Union Calendar No. 75 TH ST CONGRESS SESSION H. R. 3052...Union Calendar No. 75 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 3052 [Report No. 116–100] Making appropriations for the Department

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Union Calendar No. 75 116TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 3052 [Report No. 116–100]

Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JUNE 3, 2019 Ms. MCCOLLUM, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the fol-

lowing bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

A BILL Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior,

environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1

tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2

That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 3

money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 4

Department of the Interior, environment, and related 5

agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, 6

and for other purposes, namely: 7

TITLE I 8

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 9

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 10

MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES 11

(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 12

For necessary expenses for protection, use, improve-13

ment, development, disposal, cadastral surveying, classi-14

fication, acquisition of easements and other interests in 15

lands, and performance of other functions, including main-16

tenance of facilities, as authorized by law, in the manage-17

ment of lands and their resources under the jurisdiction 18

of the Bureau of Land Management, including the general 19

administration of the Bureau, and assessment of mineral 20

potential of public lands pursuant to section 1010(a) of 21

Public Law 96–487 (16 U.S.C. 3150(a)), $1,265,097,000, 22

to remain available until September 30, 2021; of which 23

$125,653,000 for annual and deferred maintenance shall 24

remain available until expended, and of which $6,000,000 25


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is for a pilot program to complement activities authorized 1

by Public Law 92–195: Provided, That amounts in the 2

fee account of the Bureau of Land Management permit 3

process improvement fund may be used for bureau-related 4

expenses directly associated with the processing of oil and 5

gas applications for permits to drill and related use of au-6

thorizations. 7

In addition, $39,696,000 is for Mining Law Adminis-8

tration program operations, including the cost of admin-9

istering the mining claim fee program, to remain available 10

until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected by the 11

Bureau and credited to this appropriation from mining 12

claim maintenance fees and location fees that are hereby 13

authorized for fiscal year 2020, so as to result in a final 14

appropriation estimated at not more than $1,265,097,000, 15

and $2,000,000, to remain available until expended, from 16

communication site rental fees established by the Bureau 17

for the cost of administering communication site activities. 18

Of the unobligated balances from amounts made 19

available under this heading in fiscal year 2016 or before, 20

$14,000,000 is permanently rescinded: Provided, That no 21

amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-22

ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 23

pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or 24


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the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 1

of 1985. 2

CONSTRUCTION 3



available under this heading $5,000,000 is permanently 6

rescinded: Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded 7

from amounts that were designated by the Congress as 8

an emergency requirement pursuant to the Concurrent 9

Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and 10

Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 11

LAND ACQUISITION 12

For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 13

206, and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579, including admin-14

istrative expenses and acquisition of lands or waters, or 15

interests therein, $33,800,000, to be derived from the 16

Land and Water Conservation Fund and to remain avail-17

able until expended. 18

OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS 19

For expenses necessary for management, protection, 20

and development of resources and for construction, oper-21

ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and 22

other improvements on the revested Oregon and California 23

Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Or-24

egon and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and 25


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on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or in-1

terests therein, including existing connecting roads on or 2

adjacent to such grant lands; $117,195,000, to remain 3

available until expended: Provided, That 25 percent of the 4

aggregate of all receipts during the current fiscal year 5

from the revested Oregon and California Railroad grant 6

lands is hereby made a charge against the Oregon and 7

California land-grant fund and shall be transferred to the 8

General Fund in the Treasury in accordance with the sec-9

ond paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of 10

August 28, 1937 (43 U.S.C. 2605). 11

RANGE IMPROVEMENTS 12

For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of 13

lands and interests therein, and improvement of Federal 14

rangelands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land 15

Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1751), 16

notwithstanding any other Act, sums equal to 50 percent 17

of all moneys received during the prior fiscal year under 18

sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 19

315b, 315m) and the amount designated for range im-20

provements from grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts 21

from Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the Depart-22

ment of the Interior pursuant to law, but not less than 23

$10,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-24


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vided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall be available for 1

administrative expenses. 2

SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES 3

For administrative expenses and other costs related 4

to processing application documents and other authoriza-5

tions for use and disposal of public lands and resources, 6

for costs of providing copies of official public land docu-7

ments, for monitoring construction, operation, and termi-8

nation of facilities in conjunction with use authorizations, 9

and for rehabilitation of damaged property, such amounts 10

as may be collected under Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 11

