112 of the House
bill dealing with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's
responsibilities for mass marking of salmonid stocks. The
Senate had no similar provision.
Sec. 114: Retains a provision contained in section 113 of
both the House and Senate bill, continuing a provision making
funds available to the tribes within the California Tribal
Trust Reform Consortium and others on the same basis as funds
were distributed in fiscal year 2003 and separates this
demonstration project from the Department of the Interior's
trust reform organization.
Sec. 115: Retains an identical provision in the House and
Senate bills, continuing a provision authorizing the Secretary
of the Interior to acquire lands for the operation and
maintenance of facilities in support of transportation of
visitors to Ellis, Governors, and Liberty Islands.
Sec. 116: Retains a provision contained in section 114 of
the Senate bill, continuing a provision dealing with grazing
permits in the Jarbidge field office of the Bureau of Land
Management.
Sec. 117: Includes a provision contained in section 118 of
the Senate bill establishing a BLM pilot program for conducting
mineral lease sales through methods other than oral bidding.
Sec. 118: Includes a new provision directing the Fish and
Wildlife Service to relocate certain administrative facilities
in Washington State in order to accommodate a highway project.
Sec. 119: Retains a provision contained in section 121 of
the Senate bill limiting funding for any proposal to store
water, approve right-of-way, or similar authorizations on the
Mojave National Preserve or the Needles Field Office of the
Bureau of Land Management.
Sec. 120: Retains a provision contained in section 122 of
the Senate bill permanently amending the authorizing language
for the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada, to
allow appropriated or donated funds to be used to acquire lands
owned by the State of Nevada or a political subdivision within
the NCA.
Sec. 121: Modifies a provision contained in section 123 of
the Senate bill amending the Minerals Management Service
authorizing language to allow it to accept contributions to
complete environmental documents prior to energy exploration
and production. This authorization is effective for fiscal year
2008 only.
Sec. 122: Retains a provision contained in section 124 of
the Senate bill repealing Section 1077(c) of P.L. 109-364 that
prohibited the National Park Service from implementing an
approved settlement on Santa Rosa Island, CA.
Sec. 123: Retains a provision contained in section 125 of
the Senate bill amending section 144 of Division E of P.L. 108-
447 to correct an incorrect map date referenced in the transfer
of Bureau of Land Management land to the Veterans
Administration in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
Sec. 124: Retains a provision contained in section 126 of
the Senate bill amending Section 105(f)(1)(B) of the Compact of
Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 to correct an incorrect
date in order to prevent the premature expiration of health,
education, and labor aid programs for the Republic of Palau.
Sec. 125: Modifies a provision contained in section 128 of
the Senate bill permitting the Secretary to enter into
cooperative agreements with certain parties. This language
allows cooperative agreements with governments and non-profit
partners to be awarded non-competitively.
Sec. 126: Retains a provision contained in section 129 of
the Senate bill transferring certain Bureau of Reclamation
lands to the Upper Klamath National Wildlife Refuge with
certain conditions.
Sec. 127: Modifies a provision contained in section 130 of
the Senate bill expanding the boundary of Shiloh National
Military Park in Tennessee and Mississippi.
Sec. 128: Retains a provision contained in section 131 of
the Senate bill providing the National Park Service with the
authority to acquire land at the Flight 93 crash site, PA, for
the purposes of a memorial.
Sec. 129: Retains a provision contained in section 132 of
the Senate bill concerning concessionaire rights at Denali
National Park.
Sec. 130: Includes a new provision correcting a technical
error in the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of
1988.
Sec. 131: Includes a new provision allowing certain funds
provided for land acquisition at the Shenandoah Valley
Battlefield NHD and Ice Age NST to be granted to a State, a
local government, or any other land management entity.
Sec. 132: Includes a new provision allowing certain funds
provided for land acquisition on Cat Island, which is located
within the Gulf Islands National Seashore, to be granted to the
State of Mississippi.
Sec. 133: Includes a new provision expanding the boundary
of Mesa Verde National Park.
Sec. 134: Retains a provision contained in section 119 of
the Senate bill concerning concessionaire rights at Glacier Bay
National Park.
Sec. 135: Includes a new provision making technical
corrections related to a fiscal year 2006 appropriation for the
Hard Bargain Farm National Park Service site, MD.
The amended bill does not include a provision contained in
House section 115 which limits funding for Outer Continental
Shelf leasing where such existing leases are not subject to
limitations on royalty relief based on market price. The
Appropriations Committees remain committed to this issue and
expect the authorizing committees with jurisdiction to complete
legislative action on this vital matter.
The amended bill does not include language contained in
Section 116 of the Senate bill concerning winter use rules at
Yellowstone National Park and surrounding facilities. The
Committees are aware that the National Park Service issued a
Record of Decision on winter use management for the parks on
November 20, 2007, with implementing regulations to be issued
shortly thereafter. The Committees are also aware of two
lawsuits that have been filed which challenge the final
environmental impact statement and the Record of Decision and
that these matters will be litigated in the Federal courts. It
should be noted that the legal challenges did not request a
preliminary injunction, thereby allowing local operations to
continue for the current 2007-2008 winter season. The
Committees believe this to be in the best interest of all
concerned parties.
The amended bill does not include language contained in
Section 117 of the Senate bill concerning certain mining
claims.
The amended bill does not include the provision contained
in section 120 of the Senate bill limiting funding for the
importation of polar bear parts taken in sport hunts.
The amended bill does not include language contained in
Section 127 of the Senate bill concerning the Upper Snake River
Basin Biological Opinion on salmon and steelhead species.
TITLE II--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
The amended bill includes $7,579,819,000 for the
Environmental Protection Agency, instead of $8,090,915,000 as
proposed by the House and $7,772,928,000 as proposed by the
Senate. In addition, the General Provisions section includes a
total of $11,000,000 as transfers for two remediation projects.
The allocation of the total for the Agency, by account, program
area, and where applicable by program-project and/or activity,
is detailed on the table at the end of this Division.
Reprogrammings: The Environmental Protection Agency is held
to the bill-wide reprogramming limitation of $1,000,000, as
recommended by the House. The limitation will apply to the
program areas specified in the detailed table at the end of
Division F, as proposed by the House. However, where a specific
level for program-project or activity within a program area is
cited, either in the detailed table or the explanatory
statement below, the reprogramming limitation will apply at
that level.
The Agency must provide better information in its
Congressional Budget Justification and is directed to include
those improvements cited in House Report 110-187. In addition,
the Justification should contain a comprehensive list of
programs which have been eliminated in the request.
Fixed Costs: An additional $7,878,000 has been provided in
five of the Agency's accounts to cover the fixed personnel
costs and to ensure staffing levels consistent with the prior
year. This increase is not spread by program area, as proposed
by the Senate. Rather, a total increase for each account is
provided, as indicated on the detailed table at the end of this
Division. The Agency is directed to spread the funds as needed
and submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations by
March 1, 2008 on the allocation of these funds by program area
and program-project.
Science and Technology
The amended bill provides $772,129,000 for Science and
Technology, instead of $783,269,000 as proposed by the House
and $772,530,000 as proposed by the Senate. The table at the
end of this Division allocates the total for this account by
program area. The Agency is further directed to allocate the
funds as follows:
Air Toxics and Quality: $3,950,000 for the CASTNET program,
an increase of $1,000,000 over the request;
$1,400,000 to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control
District to complete the Central California Ozone Study;
An additional $2,000,000 for ongoing work on Greenhouse Gas
Regulations dealing with renewable or alternative fuels and
vehicle efficiency.
Climate Protection Program: $18,604,000 for the Clean
Automotive Technology Program, as proposed by the House.
Homeland Security: $11,884,000 for the Water Security
Initiative, as proposed by the Senate and $10,000,000 less than
proposed by the House. The Agency has carried forward into
fiscal year 2008 a large unobligated balance and will fund new
pilots in fiscal year 2008. Therefore, the funding for
additional pilots has been reduced until the Agency moves
forward with the projects already funded. The Agency is
directed to provide a report on the status, accomplishments,
and future schedule for the Water Security Initiative. The
report should be included as part of the Agency's FY 2009
Congressional Budget Justification. $2,000,000 for the Safe
Buildings program, as proposed by both the House and the
Senate.
The $1,000,000 general reduction proposed by the House is
not included.
Operations and Administration: The $3,884,000 reduction
proposed by the House is not included.
Research: Clean Air: $20,000,000 for Global Change
Research, instead of $33,308,000 proposed by the House and
$18,619,000 proposed by the Senate. The increase is intended to
fund research in support of future rulemaking efforts on
Greenhouse Gases. The Agency is urged to award a portion of
these funds through the STAR grant program.
Research: Clean Water: An additional $1,000,000 for
research on the human health effects and environmental impacts
of carbon storage and sequestration to better inform regulatory
decision making.
Research: Congressional Priorities: $5,400,000, instead of
$7,000,000 as proposed by the Senate, for the following high
priority projects:
$2,100,000--Water Environment Research Foundation
(WERF);
$1,725,000--American Water Works Research Foundation
(AWWRF)
$1,050,000--Southwest Consortium for Environmental
Research and Policy (SCERP)
$525,000--Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research
Research: Extramural Research Grants: Funds are not
included for a new extramural research grant program, as
proposed by the Senate.
Research: Human Health and Ecosystems: $38,856,000 for
Human Health Risk Assessment;
$12,327,000 for Research: Computational Toxicology;
$10,481,000 for Research: Endocrine Disruptors;
$10,000,000 for Research: Fellowships: The increase above
the request is to be used for STAR fellowships.
$155,046,000 for Research: Human Health and Ecosystems,
which is an increase of $10,000,000 above the request. From
within the amount provided, the Agency is directed to allocate
$6,000,000 to restore basic human health research and
$4,000,000 to restore the proposed reduction to the EMAP
program.
The increases to these programs include the
Administration's request for a $6,098,000 increase to Human
Health Risk Assessment. In recognition of these increases, the
Agency is directed to follow the language in House Report 110-
187 on the following issues:
Trichloroethylene
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH)
The mineral Trona
In addition, the Agency is urged to report to Congress on
the PAH study referenced in the House Report and also to
develop an updated health standard for ingested hexavalent
chromium, which then should be used to revise the Maximum
Contaminant Level Goal as soon as possible.
In addition:
1. The Agency is directed to report on the short term
results and long term assessment plans to reduce lab support
costs Agency-wide.
2. The general reduction to this account, as proposed by
the House, is not included.
3. It is imperative that EPA issue its decision on the
December, 2005 waiver application submitted by the State of
California to enact vehicle emission standards to reduce
greenhouse gases by 30 percent in 2016 by no later than
December 31, 2007. The Committees on Appropriations are
dismayed that the EPA Administrator has unreasonably delayed
his decision on the petition and forced the State of California
to file suit in order to compel a decision. If no decision is
made by that date, the Agency is directed to provide a report
detailing why there is further delay, as proposed by the House.
Further, the Committees on Appropriations are concerned by
reports that officials at other Federal agencies, including the
Department of Transportation and the White House Office of
Environmental Quality, may have engaged in inappropriate
lobbying efforts to deny the waiver. The decision on
California's waiver petition must be made on the petition's
legal and technical merits and the approval process must not be
politicized in any way.
CLIMATE CHANGE COMMISSION
The amended bill does not include the House proposal to
fund a new Climate Change Commission.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT
The amended bill provides $2,364,854,000 for Environmental
Programs and Management, instead of $2,370,582,000 as proposed
by the House and $2,384,121,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
table at the end of this Division allocates the total for this
account by program area. The Agency is further directed to
allocate the funds as follows:
Air Toxics and Quality: $700,000 to restore the Sunwise
program to prior year levels.
Brownfields: $527,000 above the request to restore the
Smart Growth program to prior year levels.
Climate Protection Program: $49,000,000 for the Energy Star
program;
$4,436,000 for the Methane to Markets program;
$3,500,000 within the Federal Support Air Quality
Management program for the Agency to use its existing authority
under the Clean Air Act to develop and publish a rule requiring
mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions above
appropriate thresholds in all sectors of the economy. Bill
language to this effect is provided in the administrative
provisions section. The Agency is directed to publish a draft
rule no later than nine months after the date of enactment of
this Act, and a final rule no later than 18 months after the
date of enactment of this Act. The Agency is further directed
to include in its rule reporting of emissions resulting from
upstream production and downstream sources, to the extent that
the Administrator deems it appropriate. The Administrator shall
determine appropriate thresholds of emissions above which
reporting is required, and how frequently reports shall be
submitted to EPA. The Administrator shall have discretion to
use existing reporting requirements for electric generating
units under Section 821 of the Clean Air Act, and;
$250,000 for the Agency to modify existing programs to
accommodate quality assurance and quality control for emissions
submitted via and regulated by the established northeastern
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), in the same manner
as set forth under Title IV of the Clean Air Act.
Funding is not included for the Asia-Pacific Partnership
program. The general increase for climate protection programs,
as proposed by the House, is also not included.
Compliance: $28,066,000 for Compliance Assistance Centers;
$9,786,000 for Compliance Incentives;
$90,128,000 for Compliance Monitoring.
Enforcement: $6,500,000 for Environmental Justice
programs;
$7,000,000 for a combined general increase for Civil and
Criminal Enforcement to be allocated between the two at the
Agency's discretion.
Environmental Protection/Congressional Priorities: The
amended bill includes $13,650,000 for the following high
priority projects, instead of $19,500,000, as proposed by the
Senate:
$7,700,000--National Rural Water Association (NRWA);
$2,800,000--Small Public Water System Technology
Centers, as listed in Senate Report 110-91, with each
center receiving $350,000;
$2,450,000--Rural Community Assistance Partnership
(RCAP);
$700,000--Water Systems Council Wellcare.
Environmental Protection/Demonstration Project Competitive
Grants: Funds are not included for a new competitive grant
program, as proposed by the Senate.
Geographic Programs: The amended bill includes $99,025,000
to be allocated as follows:
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Program FY 2008 Amount
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Chesapeake Bay....................................... 31,000,000
Great Lakes.......................................... 22,000,000
Puget Sound.......................................... 20,000,000
San Francisco Bay.................................... 5,000,000
Long Island Sound.................................... 5,000,000
Gulf of Mexico....................................... 5,700,000
Lake Champlain....................................... 2,750,000
Lake Pontchartrain................................... 978,000
Community Action for a Renewed Env................... 3,448,000
Regional Administrator's Initiatives................. 0
Other Geographic Activities.......................... 3,149,000
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Directives for specific geographic programs are as follows:
1. Chesapeake Bay Program: $31,000,000 for this program,
instead of $30,000,000 proposed by the House and $32,812,000
proposed by the Senate. The Agency is directed to allocate the
Chesapeake Bay funding as follows:
$21,000,000 for base programs;
$8,000,000 for Targeted Watershed Grants;
$2,000,000 for Small Watershed Grants.
The Agency is further directed to implement immediately all
of the recommendations contained in the October, 2005
Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. Of the funds
provided to the Bay Program and the Office of the Administrator
of EPA, $5,000,000 in administrative funds shall not become
available until 60 days after the EPA Administrator submits a
report to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees and to
the Comptroller General stating, with supporting evidence, that
EPA has implemented the recommendations contained in the GAO
report.
In addition, the Agency is directed to develop a Chesapeake
Bay action plan for the remaining years of the Chesapeake 2000
Agreement. This plan must: (1) clearly articulate realistic
targets the Chesapeake Bay Program expects to achieve in each
of the remaining years; (2) describe the actual activities the
Chesapeake Bay Program will implement in each year to achieve
these annual targets; (3) identify the amount and source of
funding that will be used to accomplish each of these
activities; and, (4) describe the process the Chesapeake Bay
Program will use to track and measure the progress of these
actions. Finally, the GAO is directed to conduct periodic
performance assessments of progress made on this action plan.
2. Puget Sound: Funds are included for continued
development and implementation of the Puget Sound 2020 Action
Agenda. These funds provide for grants to the Section 320
designated state agency, as well as grants, contracts and
support for other aspects of the Action Agenda.
3. San Francisco Bay Watersheds: As directed in the Senate
Report 110-91, funds are provided for new partnership
competitive grants for protection and restoration of San
Francisco Bay watersheds located in the Bay area. Matching
funds of no less than 25 percent shall be required, and
priority shall be given to organizations that emphasize the
ability to leverage additional public and private funds.
4. Regional Administrator's Initiatives: Funds are not
included for this program. The Agency is directed to implement
the directives for this program included in House Report 110-
187, should future budgets propose funds for this program, and
report to the Committees on Appropriations on the use of prior
year funds by March 1, 2008.
Indoor Air: An additional $500,000 above the request for
the Reduced Risks from Indoor Air program.
Information Exchange/Outreach: $9,000,000 for the
Environmental Education Program; $6,241,000 for Children and
Other Sensitive Populations. For the Environmental Education
funds, the Agency is directed to apply the distribution formula
in the authorizing statute to the entire amount provided.
International Programs: $5,500,000 for the US/Mexico Border
Program.
IT/Data Management/Security: The amended bill includes
$1,000,000 above the request to restore the network of EPA
libraries recently closed or consolidated by the
Administration, instead of $2,000,000 as proposed by the
Senate. The Agency is directed to submit a report to the
Committees on Appropriations regarding actions it will take to
restore publicly available libraries to provide environmental
information and data to each EPA region within 90 days of
enactment of this Act.
Legal/Science/Regulatory/Economic Review: $40,106,000 for
Legal Advice: Environmental Program;
$14,246,000 for Legal Advice: Support Program;
$21,511,000 for Regulatory Innovation;
$16,551,000 for Regulatory/Economic-Management and
Analysis.
Of the funds provided for Regulatory Innovation, the Agency
is directed to provide at least $1,015,000 to the Smart Growth
program to restore it to prior year levels.
Operations and Administration: $28,992,000 for Acquisition
Management;
$301,728,000 for Facilities Infrastructure and Operations,
which reflects a reduction to the Agency's rent budget. The
general reduction proposed by the House is not included.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA): Because
Congress has not authorized fees necessary to administer an
electronic manifest for hazardous waste, the requested
$4,000,000 for the manifest is not provided. Consistent with
language in House Report 110-187, the Agency is directed to use
a portion of the increase over the prior fiscal year to
expedite completion of the final rule on disposal of industrial
wipes and to report to the Committees on Appropriations by
March 1, 2008, on the status of its efforts.
Toxics Risk Review and Prevention: $12,240,000, an increase
of $1,225,000 above the request, for the High Production Volume
Challenge (HPVC) and Voluntary Children's Chemical Evaluation
Program (VCCEP), as proposed by both the House and Senate.
$8,800,000 for Endocrine Disruptors, as proposed by the
Senate. The Agency is directed to follow the report language on
this subject in both the House and Senate Reports;
$16,621,000 for Pollution Prevention, as proposed by the
Senate.
Water: Ecosystems: $35,000,000 for the Great Lakes Legacy
Act, as proposed by the Senate and instead of $37,000,000
proposed by the House.
$27,203,000 for National Estuary Program/Coastal Waterways,
as proposed by the House. The Agency is directed to allot
$16,832,000 of these funds to the National Estuary Section 320
grant program, consistent with the House recommendation.
Water: Human Health Protection: The amount provided
includes an additional $1,000,000 above the request for the
Agency's work on the Underground Injection Control, Carbon
Sequestration Rule. Funding for rural water programs is
provided in the Environmental Protection/Congressional
Priorities program area, as proposed by the Senate, and not as
a competitive program here, as proposed by the House.
In addition:
1. The Agency is directed to fund the Smart Growth program
at the fiscal year 2007 level in all program-projects which
support the program. Based on information provided to the
Committees, this amount should be no less than $1,542,000 in
the EPM Account.
2. The Agency is directed to submit a report on
Environmental Justice, consistent with the directive in House
Report 110-187.
3. Consistent with Senate Report 110-91, the Agency is
urged to adopt final pesticide container recycling regulations
within 180 days of enactment of this Act.
4. While the Agency is not directed to implement the
WaterISAC program through a grant to the Association of
Metropolitan Water Agencies, as outlined in Senate Report 110-
91, given AMWA's experience, the Agency is encouraged to
consider this option.
5. The general reduction to this account, as proposed by
the House, is not included.
6. The Agency was mandated by Congress in 1992 to adopt a
rule pursuant to 15 USC 2692(c)(3) before October 28, 1996, to
protect children from lead poisoning caused by renovation or
remodeling activities in target housing, public buildings
constructed before 1978, and commercial buildings that create
lead-based paint hazards. More than 10 years after the
deadline, EPA has not promulgated regulations, putting
thousands of children at risk of the irreversible damage of
lead poisoning. The EPA Administrator is directed to finalize
the rule by March 31, 2008, and is urged to ensure that the
rule is no less protective of children than the Lead-Safe
Housing Rule adopted by the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development at 24 CFR Part 35 in 1999.
7. The Committees on Appropriations are aware of concerns
about the potential environmental and health impacts of
proposed new coal-fired power plants in the Central Texas
region. The Government Accountability Office is requested to
review the adequacy under the Clean Air Act of the
determinations about such impacts carried out by the
Environmental Protection Agency directly and as delegated to
the State of Texas. The report should also include information
on current electric power supply and demand in the region
including fuel diversity and consumer electricity costs.
8. The Committees on Appropriations are aware of concerns
about the classification of Great Basin National Park as a
Class II rather than as a Class I area under the provisions of
the Clean Air Act (title 42, Chapter 85, Subpart 1, Part C).
The Government Accountability Office is requested to review
whether the current classification of the Park is adequate to
ensure long-term protection of air quality and visibility in
the Park under the Environmental Protection Agency's direct and
delegated authorities.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
The amended bill provides $41,750,000 for the Office of the
Inspector General account, instead of $43,500,000 as proposed
by the House and $40,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
table at the end of this Division allocates the total for this
account by program area.
Audits, Evaluations, and Investigations: $41,750,000 for
general IG work, instead of $43,500,000 proposed by the House
and $40,000,000 proposed by the Senate. This $3,742,000
increase above the request is provided to ensure a consistent
staffing level within the Office of the Inspector General,
while providing some flexibility between this account and the
amount transferred from the Superfund account. None of the
funds provided are to be used for buyouts associated with
staffing reductions. The Inspector General is directed to
submit quarterly staffing reports to the Committees on
Appropriations.