1701 et seq.), and under section 28 of the Mineral Leasing 12

Act (30 U.S.C. 185), to remain available until expended: 13

Provided, That notwithstanding any provision to the con-14

trary of section 305(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 15

1735(a)), any moneys that have been or will be received 16

pursuant to that section, whether as a result of forfeiture, 17

compromise, or settlement, if not appropriate for refund 18

pursuant to section 305(c) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 19

1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended under 20

the authority of this Act by the Secretary to improve, pro-21

tect, or rehabilitate any public lands administered through 22

the Bureau of Land Management which have been dam-23

aged by the action of a resource developer, purchaser, per-24

mittee, or any unauthorized person, without regard to 25


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whether all moneys collected from each such action are 1

used on the exact lands damaged which led to the action: 2

Provided further, That any such moneys that are in excess 3

of amounts needed to repair damage to the exact land for 4

which funds were collected may be used to repair other 5

damaged public lands. 6

MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS 7

In addition to amounts authorized to be expended 8

under existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such 9

amounts as may be contributed under section 307 of Pub-10

lic Law 94–579 (43 U.S.C. 1737), and such amounts as 11

may be advanced for administrative costs, surveys, ap-12

praisals, and costs of making conveyances of omitted lands 13

under section 211(b) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1721(b)), to 14

remain available until expended. 15

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 16

The Bureau of Land Management may carry out the 17

operations funded under this Act by direct expenditure, 18

contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and reimburs-19

able agreements with public and private entities, including 20

with States. Appropriations for the Bureau shall be avail-21

able for purchase, erection, and dismantlement of tem-22

porary structures, and alteration and maintenance of nec-23

essary buildings and appurtenant facilities to which the 24

United States has title; up to $100,000 for payments, at 25


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the discretion of the Secretary, for information or evidence 1

concerning violations of laws administered by the Bureau; 2

miscellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement ac-3

tivities authorized or approved by the Secretary and to be 4

accounted for solely on the Secretary’s certificate, not to 5

exceed $10,000: Provided, That notwithstanding Public 6

Law 90–620 (44 U.S.C. 501), the Bureau may, under co-7

operative cost-sharing and partnership arrangements au-8

thorized by law, procure printing services from cooperators 9

in connection with jointly produced publications for which 10

the cooperators share the cost of printing either in cash 11

or in services, and the Bureau determines the cooperator 12

is capable of meeting accepted quality standards: Provided 13

further, That projects to be funded pursuant to a written 14

commitment by a State government to provide an identi-15

fied amount of money in support of the project may be 16

carried out by the Bureau on a reimbursable basis. Appro-17

priations herein made shall not be available for the de-18

struction of healthy, unadopted, wild horses and burros 19

in the care of the Bureau or its contractors or for the 20

sale of wild horses and burros that results in their destruc-21

tion for processing into commercial products. 22


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UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 1

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 2


For necessary expenses of the United States Fish and 4

Wildlife Service, as authorized by law, and for scientific 5

and economic studies, general administration, and for the 6

performance of other authorized functions related to such 7

resources, $1,364,760,000, to remain available until Sep-8

tember 30, 2021: Provided, That not to exceed 9

$23,442,000 shall be used for implementing subsections 10

(a), (b), (c), and (e) of section 4 of the Endangered Spe-11

cies Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533) (except for processing 12

petitions, developing and issuing proposed and final regu-13

lations, and taking any other steps to implement actions 14

described in subsection (c)(2)(A), (c)(2)(B)(i), or 15

(c)(2)(B)(ii)). 16


available under this heading, in accordance with the joint 18

explanatory statement accompanying the Consolidated Ap-19

propriations Act, 2019, for central office operations in fis-20

cal year 2019, $4,000,000 is permanently rescinded: Pro-21

vided, That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts 22

that were designated by the Congress as an emergency re-23

quirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the 24


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Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 1