The amended bill provides that $11,668,000 be paid to this
account from the Hazardous Substance Superfund Account. Bill
language in Title III continues the mandate that the Agency's
Inspector General serve that function for the Chemical Safety
and Hazard Investigations Board.
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
The amended bill provides $34,801,000, the same as both the
House and the Senate. The table at the end of this Division
allocates the total for this account by program area.
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
The amended bill provides $1,273,871,000 for the Hazardous
Substance Superfund, instead of $1,272,008,000 as proposed by
the House and $1,274,643,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
table at the end of this Division allocates the total for this
account by program area. The Agency is further directed to
allocate the funds as follows:
Audits, Evaluations, and Investigations: The amended bill
includes $11,668,000 to be paid from this account to the Office
of the Inspector General account, instead of $10,000,000
proposed by the House and $13,337,000 proposed by the Senate.
This $4,519,000 increase above the request is provided to
ensure a consistent staffing level within the Office of the
Inspector General, while providing some flexibility between
this account and the Office of the Inspector General account.
None of the funds provided to the Inspector General from this
account are to be used for buyouts associated with staffing
reductions.
Enforcement: $167,000,000 for Superfund Enforcement, of
which $26,000,000 is directed to the Interagency Agreement with
the Department of Justice;
$9,843,000 for Federal Facility Enforcement;
$ 3,802,000 for Forensics Support.
Legal/Science/Regulatory/Economic Review: $750,000 for the
Legal Advice: Environmental program.
Superfund Cleanup: $192,880,000 for Superfund: Emergency
Response and Removal;
$9,318,000 for Superfund: EPA Emergency Preparedness;
$31,879,000 for Superfund: Federal Facilities;
$600,000,000 for Superfund: Remedial;
$6,575,000 for Superfund: Support to Other Federal
Agencies.
Bill Language: Language is included to provide up to
$1,273,871,000 as the maximum payment from general revenues for
Superfund, instead of $1,272,008,000 as proposed by the House
and $1,274,643,000 as proposed by the Senate. Language is also
included to pay from this account, $11,668,000 to the Office of
Inspector General account and $26,126,000 to the Science and
Technology account.
The following reports should be submitted to the Committees
on Appropriations no later than March 1, 2008:
1. The report on Army Corps of Engineers oversight of
Superfund Cleanups, as outlined in House Report 110-187.
2. The report on Superfund Alternative Sites, as outlined
in House Report 110-187.
3. The report on Human Health Risks, as outlined in Senate
Report 110-91.
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TRUST FUND PROGRAM
The amended bill provides $107,493,000 for the Leaking
Underground Storage Tank Account, instead of $117,961,000 as
proposed by the House and $72,493,000 as proposed by the
Senate. The amended bill includes the House proposal to fund
Underground Storage Tank grants through this account instead of
through the State and Tribal Assistance Grants account, as
proposed by the Senate. This is consistent with the Energy
Policy Act of 2005 and the Agency is expected to request future
funding through the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Program
account. The table at the end of this Division allocates the
total for this account by program area. The Agency is further
directed to allocate the funds as follows:
Underground Storage Tanks (LUST / UST): $10,558,000 for the
LUST/UST program;
$62,207,000 for the LUST Cooperative Agreements, instead of
$68,207,000 proposed by the House and $58,207,000 proposed by
the Senate;
$31,000,000 for the Underground Storage Tank Grants,
authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, instead of
$35,500,000 proposed by the House and $22,500,000 proposed by
the Senate in the State and Tribal Assistance Grants account.
Bill Language: The amended bill includes language proposed
by the House which clarifies that $76,493,000 is for activities
authorized by section 9003(h) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act,
and thus subject to the 80 percent set-aside requirement for
state cooperative agreements. The language also clarifies that
the remaining funds, $31,000,000, is available for the
activities authorized by the 2005 Energy Policy Act. In
addition, bill language is included to authorize Tribal grants
for those same functions. The amended bill does not accept the
President's proposed language to amend the Energy Policy Act to
change the types and frequency of state inspections.
OIL SPILL RESPONSE
The amended bill provides $17,326,000 for oil spill
response, instead of $17,280,000 as proposed by the House and
$17,487,000 as proposed by the Senate. The table at the end of
this Division allocates the total for this account by program
area.
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS
The amended bill provides $2,972,595,000 for state and
tribal assistance grants, instead of $3,406,514,000 as proposed
by the House and $3,181,853,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
table at the end of this Division allocates the total for this
account by program area. In addition, the Agency is further
directed to:
Infrastructure Assistance:
1. Mexico Border: Of the funds provided for this program,
$5,000,000 is directed to the El Paso and Brownsville projects
funded in prior years. The Agency is directed to report to the
Committees on Appropriation on a proposed distribution of these
funds between the two projects. The Agency further is directed
to report to the Committees on Appropriations by May 1, 2008,
on actions taken to reform the program and report quarterly on
unobligated and unliquidated balances.
2. Diesel Emission Reduction Grants: The amended bill
reflects the House recommendation to make Diesel Emission
Reduction Act (DERA) grants available to all areas, not just
those that are currently not in attainment with the national
ambient air quality standards. Noted, however, is the
importance of continuing to target limited Federal diesel
emission reduction funds to areas that face the worst air
quality and the greatest risk to public health. The Agency is
urged to develop an allocation methodology for DERA funds
consistent with the underlying authorizing statute which gives
priority to non-attainment areas as well as other important
priorities to address the overall emission reduction needs of
the Nation.
3. California Diesel Emission Reduction Projects: The
amended bill includes $10,000,000 for this program, instead of
$15,000,000 proposed by the Senate. The funds should be divided
equally between the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control
District and the South Coast Air Management District, with each
district receiving $5,000,000. Further, the Agency is directed
to follow the language in Senate Report 110-91 governing this
program.
STAG Infrastructure Grants / Congressional Priorities: The
amended bill provides $135,000,000 for the following projects:
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State Project Amount
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1. AK.......................... The City of Kenai for $300,000
water treatment
project.
2. AK.......................... The City of Kodiak for 500,000
water and sewer
improvements project.
3. AK.......................... The City of Wrangell 550,000
for water and sewer
upgrade project.
4. AK.......................... The City of Ketchikan 550,000
for water and sewer
upgrade project.
5. AL.......................... The Town of Eva for 300,000
wastewater treatment
facility upgrade
project.
6. AL.......................... The Town of Somerville 384,000
for wastewater
construction project.
7. AL.......................... The City of Clanton for 1,084,000
the Water Treatment
Plant Upgrade Project.
8. AL.......................... Jackson County for 132,000
wastewater and
drinking water
infrastructure project.
9. AL.......................... The City of Glencoe for 500,000
Storm Drainage and
Sewer Repairs.
10. AL......................... The City of Muscle 500,000
Shoals for Wastewater
Infrastructure.
11. AR......................... The Ozark Mountain 300,000
Regional Public Water
Authority for water
system improvement
project.
12. AR......................... The City of 300,000
Fayetteville for
Wastewater
Improvements.
13. AR......................... The City of Pine Bluff 500,000
for Sewer Improvements.
14. AR......................... The City of Rogers, 500,000
Northwest Arkansas
Conservation Authority
for Water and
Wastewater
Infrastructure and
Watershed Management.
15. AZ......................... Bullhead City for 300,000
wastewater treatment
plant expansion
project.
16. CA......................... Ventura County Public 1,000,000
Works Agency for sewer
system upgrades in El
Rio Forebay.
17. CA......................... The City of Eureka for 1,000,000
the Martin Slough
Interceptor Project.
18. CA......................... The City of Pasadena 1,175,000
for perchlorate
remediation and
drinking water system
improvements.
19. CA......................... The City of East Palo 825,000
Alto for Water
Infrastructure
Improvements.
20. CA......................... The City of Big Bear 1,000,000
Lake, Department of
Water and Power to
Upgrade the Pipeline
Infrastructure.
21. CA......................... The City of Arcadia for 500,000
the Arcadia/Sierra
Madre Joint Water
Infrastructure.
22. CA......................... The City of Barstow, 500,000
County of San
Bernardino for the
Sewer Master Plan
Implementation, Phase
II.
23. CA......................... The City of Huntington 400,000
Park for the Slauson
Avenue Water Line and
Yard Rehabilitation.
24. CA......................... The City of Manteca for 500,000
Water Treatment
Infrastructure
Upgrades.
25. CA......................... The City of Sacramento, 500,000
Sacramento Department
of Utilities for
Downtown Sacramento
Combined Sewer
Improvement.
26. CA......................... The City of San 500,000
Clemente for Expansion
of Water Reclamation
Facility.
27. CA......................... The City of San 700,000
Francisco, Public
Utilities Commission
for the Lower Mission
District.
28. CA......................... The City of Seaside for 500,000
Monterey Bay Outfall
Dry Weather Diversion.
29. CA......................... The City of Temple City 150,000
for the Sanitation
Sewer Rehabilitation
Project.
30. CA......................... The City of Vallejo for 650,000
Mare Island Sanitary
Sewer and Storm Drain.
31. CA......................... The Town of Yucca 375,000
Valley, Hi-Desert
Water Agency for a
Wastewater Treatment
System.
32. CO......................... Arkansas Valley Conduit 600,000
for drinking water
project.
33. CO......................... Idaho Springs for 1,000,000
wastewater and
drinking water project.
34. CO......................... The Town of Bayfield 400,000
for wastewater
facility upgrade
project.
35. CO......................... The City of Manitou 350,000
Springs for drinking
water system
improvement project.
36. CO......................... The South Platte River 300,000
Basin, Central
Colorado Water
Conservancy District
for water system
improvements.
37. CO......................... The Town of Eckley for 150,000
Water Treatment
Improvements.
38. CT......................... The Town of Enfield for 300,000
sanitary sewer inflow
elimination project.
39. CT......................... The City of Southington 300,000
for wellhead cleanup.
40. CT......................... The City of Stamford 500,000
for Stormwater and
Wastewater
Infrastructure.
41. CT......................... The Town of Colchester 500,000
for the Flatbrook Road
Booster Station.
42. CT......................... The Town of Prospect 138,000
for the College Farms
Subdivision.
43. CT......................... The Town of Wolcott for 500,000
Storm Drainage and
Other Infrastructure.
44. DE......................... The City of Wilmington 300,000
for filter membrane
plant improvements.
45. DE......................... New Castle County for 300,000
Old Shellpot
Interceptor
Improvements.
46. FL......................... The City of 300,000
Jacksonville for
wastewater
infrastructure
improvement project.
47. FL......................... The Emerald Coast 300,000
Utility Authority for
water system
improvements.
48. FL......................... St. Johns River Water 500,000
Management District
for Expansion of the
Taylor Creek Reservoir.
49. FL......................... The City of 500,000
Brooksville, Southwest
Florida Water
Management District
for Peace and Myakka
River Watershed
Restoration.
50. FL......................... The City of Clearwater 500,000
for Wastewater and
Reclaimed Water
Infrastructure.
51. FL......................... The City of Lauderdale- 500,000
by-the-Sea for North
Beach Neighborhood
Improvements, Phase II.
52. FL......................... The City of Sarasota, 500,000
Sarasota County for
the Phillippi Creek
Septic System
Replacement.
53. FL......................... The City of Tallahassee 500,000
for the Advanced Water
Treatment Facility.
54. FL......................... The City of Weston for 500,000
Bonaventure Storm
Water Pumps.
55. FL......................... Town of Callahan for 500,000
the Wastewater
Treatment Plant.
56. FL......................... Town of Jupiter for 500,000
Water Treatment Plant
Enhancement.
57. FL......................... The Town of Pembroke 450,000
Park for Sanitary
Sewage System
Rehabilitation.
58. GA......................... The City of Atlanta for 300,000
wastewater and
stormwater
rehabilitation project.
59. GA......................... The Metro North Georgia 300,000
Water Planning
District for water and
wastewater
improvements project.
60. GA......................... The City of Valdosta 500,000
for the Valdosta Scott
Water Tank
Construction.
61. GA......................... The City of Vienna for 500,000
Sewer Treatment
Facility.
62. IA......................... The City of Clinton for 300,000
wastewater treatment
plant construction
project.
63. IA......................... The City of Davenport 500,000
for water system
improvements.
64. IA......................... The City of Ottumwa for 400,000
combined sewer
overflow improvements.
65. IA......................... The City of Mason City 500,000
for the Wastewater
Treatment Facility
Expansion.
66. ID......................... The City of Marsing for 432,000
drinking water system
reconstruction project.
67. ID......................... The City of Hazelton 469,000
for wastewater system
improvements project.
68. ID......................... The City of St. Anthony 562,000
for wastewater system
improvements project.
69. ID......................... The City of Rexburg for 137,000
wastewater and
stormwater facilities
project.
70. ID......................... The City of Buhl for 300,000
drinking water project.
71. ID......................... The City of Twin Falls 500,000
for the Auger Falls
Wastewater Treatment
Project.
72. IL......................... The Village of Chatham 300,000
for water supply
infrastructure
improvements.
73. IL......................... The City of Monmouth 300,000
for wastewater system
improvements.
74. IL......................... The Northeastern 350,000
Illinois Sewer
Consortium for
wastewater
infrastructure
improvements.
75. IL......................... The Village of 300,000
Riverdale for water
system improvements.
76. IL......................... The City of Oregon, 500,000
Public Works
Department for
Wastewater Treatment
Infrastructure.
77. IL......................... The City of Virginia 500,000
for a Water Treatment
Facility.
78. IL......................... The Village of Farina 250,000
for Water System
Improvements.
79. IL......................... The Village of Hazel 143,000
Crest for Water
Improvements.
80. IL......................... The Village of 500,000
Johnsburg for
Wastewater Conveyance
and Treatment Works.
81. IL......................... The Village of South 300,000
Chicago Heights for
Wastewater Treatment
Facility.
82. IL......................... The Village of Steward 300,000
for Wastewater
Infrastructure.
83. IN......................... The City of Centerville 300,000
for wastewater
treatment plant
upgrade project.
84. IN......................... The City of Fort Wayne 500,000
for the Storm Sewer
Separation Project.
85. IN......................... The City of Evansville 500,000
for the Mt. Auburn
Neighborhood Sanitary
Sewer System.
86. IN......................... The City of Carmel for 500,000
Sanitary Sewer
Rehabilitation.
87. IN......................... The City of Charlestown 500,000
for the Water
Treatment Facility.
88. IN......................... The City of South Bend 500,000
for the Sewer Overflow
Sensory Control
Network.
89. IN......................... The Town of Linden, 200,000
Department of Water
and Sewage for the
Sewer Treatment Plant
Expansion.
90. IN......................... The Town of 500,000
Merrillville for Water
Infrastructure
Improvements.
91. KS......................... Great Bend for 10th 500,000
Street sewer line
repairs.
92. KS......................... The City of Ellsworth 300,000
for wastewater
treatment project.
93. KS......................... The City of Larned for 500,000
the Waste Water
Treatment Plant.
94. KS......................... The City of Iola for 500,000
Water and Wastewater
Infrastructure.
95. KS......................... The City of Lenexa for 300,000
stormwater improvement
project.
96. KS......................... The City of Prescott 300,000
for wastewater
treatment plant
construction project.
97. KS......................... The City of Sedan, 1,200,000
Rural Water District
Number 4 Chautauqua
County for Water and
Wastewater
Infrastructure.
98. KY......................... The City of Ewing in 300,000
Fleming County for
wastewater
construction project.
99. KY......................... The Green River Valley 1,000,000
Water District in Hart
County for drinking
water project.
100. KY........................ The Monroe County Water 1,350,000
District,
Tompkinsville for
drinking water and
construction project.
101. KY........................ The City of Harlan, 500,000
Baxter-Rosspoint Sewer
Line Expansion.
102. KY........................ The City of La Grange, 500,000
Oldham County Sewer
District for the Ohio
River Wastewater
Treatment Plant in
Goshen.
103. KY........................ The City of Lexington, 1,200,000
Lexington-Fayette
Urban County
Government for South
Elkhorn Pump Station
and Force Main Project.
104. KY........................ The City of Louisville, 500,000
Louisville and
Jefferson County
Municipal Sewer
District for the
Shively Area Pump
Stations Eliminations
Project.
105. LA........................ The City of Hammond for 400,000
water system upgrades.
106. LA........................ The City of St. Gabriel 300,000
for wastewater
treatment expansion.
107. LA........................ The City of Bastrop for 200,000
wastewater treatment
facility improvements.
108. LA........................ Ascension Parish for 300,000
wastewater treatment
facility construction
project.
109. LA........................ The City of Grambling 500,000
for the East Martin
Luther King /
Tarbutton Road Sewer
Extension.
110. MA........................ The City of Brockton 300,000
for wastewater system
improvements.
111. MA........................ The City of Marlborough 300,000
for wastewater
treatment plant
upgrades.
112. MA........................ The Cities of Fall 500,000
River and New Bedford
and the Town of
Acushnet for Bristol
County Sewer
Improvements.
113. MA........................ The City of West 1,400,000
Springfield, Pioneer
Valley Planning
Commission for the
Connecticut River
Combined Sewer
Overflow Clean-up.
114. MA........................ The Town of Winthrop 500,000
for Storm Drain
Remediation.
115. MD........................ The City of Baltimore 700,000
for sanitary and
combined sewer
infrastructure
improvements.
116. MD........................ The City of Frostburg 300,000
for combined sewer
overflow improvements.
117. MD........................ The Town of Westernport 200,000
for combined sewer
overflow improvements.
118. MD........................ The City of Cumberland 200,000
for combined sewer
overflow improvements.
119. MD........................ The City of College 100,000
Park for the Paint
Branch Watershed Storm
Management Plan.
120. ME........................ The City of Presque 300,000
Isle for wastewater
treatment plant
relocation project.
121. ME........................ The City of Ellsworth 300,000
for wastewater
treatment relocation
project.
122. MI........................ The City of Saint Louis 300,000
for water supply
improvements.
123. MI........................ Office of the Genessee 500,000
County Drain
Commissioner for the
North-East Relief
Sewer.
124. MI........................ The City of Brighton 165,000
for the Mill Pond Lane
Bypass Sanitary Sewer
Improvements.
125. MI........................ The City of Detroit, 1,000,000
Charter County of
Wayne for the Rouge
River National Wet
Weather Demonstration.
126. MI........................ The Township of 500,000
Waterford, Oakland
County Drain
Commission for the
Evergreen-Farmington
Sanitary Sewer
Overflow Control
Demonstration Project.
127. MN........................ The City of New Auburn 300,000
for drinking water
facility construction
project.
128. MN........................ The City of Minneapolis 300,000
for combined sewer
overflow improvements.
129. MN........................ The City of Grand 1,000,000
Rapids, Grand Rapids
Public Utilities
Commission for
Wastewater Treatment
Facility.
130. MO........................ The City of Linn for 2,350,000
wastewater treatment
plant expansion
project and line
extension.
131. MO........................ The City of Hayti, 150,000
Pemiscot Consolidated
Public Water Supply
District 1 for a Water
Storage Tank.
132. MO........................ The City of Joplin for 500,000
the Wildwood Ranch
Sewer.
133. MS........................ The Town of Flora for 1,550,000
drinking water and
wastewater
construction project.
134. MS........................ The City of Oxford for 342,000
wastewater
construction project.
135. MS........................ West Rankin Utility 200,000
Authority for
wastewater
rehabilitation project.
136. MS........................ The City of Ridgeland 200,000
for wastewater and
water quality
protection project.
137. MS........................ The Town of Boyle for 100,000
water and sewer line
extension project.
138. MS........................ The City of Brookhaven 300,000
for water and
wastewater
improvements project.
139. MS........................ The City of Fulton for 100,000
wastewater
improvements project.
140. MS........................ The City of 500,000
Independence, Tate
County School District
for Water System
Improvements.
141. MT........................ The Crow Tribe for 600,000
wastewater lagoon
replacement.
142. MT........................ The City of Helena for 300,000
Missouri River
wastewater treatment
plant improvements.
143. MT........................ The City of Conrad for 500,000
Conrad Wastewater
Treatment Facility
Improvements.
144. NC........................ Lower Cape Fear Water 300,000
and Sewer Authority,
Leland, for Water and
Sewer Improvements.
145. NC........................ The Neuse Regional 300,000
Water and Sewer
Authority, Kinston, NC
for water treatment
system project.
146. NC........................ The City of Mount Airy, 500,000
Surry County for Water
and Wastewater
Infrastructure along
the I-77 and I-74
Interstates Corridor.
147. NC........................ The City of Durham for 500,000
Water and Wastewater
Improvements.
148. NC........................ The Town of Cary for 500,000
Planning, Design, and
Permitting for the
Western Wake Regional
Wastewater Management
Facilities.
149. NC........................ The Town of Troy, 500,000
Montgomery County for
the Pump Station
Improvement Project.
150. NC........................ The Town of Murphy, 500,000
Cherokee County for
the U.S. Highway 74 19/
129 Sewer Project.
151. ND........................ The City of Washburn 200,000
for water treatment
plant improvements.
152. ND........................ The City of Riverdale 300,000
for water treatment
plant upgrades.
153. ND........................ Southeast Water Users 300,000
District for upgrades
for the rural water
system.
154. ND........................ The Cities of Fortuna, 200,000
Noonan and Columbus
for the BDW Water
Systems Association
water system
improvements and
expansion.
155. ND........................ The City of Lakota for 200,000
water treatment plant
upgrades.
156. ND........................ The North Central Rural 100,000
Water Consortium for
rural water system
expansion.
157. ND........................ Walsh Rural Water 100,000
District for water
system improvements.
158. NE........................ The City of Lincoln for 600,000
wastewater treatment
facilities upgrade
project.
159. NE........................ The City of South Sioux 500,000
City for wastewater
system improvements.
160. NE........................ The City of Omaha for 400,000
combined sewer
separation project..
161. NH........................ The City of Manchester 500,000
for stormwater
facilities
construction project.
162. NH........................ Goffstown for Danis/ 300,000
Lynchville Water and
Sewer Project.
163. NH........................ Lancaster for drinking 225,000
water improvements
project.
164. NH........................ The Town of Jaffrey for 300,000
wastewater and water
quality protection
project.
165. NH........................ The City of Greenfield 300,000
for wastewater
treatment project.
166. NJ........................ The Bayonne Municipal 400,000
Utilities Authority
for combined sewer
overflow improvements.