Control Act of 1985. 2

CONSTRUCTION 3

For construction, improvement, acquisition, or re-4

moval of buildings and other facilities required in the con-5

servation, management, investigation, protection, and uti-6

lization of fish and wildlife resources, and the acquisition 7

of lands and interests therein; $15,693,000, to remain 8

available until expended. 9

LAND ACQUISITION 10

For expenses necessary to carry out chapter 2003 of 11

title 54, United States Code, including administrative ex-12

penses, and for acquisition of land or waters, or interest 13

therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable 14

to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 15

$67,750,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Con-16

servation Fund and to remain available until expended, 17

of which, notwithstanding section 200306 of title 54, 18

United States Code, not more than $10,000,000 shall be 19

for land conservation partnerships authorized by the 20

Highlands Conservation Act of 2004, including not to ex-21

ceed $320,000 for administrative expenses: Provided, That 22

none of the funds appropriated for specific land acquisi-23

tion projects may be used to pay for any administrative 24

overhead, planning or other management costs. 25


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COOPERATIVE ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION 1

FUND 2


For expenses necessary to carry out section 6 of the 4

Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1535), 5

$63,702,000, to remain available until expended, of which 6

$23,702,000 is to be derived from the Cooperative Endan-7

gered Species Conservation Fund; and of which 8

$40,000,000 is to be derived from the Land and Water 9

Conservation Fund. 10

Of the unobligated balances made available from the 11

Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund, 12

$10,000,000 is permanently rescinded: Provided, That no 13

amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-14

ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 15

pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or 16

the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 17

of 1985. 18

NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FUND 19

For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-20

ber 17, 1978 (16 U.S.C. 715s), $13,228,000. 21

NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND 22

For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 23

of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (16 24


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U.S.C. 4401 et seq.), $50,000,000, to remain available 1

until expended. 2

NEOTROPICAL MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVATION 3

For expenses necessary to carry out the Neotropical 4

Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 6101 et 5

seq.), $4,910,000, to remain available until expended. 6

MULTINATIONAL SPECIES CONSERVATION FUND 7

For expenses necessary to carry out the African Ele-8

phant Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.), the 9

Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 10

4261 et seq.), the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act 11

of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Great Ape Con-12

servation Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), and the 13

Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004 (16 U.S.C. 6601 14

et seq.), $15,000,000, to remain available until expended. 15

STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS 16

For wildlife conservation grants to States and to the 17

District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United 18

States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, 19

American Samoa, and Indian tribes under the provisions 20

of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 and the Fish and 21

Wildlife Coordination Act, for the development and imple-22

mentation of programs for the benefit of wildlife and their 23

habitat, including species that are not hunted or fished, 24

$70,571,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-25


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vided, That of the amount provided herein, $5,209,000 is 1

for a competitive grant program for Indian tribes not sub-2

ject to the remaining provisions of this appropriation: Pro-3

vided further, That $7,362,000 is for a competitive grant 4

program to implement approved plans for States, terri-5

tories, and other jurisdictions and at the discretion of af-6

fected States, the regional Associations of fish and wildlife 7

agencies, not subject to the remaining provisions of this 8

appropriation: Provided further, That the Secretary shall, 9

after deducting $12,571,000 and administrative expenses, 10

apportion the amount provided herein in the following 11

manner: (1) to the District of Columbia and to the Com-12

monwealth of Puerto Rico, each a sum equal to not more 13

than one-half of 1 percent thereof; and (2) to Guam, 14

American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and 15

the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, each 16

a sum equal to not more than one-fourth of 1 percent 17

thereof: Provided further, That the Secretary shall appor-18

tion the remaining amount in the following manner: (1) 19

one-third of which is based on the ratio to which the land 20

area of such State bears to the total land area of all such 21

States; and (2) two-thirds of which is based on the ratio 22

to which the population of such State bears to the total 23

population of all such States: Provided further, That the 24

amounts apportioned under this paragraph shall be ad-25


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justed equitably so that no State shall be apportioned a 1