167. NJ........................ Passaic Valley Sewer 500,000
Commission for Water
and Wastewater
Infrastructure
Improvements.
168. NJ........................ Pennsauken Township for 200,000
combined sewer study.
169. NJ........................ The Kearny Municipal 300,000
Utilities Authority
for wastewater pumping
station improvements.
170. NJ........................ The Borough of Sussex 400,000
for the Hamburg Avenue
Water Line.
171. NM........................ The City of Rio Rancho 300,000
for water system
upgrades.
172. NM........................ Albuquerque / 400,000
Bernalillo County for
Valley Utilities
Project.
173. NM........................ The City of Belen for 400,000
wastewater facility
improvement project.
174. NM........................ The City of Aztec for 500,000
Municipal Wastewater
Treatment.
175. NM........................ West Mesa and the City 400,000
of Las Cruces for
water and wastewater
system improvements
project.
176. NM........................ The Town of Bernalillo 500,000
for Arsenic and Water
System Improvements.
177. NM........................ The Pueblo of San 400,000
Felipe for Water and
Wastewater
Infrastructure
Improvements.
178. NM........................ The City of Santa Fe 500,000
for Water Distribution
Infrastructure.
179. NV........................ The City of Fallon for 500,000
Wastewater System
Improvement.
180. NV........................ The City of Reno for 400,000
sewer extension
project.
181. NV........................ The City of Carson City 300,000
for water system
improvements.
182. NV........................ The Moapa Valley Water 300,000
District for arsenic
treatments.
183. NV........................ Esmeralda County for 100,000
water system
improvements.
184. NV........................ The Town of Overton for 212,000
the Collection System
Infiltration Study.
185. NY........................ The Village of Oswego 300,000
for wastewater
treatment facilty
improvements.
186. NY........................ The Village of Sydney 300,000
for water system
improvements.
187. NY........................ Monroe County Water 500,000
Authority for the
Southeast Service Area
Reliability
Improvements.
188. NY........................ The City of Buffalo, 500,000
Erie County Water
Authority for the Ball
Pump Station Emergency
Power Generation.
189. NY........................ The City of Middletown 400,000
for Water and
Wastewater
Improvements.
190. NY........................ The City of New York 500,000
for the Twin Lakes
Restoration Project.
191. NY........................ The City of Rye for 200,000
Sewer Pump Station
Repairs.
192. NY........................ The Town of Bethel for 1,000,000
Sewer Extension.
193. NY........................ The Town of Geneva, 500,000
Water District 12 for
Water Infrastructure.
194. NY........................ The Town of Goshen for 400,000
the Hambletonian Park
Water Main Replacement.
195. NY........................ The Town of Halfmoon 500,000
for the Halfmoon Water
Line.
196. NY........................ The Town of Marcellus 500,000
for Drinking Water
Infrastructure
Improvements.
197. NY........................ The Village of 300,000
Briarcliff Manor for
Sewer Upgrades.
198. NY........................ The Village of 440,000
Lyndonville for the
Wastewater Treatment
Plant.
199. NY........................ The Village of 200,000
Mamaroneck for Sewer
System Upgrades.
200. OH........................ The Ohio River Valley 300,000
Water Sanitation
Commission for organic
detection system
improvements.
201. OH........................ Burr Oak for drinking 300,000
water plant
construction project.
202. OH........................ The City of Columbus, 500,000
Columbus Downtown
Development
Corporation for the
Scioto Mile River
Level Park Project.
203. OH........................ The City of Elyria for 380,000
the Water Treatment
Intake Plant.
204. OH........................ The City of Port 500,000
Clinton, Ottawa County
for the Watermain
Corrosion and Sanitary
Sewer Program.
205. OH........................ The City of Zanesville, 500,000
Muskingum County
Commission for the
West Pike Sanitary
Sewer.
206. OH........................ The Office of the 500,000
Trumbull County
Commissioners for the
Scott Street Sanitary
Sewer in Newton Falls.
207. OH........................ The Village of 402,000
Rushville for Sewage
Infrastructure
Improvements.
208. OK........................ The City of Ardmore for 300,000
wastewater and water
quality protection
project.
209. OR........................ The City of Coburg for 500,000
a Wastewater System
Project.
210. OR........................ The City of Portland 550,000
for decentralized
stormwater management
system improvements.
211. PA........................ Monongahela Township, 300,000
Greene County for
Sewer system upgrades.
212. PA........................ Three Rivers Wet 800,000
Weather Demonstration
Program for
Continuation of the
Wet Weather Demo
Program.
213. PA........................ Franklin Township for 200,000
wastewater upgrade and
water quality
protection project.
214. PA........................ The Borough of 200,000
Cochranton for
wastewater collection
and treatment
facilities
construction project.
215. PA........................ The Borough of 400,000
Bridgeport for
Combined Sewer
Overflow
Infrastructure
Improvements.
216. PA........................ Somerset County for 200,000
Waterline Construction
Project.
217. PA........................ The Borough of 675,000
Stoystown, Somerset
Township Municipal
Authority for
Stoystown Water
Project.
218. PA........................ The Borough of 100,000
Bellefonte for
waterline replacement
project.
219. PA........................ The City of Scranton 100,000
for wastewater and
stormwater
infrastructure project.
220. PA........................ New Castle, Lawrence 500,000
County Planning Office
for Water and
Wastewater
Infrastructure
Improvements at
Millennium Park.
221. PA........................ The Borough of 165,000
Slatington for
Wastewater
Infrastructure
Improvements.
222. PA........................ The City of Cressona, 80,000
Cressona Borough
Authority for the
Cressona Belt Filter
Press.
223. PA........................ The City of Hershey, 83,000
Derry Township
Municipal Authority
for Wastewater
Treatment Facility.
224. PA........................ The City of Lock Haven, 500,000
Clinton County
Municipal Authority
for Sewer Pump Station
Construction in
Woodward Township.
225. PA........................ The City of 500,000
Williamsport, Lycoming
Department of Planning
and Community
Development for a
Water System for Muncy
Industrial Park.
226. PA........................ The Township of Cecil, 500,000
Cecil Township
Municipal Authority
for the Miller's Run
Sewer System.
227. PA........................ Yardley, Yardley 500,000
Borough Sewer
Authority for
Wastewater
Infrastructure.
228. RI........................ The City of East 700,000
Providence for
Nutrient Removal.
229. RI........................ The City of Warwick for 500,000
water transmission
system improvements.
230. RI........................ The City of Newport for 300,000
water pollution
control management.
231. SC........................ The City of West 150,000
Columbia for
wastewater line
replacement project.
232. SC........................ The City of Charleston 150,000
for stormwater
drainage system
project.
233. SC........................ The City of Gaffney for 1,000,000
the Water Treatment
Plant Upgrade.
234. SC........................ The Town of Andrews for 500,000
Water and Wastewater
Improvements.
235. SD........................ The City of Box Elder 500,000
for water
infrastructure
improvements.
236. SD........................ The City of Rapid City 600,000
for Source Water
Protection
Improvements.
237. TN........................ Claiborne County, 1,000,000
wastewater treatment
project, Harrogate, TN.
238. TN........................ Johnson County for 300,000
Sutherland Water Line
Extension project.
239. TN........................ Morgan County for Gobey 300,000
Community water system
improvement project.
240. TN........................ The Town of 200,000
Collierville, Public
Works Department for
Wastewater
Infrastructure.
241. TX........................ The City of Austin 300,000
Water Utility for
wastewater treatment
upgrade project.
242. TX........................ Lanana Creek for the 800,000
stormwater project.
243. TX........................ The City of San 800,000
Antonio, San Antonio
Water System for the
Central Watershed
Sewer Relief Line C-02.
244. TX........................ Richmond, Fort Bend 500,000
County for a Water and
Wastewater Project.
245. TX........................ The City of Grandview 500,000
for an Elevated Water
Storage Tank.
246. TX........................ The City of Hillsboro 500,000
for Water and
Wastewater System
Improvement.
247. TX........................ The City of Killeen for 500,000
Water and Sewer
Infrastructure.
248. TX........................ The City of Sabinal for 200,000
Wastewater Treatment
Facility Project.
249. UT........................ Syracuse City for 500,000
drinking water
improvement project.
250. UT........................ Centerfield for 1,100,000
drinking water
improvement project.
251. UT........................ Salt Lake City for 300,000
water quality
protection project.
252. UT........................ The City of Riverton 500,000
for the Water Pump
Station.
253. VA........................ The Town of Onancock 300,000
for wastewater
treatment plant
project.
254. VA........................ The City of Lynchburg 300,000
for sewer
infrastructure
improvements.
255. VA........................ Fairfax County, 700,000
Stormwater Planning
Division for
Stormwater Management
Planning.
256. VA........................ Henry County, Henry 500,000
County Public Service
Authority for Water
Infrastructure
Improvements.
257. VA........................ The City of Alexandria 700,000
and Arlington County
for Four Mile Run.
258. VT........................ The Town of Pownal for 750,000
wastewater upgrades.
259. VT........................ The Town of Hardwick 500,000
for water system
upgrades.
260. WA........................ The City of Monitor, 600,000
Chelan County Public
Utilities District,
for drinking water
upgrades.
261. WA........................ The City of Winlock for 400,000
wastewater treatment
plant upgrades.
262. WA........................ The City of West 300,000
Richland for water
treatment system
upgrades.
263. WA........................ Mason County for 2,000,000
Wastewater
Infrastructure
Improvements for the
Community of Belfair.
264. WA........................ Seattle, Seattle Public 500,000
Utilities for South
Park Drainage Project.
265. WA........................ Skokomish, Skokomish 1,000,000
Indian Tribal Nation
for Wastewater
Treatment.
266. WA........................ The City of Longview 500,000
for a water treatment
facility.
267. WA........................ The City of Mercer 500,000
Island for the Mercer
Island Sewer Lake Line
Replacement.
268. WA........................ The City of Mountlake 500,000
Terrace for Water Main
System Replacement.
269. WA........................ The City of Puyallup 500,000
for Water and
Wastewater
Infrastructure.
270. WI........................ The City of Waukesha 600,000
for drinking water
improvements.
271. WI........................ The City of Green Bay 400,000
for storm water
facilities
improvements.
272. WI........................ Holcombe, the Lake 1,000,000
Holcombe Sanitary
District for
Wastewater Treatment
and Sewer System
Upgrades.
273. WI........................ The City of Peshtigo 500,000
for Water System
Improvements.
274. WV........................ The City of Moorefield 3,000,000
for wastewater
treatment plant
improvements.
275. WV........................ The Mingo County 3,000,000
Redevelopment
Authority for water
and sewer improvements.
276. WV........................ The City of Milton for 1,000,000
Milton Water System
Improvements.
277. WV........................ The City of Pennsboro 550,000
for Wastewater
Infrastructure
Improvement.
278. WV........................ The City of Weston for 250,000
the Jackson's Mill
Waterline.
279. WV........................ The City of Westover 825,000
for Sanitary Sewer
Service Upgrade.
280. WY........................ The City of Cheyenne 300,000
for wastewater
treatment plant
upgrade project.
Total.................. 135,000,000
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Categorical Grants: 1. Pollution Control Sec. 106 grants:
The Agency may not withhold funds for an NPDES permit fees
pilot program and is directed to use the same allocation method
as used in prior years.
2. Targeted Remediation Project Grants: Funding is provided
through General Provisions in Title IV.
3. Targeted Watershed Grants: The funds provided for this
program are directed to the continuation of grants provided in
the prior year for the Western Estuaries Program.
4. Underground Storage Tanks: The amended bill retains a
small amount of the requested level in this account, while
moving the vast majority to the Leaking Underground Storage
Tank account. The funds remaining in this account will cover
the state activities not authorized by either section 9003(h)
of the Solid Waste Disposal Act or the Energy Policy Act of
2005.
Bill Language: Language is included, as proposed by the
House, making up to $75,000,000 in Clean Water State Revolving
Funds available for decentralized wastewater and stormwater
projects. The amended bill also includes language, as proposed
by the House, to provide funds for Targeted Watershed Grants
and concerning Tribal grants for the underground storage tank
program. Language, as proposed by the Senate, is included
referencing special projects grants and to provide funds for
Emission Reduction Grants in California.
The amended bill includes a set aside of $18,500,000 from
the Section 106 Water State Grant for water quality monitoring
activities. However, the amended bill does not include
language, proposed by the Senate, limiting the funds for water
quality monitoring to those activities that meet EPA standards
for statistically representative monitoring programs.
Language proposed by the Senate for the Hunter's Point and
Tar Creek projects has been moved to the General Provisions
section in Title IV.
Senate Language related to the $5,000,000 rescission of
prior year funds for Title II of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act is carried in the Administrative Provisions
section, as proposed by the House.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS)
The amended bill includes minor technical corrections to
the language on consultants pay. A provision rescinding
$5,000,000 from prior year funds for Title II of the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act is included here, as proposed by
the House. The amended bill includes language, as proposed by
the Senate, to mandate that $3,500,000 from the Environmental
Program and Management account be used for activities related
to mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions. The
language requires a draft rule nine months after enactment of
this bill and a final rule 18 months after enactment. The
amended bill does not include language proposed by the House on
a multi-sector greenhouse gas regulation.
TITLE III--RELATED AGENCIES
Department of Agriculture
FOREST SERVICE
FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH
The amended bill provides $290,457,000 for Forest and
Rangeland Research instead of $295,937,000 as proposed by the
House and $291,807,000 as proposed by the Senate. The forest
inventory and analysis program is provided $61,329,000 instead
of $62,329,000 recommended by the House and the Senate; this is
an increase of $1,949,000 above the fiscal year 2007 level.
Fixed costs are provided as recommended by the Senate and the
following specific project funding levels instead of the levels
recommended by the Senate: Center for Bottomland Hardwoods, MS,
$400,000; Northeastern States Research Cooperative, $2,200,000
including $850,000 for both Vermont and New Hampshire, $300,000
for Maine and $200,000 for New York. The remaining increase
above the request is for base programs. The Appropriations
Committees have agreed with the Senate recommendation directing
the Service to maintain the base budgets of individual research
stations at or near prior year levels.
STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY
The amended bill provides $266,974,000 for State and
Private Forestry instead of $280,602,000 as proposed by the
House and $272,542,000 as proposed by the Senate. A detailed
display of the funding for all programs and activities is in
the back of this Division. The amended bill includes the House
and Senate recommendations unless contradicted by the
discussion below.
Forest Health Management.--The amended bill provides
$54,967,000 for Federal Lands Forest Health Management as
proposed by the Senate instead of $53,963,000 as proposed by
the House. The amended bill includes $45,248,000 for
cooperative lands forest health management instead of
$47,104,000 as proposed by the House and $47,248,000 as
proposed by the Senate. Within available funds, the Forest
Service should provide funding for gypsy moth slow-the spread,
suppression and eradication programs and western mountain bark
beetle management at historic funding levels.
Cooperative Fire Protection.--The amended bill includes
$33,122,000 for State Fire Assistance as proposed by the House
and the Senate. The amended bill includes $6,000,000 for
volunteer fire assistance instead of $9,000,000 as proposed by
the House and $5,912,000 as proposed by the Senate. Note that
the amended bill also includes additional funds for State fire
and volunteer fire assistance as part of the national fire plan
funding within the wildland fire management account and retains
$6,000,000 in the Bureau of Land Management wildland fire
management account for rural fire assistance, which was
eliminated in the House and administration recommendations. The
Forest Service and the Department of the Interior wildfire
officials are encouraged to collaborate and cooperate with
States and other stakeholders when allocating these assistance
grants. The House recommendation should be followed so that
allocations of fire assistance grants to regions and States
must carefully consider actual program needs and local urgency,
particularly with regard to community protection in the
wildland urban interface.
Forest Stewardship.--The amended bill includes $30,000,000
for Forest Stewardship instead of $36,947,000 as proposed by
the House and $34,288,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
Chesapeake Bay program receives $950,000 as recommended by the
Senate.
Forest Legacy Program.--The amended bill provides
$53,146,000 for Forest Legacy instead of $56,336,000
recommended by the House and $48,095,000 reported in the
Senate. The funds for other Forest Service priority projects
should be used according to the results of the national
competitive selection process to fund projects in priority
order, but not provide additional funds for any item listed
here. Funds should be distributed as follows:
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State Project Amount
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AL Mobile Tensaw Delta.............. $2,000,000
AR Moro Big Pine.................... 2,215,000
CA Chalk Mountain Ranch--Six Rivers 2,000,000
to the Sea.
CT Skiff Mountain phase II.......... 770,000
GA Paulding County Land Area........ 3,500,000
HI Kealakekua Ranch................. 1,989,000
ID Gold Creek Ranch................. 1,600,000
KY Marrowbone Creek................. 1,122,000
ME Lower Penobscot Forest........... 3,300,000
MI Northern Great Lakes Forest 2,000,000
(Kamehameha).
MN Koochiching...................... 3,500,000
MT North Swan River Valley.......... 2,000,000
NC Clarendon Plantation............. 1,500,000
NH Ossipee Pine Barrens............. 2,380,000
NJ Sparta Mountain South............ 2,500,000
NM Vallecitos High Country.......... 1,145,000
SC Piedmont of South Carolina 1,500,000
(Belfast).
TN Big Forks........................ 1,000,000
TX Turkey Creek..................... 1,500,000
UT Chalk Creek South Fork #2........ 1,400,000
VA Nottoway River................... 1,500,000
VT Brushwood/West Fairlee Community 1,500,000
Forest.
WI Northern Wild Rivers............. 2,300,000
WV Potomac River Watershed South 750,000
Branch.
Other Forest Service Priority 9,775,000
Projects.
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Subtotal, Line Item Projects. 54,746,000
Administration................... 5,900,000
Offset from -7,500,000.......................
unobligated balances
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Total, Forest Legacy......... $53,146,000
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The amended bill does not include bill language proposed by
the Senate requiring notification of the Committees on
Appropriations when the Forest Service makes funds available
for specific forest legacy projects.
Urban and Community Forestry.--The amended bill includes
$28,130,000 for the Urban and Community Forestry program
instead of $31,130,000 as proposed by the House and $30,846,000
as proposed by the Senate. Project funding includes: $200,000
for urban forestry cooperative activities in El Segundo, CA;
$500,000 for the Seattle-Tacoma regional urban forestry effort;
$350,000 for Chicago urban tree planting; and $200,000 for
Indianapolis tree planting.
Economic Action Programs.--The amended bill includes
$4,273,000 for the Economic Action Programs instead of zero
funding as proposed by the House and $6,523,000 as proposed by
the Senate. The amended bill provides $250,000 to the
Washington Family Forest Foundation to complete a State and
private landowner management database; $200,000 to the Northern
Forest Center to continue sustainable forestry grants; $500,000
to Purdue University to fund wood products technology
development at the Hardwood Scanning Technology Center;
$350,000 to the State of Vermont to fund grants and technical
assistance to wood products businesses through the Vermont Wood
Products Collaborative; $1,300,000 to Forest Service Region 5
for infrastructure assistance grants to help sustain the
region's small forest products businesses; and an increase of
$1,673,000 above the request to restore funding for the Wood
Education and Resource Center to last year's enacted level, for
a total of $2,673,000.
Forest Resource Information and Analysis.--The amended bill
includes $4,588,000 for Forest Resource Information and
Analysis as proposed by the Senate instead of $5,000,000 as
proposed by the House.
International Program.--The amended bill includes
$7,500,000 for the International Program instead of $8,000,000
as proposed by the House and $6,953,000 as proposed by the
Senate.
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
The amended bill provides $1,492,868,000 for the National
Forest System instead of $1,506,502,000 as proposed by the
House and $1,500,234,000 as proposed by the Senate. Funds
should be distributed as follows:
Land management planning................................ $49,607,000
Inventory and monitoring................................ 169,220,000
Recreation, heritage & wilderness....................... 266,797,000
Wildlife & fish habitat management...................... 134,483,000
Grazing management...................................... 48,926,000
Forest products......................................... 327,614,000
Vegetation & watershed management....................... 180,249,000
Minerals and geology management......................... 85,476,000
Landownership management................................ 92,746,000
Law enforcement operations.............................. 134,000,000
Valles Calderas National Preserve, NM................... 3,750,000
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Total............................................... 1,492,868,000
The amended bill includes the House and Senate
recommendations unless contradicted by the discussion below.
Inventory and Monitoring.--The amended bill includes
$700,000 for the NASA Stennis Space Center in Mississippi to
acquire remote sensing data to inventory and monitor Federal
and non-Federal lands pursuant to Title IV of the Healthy
Forest Restoration Act.
Recreation, Heritage, and Wilderness Management.--The
amended bill includes the Senate recommendation for fixed costs
and $250,000 to demarcate wilderness boundaries in Nevada. The
remaining increase is for base programs and the agency is
directed to use a portion of these funds to increase the base
funding level for the operation of the various national scenic
and historic trails over the enacted level.
Forest Products.--The amended bill provides $327,614,000
for Forest Products instead of $332,614,000 as proposed by the
House and $326,176,000 as proposed by the Senate. The amended
bill does not include the House recommendation to set-aside
$10,000,000 for high revenue units but does include the Senate
proposed earmark in bill language of $4,000,000 for Tongass
national forest timber sales preparation. The amended bill
supports the policy in the budget request to fund forestry
activities in support of the President's Pacific Northwest
forest plan; regional allocations from this account may be
adjusted but must provide at least the actual capability
funding level and other sources should also be considered to
further assist plan implementation. The Service should
carefully consider allocating timber sales funding to those
areas where existing roads are available and where there are
lower engineering costs for making roads suitable for harvest
activities.
Vegetation and Watershed Management.--The amended bill
includes the Senate recommendation for fixed costs and $350,000
for leafy spurge control in North Dakota. The remaining
increase is for base programs.
Minerals and Geology Management.--The amended bill provides
funding for fixed costs as recommended by the Senate. The
direction proposed by the House is modified so that the first
priority for use of the increased funds above the request
should be managing geologic hazards and resources and managing
environmental compliance and restoration, including mitigation
of abandoned mine lands. Processing mineral applications may be
considered thereafter. The Senate recommendation is retained
requiring the Forest Service to provide a report on
prioritization of abandoned mine land clean-up on national
forest lands within 90 days of enactment of this Act.