sum which is less than 1 percent of the amount available 2

for apportionment under this paragraph for any fiscal year 3

or more than 5 percent of such amount: Provided further, 4

That the Federal share of planning grants shall not exceed 5

75 percent of the total costs of such projects and the Fed-6

eral share of implementation grants shall not exceed 65 7

percent of the total costs of such projects: Provided fur-8

ther, That the non-Federal share of such projects may not 9

be derived from Federal grant programs: Provided further, 10

That any amount apportioned in 2020 to any State, terri-11

tory, or other jurisdiction that remains unobligated as of 12

September 30, 2021, shall be reapportioned, together with 13

funds appropriated in 2022, in the manner provided here-14

in. 15


The United States Fish and Wildlife Service may 17

carry out the operations of Service programs by direct ex-18

penditure, contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and 19

reimbursable agreements with public and private entities. 20

Appropriations and funds available to the United States 21

Fish and Wildlife Service shall be available for repair of 22

damage to public roads within and adjacent to reservation 23

areas caused by operations of the Service; options for the 24

purchase of land at not to exceed $1 for each option; facili-25


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ties incident to such public recreational uses on conserva-1

tion areas as are consistent with their primary purpose; 2

and the maintenance and improvement of aquaria, build-3

ings, and other facilities under the jurisdiction of the Serv-4

ice and to which the United States has title, and which 5

are used pursuant to law in connection with management, 6

and investigation of fish and wildlife resources: Provided, 7

That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501, the Service may, 8

under cooperative cost sharing and partnership arrange-9

ments authorized by law, procure printing services from 10

cooperators in connection with jointly produced publica-11

tions for which the cooperators share at least one-half the 12

cost of printing either in cash or services and the Service 13

determines the cooperator is capable of meeting accepted 14

quality standards: Provided further, That the Service may 15

accept donated aircraft as replacements for existing air-16

craft: Provided further, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 17

3302, all fees collected for non-toxic shot review and ap-18

proval shall be deposited under the heading ‘‘United 19

States Fish and Wildlife Service—Resource Management’’ 20

and shall be available to the Secretary, without further 21

appropriation, to be used for expenses of processing of 22

such non-toxic shot type or coating applications and revis-23

ing regulations as necessary, and shall remain available 24

until expended. 25


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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1

OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM 2

For expenses necessary for the management, oper-3

ation, and maintenance of areas and facilities adminis-4

tered by the National Park Service and for the general 5

administration of the National Park Service, 6

$2,646,979,000, of which $10,282,000 for planning and 7

interagency coordination in support of Everglades restora-8

tion and $150,980,000 for maintenance, repair, or reha-9

bilitation projects for constructed assets and 10

$166,575,000 for cyclic maintenance projects for con-11

structed assets and cultural resources and $5,000,000 12

shall be for uses authorized by section 101122 of title 54, 13

United States Code shall remain available until September 14

30, 2021: Provided, That funds appropriated under this 15

heading in this Act are available for the purposes of sec-16

tion 5 of Public Law 95–348: Provided further, That not-17

withstanding section 9(a) of the United States 18

Semiquincentennial Commission Act of 2016 (Public Law 19

114–196; 130 Stat. 691), $500,000 of the funds made 20

available under this heading shall be provided to the orga-21

nization selected under section 9(b) of that Act for ex-22

penditure by the United States Semiquincentennial Com-23

mission in accordance with that Act. Provided further, 24

That notwithstanding section 9 of the 400 Years of Afri-25


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can-American History Commission Act (Public Law 115– 1