Law Enforcement operations.--The amended bill retains the
House recommended $500,000 increase for methamphetamine
prevention on the Mark Twain NF, MO and the Senate recommended
$900,000 increase for the Daniel Boone NF, KY anti-drug effort.
Use of other funds above the request should follow Senate
instructions.
Valles Caldera National Preserve.--The Senate proposal
concerning allocation of funds is modified. Rather than
directing a specific percentage of funds be split between
salaries/operations and infrastructure improvements, the
Preserve management should minimize overhead and administrative
expenses to the greatest extent practicable and make a strong
effort to improve the infrastructure at the site so that it may
be enjoyed by more members of the public. The report
recommended by the Senate on economic self-sufficiency is
required.
Other.--The specific allocation of extra funds for
challenge cost share recommended by the House is not included
but the Service should continue this program with available
funds in a similar manner as in the past.
Note that section 423 of the amended bill retains
$15,000,000 of the Senate-recommended transfer of purchaser
elect road funds to regions for vegetative, fuels and road
treatments.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
The amended bill provides $481,895,000 for Capital
Improvement and Maintenance instead of $520,197,000 as proposed
by the House and $444,090,000 as proposed by the Senate. The
amended bill includes the House and Senate recommendations
unless countered by the discussion below. The amount provided
includes a transfer of $25,000,000 from the purchaser elect
road fund instead of $40,000,000 in the House bill and no
transfer in the Senate recommendation. The Senate included
language in Title IV (Senate section 421) which distributed
$40,000,000 from the purchaser elect road fund to Forest
Service regions for certain vegetation management and
maintenance needs, which is modified as noted above. In
addition, funds from the road and trail fund are transferred to
the Treasury as recommended by the House, providing
approximately $15,000,000 which has been included in this
account. The Senate had recommended that the road and trail
fund be allocated following instructions included in Title IV.
House recommended bill language providing for decommissioning
of certain unauthorized roads is retained. Funds should be
distributed as follows:
Activity/Project Amount
Facilities:
Maintenance......................................... $64,310,000
Capital Improvement................................. 56,039,000
Congressional Priorities:
Chattanooga airtanker base (TN)................. 750,000
Monongahela NF campground improvements, WV...... 600,000
Okhissa Lake recreation improvements, MS........ 1,000,000
Cloud Cap Inn rescue base (OR).................. 300,000
Hawaii Experimental Forest planning and design.. 685,000
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Subtotal Facilities......................... 123,684,000
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Roads:
Maintenance..................................... 136,536,000
Capital Improvement............................. 93,140,000
Congressional Priorities:
Monongahela NF road improvements, WV............ 1,860,000
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Subtotal Roads.............................. 231,536,000
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Trails:
Maintenance......................................... 45,815,000
Capital Improvement................................. 31,460,000
Congressional Priorities:
Monongahela NF, WV.............................. 300,000
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Subtotal Trails............................. 77,575,000
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Infrastructure Improvement:
Deferred Maintenance................................ 9,100,000
Legacy Road and Trail Remediation Program:
Legacy roads and trails program..................... 40,000,000
Total, Capital Improvement and Maintenance.. 481,895,000
The Service should focus its timber road program when
practicable to areas that do not need expensive construction or
engineering support. The recommendation includes base funding
for maintenance, construction, and operation of the network of
national scenic and historic trails at least $2,000,000 above
the fiscal year 2006 levels. The amended bill includes the
House recommendation for the legacy road and trail remediation
program but at a reduced level of $40,000,000; these funds are
for urgently needed road decommissioning, road and trail repair
and maintenance, removal of certain fish passage barriers, or
for protection of community water sources and the allocation of
funds to regions should carefully consider regional needs and
project readiness for these urgently needed activities.
The amended bill includes the Senate recommendation to
transfer previously appropriated funds to West Virginia
University for a shared-use research greenhouse facility as the
Federal share in the construction.
LAND ACQUISITION
The amended bill includes $42,490,000 for land acquisition
instead of $44,485,000 as proposed by the House and $48,245,000
as proposed by the Senate. Funds should be distributed as
follows:
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State Project Description Amount
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AL Alabama National Forests......... $750,000
CO Arapaho NF....................... 1,000,000
MT Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF.......... 4,500,000
SD Black Hills NF................... 1,000,000
WI Chequamegon-Nicolet NF........... 2,300,000
TN Cherokee NF...................... 3,100,000
OR/WA Columbia River Gorge NSA......... 1,000,000
AK Craig Recreation Land transfer... 500,000
KY Daniel Boone NF.................. 175,000
FL Florida National Scenic Trail.... 580,000
VT Green Mountain NF................ 1,350,000
IN Hoosier NF Unique Areas.......... 525,000
MI Huron-Manistee NF................ 215,000
OR/WA Multiple Northwest National 750,000
Forests.
MI Ottawa NF........................ 1,000,000
CA Pacific Crest National Scenic 1,600,000
Trail.
ID Payette NF....................... 900,000
CA San Bernardino NF - Santa Rosa 500,000
San Jacinto NM.
IL Shawnee NF....................... 850,000
MN Superior NF...................... 1,250,000
CA Tahoe and El Dorado NF........... 2,000,000
UT Uinta & Wasatch NF............... 1,345,000
CO Uncompahgre NF................... 1,000,000
UT Wasatch-Cache NF................. 1,250,000
ME White Mountain NF................ 550,000
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Subtotal, Line Item Projects. 29,990,000
Acquisition Management........... 10,000,000
Equalization..................... 1,000,000
Inholdings....................... 1,500,000
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Total, FS Land Acquisition... 42,490,000
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ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL ACTS
The amended bill provides $1,053,000 for the Acquisition of
Lands for National Forests Special Acts as recommended by both
the House and the Senate.
ACQUISITION OF LANDS TO COMPLETE LAND EXCHANGES
The amended bill provides an indefinite appropriation
estimated to be $231,000 for the Acquisition of Lands to
Complete Land Exchanges as proposed by both the House and the
Senate.
RANGE BETTERMENT FUND
The amended bill provides an indefinite appropriation
estimated to be $3,750,000 for the Range Betterment Fund as
proposed by both the House and the Senate.
GIFTS, DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS FOR FOREST AND RANGELAND RESEARCH
The amended bill provides $56,000 for Gifts, Donations and
Bequests for Forest and Rangeland Research as proposed by both
the House and the Senate.
MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR SUBSISTENCE USES
The amended bill provides $5,053,000 for Management of
National Forest System Lands for Subsistence Uses in Alaska as
proposed by both the House and the Senate.
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
The amended bill provides $1,974,276,000 for Wildland Fire
Management instead of $1,974,648,000 as proposed by the House
and $1,982,482,000 as proposed by the Senate. The amended bill
includes the House and Senate recommendations unless
contradicted by the discussion below. The amended bill does not
require establishment of a high level commission recommended by
the House to propose alternative methods to fund and manage
fire suppression and firefighting capacity. The Committees on
Appropriations and the authorizing committees of jurisdiction
are working on these issues.
Wildfire Preparedness: $676,370,000 for preparedness as
proposed by the Senate instead of $675,382,000 proposed by the
House. The amended bill reiterates the direction contained in
the House and Senate reports regarding the need to maintain the
level of fire readiness established in fiscal year 2006. The
Appropriations Committees remain dissatisfied that the Forest
Service and Department of the Interior have failed to produce
and deploy the Fire Program Analysis system as an urgently
needed fire preparedness planning tool so the House and Senate
direction should be followed.
The Appropriations Committees are aware that the Forest
Service is facing challenges to recruit and retain wildland
firefighters in Region 5, particularly on Southern California
forests, due to the agency's vastly different pay scales and
personnel policies and the high cost of living in the region.
The Forest Service should examine Federal firefighter pay and
personnel policies and provide the House and Senate Committees
on Appropriations with a proposal to increase recruitment and
retention for Southern California forests no later than
February 1, 2008. Note that flexibility has been provided to
adjust preparedness and suppression funding to implement such a
plan if the agency determines it is in the interest of public
safety and to reduce future suppression costs.
Wildfire Suppression Operations--The amended bill includes
$859,021,000 for suppression operations as proposed by both the
House and the Senate. This provides the full amount of the ten-
year average cost of wildfire suppression increased for
inflation, an increase of $117,544,000 above the fiscal year
2007 funding level. Funds designated for wildfire suppression
shall be assessed for cost pools on the same basis as such
assessments are calculated against other agency programs. Note
that Title V includes $222,000,000 in emergency funds in case
next season has extreme needs beyond the increased funding
provided herein.
Other Wildfire Operations.--The amended bill includes
$438,885,000 for other fire operation activities instead of
$440,245,000 as proposed by the House and $447,091,000 as
proposed by the Senate. Funds should be distributed as follows:
Program Amount
Hazardous fuels......................................... $315,000,000
Rehabilitation & restoration............................ 11,000,000
Research & development.................................. 23,892,000
Joint fire science...................................... 8,000,000
Forest health management-Federal........................ 14,252,000
Forest health management-cooperative.................... 10,014,000
State and community fire assistance..................... 48,727,000
Volunteer fire assistance............................... 8,000,000
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Total other wildfire operations................. 438,885,000
Hazardous fuels.--The amended bill provides an increase of
$13,472,000 over the fiscal year 2007 level and $23,467,000
over the Administration request. The ferocious 2007 fire season
burned more than 8.9 million acres nationwide--including more
than half a million acres alone in Southern California during
an October 2007 Santa Ana wind event--and further underscores
the need to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire and to
provide community protection. The amended bill also supports
direction provided by the Senate to the Forest Service to
allocate hazardous fuels funds according to a model that
prioritizes fuels treatments in the wildland-urban interface
and gives greater weight to areas with high fuel loads, high
population densities, and higher relative values at risk. The
amended bill also concurs with the Senate direction and directs
the Forest Service to provide recommended allocations within 30
days of the signing of the bill and 14 days prior to releasing
funds to the field.
The amended bill allows up to $10,000,000 of hazardous
fuels funds to be transferred to the ``National Forest System''
account at the sole discretion of the Chief of the Forest
Service 30 days after notifying the Appropriations Committees.
A total of $7,000,000 is provided for biomass utilization
grants of which $2,000,000 is for the biomass to ethanol pilot
project managed by the Forest Products Lab. The Senate
recommended funding for the Southwest Ecological Restoration
Institutes is provided but this is the sole Federal support for
these institutions working under authorities related to P.L.
108-317; the allocation includes $2,000,000 for Northern
Arizona University, $350,000 for New Mexico Highlands
University and $250,000 for Colorado State University. The
joint report with the Department of the Interior on hazardous
fuels funding allocations is required as directed by the House
and should be delivered 120 days after enactment.
Rehabilitation.--The Forest Service and the Department of
the Interior should provide a detailed accomplishment report
120 days after enactment of this Act, including a plan of
future work, for the native plant materials program.
Fire plan research and development.--The University of
Idaho FRAMES project total allocation is $650,000.
State fire assistance.--The amended bill modifies the
Senate recommendation to include $4,000,000 to fund fire risk
reduction activities by Fire Safe Council chapters in
California and retains $1,000,000 for the South Lake Tahoe
Public Utilities District for improvements to increase water
system pressure in case of fire. It also provides $2,500,000
for Alaska, of which $1,000,000 is for the Kenai Peninsula
Borough, $200,000 is for the Cook Inlet tribal council,
$300,000 is for Fairbanks North Star Borough, $500,000 is for
the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, and $500,000 is for the
Municipality of Anchorage. Senate instructions on distribution
of these funds should be followed by the Service.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, FOREST SERVICE
The amended bill includes the Senate limitation of funds
for abolishing or moving certain offices. The House language is
retained regarding use of funds for international program
activities; the Foreign Agricultural Service need not be
involved in Forest Service International Program activities,
grants or agreements. Bill language provided by the House
limits $24,021,000 of funds available to the Forest Service for
transfer to the Department of Agriculture for Department
Reimbursable Programs, commonly referred to as Greenbook
charges. Funds available to the Forest Service shall be
available to conduct a program of up to $5,000,000 for priority
projects within the scope of the approved budget, of which
$2,500,000 may be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps
and $2,500,000 may be carried out under the authority of the
Public Lands Corps Healthy Forests Restoration Act. The House
recommended funding of $3,000,000 for the National Forest
Foundation is retained, as is the Senate language which does
not provide for any of these funds to be used for
administrative expenses of the Foundation. Senate language is
retained regarding funding for technical assistance to rural
communities and certain businesses and reimbursement for
limited Office of General Counsel travel expenses.
Department of Health and Human Services
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES
The amended bill includes $3,018,624,000 for Indian Health
Services instead of $3,023,532,000 as proposed by the House and
$2,991,924,000 as proposed by the Senate. A detailed display of
the funding for all programs and activities is included in the
back of the statement for this Division.
The funding distribution follows the House proposal, except
that $27,000,000 is included for the catastrophic health
emergency fund; $14,000,000 is included for the methamphetamine
treatment and prevention initiative; $14,000,000 is included
for the Indian health care improvement fund; $35,094,000 is
included for the Urban health program; and $271,636,000 is
included for contract support costs.
The amended bill includes language that allows the director
of the Indian Health Service to distribute the funding for the
methamphetamine treatment and prevention program to the areas
with the greatest need within Indian country. The bill also
allows up to $5,000,000 of these funds to be used for the
behavioral health issues associated with methamphetamine use
including combating youth suicide. Tele-medicine technology
should be used when possible to support remote or isolated
communities that would otherwise have difficulty obtaining
services.
The Indian Health Service is directed to allocate the
Indian Health Care Improvement Act funding to bring those units
with the highest level of need up to at least 40 percent of
need before allocating any additional funds to units with needs
above 40 percent.
The Service is directed to provide technical assistance to
the Nevada Indian Health Board, as needed, to facilitate its
establishment as an entity that can both adequately address
health issues of the Nevada tribes and effectively represent
these same issues to the Indian Health Service at both the
Phoenix Area and the national headquarters levels.
INDIAN HEALTH FACILITIES
The amended bill includes $380,583,000 for Indian health
facilities instead of $360,895,000 as proposed by the House and
$375,475,000 as proposed by the Senate. A detailed display of
the funding for all programs and activities is included in the
back of the statement for this Division. Funds should be
distributed as follows:
Amount
Maintenance and Improvement............................. $53,727,000
Sanitation Facilities................................... 95,747,000
Health Care Facilities Construction..................... 37,164,000
Hospital and Clinic Construction.................... 32,664,000
Small Ambulatory.................................... 2,500,000
Dental Units........................................ 2,000,000
Facilities and Environmental Health Support............. 172,326,000
Equipment............................................... 21,619,000
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Total........................................... $380,583,000
The amended bill does not include specific recommendations
for funding of health facilities construction projects as
provided by both the House and the Senate. Instead, it is
expected that the Indian Health Service will use the amounts
provided within this activity for the highest priority projects
from the Service's list, for which construction has already
been initiated and for which additional funding is required to
keep the project on schedule. The Service may also use
construction funds to begin design on not to exceed one project
from the current priority list that has met all of the program
requirements and is ready to proceed without delay.
The amended bill does not contain funding for the joint
venture program as recommended by the Senate instead of
$2,000,000 as recommended by the House. It is understood that
sufficient funds remain available from within amounts provided
for joint ventures in previous fiscal years to fund an
additional two projects from the last solicitation list. These
funds are available because of savings achieved by the Service
and tribes in negotiating their agreements. In determining
priorities for project funding under the joint ventures program
for hospitals and clinics, the Service should provide
additional credit to tribes that are willing to provide full
funding for facility equipment in addition to providing full
funding for facility construction.
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES
The amended bill provides $78,775,000 for the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, instead of
$79,117,000 as proposed by the House and $78,434,000 as
proposed by the Senate.
AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY
TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH
The amended bill provides $75,212,000 for Toxic Substances
and Environmental Health, as proposed by the House instead of
$75,004,000 as proposed by the Senate. Senate proposed language
to limit the number of toxicological profiles conducted by the
Agency is not included.
From within the amount appropriated, ATSDR is expected to
assess the extent of children's exposure to mercury from former
industrial sites and other sources nationwide, and to issue a
report of its findings 12 months after the date of enactment of
this bill. ATSDR is further expected, in collaboration with the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to continue to
provide biomonitoring, exposure assessment, clinical
evaluation, and education, as appropriate.
OTHER RELATED AGENCIES
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
The amended bill provides $2,703,000 for the Council on
Environmental Quality and the Office of Environmental Quality,
as requested by the President and as provided by both the House
and Senate.
CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
The amended bill provides $9,410,000 for the salaries and
expenses of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board,
instead of $9,049,000 as proposed by the Senate and $9,549,000
as proposed by the House.
Bill Language: The amended bill includes language proposed
by the House, and carried in prior years, which authorizes the
Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency to act
as the Inspector General for the Board and specifies certain
personnel issues related to this role.
The additional funding is intended to fund up to three new
investigators, as proposed by the House. Additional funds have
not been provided for video production support, as proposed by
the House.
Consistent with House Report 110-187, GAO is directed to
update its 2000 study and make further recommendations on the
best way to provide an IG oversight function for the Board.
Based on that report, the Committees on Appropriations will
revisit this issue for fiscal year 2009.
OFFICE OF NAVAJO AND HOPI INDIAN RELOCATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
The amended bill includes $9,000,000 for the office of
Navajo and Hopi Indian relocation as proposed by both the House
and the Senate.
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE CULTURE AND ARTS
DEVELOPMENT
PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE
The amended bill includes $7,297,000 for the Institute of
American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development
as proposed by both the House and the Senate.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
The amended bill includes a total of $693,447,000 for the
Smithsonian Institution, an increase of $58,552,000 over the
fiscal year 2007 level and an increase of $15,000,000 over the
budget request. The increase over the budget request is to
initiate a new Legacy Fund described below. Funding for the
Smithsonian Institution includes:
Amended bill
Salaries and Expenses................................... $571,347,000
Facilities Capital...................................... 107,100,000
Legacy Fund............................................. 15,000,000
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Total, Smithsonian Inst......................... 693,447,000
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
The amended bill provides $571,347,000 for salaries and
expenses instead of $536,295,000 as proposed by the House and
$571,705,000 as proposed by the Senate. The amended bill
approves the budget as requested by the President with two
exceptions. The Office of Inspector General is increased by
$100,000 above the request and the Chief Financial Officer is
increased by $250,000. These increases are to be absorbed
within the total request for salaries and expenses.
The large increase approved for the Smithsonian reflects
increased confidence in the Institution after a period of great
controversy. Since the budget was submitted in February, the
Smithsonian Institution has moved aggressively to address
longstanding governance and integrity issues. The senior
leadership of the Institution has turned over and the Regents
have reorganized themselves to ensure that the reform process
begun after the departure of the previous Secretary is fully
implemented. The Appropriations Committees believe that this
reform effort will take many years, but the change in
leadership and the reform efforts undertaken over the last
eight months represent significant progress. The Committees
will carefully monitor this continuing reform process to ensure
that the Smithsonian does not backslide on this critical task.
FACILITIES CAPITAL
The amended bill includes $107,100,000 for the Facilities
Capital account instead of $116,100,000 as proposed by the
House and $125,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The amended
bill does not specify amounts for individual facility
construction and repair projects. The Committees are aware,
however, of urgent fire safety needs at the National Zoo and
expect the Institution to work as expeditiously as possible to
make the National Zoo and other facilities fire safe.
LEGACY FUND
The amended bill includes $15,000,000 to establish a Legacy
Fund within the Smithsonian Institution appropriation. This new
fund is intended to provide a means to address more
aggressively the $2.5 billion backlog of major repair and
restoration of the Institution's facilities that now exists.
The Legacy Fund has been designed as a public-private
partnership whereby each federal dollar provided must be
matched by twice that amount in private contributions before
the full $15,000,000 is made available. Assuming that the
Smithsonian's efforts to raise the required private match are
successful, the Legacy Fund will provide a total of $45,000,000
above amounts appropriated in the Facilities Capital account to
be used solely for the purpose of bringing the Institution's
facilities up to the world-class standard its collections and
the visiting public deserve.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
The amended bill includes a total of $119,735,000 for the
National Gallery of Art, as proposed by the Senate instead of
$119,867,000 as proposed by the House.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
The amended bill includes $101,718,000 for salaries and
expenses of the National Gallery of Art, as proposed by the
Senate instead of $101,850,000 as proposed by the House.
The amended bill allocates not to exceed $3,350,000 for the
special exhibition program, as proposed by the Senate instead
of $3,239,000 as proposed by the House. The funding provided
restores the reduction to repair and maintenance of fixed
equipment by providing $4,928,000. The remaining increase over
the request is provided for increased utility costs, art
conservation services and supplies.
REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS
The amended bill provides $18,017,000 for repair,
restoration and renovation of buildings, as proposed by the
President and provided by the House and the Senate.
JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
The amended bill includes a total of $43,350,000 for the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as proposed by
both the House and the Senate.
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE
The amended bill provides $20,200,000 for operations and
maintenance of the Kennedy Center, as proposed by both the
House and Senate. The increase above the request is intended
for minor repairs at the Center.
CAPITAL REPAIR AND RESTORATION
The amended bill provides $23,150,000 as provided by the
House and Senate.
WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
The amended bill provides $10,000,000 for salaries and
expenses of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars as proposed by the House instead of $9,718,000
proposed by the Senate.
NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION
The amended bill includes a total of $147,000,000 for the
National Endowment for the Arts, instead of $160,000,000 as
proposed by the House and instead of $133,412,000 as proposed
by the Senate. This funding is allocated as follows:
Amended bill
Direct Grants........................................... $50,000,000
Challenge America Grants................................ 9,400,000
National Initiative: American Masterpieces.............. 13,500,000
State and Regional Partnerships......................... 40,000,000
Underserved set-aside................................... 8,600,000
Program support......................................... 1,700,000
Administration.......................................... 23,800,000
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Total, NEA...................................... $147,000,000
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
As shown below, the amended bill includes $147,000,000 for
the two appropriation accounts which finance the National
Endowment for the Humanities instead of $160,000,000 as
proposed by the House and instead of $146,355,000 as proposed
by the Senate. This funding has been allocated as follows:
Amended bill
Federal State Partnership............................... $32,215,000
Preservation and Access................................. 18,671,000
Public programs......................................... 12,910,000
Research Programs....................................... 13,209,000
Education Programs...................................... 12,801,000
Program development..................................... 362,000
We the People Initiative Grants......................... 15,239,000
Digital Humanities Initiative........................... 2,000,000
Administration.......................................... 25,083,000
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Subtotal, Grants & Admin.................... 132,490,000
Matching Grants:
Treasury Funds.................................. 5,031,000
Challenge grants................................ 9,479,000
Subtotal, Matching Grants................... 14,510,000
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Total, NEH.................................. $147,000,000
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION
The amended bill includes $132,490,000 for Grants and
Administration instead of $145,500,000 as proposed by the House
and instead of $131,845,000 as proposed by the Senate.