102; 131 Stat. 2248), $500,000 of the funds made avail-2

able under this heading shall be provided to the 400 Years 3

of African-American History Commission for expenditure 4

in accordance with that Act. 5

NATIONAL RECREATION AND PRESERVATION 6

For expenses necessary to carry out recreation pro-7

grams, natural programs, cultural programs, heritage 8

partnership programs, environmental compliance and re-9

view, international park affairs, and grant administration, 10

not otherwise provided for, $73,508,000. 11

HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND 12

For expenses necessary in carrying out the National 13

Historic Preservation Act (division A of subtitle III of title 14

54, United States Code), $121,660,000, to be derived 15

from the Historic Preservation Fund and to remain avail-16

able until September 30, 2021, of which $16,000,000 shall 17

be for Save America’s Treasures grants for preservation 18

of national significant sites, structures and artifacts as au-19

thorized by section 7303 of the Omnibus Public Land 20

Management Act of 2009 (54 U.S.C. 3089): Provided, 21

That an individual Save America’s Treasures grant shall 22

be matched by non-Federal funds: Provided further, That 23

individual projects shall only be eligible for one grant: Pro-24

vided further, That all projects to be funded shall be ap-25


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proved by the Secretary of the Interior in consultation 1

with the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-2

tions: Provided further, That of the funds provided for the 3

Historic Preservation Fund, $750,000 is for competitive 4

grants for the survey and nomination of properties to the 5

National Register of Historic Places and as National His-6

toric Landmarks associated with communities currently 7

under-represented, as determined by the Secretary, 8

$22,500,000 is for competitive grants to preserve the sites 9

and stories of the Civil Rights movement, $10,000,000 is 10

for grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 11

and $5,000,000 is for competitive grants for the restora-12

tion of historic properties of national, State and local sig-13

nificance listed on or eligible for inclusion on the National 14

Register of Historic Places, to be made without imposing 15

the usage or direct grant restrictions of section 101(e)(3) 16

(54 U.S.C. 302904) of the National Historical Preserva-17

tion Act: Provided further, That such competitive grants 18

shall be made without imposing the matching require-19

ments in section 302902(b)(3) of title 54, United States 20

Code, to States and Indian tribes as defined in chapter 21

3003 of such title, Native Hawaiian organizations, local 22

governments, including Certified Local Governments, and 23

non-profit organizations. 24


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CONSTRUCTION 1

For construction, improvements, repair, or replace-2

ment of physical facilities, and compliance and planning 3

for programs and areas administered by the National 4

Park Service, $319,704,000, to remain available until ex-5

pended: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provi-6

sion of law, for any project initially funded in fiscal year 7

2021 with a future phase indicated in the National Park 8

Service 5-Year Line Item Construction Plan, a single pro-9

curement may be issued which includes the full scope of 10

the project: Provided further, That the solicitation and 11

contract shall contain the clause availability of funds 12

found at 48 CFR 52.232–18: Provided further, That Na-13

tional Park Service Donations, Park Concessions Fran-14

chise Fees, and Recreation Fees may be made available 15

for the cost of adjustments and changes within the origi-16

nal scope of effort for projects funded by the National 17

Park Service Construction appropriation: Provided further, 18

That the Secretary of the Interior shall consult with the 19

Committees on Appropriations, in accordance with current 20

reprogramming thresholds, prior to making any charges 21

authorized by this section. 22


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LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND 1

(RESCISSION) 2

The contract authority provided for fiscal year 2020 3

by section 200308 of title 54, United States Code, is re-4

scinded. 5

LAND ACQUISITION AND STATE ASSISTANCE 6

For expenses necessary to carry out chapter 2003 of 7

title 54, United States Code, including administrative ex-8

penses, and for acquisition of lands or waters, or interest 9

therein, in accordance with the statutory authority appli-10

cable to the National Park Service, $208,400,000, to be 11

derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and 12

to remain available until expended, of which $140,000,000 13

is for the State assistance program and of which 14

$15,000,000 shall be for the American Battlefield Protec-15

tion Program grants as authorized by chapter 3081 of title 16

54, United States Code. 17

CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE 18

For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions 19

of section 101701 of title 54, United States Code, relating 20

to challenge cost share agreements, $20,000,000, to re-21

main available until expended, for Centennial Challenge 22

projects and programs: Provided, That not less than 50 23

percent of the total cost of each project or program shall 24

be derived from non-Federal sources in the form of do-25


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nated cash, assets, or a pledge of donation guaranteed by 1

an irrevocable letter of credit. 2


(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 4

In addition to other uses set forth in section 5

101917(c)(2) of title 54, United States Code, franchise 6

fees credited to a sub-account shall be available for ex-7

penditure by the Secretary, without further appropriation, 8

for use at any unit within the National Park System to 9

extinguish or reduce liability for Possessory Interest or 10

leasehold surrender interest. Such funds may only be used 11

for this purpose to the extent that the benefitting unit an-12

ticipated franchise fee receipts over the term of the con-13

tract at that unit exceed the amount of funds used to ex-14

tinguish or reduce liability. Franchise fees at the benefit-15

ting unit shall be credited to the sub-account of the origi-16

nating unit over a period not to exceed the term of a single 17

contract at the benefitting unit, in the amount of funds 18

so expended to extinguish or reduce liability. 19

For the costs of administration of the Land and 20

Water Conservation Fund grants authorized by section 21

105(a)(2)(B) of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act 22

of 2006 (Public Law 109–432), the National Park Service 23

may retain up to 3 percent of the amounts which are au-24


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thorized to be disbursed under such section, such retained 1

amounts to remain available until expended. 2

National Park Service funds may be transferred to 3

the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Depart-4

ment of Transportation, for purposes authorized under 23 5

U.S.C. 204. Transfers may include a reasonable amount 6

for FHWA administrative support costs. 7

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 8

SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH 9

For expenses necessary for the United States Geo-10

logical Survey to perform surveys, investigations, and re-11

search covering topography, geology, hydrology, biology, 12

and the mineral and water resources of the United States, 13

its territories and possessions, and other areas as author-14

ized by 43 U.S.C. 31, 1332, and 1340; classify lands as 15

to their mineral and water resources; give engineering su-16

pervision to power permittees and Federal Energy Regu-17

latory Commission licensees; administer the minerals ex-18

ploration program (30 U.S.C. 641); conduct inquiries into 19

the economic conditions affecting mining and materials 20

processing industries (30 U.S.C. 3, 21a, and 1603; 50 21

U.S.C. 98g(1)) and related purposes as authorized by law; 22

and to publish and disseminate data relative to the fore-23

going activities; $1,236,398,000, to remain available until 24

September 30, 2021; of which $84,337,000 shall remain 25


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available until expended for satellite operations; and of 1

which $20,164,000 shall be available until expended for 2

deferred maintenance and capital improvement projects 3

that exceed $100,000 in cost: Provided, That none of the 4

funds provided for the ecosystem research activity shall 5

be used to conduct new surveys on private property, unless 6

specifically authorized in writing by the property owner: 7

Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall 8

be used to pay more than one-half the cost of topographic 9

mapping or water resources data collection and investiga-10

tions carried on in cooperation with States and municipali-11

ties. 12


From within the amount appropriated for activities 14

of the United States Geological Survey such sums as are 15

necessary shall be available for contracting for the fur-16

nishing of topographic maps and for the making of geo-17

physical or other specialized surveys when it is administra-18

tively determined that such procedures are in the public 19

interest; construction and maintenance of necessary build-20

ings and appurtenant facilities; acquisition of lands for 21

gauging stations, observation wells, and seismic equip-22

ment; expenses of the United States National Committee 23

for Geological Sciences; and payment of compensation and 24

expenses of persons employed by the Survey duly ap-25


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pointed to represent the United States in the negotiation 1

and administration of interstate compacts: Provided, That 2

activities funded by appropriations herein made may be 3

accomplished through the use of contracts, grants, or co-4

operative agreements as defined in section 6302 of title 5

31, United States Code: Provided further, That the United 6

States Geological Survey may enter into contracts or coop-7

erative agreements directly with individuals or indirectly 8

with institutions or nonprofit organizations, without re-9

gard to 41 U.S.C. 6101, for the temporary or intermittent 10

services of students or recent graduates, who shall be con-11

sidered employees for the purpose of chapters 57 and 81 12

of title 5, United States Code, relating to compensation 13

for travel and work injuries, and chapter 171 of title 28, 14

United States Code, relating to tort claims, but shall not 15

be considered to be Federal employees for any other pur-16

poses. 17

BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT 18

OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT 19

For expenses necessary for granting and admin-20

istering leases, easements, rights-of-way and agreements 21

for use for oil and gas, other minerals, energy, and ma-22

rine-related purposes on the Outer Continental Shelf and 23

approving operations related thereto, as authorized by law; 24

for environmental studies, as authorized by law; for imple-25


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menting other laws and to the extent provided by Presi-1