MATCHING GRANTS
The amended bill includes $14,510,000 for the matching
grants program as proposed by the Senate instead of $14,500,000
as proposed by the House.
COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS
SALARIES (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) AND EXPENSES
The amended bill provides $2,092,000 for salaries and
expenses of the Commission of Fine Arts as proposed by the
House instead of $2,192,000 as proposed by the Senate.
NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS
The amended bill provides $8,500,000 for National Capital
Arts and Cultural Affairs instead of $10,000,000 as proposed by
the House and $7,200,000 as proposed by the Senate. The amended
bill does not include the House language limiting the amount a
grantee can receive.
ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
The amended bill provides $5,348,000 for salaries and
expenses of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation as
proposed by both the House and the Senate.
NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
The amended bill provides $8,265,000 for salaries and
expenses of the National Capital Planning Commission as
proposed by both the House and the Senate.
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
The amended bill provides $45,496,000 for the Holocaust
Memorial Museum as proposed by the Senate instead of
$44,996,000 as proposed by the House. The increase above the
budget request is provided to assist the Museum in meeting cost
increases associated with opening the International Tracing
Service archives. Senate recommended language is included that
allows $515,000 to be available for the equipment replacement
program until 2010.
PRESIDIO TRUST
PRESIDIO TRUST FUND
The amended bill includes $22,400,000 for payment to the
Presidio Trust Fund as proposed by the House instead of
$18,450,000 as proposed by the Senate.
WHITE HOUSE COMMISSION ON THE NATIONAL MOMENT OF REMEMBRANCE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
The amended bill provides $200,000 for salaries and
expenses of the White House Commission on The National Moment
of Remembrance as proposed by the House and the Senate. The
amended bill includes language to transfer administration and
all future funds of the Commission to the Veterans
Administration as proposed by the House.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER MEMORIAL COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
The amended bill provides $2,000,000 for salaries and
expenses of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission. This
Commission is authorized by Public Law 106-79. The House
provided $1,000,000 for the Commission within the National Park
Service National Recreation and Preservation account. In the
Senate bill, $1,000,000 was provided within the Office of the
Secretary.
TITLE IV--GENERAL PROVISIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
Sec. 401: Retains a provision on consulting services as
recommended by the Senate; there was a minor technical
difference between the House and Senate versions.
Sec. 402: Retains identical House and Senate provisions
limiting certain activities related to support or opposition to
legislative proposals.
Sec. 403: Retains House provision which provides that
appropriations in the bill are available only for the current
fiscal year, unless otherwise stated.
Sec. 404: Retains identical House and Senate (Section 403)
provision prohibiting funds for certain personal services.
Sec. 405: Retains identical House and Senate (Section 404)
provision which limits overhead charges, deductions, reserves
or holdbacks for certain functions.
Sec. 406: Retains House provision limiting transfer of
funds except as provided in this or other Acts.
Sec. 407: Modifies House and Senate (Section 405) provision
prohibiting the sale of giant sequoia trees.
Sec. 408: Retains identical House and Senate (Section 406)
provision limiting funds for patents for mining or mill site
claims.
Sec. 409: Modifies House provision limiting payments for
BIA and IHS contract support costs in past years to the funds
available in law.
Sec. 410: Retains identical House and Senate (Section 408)
provision regarding Forest Service land management planning.
Sec. 411: Retains Senate provision (Section 409) which
specifies how the Forest Service should conduct and report
accomplishments for Alaskan timber sales and provides specific
direction concerning western redcedar and Alaska yellow cedar.
Sec. 412: Retains identical House (Section 411) and Senate
(Section 410) provision limiting certain mineral, oil and gas
leasing activities within the boundaries of certain National
Monuments.
Sec. 413: Retains identical House (Section 412) and Senate
(Section 411) provisions concerning wildfire suppression
assistance with foreign countries.
Sec. 414: Retains identical House (Section 413) and Senate
(Section 412) provisions pertaining to the awarding of federal
contracts by the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior in
certain disadvantaged communities.
Sec. 415: Modifies House Section 414 and Senate provision
limiting certain competitive sourcing studies and associated
activities at the Department of the Interior and the Forest
Service.
Sec. 416: Retains House Section 415 provision to extend the
Forest Service pilot rights-of-way administrative program.
Sec. 417: Retains House Section 416 extending a previous
provision regarding cooperative agreements with third parties.
Sec. 418: Retains Senate Section 413 which continues a
requirement in Alaska that IHS funds be made available only to
regional Alaska Native health organizations.
Sec. 419: Retains Senate Section 414 which restricts
funding for acquisition of land from being used for
declarations of taking or complaints in condemnation.
Sec. 420: Retains Senate Section 417 which extends
authority for Utah to work cooperatively on Forest Service
lands.
Sec. 421: Modifies Senate Section 419 which extends a
previous provision allowing the Forest Service to use
categorical exclusions for certain grazing activities, but
excludes use of this authority in federally designated
wilderness areas.
Sec. 422: Retains Senate Section 420 concerning certain
marina fees on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, CA.
Sec. 423: Modifies Senate Section 421 to direct $15,000,000
from the timber roads purchaser election fund be distributed to
Forest Service regions for certain vegetative, fuels and road
treatments.
Sec. 424: Modifies Senate Section 422 requiring the sale of
5200 acres of national grassland parcels in North Dakota to
offset the acreage previously purchased at the Elkhorn Ranch in
Medora, North Dakota. Provides direction for future management
of the Elkhorn Ranch acquired by the Forest Service.
Sec. 425: Retains Senate Section 423 prohibiting Forest
Service eligibility requirement changes to grazing permits on
the Dakota Prairie Grasslands, ND.
Sec. 426: Retains Senate Section 425 on arts and artifacts
domestic indemnity.
Sect. 427: Retains Senate Section 426 transferring three
Job Corps centers from the National Park Service to the Forest
Service.
Sec. 428: Modifies Senate Section 427 on timber and
hazardous fuel reduction projects on the Sequoia and Sierra
National Forests, CA.
Sec. 429: Modifies Senate Section 428 which provides
permanent authority regarding fire fighter liability insurance.
The Forest Service and Department of Interior agencies that
participate in fire suppression and management activities are
directed to determine the positions within each agency that are
eligible to be reimbursed for professional liability insurance,
not to exceed one half of the cost of such insurance. Examples
of positions which should be considered for eligible for
reimbursement include temporary supervision or management of
personnel engaged in wildland or managed fire activities, such
as a type 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 incident commander, an operations
section chief, a division group supervisor, a fire use manager,
a prescribed fire manager or burn boss, a single resource boss,
or a squad boss; providing analysis or information that affects
a decision by a supervisor or manager about a wildland or
managed fire, such as a fire behavior analyst, a safety
officer, or a long term analyst; or directing the deployment of
equipment for a wildland or managed fire, such as a base camp
manager, an equipment manager, a helicopter coordinator, or an
initial attack dispatcher.
Sec. 430: Retains House Section 501, expressing the sense
of Congress on global climate change.
Sec. 431: Modifies House Section 603 which directs the
purchase of Energy Star light bulbs with funds provided by this
Act.
Sec. 432: Retains House Section 604 on EPA's proposal to
amend the Maximum Achievable Control Technology Standards.
Sec. 433: Retains the provision contained in Section 606 of
the House bill concerning the promulgation of rules in
conjunction with a commercial oil shale program in Colorado,
Utah and Wyoming.
The Appropriations Committees are aware that oil shale has
the potential to be an important energy resource, which will be
integral to our nation's future energy security. But this
development must proceed thoughtfully and with the full support
of the states of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. While industry is
still many years away from establishing the commercial
viability of new oil shale extraction technologies, there is
concern that the Department of the Interior may be moving ahead
before the full impacts of such a program are known, and
without full and complete cooperation of the affected States.
It is essential that these States have a meaningful opportunity
to review and comment on the Programmatic Environmental Impact
Statement (PEIS), draft proposed commercial leasing rules and
regulations, and relevant resource management planning
documents. Therefore, the Secretary is directed to provide
adequate time after the completion of the PEIS for the
Governors of the affected States of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming
to review any draft proposed or final commercial leasing
regulations, with additional time for public comment as
appropriate.
Sec. 434: Includes a new provision extending the Herger-
Feinstein Quincy Library Group (QLG) Forest Recovery Act (P.L.
105-277) for an additional three years until 2012; directs the
Forest Service to work with stakeholders on a possible
alternative course for implementing the extended effort; and
amends the QLG Act to clarify that certain Healthy Forest
Restoration Act authorities (Sections 104-106 of Public Law
108-148) can be applied to the types of treatments prescribed
under the Act.
Sec. 435: Modifies and moves a provision proposed by the
Senate in the State and Tribal Assistance Grants account, which
authorizes a transfer of $8,000,000 from the Environmental
Protection Agency to the Department of the Navy to fund efforts
to monitor and remediate groundwater contamination and other
pollution sources at Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard in San
Francisco, CA.
Sec. 436: Modifies and moves a provision proposed by the
Senate in the State and Tribal Assistance Grants account which
authorizes the Administrator to transfer $3,000,000 to the
Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality to fund high-
priority remediation and relocation programs for the Tar Creek
and Spring River watersheds in Oklahoma.
Sec. 437: The amended bill includes an across the board
rescission of 1.560 percent. This reduction shall be applied to
each program, project, and activity, except for Miscellaneous
Payments to Indians, which has a different application of the
rescission as specified in the statutory language. The bill
also requires the Office of Management and Budget to submit a
report within 30 days specifying the account and amount of each
rescission.
The amended bill does not include the following House
provisions:
Sec. 502: Limiting funds for land condemnations. This issue
is addressed in section 419.
Sec. 503: Limiting funds for Tongass National Forest timber
harvesting.
Sec. 504: Rescinding funds from the ``Historic Preservation
Fund''.
Sec. 601: A provision on reforestation of urban areas.
Sec. 602: A provision on Smithsonian outreach programs.
Sec. 605: Prohibiting contravention of the Pollution
Prevention Act of 1990. The Environmental Protection Agency has
confirmed that beginning in fiscal year 2008 the Protective
Security Detail will no longer be charged to the Criminal
Enforcement Program. The Agency is directed that none of the
funds provided for the criminal and civil enforcement programs
in the EPM and Superfund accounts are to be allocated to the
Protective Security Detail.
The amended bill does not include the following Senate
provisions:
Sec. 407: Providing additional authority to the Forest
Service on use of the road and trails fund.
Sec. 424: Requiring the Minerals Management Service to
withhold funds for administrative costs of mineral leasing
activities. Bill language on this matter is included under the
Minerals Management Service, Administrative Provisions heading.
TITLE V--WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
The amended bill provides a total of $300,000,000 for
emergency wildfire suppression activities of the Forest Service
and the Department of the Interior, including $222,000,000 for
the former and $78,000,000 for the latter. Although this Act
fully funds the anticipated wildfire suppression emergency
needs by funding the average emergency suppression expenditures
which occurred over the past ten years (inflation adjusted),
this additional allocation is required so that, if another
tragic wildfire season occurs as did last year, the Federal
government will once again be able to fully respond with its
exceptional firefighting resources without borrowing critically
needed program funds from land management agency accounts.
Disclosure of Earmarks and Congressional Directed Spending Items
Following is a list of congressional earmarks and
congressionally directed spending items (as defined in clause 9
of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives and
rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, respectively)
included in the House amendment or this explanatory statement,
along with the name of each Senator, House Member, Delegate, or
Resident Commissioner who submitted a request to the Committee
of jurisdiction for each item so identified. Items which did
not appear in the House or Senate versions of H.R. 2634 or S.
1696 or the accompanying committee reports are marked with an
asterisk. Neither the House amendment nor the explanatory
statement contains any limited tax benefits or limited tariff
benefits as defined in the applicable House and Senate rules.
The amounts displayed do not reflect the 1.56 percent
reduction that will be applied to all activities in the bill by
sec. 437.
INTERIOR / ENVIRONMENT
[The amounts displayed do not reflect the 1.56 percent reduction that will be applied to all activities in the bill by sec. 437.]
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State Agency Account Project Amount Requester(s)
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AK Bureau of Land Management Management of Lands and Alaska Conveyance Program $3,000,000 Stevens
Resources
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CA Bureau of Land Management Management of Lands and California Abandoned Mine Reclamation $1,000,000 Feinstein
Resources
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ID Bureau of Land Management Management of Lands and Idaho's Strategic Plan for Managing Noxious Weeds $1,000,000 Craig
Resources
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NV Bureau of Land Management Management of Lands and California National Historic Trail Interpretive Center $750,000 Reid
Resources exhibits
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UT Bureau of Land Management Management of Lands and Utah GIS--Roads Database $250,000 Bennett
Resources
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WY Bureau of Land Management Management of Lands and Wyoming Soil Survey Project $80,000 Enzi, Cubin
Resources
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CA Bureau of Land Management Construction Emergency Evacuation Facility for Dumont Dunes $456,000 President
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CA Bureau of Land Management Construction Harper Lake Area of Critical Environmental Concern $108,000 President
Fencing
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CA Bureau of Land Management Construction Headwaters Forest Road Trail System Resource $659,000 President
Interpretation, Phase I
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CO Bureau of Land Management Construction Colorado Canyons National Conservation Area $396,000 President
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CO Bureau of Land Management Construction Confluence River Access $187,000 President
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CO Bureau of Land Management Construction Grand Junction Trailhead and Overlook Improvements $146,000 President
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CO Bureau of Land Management Construction Penitente Canyon Rehabilitation $222,000 President
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ID Bureau of Land Management Construction Boise District Fire Sprinklers $330,000 President
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ID Bureau of Land Management Construction Lemhi River TMDL Road Maintenance, Phase II $2,368,000 President
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OR Bureau of Land Management Construction Twin Springs Recreation Site Maintenance $111,000 President
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UT Bureau of Land Management Construction Monticello and Price Vault Toilet Installations $108,000 President
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UT Bureau of Land Management Construction Vernal District Warehouse Yards Reconstruction, Phase $1,069,000 President
II
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CA Bureau of Land Management Land Acquisition California Desert Wilderness $500,000 Feinstein
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CA Bureau of Land Management Land Acquisition Coachella Valley Area of Critical Environmental $400,000 Feinstein, Bono
Concern
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CA Bureau of Land Management Land Acquisition Upper Sacramento River Area of Critical Environmental $1,250,000 President
Concern
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CO Bureau of Land Management Land Acquisition Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area $856,000 President, Ken Salazar, John Salazar
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ID Bureau of Land Management Land Acquisition Upper Snake / South Fork Snake River ACEC/SRMA $1,250,000 President, Craig
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MT Bureau of Land Management Land Acquisition Blackfoot River Special Recreation Management Area $500,000 President, Baucus, Tester
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NM Bureau of Land Management Land Acquisition El Malpais National Conservation Area $250,000 President, Domenici, Bingaman
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OR Bureau of Land Management Land Acquisition Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument $875,000 Wyden, Gordon Smith, Pelosi
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Multi Bureau of Land Management General Provisions, Section Oil & Gas Internet Pilot $250,000 Bennett
118
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HI US Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Management Hawaii Invasive Species Management $350,000 Inouye, Akaka, Hirono
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ID US Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Management California Condor and Aplomado Falcon $400,000 Craig, Simpson
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ID US Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Management Idaho Sage Grouse $250,000 Craig, Crapo, Simpson
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ID, MT, WY US Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Management Wolf Monitoring $250,000 Craig, Thomas, Enzi, Crapo, Simpson
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ME US Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Management Atlantic Salmon--Penobscot River $500,000 Snowe, Collins, Allen
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MS US Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Management Mississippi State Natural Resources Program $350,000 Cochran
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NM US Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Management Middle Rio Grande/Bosque Program $275,000 Domenici
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NV US Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Management Lahontan Cutthroat Trout $250,000 Reid
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NV US Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Management Nevada Biodiversity Research and Conservation Project $375,000 Reid
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TX US Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Management Caddo Lake Ramsar Center $150,000 Hutchison
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WA US Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Management National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Endangered $1,500,000 Dicks
Species Grants
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WA US Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Management Spartina Grass Eradication at Willapa Bay National $1,000,000 Murray, Cantwell, Dicks
Wildlife Refuge
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WV US Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Management Mussel Recovery $200,000 Byrd
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CA US Fish and Wildlife Service Construction Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge $5,000,000 Feinstein, Eshoo, Honda, Lofgren, Stark
Complex, San Francisco Bay Salt Pond Restoration
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GA US Fish and Wildlife Service Construction Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Repair Public Use $600,000 Chambliss, Isakson
Facilities
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HI US Fish and Wildlife Service Construction Hakalau National Wildlife Refuge, Fencing $900,000 Inouye, Akaka
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HI US Fish and Wildlife Service Construction Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Replace Fuel $1,250,000 President
Farm
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IL US Fish and Wildlife Service Construction Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, Devil's Kitchen $2,000,000 President
Dam, Phase II
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MD US Fish and Wildlife Service Construction Patuxent Research Refuge, Major Safety Reconstruction $4,000,000 President, Mikulski, Cardin, Sarbanes
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MI US Fish and Wildlife Service Construction Great Lakes Fisheries Resource Office, Fish Mass $1,750,000 Dingell, Kirk, Ehlers, Slaughter, Kildee,
Marking Equipment Hoekstra, Higgins, Sutton, Walberg, Sander
Levin, Conyers, Gwen Moore
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WV US Fish and Wildlife Service Construction Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge, River $1,000,000 Byrd
Island Erosion Control
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WV US Fish and Wildlife Service Construction White Sulphur Springs National Fish Hatchery, Facility $500,000 Byrd
Improvements
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WY US Fish and Wildlife Service Construction Jackson National Fish Hatchery, Seismic Rehabilitation $2,037,000 President
of Two Buildings, Phase IV
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AK US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Doyon $400,000 President, Stevens
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CT US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Stewart B. McKinney National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, $710,000 Dodd, Lieberman, Courtney
Menunketesuck Salt Meadow Marsh
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CT, NJ, NY, US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Highlands Conservation Act--easements $1,750,000 Specter, Lautenberg, Dodd, Lieberman,
PA Schumer, Clinton, Menendez, Engel, Pascrell,
Saxton, Holden, John Hall, LoBiondo, Dent,
Schwartz, Christopher Murphy, DeLauro,
Gerlach, Frelinghuysen, Garrett, Shays
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FL US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Key Deer National Wildlife Refuge $1,044,000 President
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HI US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge $4,000,000 President, Inouye, Akaka, Abercrombie, Hirono
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IA US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge $325,000 Harkin
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KY US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Clarks River National Wildlife Refuge $500,000 McConnell
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LA US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Red River National Wildlife Refuge $500,000 Landrieu, Vitter, McCrery
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MA, VT, NH, US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge $2,000,000 President, Edward Kennedy, Dodd, Lieberman,
CT Sununu, Courtney, Hodes, Olver
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MD US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge $400,000 Mikulski, Gilchrest
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MN, IA US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge $410,000 Harkin, Coleman, Klobuchar, Walz
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NJ US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Cape May National Wildlife Refuge $500,000 Lautenberg, Menendez, LoBiondo
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NJ US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge $1,200,000 Frelinghuysen, Lautenberg, Menendez
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RI US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex $500,000 Reed, Whitehouse, Langevin
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SD, ND US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Dakota Tallgrass Prairie Wildlife Management Area $325,000 Tim Johnson, Thune
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TX US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge $275,000 Hutchison, Cornyn, Lamar Smith
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TX US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge $500,000 Hutchison, Hinojosa
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VA US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge $505,000 Warner, Webb, Drake
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VA US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge $1,600,000 Warner, Webb, Drake, James Moran
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VA US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition James River National Wildlife Refuge $1,600,000 Warner, Webb, Robert Scott
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VA US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge $460,000 Jo Ann Davis, Warner, Webb
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WV US Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge $1,500,000 Byrd, Mollohan
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VA National Park Service Operations Appomattox Court House National Historic Park, Repairs $50,000 Goode
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VA National Park Service Operations Booker T. Washington National Monument, Repairs $100,000 Goode
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AL National Park Service National Recreation and National Voting Rights Interpretive Center, Selma $500,000 Artur Davis
Preservation
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CA National Park Service National Recreation and Angel Island Immigration Station $1,125,000 Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi, Woolsey
Preservation
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CA National Park Service National Recreation and Yosemite schools $125,000 Feinstein
Preservation
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DC National Park Service National Recreation and *National Law Enforcement Memorial Act, P.L. 106-492 $750,000 Hoyer, James Moran
Preservation
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HI National Park Service National Recreation and Native Hawaiian Culture and Arts $500,000 Inouye, Akaka
Preservation
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KS National Park Service National Recreation and Brown v. Board of Education Foundation $300,000 Tiahrt, Brownback
Preservation
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MD, VA National Park Service National Recreation and Chesapeake Bay Gateway Network $1,700,000 Mikulski, Cardin, JoAnn Davis, Hoyer, James
Preservation Moran, Ruppersberger, Sarbanes
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MI National Park Service National Recreation and Keweenaw National Historic Park Advisory Commission $200,000 Carl Levin, Stabenow
Preservation
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ND National Park Service National Recreation and Fort Mandan, Fort Lincoln $200,000 Dorgan, Conrad
Preservation
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NY National Park Service National Recreation and *Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial (NPS $500,000 Hinchey
Preservation Support)
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PA National Park Service National Recreation and Southwest Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation $1,200,000 Murtha
Preservation Commission
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UT National Park Service National Recreation and Crossroads of the West Historic District $300,000 Bennett
Preservation
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VA National Park Service National Recreation and Jamestown 2007 Commission $200,000 Warner, Webb
Preservation
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AL National Park Service Save America's Treasures Bullock County Courthouse, Union Springs $300,000 Shelby
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AL National Park Service Save America's Treasures Historic Preservation of the Kymulga Grist Mill $100,000 Mike Rogers (AL)
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AL National Park Service Save America's Treasures Ivy Green, Birthplace of Helen Keller, Tuscumbia $100,000 Cramer
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AL National Park Service Save America's Treasures Old Cahawba Center, Cahawba $175,000 Shelby
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AR National Park Service Save America's Treasures Clover Bend Historic Site $100,000 Berry
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AR National Park Service Save America's Treasures Lane House Theater, Eureka Springs $150,000 Lincoln, Pryor
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AZ National Park Service Save America's Treasures George Washington Carver High School, Phoenix $300,000 Pastor
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CA National Park Service Save America's Treasures Casa Grande, Santa Clara County $100,000 Honda
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CA National Park Service Save America's Treasures Maritime History Center for Working Families, Richmond $100,000 George Miller
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CA National Park Service Save America's Treasures Mission San Luis Rey, Oceanside $650,000 Feinstein, Boxer
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CA National Park Service Save America's Treasures Oroville Historic State Theater $200,000 Doolittle
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CA National Park Service Save America's Treasures San Juan Capistrano Historic Adobe Preservation $200,000 Calvert
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CO National Park Service Save America's Treasures Chimney Rock Pueblo, Pagosa Springs $245,000 Ken Salazar, John Salazar
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DE National Park Service Save America's Treasures Grand Opera House, Wilmington $250,000 Biden, Carper
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FL National Park Service Save America's Treasures Fort DeSoto $250,000 Bill Young
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GA National Park Service Save America's Treasures Old Fort Jackson, Savannah $300,000 Chambliss, Isakson, Kingston
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GA National Park Service Save America's Treasures Wesleyan College Historic District, Macon $100,000 Marshall
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IA National Park Service Save America's Treasures City National Bank Building, Mason City $400,000 Harkin, Grassley, Latham
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ID National Park Service Save America's Treasures Chesterfield Schoolhouse, Chesterfield $300,000 Craig
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ID National Park Service Save America's Treasures Historic Wilson Theater, Rupert $200,000 Craig