dential or Secretarial delegation; and for matching grants 2

or cooperative agreements, $182,781,000, of which 3

$122,781,000 is to remain available until September 30, 4

2021, and of which $60,000,000 is to remain available 5

until expended: Provided, That this total appropriation 6

shall be reduced by amounts collected by the Secretary 7

and credited to this appropriation from additions to re-8

ceipts resulting from increases to lease rental rates in ef-9

fect on August 5, 1993, and from cost recovery fees from 10

activities conducted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Man-11

agement pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 12

Act, including studies, assessments, analysis, and miscella-13

neous administrative activities: Provided further, That the 14

sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as such collec-15

tions are received during the fiscal year, so as to result 16

in a final fiscal year 2020 appropriation estimated at not 17

more than $122,781,000: Provided further, That not to 18

exceed $3,000 shall be available for reasonable expenses 19

related to promoting volunteer beach and marine cleanup 20

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BUREAU OF SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL 1

ENFORCEMENT 2

OFFSHORE SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT 3

For expenses necessary for the regulation of oper-4

ations related to leases, easements, rights-of-way and 5

agreements for use for oil and gas, other minerals, energy, 6

and marine-related purposes on the Outer Continental 7

Shelf, as authorized by law; for enforcing and imple-8

menting laws and regulations as authorized by law and 9

to the extent provided by Presidential or Secretarial dele-10

gation; and for matching grants or cooperative agree-11

ments, $145,504,000, of which $119,504,000 is to remain 12

available until September 30, 2021, and of which 13

$26,000,000 is to remain available until expended: Pro-14

vided, That this total appropriation shall be reduced by 15

amounts collected by the Secretary and credited to this 16

appropriation from additions to receipts resulting from in-17

creases to lease rental rates in effect on August 5, 1993, 18

and from cost recovery fees from activities conducted by 19

the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement 20

pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, in-21

cluding studies, assessments, analysis, and miscellaneous 22

administrative activities: Provided further, That the sum 23

herein appropriated shall be reduced as such collections 24

are received during the fiscal year, so as to result in a 25


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final fiscal year 2020 appropriation estimated at not more 1

than $119,504,000. 2

For an additional amount, $47,308,000, to remain 3

available until expended, to be reduced by amounts col-4

lected by the Secretary and credited to this appropriation, 5

which shall be derived from non-refundable inspection fees 6

collected in fiscal year 2020, as provided in this Act: Pro-7

vided, That to the extent that amounts realized from such 8

inspection fees exceed $47,308,000, the amounts realized 9

in excess of $47,308,000 shall be credited to this appro-10

priation and remain available until expended: Provided 11

further, That for fiscal year 2020, not less than 50 percent 12

of the inspection fees expended by the Bureau of Safety 13

and Environmental Enforcement will be used to fund per-14

sonnel and mission-related costs to expand capacity and 15

expedite the orderly development, subject to environmental 16

safeguards, of the Outer Continental Shelf pursuant to the 17

Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et 18

seq.), including the review of applications for permits to 19

drill. 20

OIL SPILL RESEARCH 21

For necessary expenses to carry out title I, section 22

1016, title IV, sections 4202 and 4303, title VII, and title 23

VIII, section 8201 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 24


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$14,899,000, which shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li-1

ability Trust Fund, to remain available until expended. 2

OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND 3

ENFORCEMENT 4

REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY 5

For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 6

of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 7

1977, Public Law 95–87, $121,647,000, to remain avail-8

able until September 30, 2021: Provided, That appropria-9

tions for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and 10

Enforcement may provide for the travel and per diem ex-11

penses of State and tribal personnel attending Office of 12

Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored 13

training. 14

In addition, for costs to review, administer, and en-15

force permits issued by the Office pursuant to section 507 16

of Public Law 95–87 (30 U.S.C. 1257), $40,000, to re-17

main available until expended: Provided, That fees as-18

sessed and collected by the Office pursuant to such section 19

507 shall be credited to this account as discretionary off-20

setting collections, to remain available until expended: 21

Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated from 22

the general fund shall be reduced as collections are re-23

ceived during the fiscal year, so as to result in a fiscal 24


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year 2020 appropriation estimated at not more than 1