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IL National Park Service Save America's Treasures Knox College, Galesburg $300,000 Durbin
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IL National Park Service Save America's Treasures Scottish Rite Temple, Bloomington $175,000 Weller
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IN National Park Service Save America's Treasures St. Joseph's College Theatre Renovation, Rensselaer $100,000 Visclosky
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KS National Park Service Save America's Treasures Brown Mansion, Coffeyville $225,000 Tiahrt
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KS National Park Service Save America's Treasures Butler County Courthouse $300,000 Tiahrt
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KY National Park Service Save America's Treasures Perryville Battlefield Merchants Row Restoration $150,000 Chandler
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MA National Park Service Save America's Treasures William Cullen Bryant Home Homestead, Cummington $150,000 Olver
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MD National Park Service Save America's Treasures Lloyd Synagogue, Baltimore $125,000 Mikulski
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MD National Park Service Save America's Treasures Poplar Hill, Clinton $160,000 Hoyer
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MD National Park Service Save America's Treasures Rackliffe Plantation House $100,000 Gilchrest
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MI National Park Service Save America's Treasures Marquette Harbor Lighthouse, Marquette $300,000 Carl Levin, Stabenow
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MN National Park Service Save America's Treasures Ripley Gardens, Minneapolis $300,000 Coleman
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MO National Park Service Save America's Treasures Missouri Theater, Columbia $500,000 Bond
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MS National Park Service Save America's Treasures Curlee House, Corinth $150,000 Wicker
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MS National Park Service Save America's Treasures Immanuel Church, Winona $150,000 Cochran
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MS National Park Service Save America's Treasures Walthall County Courthouse, Tylertown $200,000 Cochran, Pickering
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NH National Park Service Save America's Treasures Daniel Webster Farmhouse, Franklin $100,000 Hodes
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NH National Park Service Save America's Treasures Littleton Opera House, Littleton $500,000 Gregg
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NM National Park Service Save America's Treasures Santa Maria El Mirador, Alcalde $150,000 Tom Udall
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NM National Park Service Save America's Treasures Zuni Pueblo Mission $100,000 Pearce
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NV National Park Service Save America's Treasures Goldfield Historic District, Goldfield $300,000 Reid
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NY National Park Service Save America's Treasures DeSeversky Center Building $150,000 Peter King
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NY National Park Service Save America's Treasures Maverick Concert Hall Preservation $150,000 Hinchey
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NY National Park Service Save America's Treasures Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester $100,000 Slaughter
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NY National Park Service Save America's Treasures Restoration of 1883 Lighthouse, Sleepy Hollow $100,000 Lowey
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NY National Park Service Save America's Treasures Seneca Knitting Mill, Seneca $250,000 Schumer, Clinton
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OH National Park Service Save America's Treasures Fire Fighters' Hall, Columbus $100,000 Pryce
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OH National Park Service Save America's Treasures Spring Hill Historic Home, Massillon $200,000 Regula
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OK National Park Service Save America's Treasures *Wintersmith Dam $250,000 Inhofe
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PA National Park Service Save America's Treasures Embassy Theatre, Burnham $250,000 John Peterson
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PA National Park Service Save America's Treasures Payne Gallery, Moravian College $150,000 Dent
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PA National Park Service Save America's Treasures Philadelphia Art Museum Exterior Facade $100,000 Fattah, Robert Brady
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PA National Park Service Save America's Treasures *Pittsburgh Courier Archive Preservation $150,000 Doyle
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PA National Park Service Save America's Treasures Polish American Cultural Center, Philadelphia $125,000 Specter
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PA National Park Service Save America's Treasures W.A. Young & Sons Foundry, Greene County $150,000 Murtha
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RI National Park Service Save America's Treasures John Brown House, Providence $300,000 Reed, Whitehouse
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SC National Park Service Save America's Treasures Carnegie Library, Darlington $150,000 Spratt
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SC National Park Service Save America's Treasures Goodwill School, Maysville $100,000 Clyburn
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SC National Park Service Save America's Treasures Pompion Hill Chapel $100,000 Henry Brown
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SD National Park Service Save America's Treasures Grand Opera House, Dell Rapids $250,000 Tim Johnson
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TN National Park Service Save America's Treasures Agricultural Reform Movement Building, Lewisburg $100,000 Gordon
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TX National Park Service Save America's Treasures Granbury Historic Opera House Theater $100,000 Edwards
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TX National Park Service Save America's Treasures Knights of Pythias Building, Cuero $350,000 Hutchison
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VA National Park Service Save America's Treasures Gadsby's Historic Site, Alexandria $50,000 James Moran
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VA National Park Service Save America's Treasures Henry County Courthouse $100,000 Goode
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VA National Park Service Save America's Treasures Lee-Fendall House, Alexandria $100,000 James Moran
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VT National Park Service Save America's Treasures Bethel Town Hall, Bethel $305,000 Leahy
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WA National Park Service Save America's Treasures Bremerton Public Library Restoration $250,000 Dicks
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WV National Park Service Save America's Treasures Mother's Day Shrine, Grafton $125,000 Byrd
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WV National Park Service Save America's Treasures Wetzel County Courthouse, New Martinsville $140,000 Mollohan
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AK National Park Service Construction Kenai Fjords National Park $2,000,000 Stevens
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AR National Park Service Construction Buffalo National River $2,057,000 President
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CA National Park Service Construction California National Parks $980,000 Feinstein
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CA National Park Service Construction Channel Islands National Park $9,295,000 President
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CA National Park Service Construction Joshua Tree National Park (planning) $300,000 Jerry Lewis, Bono
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CA National Park Service Construction Redwood National Park (roads) $2,346,000 President
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CA National Park Service Construction Redwood National Park (maintenance facility) $11,737,000 President
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CA National Park Service Construction San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park $10,051,000 President
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CO National Park Service Construction Rocky Mountain National Park $2,817,000 President
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DC National Park Service Construction White House $5,731,000 President
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FL National Park Service Construction Everglades National Park $14,526,000 President, Bill Nelson, Martinez
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HI National Park Service Construction USS Arizona Memorial $4,545,000 President
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IN National Park Service Construction George Rogers Clark National Historic Park $3,764,000 President
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KY National Park Service Construction Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site (p/ $350,000 McConnell, Ron Lewis
d)
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KY National Park Service Construction Mammoth Cave National Park $1,353,000 President
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MA National Park Service Construction Cape Cod National Seashore $1,292,000 President
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MD National Park Service Construction Glen Echo Park, National Park Service $700,000 Mikulski, Cardin, Van Hollen, Wynn
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MI National Park Service Construction Keweenaw National Historic Park (Union Bldg) $504,000 Carl Levin, Stabenow
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MO National Park Service Construction Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis Arch $1,500,000 Bond
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MT National Park Service Construction Glacier National Park $900,000 Baucus, Tester
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MT National Park Service Construction Yellowstone National Park $3,800,000 President
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NC National Park Service Construction Blue Ridge Parkway $1,916,000 President
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NC National Park Service Construction *Great Smokies National Park, North Shore Road $6,000,000 Shuler
Settlement
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NY National Park Service Construction Gateway National Recreation Area $1,042,000 President, Meeks
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OH National Park Service Construction Cuyahoga Valley National Park $1,750,000 Regula
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PA National Park Service Construction Benjamin Franklin Memorial $1,500,000 Specter, Robert Brady
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PA National Park Service Construction Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area $1,503,000 President
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PA National Park Service Construction Fort Necessity National Battlefield $250,000 Murtha
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SD National Park Service Construction Wind Cave National Park $1,158,000 President
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TN National Park Service Construction Moccasin Bend National Archeological District $2,000,000 Wamp
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UT National Park Service Construction Utah Public Land Artifact Preservation Act $1,000,000 Bennett, Hatch, Rob Bishop, Cannon, Matheson
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VA National Park Service Construction Petersburg National Battlefield $3,045,000 President
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VA National Park Service Construction Shenandoah National Park $2,292,000 President
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WA National Park Service Construction Fort Vancouver National Historic Site $850,000 Murray, Cantwell, Baird
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WA National Park Service Construction Mount Rainier National Park $1,812,000 President, Baird, Inslee, McDermott, Larsen,
Doc Hastings, McMorris Rodgers, Adam Smith,
Reichert
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WA National Park Service Construction Olympic National Park $20,000,000 President, Murray, Baird, Inslee, McDermott,
Larsen, Doc Hastings, McMorris Rodgers, Adam
Smith, Reichert
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WV National Park Service Construction Harpers Ferry National Historic Park $710,000 Byrd
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WV National Park Service Construction New River Gorge National Scenic River $1,545,000 Byrd
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CA National Park Service Land Acquisition Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Rancho Corral de $2,000,000 Feinstein, Lantos
Tierra
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CO National Park Service Land Acquisition Mesa Verde National Park $1,600,000 Allard, Ken Salazar, John Salazar
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GA National Park Service Land Acquisition Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area $2,000,000 Isakson, Chambliss
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IN National Park Service Land Acquisition Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore $1,500,000 Visclosky, Lugar
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KY National Park Service Land Acquisition Cumberland Gap National Historic Park, Fern Lake $1,900,000 Harold Rogers, McConnell
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MA National Park Service Land Acquisition Cape Cod National Seashore $2,000,000 Edward Kennedy, Kerry
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ME National Park Service Land Acquisition Acadia National Park $600,000 Snowe, Collins
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MI National Park Service Land Acquisition Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore $350,000 Carl Levin, Stabenow
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MO National Park Service Land Acquisition Wilson's Creek National Battlefield $450,000 Blunt
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MS National Park Service Land Acquisition Gulf Islands National Seashore, Cat Island $2,000,000 Cochran
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PA National Park Service Land Acquisition Flight 93 National Memorial $5,000,000 President, Specter, Casey, Shuster
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TN National Park Service Land Acquisition Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park $1,820,000 Lamar Alexander, Wamp
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TX National Park Service Land Acquisition Big Thicket National Preserve $1,250,000 Hutchison, Kevin Brady
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VA National Park Service Land Acquisition Shenandoah Valley Battlefield National Historic $1,000,000 Wolf, Warner, Webb
District
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WA National Park Service Land Acquisition Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve $500,000 Murray, Cantwell, Inslee, Larsen
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WA National Park Service Land Acquisition Mt. Rainier National Park, Carbon River Gateway $1,200,000 Murray, Cantwell, Dicks
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WI National Park Service Land Acquisition Ice Age National Scenic Trail $1,400,000 Kohl, Baldwin, Obey, Petri, Paul Ryan, Kagen,
Gwen Moore, Kind
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WV National Park Service Land Acquisition Gauley River National Recreation Area $500,000 Byrd
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WV National Park Service Land Acquisition New River Gorge National River $500,000 Byrd
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AK US Geological Survey Surveys, Investigations and USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory $4,000,000 Stevens
Research
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AZ US Geological Survey Surveys, Investigations and San Pedro Partnership Monitoring and Reporting $300,000 Kyl, Giffords
Research
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CA US Geological Survey Surveys, Investigations and San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Monitoring $500,000 Feinstein, Boxer, Eshoo, Honda, Lofgren,
Research and Research Stark
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HI US Geological Survey Surveys, Investigations and Hawaii Water and Streamflow Monitoring $500,000 Inouye, Akaka
Research
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LA US Geological Survey Surveys, Investigations and Long Term Estuary Assessment Group $500,000 Landrieu, Jefferson
Research
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MA US Geological Survey Surveys, Investigations and Equipment for Anadromous Fish Research $150,000 Olver
Research
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NM US Geological Survey Surveys, Investigations and US-Mexico Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Act $500,000 Domenici, Bingaman
Research Research
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TN US Geological Survey Surveys, Investigations and Memphis Area Regional Acquifer Partnership $350,000 Lamar Alexander, Tanner
Research
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VT US Geological Survey Surveys, Investigations and Lake Champlain Collaborative Water Studies $343,000 Leahy
Research
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WA US Geological Survey Surveys, Investigations and Hood Canal Dissolved Oxygen Study $200,000 Dicks
Research
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WI US Geological Survey Surveys, Investigations and Great Lakes Research Vessel Infrastructure $500,000 Obey
Research
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WV US Geological Survey Surveys, Investigations and Leetown Science Center Molecular Biology Research $800,000 Byrd
Research
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MS Minerals Management Service Royalty and Offshore Minerals Gulf of Mexico, Development of Mineral Resources $900,000 Cochran, Lott
Management
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NV Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Government Western Shoshone Claims Act, Implementation $300,000 Reid
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ID Bureau of Indian Affairs Natural Resources US-Canada Pacific Salmon Treaty program $1,800,000 Crapo
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WA Bureau of Indian Affairs Natural Resources Lake Roosevelt law enforcement program $350,000 Murray, Cantwell, McMorris Rodgers
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WA Bureau of Indian Affairs Natural Resources Upper Columbia United Tribes, Rights Protection $315,000 Murray, Cantwell, McMorris Rodgers
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WA Bureau of Indian Affairs Natural Resources WA Timber-Fish-Wildlife Conservation Program $1,740,000 Murray, Cantwell
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Multi Bureau of Indian Affairs Natural Resources Circle of Flight, Conservation Program $600,000 Kohl, Kind, Oberstar
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ND Bureau of Indian Affairs Education United Tribes Tech College, Operations $4,000,000 Dorgan, Conrad, Pomeroy
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NM Bureau of Indian Affairs Education Navajo Technical College (Crown Point), Operations $2,000,000 Domenici, Bingaman
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National Bureau of Indian Affairs Community and Economic *Ironworkers Training Program $400,000 Lynch
Development
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Pac. Islands Office of Insular Affairs Assistance to Territories Enewetak Food and Agriculture $500,000 Domenici, Akaka, Bingaman
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Pac. Islands Office of Insular Affairs Assistance to Territories Four Atoll Healthcare $1,000,000 Domenici, Akaka, Bingaman
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Pac. Islands Office of Insular Affairs Assistance to Territories Marianas Islands Population and Workforce Surveys $750,000 Domenici, Akaka, Bingaman
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Pac. Islands Office of Insular Affairs Assistance to Territories Prior Service Benefits $850,000 Domenici, Akaka, Bingaman
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CA Environmental Protection Science and Technology Central California Ozone Study--San Joaquin Valley $1,400,000 Feinstein, Boxer, Kevin McCarthy
Agency Pollution Control District
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National Environmental Protection Science and Technology Water Environment Research Foundation $2,100,000 Feinstein, Inouye, Lautenberg, Boxer, Cardin,
Agency Clinton, Collins, Graham, Kerry, Menendez,
Schumer, Snowe, James Moran, Norton
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National Environmental Protection Science and Technology American Water Works Research Foundation $1,725,000 Feinstein, Allard, Bingaman, Reid, Ken
Agency Salazar, DeGette, Heller
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Multi Environmental Protection Science and Technology Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and $1,050,000 Feinstein, Domenici, Bingaman, Boxer
Agency Policy
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National Environmental Protection Science and Technology Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research $525,000 Inouye, Bond, McConnell, Kohl, Bayh, Sherrod
Agency Brown, Bunning, Chambliss, Klobuchar, Carl
Levin, Lugar, Stabenow, Conyers, Etheridge,
John Lewis, David Price, Towns, Herseth
Sandlin, Inslee
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National Environmental Protection Environmental Programs and National Rural Water Association $7,700,000 Leahy, Murray, Dorgan, Durbin, Stevens,
Agency Management Specter, Domenici, Bond, Shelby, Biden,
Bingaman, Sherrod Brown, Bunning, Cantwell,
Cardin, Casey, Clinton, Coleman, Collins,
Conrad, Cornyn, Dodd, Dole, Enzi, Grassley,
Hagel, Inhofe, Edward Kennedy, Kerry,
Klobuchar, Lieberman, Carl Levin, Lincoln,
Lugar, Menendez, Murkowski, Obama, Pryor,
Roberts, Ken Salazar, Sanders, Schumer,
Gordon Smith, Snowe, Stabenow, Thomas,
Thune, Vitter, Voinovich, Warner, Webb,
Wyden, Rodney Alexander, John Peterson,
Tiahrt
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Multi Environmental Protection Environmental Programs and Small Public Water System Technology Assistance $2,800,000 Durbin, Stevens, Bond, Specter, McConnell
Agency Management Centers
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National Environmental Protection Environmental Programs and Rural Community Assistance Partnership $2,450,000 Leahy, Harkin, Mikulski, Landrieu, Bingaman,
Agency Management Sherrod Brown, Coleman, Conrad, Crapo,
Grassley, Klobuchar, Kerry, Carl Levin,
Lincoln, Pryor, Ken Salazar, Sanders, Gordon
Smith, Tester, Voinovich, Wyden, Duncan,
Hobson
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National Environmental Protection Environmental Programs and Water Systems Council Wellcare Program $700,000 Harkin, Reed, Baucus, Bayh, Cardin, Casey,
Agency Management Clinton, Crapo, Dole, Grassley, Kohl,
Lincoln, Pryor, Lugar, Schumer, Gordon
Smith, Tester, Whitehouse, Wyden, Allen,
Arcuri, Boswell, Courtney, Etheridge,
Gohmert, Hooley, Langevin, Larson, Loebsack,
Michaud, Brad Miller, Dennis Moore,
Christopher Murphy, David Price, Reynolds
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MD, VA Environmental Protection Environmental Programs and Increase President's Budget for Chesapeake Bay Program $2,232,000 Mikulski, Cardin, Castle, Jo Ann Davis, Tom
Agency Management Davis, Gilchrest, Holden, Hoyer, James
Moran, Sarbanes, Robert Scott, Van Hollen,
Wynn
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CA Environmental Protection Environmental Programs and San Francisco Bay Wetlands Restoration Grants $5,000,000 Feinstein
Agency Management
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NY, CT Environmental Protection Environmental Programs and Increase President's Budget for Long Island Sound $4,533,000 Schumer, Clinton, Dodd, Lieberman, Ackerman,
Agency Management Restoration Programs Tim Bishop, Courtney, DeLauro, Israel,
Larson, Lowey, Christopher Murphy, Shays
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MS Environmental Protection Environmental Programs and Increase President's Budget for Gulf of Mexico Program $1,243,000 Cochran
Agency Management
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VT Environmental Protection Environmental Programs and Increase President's Budget for Lake Champlain Program $1,816,000 Leahy, Sanders
Agency Management
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AK Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Increase President's budget for Alaska Native Village $9,500,000 Stevens, Murkowski
Agency Grants Water and Sewer Improvement Program
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard Cleanup $8,000,000 Feinstein
Agency Grants
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance San Joaquin Valley and South Coast Air Quality $10,000,000 Feinstein
Agency Grants Management Districts for Targeted Emission Reduction
Grants
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TX Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance *El Paso / Brownsville set aside from Mexico Border $5,000,000 Reyes, Hutchison, Cornyn
Agency Grants funds
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OK Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Transfer to State of Oklahoma to fund Tar Creek $3,000,000 Inhofe
Agency Grants Superfund site remediation and relocations
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AK Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Kenai for water treatment project $300,000 Murkowski
Agency Grants
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AK Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Kodiak for water and sewer improvements $500,000 Stevens
Agency Grants project
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AK Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Wrangell for water and sewer upgrade $550,000 Stevens
Agency Grants project
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AK Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Ketchikan for water and sewer upgrade $550,000 Stevens
Agency Grants project
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AL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Eva for wastewater treatment facility $300,000 Sessions
Agency Grants upgrade project
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AL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Somerville for wastewater construction $384,000 Shelby
Agency Grants project
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AL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Clanton for the Water Treatment Plant $1,084,000 Shelby, Bachus
Agency Grants Upgrade Project
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AL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Jackson County for wastewater and drinking water $132,000 Shelby, Cramer
Agency Grants infrastructure project
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AL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Glencoe for Storm Drainage and Sewer $500,000 Aderholt
Agency Grants Repairs
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AL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Muscle Shoals for Wastewater $500,000 Cramer
Agency Grants Infrastructure
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AR Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority for $300,000 Lincoln, Pryor
Agency Grants water system improvement project
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AR Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Fayetteville for Wastewater Improvements $300,000 Lincoln, Pryor, Boozman
Agency Grants
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AR Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Pine Bluff for Sewer Improvements $500,000 Ross
Agency Grants
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AR Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Rogers, Northwest Arkansas Conservation $500,000 Boozman
Agency Grants Authority for Water and Wastewater Infrastructure and
Watershed Management
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AZ Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Bullhead City for wastewater treatment plant expansion $300,000 Kyl, Franks
Agency Grants project
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Ventura County Public Works Agency for sewer system $1,000,000 Feinstein, Capps
Agency Grants upgrades in El Rio Forebay
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Eureka for the Martin Slough Interceptor $1,000,000 Feinstein, Boxer, Mike Thompson
Agency Grants Project
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Pasadena for perchlorate remediation and $1,175,000 Feinstein, Boxer, Schiff
Agency Grants drinking water system improvements
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of East Palo Alto for Water Infrastructure $825,000 Feinstein, Boxer, Eshoo
Agency Grants Improvements
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Big Bear Lake, Department of Water and $1,000,000 Feinstein, Boxer, Jerry Lewis
Agency Grants Power to Upgrade the Pipeline Infrastructure
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Arcadia for the Arcadia/Sierra Madre Joint $500,000 Dreier, Boxer
Agency Grants Water Infrastructure
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Barstow, County of San Bernardino for the $500,000 McKeon, Boxer
Agency Grants Sewer Master Plan Implementation, Phase II
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Huntington Park for the Slauson Avenue $400,000 Roybal-Allard
Agency Grants Water Line and Yard Rehabilitation
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Manteca for Water Treatment Infrastructure $500,000 McNerney
Agency Grants Upgrades
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Sacramento, Sacramento Department of $500,000 Matsui, Boxer
Agency Grants Utilities for Downtown Sacramento Combined Sewer
Improvement
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of San Clemente for Expansion of Water $500,000 Calvert, Boxer
Agency Grants Reclamation Facility
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of San Francisco, Public Utilities Commission $700,000 Pelosi
Agency Grants for the Lower Mission District
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Seaside for Monterey Bay Outfall Dry $500,000 Farr, Boxer
Agency Grants Weather Diversion
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Temple City for the Sanitation Sewer $150,000 Schiff
Agency Grants Rehabilitation Project
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Vallejo for Mare Island Sanitary Sewer and $650,000 George Miller, Boxer
Agency Grants Storm Drain
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CA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Yucca Valley, Hi-Desert Water Agency for a $375,000 Jerry Lewis
Agency Grants Wastewater Treatment System
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CO Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Arkansas Valley Conduit for drinking water project $600,000 Allard, Ken Salazar, Musgrave, John Salazar
Agency Grants
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CO Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Idaho Springs for wastewater and drinking water $1,000,000 Allard
Agency Grants project
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CO Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Bayfield for wastewater facility upgrade $400,000 Allard, Ken Salazar, John Salazar
Agency Grants project
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CO Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Manitou Springs for drinking water system $350,000 Allard
Agency Grants improvement project
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CO Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The South Platte River Basin, Central Colorado Water $300,000 Allard, Ken Salazar
Agency Grants Conservancy District for water system improvements
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CO Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Eckley for Water Treatment Improvements $150,000 Musgrave, Ken Salazar
Agency Grants
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CT Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Enfield for sanitary sewer inflow $300,000 Dodd, Lieberman, Courtney
Agency Grants elimination project
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CT Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Southington for wellhead cleanup $300,000 Lieberman, Larson
Agency Grants
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CT Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Stamford for Stormwater and Wastewater $500,000 Shays, Dodd, Lieberman
Agency Grants Infrastructure
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CT Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Colchester for the Flatbrook Road Booster $500,000 Courtney
Agency Grants Station
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CT Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Prospect for the College Farms Subdivision $138,000 DeLauro
Agency Grants
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CT Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Wolcott for Storm Drainage and Other $500,000 Christopher Murphy
Agency Grants Infrastructure
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DE Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Wilmington for filter membrane plant $300,000 Biden, Carper, Castle
Agency Grants improvements
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DE Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance New Castle County for Old Shellpot Interceptor $300,000 Biden, Carper, Castle
Agency Grants Improvements
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FL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Jacksonville for wastewater infrastructure $300,000 Martinez, Corrine Brown, Crenshaw
Agency Grants improvement project
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FL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Emerald Coast Utility Authority for water system $300,000 Nelson, Martinez, Jeff Miller
Agency Grants improvements
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FL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance St. Johns River Water Management District for $500,000 Weldon, Martinez
Agency Grants Expansion of the Taylor Creek Reservoir
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FL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Brooksville, Southwest Florida Water $500,000 Putnam, Martinez
Agency Grants Management District for Peace and Myakka River
Watershed Restoration
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FL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Clearwater for Wastewater and Reclaimed $500,000 Bill Young, Bilirakis
Agency Grants Water Infrastructure
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FL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea for North Beach $500,000 Klein
Agency Grants Neighborhood Improvements, Phase II
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FL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Sarasota, Sarasota County for the $500,000 Buchanan, Martinez
Agency Grants Phillippi Creek Septic System Replacement
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FL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Tallahassee for the Advanced Water $500,000 Boyd
Agency Grants Treatment Facility
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FL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Weston for Bonaventure Storm Water Pumps $500,000 Wasserman Schultz
Agency Grants
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FL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Town of Callahan for the Wastewater Treatment Plant $500,000 Crenshaw
Agency Grants
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FL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Town of Jupiter for Water Treatment Plant Enhancement $500,000 Mahoney
Agency Grants
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FL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance *The Town of Pembroke Park for Sanitary Sewage System $450,000 Meek, Bill Nelson
Agency Grants Rehabilitation
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GA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Atlanta for wastewater and stormwater $300,000 Chambliss, Isakson, Gingrey, Henry Johnson,
Agency Grants rehabilitation project Kingston, John Lewis
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GA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Metro North Georgia Water Planning District for $300,000 Chambliss, Isakson, Gingrey, Henry Johnson,
Agency Grants water and wastewater improvements project Tom Price, David Scott, John Lewis
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GA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Valdosta for the Valdosta Scott Water Tank $500,000 Kingston
Agency Grants Construction
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GA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Vienna for Sewer Treatment Facility $500,000 Sanford Bishop
Agency Grants
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IA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Clinton for wastewater treatment plant $300,000 Harkin, Grassley, Braley
Agency Grants construction project
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IA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Davenport for water system improvements $500,000 Harkin, Grassley, Braley
Agency Grants
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IA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Ottumwa for combined sewer overflow $400,000 Harkin, Grassley, Loebsack
Agency Grants improvements
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IA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Mason City for the Wastewater Treatment $500,000 Latham, Grassley, Harkin
Agency Grants Facility Expansion
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ID Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Marsing for drinking water system $432,000 Craig, Crapo
Agency Grants reconstruction project
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ID Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Hazelton for wastewater system $469,000 Craig, Crapo
Agency Grants improvements project
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ID Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of St. Anthony for wastewater system $562,000 Craig, Crapo
Agency Grants improvements project
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ID Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Rexburg for wastewater and stormwater $137,000 Craig, Crapo
Agency Grants facilities project
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ID Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Buhl for drinking water project $300,000 Craig, Crapo
Agency Grants
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ID Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Twin Falls for the Auger Falls Wastewater $500,000 Simpson, Crapo
Agency Grants Treatment Project
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IL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Village of Chatham for water supply infrastructure $300,000 Durbin
Agency Grants improvements
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IL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Monmouth for wastewater system $300,000 Durbin
Agency Grants improvements
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IL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Northeastern Illinois Sewer Consortium for $350,000 Obama, Kirk
Agency Grants wastewater infrastructure improvements
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IL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Village of Riverdale for water system improvements $300,000 Durbin
Agency Grants
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IL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Oregon, Public Works Department for $500,000 Manzullo
Agency Grants Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure
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IL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Virginia for a Water Treatment Facility $500,000 LaHood
Agency Grants
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IL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Village of Farina for Water System Improvements $250,000 Shimkus
Agency Grants
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IL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Village of Hazel Crest for Water Improvements $143,000 Jackson
Agency Grants
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IL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Village of Johnsburg for Wastewater Conveyance and $500,000 Bean
Agency Grants Treatment Works
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IL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Village of South Chicago Heights for Wastewater $300,000 Jackson
Agency Grants Treatment Facility
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IL Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Village of Steward for Wastewater Infrastructure $300,000 Hastert
Agency Grants
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IN Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Centerville for wastewater treatment plant $300,000 Lugar
Agency Grants upgrade project
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IN Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Fort Wayne for the Storm Sewer Separation $500,000 Bayh, Lugar, Souder
Agency Grants Project
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IN Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Evansville for the Mt. Auburn Neighborhood $500,000 Bayh, Lugar, Ellsworth
Agency Grants Sanitary Sewer System
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IN Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Carmel for Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation $500,000 Burton, Bayh, Lugar
Agency Grants
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IN Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Charlestown for the Water Treatment $500,000 Hill, Lugar
Agency Grants Facility
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IN Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of South Bend for the Sewer Overflow Sensory $500,000 Donnelly, Bayh, Lugar
Agency Grants Control Network
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IN Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Linden, Department of Water and Sewage for $200,000 Buyer
Agency Grants the Sewer Treatment Plant Expansion
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IN Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Merrillville for Water Infrastructure $500,000 Visclosky
Agency Grants Improvements
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KS Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Great Bend for 10th Street sewer line repairs $500,000 Brownback
Agency Grants
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KS Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Ellsworth for wastewater treatment project $300,000 Brownback
Agency Grants
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KS Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Larned for the Waste Water Treatment Plant $500,000 Brownback, Jerry Moran
Agency Grants
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KS Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Iola for Water and Wastewater $500,000 Brownback, Boyda
Agency Grants Infrastructure
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KS Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Lenexa for stormwater improvement project $300,000 Brownback, Roberts, Dennis Moore
Agency Grants
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KS Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Prescott for wastewater treatment plant $300,000 Roberts
Agency Grants construction project
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KS Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Sedan, Rural Water District Number 4 $1,200,000 Tiahrt
Agency Grants Chautauqua County for Water and Wastewater
Infrastructure
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KY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Ewing in Fleming County for wastewater $300,000 Bunning
Agency Grants construction project
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KY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Green River Valley Water District in Hart County $1,000,000 McConnell
Agency Grants for drinking water project
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KY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Monroe County Water District, Tompkinsville for $1,350,000 McConnell
Agency Grants drinking water and construction project
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KY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Harlan, Baxter-Rosspoint Sewer Line $500,000 Harold Rogers
Agency Grants Expansion
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KY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of La Grange, Oldham County Sewer District $500,000 Geoff Davis
Agency Grants for the Ohio River Wastewater Treatment Plant in
Goshen
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KY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Lexington, Lexington-Fayette Urban County $1,200,000 Chandler
Agency Grants Government for South Elkhorn Pump Station and Force
Main Project
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KY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Louisville, Louisville and Jefferson $500,000 Yarmuth
Agency Grants County Municipal Sewer District for the Shively Area
Pump Stations Eliminations Project
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LA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Hammond for water system upgrades $400,000 Landrieu
Agency Grants
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LA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of St. Gabriel for wastewater treatment $300,000 Landrieu
Agency Grants expansion
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LA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Bastrop for wastewater treatment facility $200,000 Landrieu
Agency Grants improvements
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LA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Ascension Parish for wastewater treatment facility $300,000 Vitter, Melancon
Agency Grants construction project
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LA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Grambling for the East Martin Luther King / $500,000 Rodney Alexander
Agency Grants Tarbutton Road Sewer Extension
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MA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Brockton for wastewater system $300,000 Edward Kennedy, Kerry, Lynch
Agency Grants improvements
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MA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Marlborough for wastewater treatment plant $300,000 Edward Kennedy, Kerry, McGovern
Agency Grants upgrades
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MA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Cities of Fall River and New Bedford and the Town $500,000 Frank, McGovern, Edward Kennedy, Kerry
Agency Grants of Acushnet for Bristol County Sewer Improvements
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MA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of West Springfield, Pioneer Valley Planning $1,400,000 Olver, Neal, Edward Kennedy, Kerry
Agency Grants Commission for the Connecticut River Combined Sewer
Overflow Clean-up
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MA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Winthrop for Storm Drain Remediation $500,000 Markey
Agency Grants
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MD Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Baltimore for sanitary and combined sewer $700,000 Mikulski, Cardin
Agency Grants infrastructure improvements
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MD Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Frostburg for combined sewer overflow $300,000 Mikulski, Cardin
Agency Grants improvements
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MD Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Westernport for combined sewer overflow $200,000 Mikulski, Cardin
Agency Grants improvements
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MD Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Cumberland for combined sewer overflow $200,000 Mikulski, Cardin
Agency Grants improvements
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MD Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of College Park for the Paint Branch $100,000 Hoyer
Agency Grants Watershed Storm Management Plan
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ME Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Presque Isle for wastewater treatment $300,000 Snowe, Collins
Agency Grants plant relocation project
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ME Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Ellsworth for wastewater treatment $300,000 Snowe, Collins
Agency Grants relocation project
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MI Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Saint Louis for water supply improvements $300,000 Carl Levin, Stabenow, Camp
Agency Grants
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MI Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Office of the Genessee County Drain Commissioner for $500,000 Kildee, Carl Levin, Stabenow
Agency Grants the North-East Relief Sewer
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MI Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Brighton for the Mill Pond Lane Bypass $165,000 Mike Rogers (MI)
Agency Grants Sanitary Sewer Improvements
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MI Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Detroit, Charter County of Wayne for the $1,000,000 Dingell, Carl Levin, Stabenow
Agency Grants Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration
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MI Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Township of Waterford, Oakland County Drain $500,000 Knollenberg, Carl Levin, Stabenow
Agency Grants Commission for the Evergreen-Farmington Sanitary
Sewer Overflow Control Demonstration Project
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MN Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of New Auburn for drinking water facility $300,000 Coleman
Agency Grants construction project
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MN Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Minneapolis for combined sewer overflow $300,000 Klobuchar, Ellison
Agency Grants improvements
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MN Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids Public $1,000,000 Oberstar, Klobuchar, Coleman
Agency Grants Utilities Commission for Wastewater Treatment
Facility
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MO Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Linn for wastewater treatment plant $2,350,000 Bond
Agency Grants expansion project and line extension
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MO Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Hayti, Pemiscot Consolidated Public Water $150,000 Emerson
Agency Grants Supply District 1 for a Water Storage Tank
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MO Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Joplin for the Wildwood Ranch Sewer $500,000 Blunt
Agency Grants
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MS Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Flora for drinking water and wastewater $1,550,000 Cochran
Agency Grants construction project
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MS Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Oxford for wastewater construction project $342,000 Cochran
Agency Grants
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MS Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance West Rankin Utility Authority for wastewater $200,000 Cochran
Agency Grants rehabilitation project
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MS Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Ridgeland for wastewater and water quality $200,000 Cochran
Agency Grants protection project
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MS Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Boyle for water and sewer line extension $100,000 Cochran
Agency Grants project
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MS Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Brookhaven for water and wastewater $300,000 Lott
Agency Grants improvements project
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MS Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Fulton for wastewater improvements project $100,000 Cochran
Agency Grants
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MS Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Independence, Tate County School District $500,000 Wicker
Agency Grants for Water System Improvements
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MT Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Crow Tribe for wastewater lagoon replacement $600,000 Baucus, Tester
Agency Grants
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MT Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Helena for Missouri River wastewater $300,000 Baucus, Tester, Rehberg
Agency Grants treatment plant improvements
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MT Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Conrad for Conrad Wastewater Treatment $500,000 Rehberg, Baucus
Agency Grants Facility Improvements
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NC Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Lower Cape Fear Water and Sewer Authority, Leland, for $300,000 Burr, McIntyre
Agency Grants Water and Sewer Improvements
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NC Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Neuse Regional Water and Sewer Authority, Kinston, $300,000 Dole, Burr, Walter Jones
Agency Grants NC for water treatment system project
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NC Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Mount Airy, Surry County for Water and $500,000 Foxx
Agency Grants Wastewater Infrastructure along the I-77 and I-74
Interstates Corridor
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NC Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Durham for Water and Wastewater $500,000 David Price, Burr
Agency Grants Improvements
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NC Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance *The Town of Cary for Planning, Design, and Permitting $500,000 David Price, Burr
Agency Grants for the Western Wake Regional Wastewater Management
Facilities
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NC Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Troy, Montgomery County for the Pump $500,000 Hayes
Agency Grants Station Improvement Project
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NC Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Murphy, Cherokee County for the U.S. $500,000 Shuler
Agency Grants Highway 74 19/129 Sewer Project
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ND Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Washburn for water treatment plant $200,000 Dorgan, Conrad
Agency Grants improvements
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ND Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Riverdale for water treatment plant $300,000 Dorgan, Conrad
Agency Grants upgrades
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ND Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Southeast Water Users District for upgrades for the $300,000 Dorgan, Conrad, Pomeroy
Agency Grants rural water system
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ND Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Cities of Fortuna, Noonan and Columbus for the BDW $200,000 Dorgan, Conrad
Agency Grants Water Systems Association water system improvements
and expansion
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ND Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Lakota for water treatment plant upgrades $200,000 Dorgan, Conrad
Agency Grants
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ND Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The North Central Rural Water Consortium for rural $100,000 Dorgan, Conrad
Agency Grants water system expansion
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ND Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Walsh Rural Water District for water system $100,000 Dorgan, Conrad
Agency Grants improvements
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NE Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Lincoln for wastewater treatment $600,000 Ben Nelson, Hagel, Fortenberry
Agency Grants facilities upgrade project
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NE Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of South Sioux City for wastewater system $500,000 Ben Nelson, Fortenberry
Agency Grants improvements
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NE Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Omaha for combined sewer separation $400,000 Ben Nelson, Hagel
Agency Grants project
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NH Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Manchester for stormwater facilities $500,000 Gregg
Agency Grants construction project
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NH Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Goffstown for Danis/Lynchville Water and Sewer Project $300,000 Gregg, Shea-Porter
Agency Grants
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NH Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Lancaster for drinking water improvements project $225,000 Gregg
Agency Grants
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NH Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Jaffrey for wastewater and water quality $300,000 Gregg, Sununu, Hodes
Agency Grants protection project
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NH Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Greenfield for wastewater treatment $300,000 Sununu
Agency Grants project
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NJ Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Bayonne Municipal Utilities Authority for combined $400,000 Lautenberg, Menendez, Sires
Agency Grants sewer overflow improvements
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NJ Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Passaic Valley Sewer Commission for Water and $500,000 Rothman, Garrett, Pascrell, Payne, Sires,
Agency Grants Wastewater Infrastructure Improvements Lautenberg, Menendez
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NJ Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Pennsauken Township for combined sewer study $200,000 Lautenberg, Menendez
Agency Grants
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NJ Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Kearny Municipal Utilities Authority for $300,000 Lautenberg, Menendez, Rothman
Agency Grants wastewater pumping station improvements
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NJ Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Borough of Sussex for the Hamburg Avenue Water $400,000 Garrett
Agency Grants Line
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NM Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Rio Rancho for water system upgrades $300,000 Bingaman, Heather Wilson
Agency Grants
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NM Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Albuquerque / Bernalillo County for Valley Utilities $400,000 Domenici, Bingaman
Agency Grants Project
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NM Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Belen for wastewater facility improvement $400,000 Domenici, Bingaman
Agency Grants project
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NM Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Aztec for Municipal Wastewater Treatment $500,000 Domenici, Bingaman, Tom Udall
Agency Grants
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NM Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance West Mesa and the City of Las Cruces for water and $400,000 Domenici, Bingaman
Agency Grants wastewater system improvements project
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NM Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Bernalillo for Arsenic and Water System $500,000 Heather Wilson, Domenici, Bingaman
Agency Grants Improvements
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NM Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Pueblo of San Felipe for Water and Wastewater $400,000 Tom Udall
Agency Grants Infrastructure Improvements
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NM Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Santa Fe for Water Distribution $500,000 Tom Udall, Bingaman, Domenici
Agency Grants Infrastructure
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NV Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Fallon for Wastewater System Improvement $500,000 Heller, Ensign, Reid
Agency Grants
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NV Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Reno for sewer extension project $400,000 Reid
Agency Grants
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NV Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Carson City for water system improvements $300,000 Reid, Heller
Agency Grants
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NV Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Moapa Valley Water District for arsenic treatments $300,000 Reid, Porter
Agency Grants
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NV Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Esmeralda County for water system improvements $100,000 Reid
Agency Grants
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NV Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Overton for the Collection System $212,000 Porter, Reid
Agency Grants Infiltration Study
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NY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Village of Owego for wastewater treatment facilty $300,000 Schumer, Clinton
Agency Grants improvements
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NY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Village of Sydney for water system improvements $300,000 Schumer, Clinton
Agency Grants
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NY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Monroe County Water Authority for the Southeast $500,000 Kuhl
Agency Grants Service Area Reliability Improvements
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NY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Buffalo, Erie County Water Authority for $500,000 Reynolds, Clinton, Schumer
Agency Grants the Ball Pump Station Emergency Power Generation
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NY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Middletown for Water and Wastewater $400,000 Hinchey
Agency Grants Improvements
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NY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of New York for the Twin Lakes Restoration $500,000 Serrano
Agency Grants Project
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NY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Rye for Sewer Pump Station Repairs $200,000 Lowey
Agency Grants
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NY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Bethel for Sewer Extension $1,000,000 Hinchey
Agency Grants
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NY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Geneva, Water District 12 for Water $500,000 Arcuri
Agency Grants Infrastructure
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NY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Goshen for the Hambletonian Park Water $400,000 John Hall
Agency Grants Main Replacement
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NY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Halfmoon for the Halfmoon Water Line $500,000 Gillibrand
Agency Grants
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NY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Marcellus for Drinking Water $500,000 Walsh
Agency Grants Infrastructure Improvements
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NY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Village of Briarcliff Manor for Sewer Upgrades $300,000 Lowey
Agency Grants
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NY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Village of Lyndonville for the Wastewater $440,000 Slaughter
Agency Grants Treatment Plant
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NY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Village of Mamaroneck for Sewer System Upgrades $200,000 Lowey
Agency Grants
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OH Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission for $300,000 Sherrod Brown, Specter, Voinovich, Lugar,
Agency Grants organic detection system improvements Chabot
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OH Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Burr Oak for drinking water plant construction project $300,000 Voinovich
Agency Grants
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OH Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Columbus, Columbus Downtown Development $500,000 Pryce, Voinovich
Agency Grants Corporation for the Scioto Mile River Level Park
Project
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OH Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Elyria for the Water Treatment Intake $380,000 Sutton
Agency Grants Plant
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OH Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Port Clinton, Ottawa County for the $500,000 Kaptur, Voinovich
Agency Grants Watermain Corrosion and Sanitary Sewer Program
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OH Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Zanesville, Muskingum County Commission $500,000 Space
Agency Grants for the West Pike Sanitary Sewer
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OH Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Office of the Trumbull County Commissioners for $500,000 Tim Ryan
Agency Grants the Scott Street Sanitary Sewer in Newton Falls
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OH Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Village of Rushville for Sewage Infrastructure $402,000 Hobson
Agency Grants Improvements
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OK Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Ardmore for wastewater and water quality $300,000 Inhofe
Agency Grants protection project
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OR Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Coburg for a Wastewater System Project $500,000 Gordon Smith, Wyden, DeFazio
Agency Grants
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OR Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Portland for decentralized stormwater $550,000 Wyden, Blumenauer, Wu
Agency Grants management system improvements
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Monongahela Township, Greene County for Sewer system $300,000 Casey
Agency Grants upgrades
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Three Rivers Wet Weather Demonstration Program for $800,000 Specter, Doyle
Agency Grants Continuation of the Wet Weather Demo Program
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Franklin Township for wastewater upgrade and water $200,000 Specter, Platts
Agency Grants quality protection project
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Borough of Cochranton for wastewater collection $200,000 Specter
Agency Grants and treatment facilities construction project
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance *The Borough of Bridgeport for Combined Sewer Overflow $400,000 Sestak
Agency Grants Infrastructure Improvements
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Somerset County for Waterline Construction Project $200,000 Specter
Agency Grants
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Borough of Stoystown, Somerset Township Municipal $675,000 Murtha, Casey
Agency Grants Authority for Stoystown Water Project
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Borough of Bellefonte for waterline replacement $100,000 Specter, Casey
Agency Grants project
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Scranton for wastewater and stormwater $100,000 Specter, Kanjorski
Agency Grants infrastructure project
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance New Castle, Lawrence County Planning Office for Water $500,000 Altmire
Agency Grants and Wastewater Infrastructure Improvements at
Millennium Park
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Borough of Slatington for Wastewater $165,000 Dent
Agency Grants Infrastructure Improvements
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Cressona, Cressona Borough Authority for $80,000 Holden
Agency Grants the Cressona Belt Filter Press
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Hershey, Derry Township Municipal $83,000 Holden
Agency Grants Authority for Wastewater Treatment Facility
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Lock Haven, Clinton County Municipal $500,000 John Peterson
Agency Grants Authority for Sewer Pump Station Construction in
Woodward Township
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Williamsport, Lycoming Department of $500,000 Carney, Casey
Agency Grants Planning and Community Development for a Water System
for Muncy Industrial Park
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Township of Cecil, Cecil Township Municipal $500,000 Tim Murphy
Agency Grants Authority for the Miller's Run Sewer System
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PA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Yardley, Yardley Borough Sewer Authority for $500,000 Patrick Murphy
Agency Grants Wastewater Infrastructure
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RI Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of East Providence for Nutrient Removal $700,000 Patrick Kennedy, Reed, Whitehouse
Agency Grants
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RI Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Warwick for water transmission system $500,000 Reed, Whitehouse, Langevin
Agency Grants improvements
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RI Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Newport for water pollution control $300,000 Reed, Whitehouse
Agency Grants management
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SC Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of West Columbia for wastewater line $150,000 Graham, Joe Wilson
Agency Grants replacement project
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SC Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Charleston for stormwater drainage system $150,000 Graham, Henry Brown
Agency Grants project
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SC Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Gaffney for the Water Treatment Plant $1,000,000 Spratt
Agency Grants Upgrade
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SC Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Andrews for Water and Wastewater $500,000 Clyburn
Agency Grants Improvements
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SD Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Box Elder for water infrastructure $500,000 Tim Johnson
Agency Grants improvements
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SD Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Rapid City for Source Water Protection $600,000 Herseth Sandlin, Tim Johnson, Thune
Agency Grants Improvements
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TN Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Claiborne County, wastewater treatment project, $1,000,000 Lamar Alexander
Agency Grants Harrogate TN
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TN Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Johnson County for Sutherland Water Line Extension $300,000 Lamar Alexander
Agency Grants project
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TN Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Morgan County for Gobey Community water system $300,000 Lamar Alexander
Agency Grants improvement project
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TN Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Collierville, Public Works Department for $200,000 Blackburn
Agency Grants Wastewater Infrastructure
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TX Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Austin Water Utility for wastewater $300,000 Hutchison, Cornyn, Lamar Smith
Agency Grants treatment upgrade project
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TX Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Lanana Creek for the stormwater project $800,000 Hutchison, Gohmert
Agency Grants
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TX Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of San Antonio, San Antonio Water System for $800,000 Hutchison, Gonzales, Rodriguez, Lamar Smith
Agency Grants the Central Watershed Sewer Relief Line C-02
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TX Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Richmond, Fort Bend County for a Water and Wastewater $500,000 Lampson
Agency Grants Project
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TX Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Grandview for an Elevated Water Storage $500,000 Edwards
Agency Grants Tank
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TX Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Hillsboro for Water and Wastewater System $500,000 Edwards
Agency Grants Improvement
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TX Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Killeen for Water and Sewer Infrastructure $500,000 Carter
Agency Grants
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TX Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Sabinal for Wastewater Treatment Facility $200,000 Rodriguez
Agency Grants Project
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UT Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Syracuse City for drinking water improvement project $500,000 Bennett
Agency Grants
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UT Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Centerfield for drinking water improvement project $1,100,000 Bennett
Agency Grants
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UT Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Salt Lake City for water quality protection project $300,000 Hatch
Agency Grants
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UT Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Riverton for the Water Pump Station $500,000 Cannon, Bennett
Agency Grants
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VA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Onancock for wastewater treatment plant $300,000 Warner, Webb, Drake
Agency Grants project
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VA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Lynchburg for sewer infrastructure $300,000 Warner, Webb, Goode, Goodlatte
Agency Grants improvements
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VA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Fairfax County, Stormwater Planning Division for $700,000 James Moran
Agency Grants Stormwater Management Planning
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VA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Henry County, Henry County Public Service Authority $500,000 Goode
Agency Grants for Water Infrastructure Improvements
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VA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Alexandria and Arlington County for Four $700,000 James Moran
Agency Grants Mile Run
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VT Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Pownal for wastewater upgrades $750,000 Leahy, Sanders
Agency Grants
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VT Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Town of Hardwick for water system upgrades $500,000 Leahy, Sanders
Agency Grants
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WA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Monitor, Chelan County Public Utilities $600,000 Murray, Cantwell, Doc Hastings
Agency Grants District, for drinking water upgrades
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WA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Winlock for wastewater treatment plant $400,000 Murray, Cantwell
Agency Grants upgrades
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WA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of West Richland for water treatment system $300,000 Murray, Cantwell, Doc Hastings
Agency Grants upgrades
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WA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Mason County for Wastewater Infrastructure $2,000,000 Dicks
Agency Grants Improvements for the Community of Belfair
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WA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Seattle, Seattle Public Utilities for South Park $500,000 McDermott, Cantwell
Agency Grants Drainage Project
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WA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Skokomish, Skokomish Indian Tribal Nation for $1,000,000 Dicks
Agency Grants Wastewater Treatment
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WA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Longview for a water treatment facility $500,000 Baird, Cantwell
Agency Grants
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WA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Mercer Island for the Mercer Island Sewer $500,000 Reichert
Agency Grants Lake Line Replacement
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WA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Mountlake Terrace for Water Main System $500,000 Inslee, Cantwell
Agency Grants Replacement
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WA Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Puyallup for Water and Wastewater $500,000 Adam Smith, Cantwell
Agency Grants Infrastructure
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WI Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Waukesha for drinking water improvements $600,000 Kohl, Sensenbrenner
Agency Grants
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WI Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Green Bay for Storm water facilities $400,000 Kohl, Kagen
Agency Grants improvements
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WI Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance Holcombe, the Lake Holcombe Sanitary District for $1,000,000 Obey
Agency Grants Wastewater Treatment and Sewer System Upgrades
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WI Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Peshtigo for Water System Improvements $500,000 Kagen, Kohl
Agency Grants
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WV Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Moorefield for wastewater treatment plant $3,000,000 Byrd
Agency Grants improvements
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WV Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The Mingo County Redevelopment Authority for water and $3,000,000 Byrd
Agency Grants sewer improvements
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WV Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Milton for Milton Water System $1,000,000 Rahall
Agency Grants Improvements
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WV Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Pennsboro for Wastewater Infrastructure $550,000 Mollohan
Agency Grants Improvement
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WV Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Weston for the Jackson's Mill Waterline $250,000 Capito
Agency Grants
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WV Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Westover for Sanitary Sewer Service $825,000 Mollohan
Agency Grants Upgrade
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WY Environmental Protection State and Tribal Assistance The City of Cheyenne for Wastewater treatment plant $300,000 Enzi
Agency Grants upgrade project
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MS Forest Service Research Center for Bottomland Hardwoods $400,000 Cochran
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VT, NH, Forest Service Research Northeastern States Research Cooperative $650,000 Leahy, Snowe, Collins, Schumer, Clinton
NY, ME
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CA Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Service Region 5 Infrastructure Assistance $1,300,000 Feinstein
Grants
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CA Forest Service State and Private Forestry Urban Forestry Program, El Segundo $200,000 Harman
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IL Forest Service State and Private Forestry City of Chicago GreenStreets Tree Planting Program $350,000 Durbin
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WA Forest Service State and Private Forestry Washington Family Forest Foundation Private Land $250,000 Murray
Management Database
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IN Forest Service State and Private Forestry City of Indianapolis Urban Tree Planting Program $200,000 Lugar, Bayh, Carson
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IN Forest Service State and Private Forestry Purdue University Hardwood Scanning Technology Center $500,000 Lugar
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MD, VA, PA Forest Service State and Private Forestry Chesapeake Bay Forestry Program $950,000 Mikulski, Warner, Casey, Cardin, Webb,
Gilchrest
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NH Forest Service State and Private Forestry Northern Forest Center Sustainable Forestry Grants $200,000 Gregg, Hodes
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VT Forest Service State and Private Forestry State of Vermont Wood Products Collaborative $350,000 Leahy
Assistance Grants
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WA Forest Service State and Private Forestry Tacoma-Seattle Regional Urban Forestry Restoration $500,000 Dicks, Cantwell
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WV Forest Service State and Private Forestry Wood Education and Resource Center $1,673,000 Byrd
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AL Forest Service Forest Legacy Mobile Tensaw Delta $2,000,000 President, Shelby, Bonner
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AR Forest Service Forest Legacy Moro Big Pine $2,215,000 Lincoln, Pryor, Ross
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CA Forest Service Forest Legacy Chalk Mountain Ranch, Six Rivers to the Sea $2,000,000 Feinstein
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CT Forest Service Forest Legacy Skiff Mountain phase II $770,000 President, Dodd, Lieberman, Christopher
Murphy
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GA Forest Service Forest Legacy Paulding County Land Area $3,500,000 President, Chambliss, Isakson, Gingrey
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HI Forest Service Forest Legacy Kealakekua Ranch $1,989,000 President, Inouye
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ID Forest Service Forest Legacy Gold Creek Ranch $1,600,000 Craig
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KY Forest Service Forest Legacy Marrowbone Creek $1,122,000 McConnell
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ME Forest Service Forest Legacy Lower Penobscot Forest $3,300,000 President, Snowe, Collins, Michaud
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MI Forest Service Forest Legacy Northern Great Lakes Forest, Kamehameha $2,000,000 President, Carl Levin, Stabenow, Stupak
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MN Forest Service Forest Legacy Koochiching $3,500,000 President, Coleman, Klobuchar, Oberstar
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MT Forest Service Forest Legacy North Swan River Valley $2,000,000 President, Baucus, Tester
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NC Forest Service Forest Legacy Clarendon Plantation $1,500,000 Dole, McIntyre
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NH Forest Service Forest Legacy Ossipee Pine Barrens $2,380,000 President, Gregg, Sununu, Shea-Porter
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NJ Forest Service Forest Legacy Sparta Mountain South $2,500,000 Lautenberg, Menendez, Garrett
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NM Forest Service Forest Legacy Vallecitos High Country $1,145,000 Domenici, Bingaman
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SC Forest Service Forest Legacy Piedmont of South Carolina, Belfast $1,500,000 Graham
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TN Forest Service Forest Legacy Big Forks $1,000,000 President
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TX Forest Service Forest Legacy Turkey Creek $1,500,000 President, Kevin Brady
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UT Forest Service Forest Legacy Chalk Creek South Fork #2 $1,400,000 President, Bennett
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VA Forest Service Forest Legacy Nottoway River $1,500,000 President, Warner, Webb, James Moran
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VT Forest Service Forest Legacy Brushwood/ West Fairlee Community Forest $1,500,000 Leahy, Sanders, Welch
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WI Forest Service Forest Legacy Northern Wild Rivers $2,300,000 Kohl
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WV Forest Service Forest Legacy Potomac River Watershed South Branch Project $750,000 President, Byrd
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AK Forest Service National Forest System Tongass Timber Supply Pipeline $4,000,000 Stevens
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KY Forest Service National Forest System Daniel Boone National Forest, Law Enforcement $900,000 McConnell
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MO Forest Service National Forest System Mark Twain National Forest, Methamphetamine Prevention $500,000 Emerson
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MS Forest Service National Forest System NASA Stennis Space Center to fund healthy forest $700,000 Cochran
restoration data
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ND Forest Service National Forest System Leafy Spurge Control Cooperative Funding for the $350,000 Dorgan, Conrad
Dakota Prairie Grasslands
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NM Forest Service National Forest System Valles Caldera National Preserve $2,900,000 Domenici, Tom Udall
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NV Forest Service National Forest System Nevada Wilderness Boundary Demarcation $250,000 Reid
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AK Forest Service Construction Tongass National Forest, Blind Slough Picnic Area $59,000 President
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AK Forest Service Construction Tongass National Forest, False Island Remote Facility $1,177,000 President
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AK Forest Service Construction Tongass National Forest, Situk River Wildlife Viewing $390,000 President
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AZ Forest Service Construction Verde Valley Administrative Site $1,651,000 President
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CA Forest Service Construction Markleeville-Turtlerock Fire Station Relocation, Phase $1,460,000 President
II
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CA Forest Service Construction Sierra National Forest, Dinkey Mill Station $830,000 President
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CA Forest Service Construction Tahoe National Forest, Bullards Bar Drinking Water $264,000 President
System Reconstruction
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CA Forest Service Construction Tahoe National Forest, Yuba River Campground Drinking $138,000 President
Water System Reconstruction
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CO Forest Service Construction Arapaho/Roosevelt National Forest, Administrative Site $250,000 President
Acquisition
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CO Forest Service Construction Island Lake Recreation Area $533,000 President
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CO Forest Service Construction Medicine Bow/Routt National Forest, Hahn's Peak Lake $305,000 President
Campground Rehabilitation
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CO Forest Service Construction Montrose Bunkhouse $808,000 President
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GA Forest Service Construction Tallulah-Chattooga Ranger District Office $2,600,000 President
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HI Forest Service Construction Hawaii Experimental Forest Research Facilities $685,000 Inouye, Akaka
Planning and Design
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ID Forest Service Construction Idaho Panhandle National Forest, Avery Ranger Station $884,000 President
Water/Wastewater Replacement
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IL Forest Service Construction Shawnee National Forest, Vienna Administrative Site, $318,000 President
Phase II
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MI Forest Service Construction Houghton Forestry Sciences Lab Mesocosm $990,000 President
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MS Forest Service Construction Okhissa Lake Recreation Area Construction $1,000,000 Cochran
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MT Forest Service Construction Bitterroot National Forest, West Fork/Sula Ranger $338,000 President
Station Wastewater Upgrades
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MT Forest Service Construction Helena National Forest, Lincoln Sewer Connection $759,000 President
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NH Forest Service Construction White Mountain National Forest, Administrative Site $6,300,000 President
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NM Forest Service Construction Sleepygrass Campground/Picnic Ground $803,000 President, Domenici
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OR Forest Service Construction Cloud Cap Inn Rescue Base Construction $300,000 Wyden, Gordon Smith
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OR Forest Service Construction North Umpqua Fire Warehouse $600,000 President
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OR Forest Service Construction Ochoco National Forest, Rager Water System $340,000 President
Rehabilitation, Phase I
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PR Forest Service Construction International Institute of Tropical Forestry $473,000 President
Headquarters Renovation
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TN Forest Service Construction Chattanooga Air Tanker Base Phase III Construction $750,000 Lamar Alexander, Wamp
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TX Forest Service Construction National Forests in Texas, Supervisors Office, Phase I $2,500,000 President
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UT Forest Service Construction Dixie National Forest, Pine Valley Recreation Area $740,000 President
Reconstruction, Phase I
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WA Forest Service Construction Cle Elum Office Addition $1,000,000 President
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WI Forest Service Construction Forest Products Lab Modernization, Phase II $15,000,000 President, Kohl
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WV Forest Service Construction Monongahela National Forest, Campground Improvements $600,000 Byrd
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WV Forest Service Construction--Trails Monongahela National Forest, Trail Improvements $300,000 Byrd
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WV Forest Service Construction--Roads Monongahela National Forest, Road Improvements $1,860,000 Byrd
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WY Forest Service Construction Bighorn National Forest, Sheridan Work Center $57,000 President
Rehabilitation
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WY Forest Service Construction Medicine Bow/Routt National Forest, Saratoga Storage/ $570,000 President
Cache
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WY Forest Service Construction Shoshone National Forest, Falls Campground $171,000 President
Rehabilitation, Loop B
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AK Forest Service Land Acquisition Craig Recreation Land Transfer $500,000 Stevens, Murkowski
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AL Forest Service Land Acquisition Alabama National Forests $750,000 Shelby
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CA Forest Service Land Acquisition Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, Agua Dulce $1,600,000 Feinstein, McKeon, Blumenauer, Larsen,
project area Walden, Tauscher, DeFazio, Hooley, Kevin
McCarthy
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CA Forest Service Land Acquisition San Bernardino National Forest, Santa Rosa San Jacinto $500,000 Bono
National Monument
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CA Forest Service Land Acquisition Tahoe and El Dorado National Forests, Sierra Nevada $2,000,000 Feinstein, Boxer
Checkerboard
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CO Forest Service Land Acquisition Arapaho National Forest, Beaver Brook $1,000,000 Allard, Ken Salazar, Mark Udall
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CO Forest Service Land Acquisition Uncompahgre National Forest, Ophir Valley $1,000,000 Allard, Ken Salazar, John Salazar
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FL Forest Service Land Acquisition Florida National Scenic Trail, Multiple National $580,000 Wexler, Mica, Stearns, Meek, Jeff Miller,
Forests Wasserman-Schulz, Castor
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ID Forest Service Land Acquisition Payette National Forest, Thunder Mountain phase III $900,000 President, Craig
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IL Forest Service Land Acquisition Shawnee National Forest $850,000 Durbin
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IN Forest Service Land Acquisition Hoosier National Forest Unique Areas $525,000 Lugar, Bayh
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KY Forest Service Land Acquisition Daniel Boone National Forest $175,000 McConnell
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ME Forest Service Land Acquisition White Mountain National Forest, Maine Access, Haystack $550,000 President, Snowe, Collins, Allen
Notch Trailhead
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MI Forest Service Land Acquisition Huron-Manistee National Forest, Great Lakes/Great $215,000 Hoekstra, Ehlers
Lands
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MI Forest Service Land Acquisition Ottawa National Forest, Great Lakes/Great Lands $1,000,000 Carl Levin, Stabenow
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MN Forest Service Land Acquisition Superior National Forest, Long Island $1,250,000 Coleman, Klobuchar, Oberstar
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MT Forest Service Land Acquisition Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, Sun Ranch $4,500,000 President, Baucus, Tester
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OR, WA Forest Service Land Acquisition Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Bridal Veil $1,000,000 Murray, Cantwell, Wyden, Gordon Smith, Baird,
Blumenauer
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OR, WA Forest Service Land Acquisition Pacific Northwest Streams, Multiple National Forests $750,000 President
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SD Forest Service Land Acquisition Black Hills National Forest $1,000,000 Tim Johnson, Thune, Herseth Sandlin
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TN Forest Service Land Acquisition Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee Mountains $3,100,000 Lamar Alexander, David Davis
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UT Forest Service Land Acquisition Uinta & Wasatch National Forests, Bonneville Shoreline $1,345,000 Bennett, Hatch
Trail
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UT Forest Service Land Acquisition Wasatch-Cache National Forests, High Uintas $1,250,000 Bennett
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VT Forest Service Land Acquisition Green Mountain National Forest $1,350,000 Leahy
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WI Forest Service Land Acquisition Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Wisconsin Wild $2,300,000 Kohl, Obey
Waterways
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AK Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Alaska City and Borough Fire Risk Reduction Grants $2,500,000 Stevens
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AZ, NM, CO Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes Fuels $2,600,000 Kyl, Domenici, Bingaman, Allard, Ken Salazar
Reduction
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CA Forest Service Wildland Fire Management California Fire Safe Councils Community Fire Risk $4,000,000 Feinstein
Reduction Grants
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CA Forest Service Wildland Fire Management South Lake Tahoe Public Utility Commission Water $1,000,000 Feinstein, Boxer, Doolittle
System Improvements to Increase Fire Response
Capacity
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ID Forest Service Wildland Fire Management University of Idaho FRAMES Fire Research Portal $650,000 Craig, Crapo
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WI Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Forest Products Lab for Demonstration of Converting $2,000,000 Obey
Biomass to Ethanol
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Amended Bill Total--With Comparisons
The total new budget (obligational) authority for the
fiscal year 2008 recommended in the amended bill, with
comparisons to the fiscal year 2007 amount, the 2008 budget
estimates, and the House and Senate recommendations for 2008
follow:
(In thousands of dollars)
New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year 2007... $27,377,312
Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority, fiscal
year 2008........................................... 25,688,503
House bill, fiscal year 2008............................ 27,631,373
Senate bill, fiscal year 2008........................... 27,186,125
Amended bill, fiscal year 2008.......................... 26,891,125
Amended bill compared with:
New budget (obligational) authority, fiscal year
2007.............................................. -486,187
Budget estimates of new (obligational) authority,
fiscal year 2008.................................. +1,202,622
House bill, fiscal year 2008........................ -740,248
Senate bill, fiscal year 2008....................... -295,000