$121,647,000. 2

ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND 3

For necessary expenses to carry out title IV of the 4

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, 5

Public Law 95–87, $24,713,000, to be derived from re-6

ceipts of the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund and to 7

remain available until expended: Provided, That pursuant 8

to Public Law 97–365, the Department of the Interior is 9

authorized to use up to 20 percent from the recovery of 10

the delinquent debt owed to the United States Government 11

to pay for contracts to collect these debts: Provided fur-12

ther, That funds made available under title IV of Public 13

Law 95–87 may be used for any required non-Federal 14

share of the cost of projects funded by the Federal Gov-15

ernment for the purpose of environmental restoration re-16

lated to treatment or abatement of acid mine drainage 17

from abandoned mines: Provided further, That such 18

projects must be consistent with the purposes and prior-19

ities of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act: 20

Provided further, That amounts provided under this head-21

ing may be used for the travel and per diem expenses of 22

State and tribal personnel attending Office of Surface 23

Mining Reclamation and Enforcement sponsored training. 24


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In addition, $115,000,000, to remain available until 1

expended, for grants to States and federally recognized In-2

dian Tribes for reclamation of abandoned mine lands and 3

other related activities in accordance with the terms and 4

conditions in the report accompanying this Act: Provided, 5

That such additional amount shall be used for economic 6

and community development in conjunction with the prior-7

ities in section 403(a) of the Surface Mining Control and 8

Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1233(a)): Provided 9

further, That of such additional amount, $75,000,000 10

shall be distributed in equal amounts to the 3 Appalachian 11

States with the greatest amount of unfunded needs to 12

meet the priorities described in paragraphs (1) and (2) 13

of such section, $30,000,000 shall be distributed in equal 14

amounts to the 3 Appalachian States with the subsequent 15

greatest amount of unfunded needs to meet such prior-16

ities, and $10,000,000 shall be for grants to federally rec-17

ognized Indian Tribes without regard to their status as 18

certified or uncertified under the Surface Mining Control 19

and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1233(a)), for 20

reclamation of abandoned mine lands and other related 21

activities in accordance with the terms and conditions in 22

the report accompanying this Act and shall be used for 23

economic and community development in conjunction with 24

the priorities in section 403(a) of the Surface Mining Con-25


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trol and Reclamation Act of 1977: Provided further, That 1

such additional amount shall be allocated to States and 2

Indian Tribes within 60 days after the date of enactment 3

of this Act. 4

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 5

OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS 6


For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian 8

programs, as authorized by law, including the Snyder Act 9

of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the Indian Self-De-10

termination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (25 11

U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), $1,650,504,000 to remain available 12

until September 30, 2021, except as otherwise provided 13

herein; of which not to exceed $8,500 may be for official 14

reception and representation expenses; of which not to ex-15

ceed $77,734,000 shall be for welfare assistance pay-16

ments: Provided, That in cases of designated Federal dis-17

asters, the Secretary may exceed such cap, from the 18

amounts provided herein, to provide for disaster relief to 19

Indian communities affected by the disaster: Provided fur-20

ther, That federally recognized Indian tribes and tribal or-21

ganizations of federally recognized Indian tribes may use 22

their tribal priority allocations for unmet welfare assist-23

ance costs: Provided further, That not to exceed 24

$73,164,000 shall remain available until expended for 25


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housing improvement, road maintenance, attorney fees, 1

litigation support, land records improvement, and the 2

Navajo-Hopi Settlement Program: Provided further, That 3

any forestry funds allocated to a federally recognized tribe 4

which remain unobligated as of September 30, 2021, may 5

be transferred during fiscal year 2022 to an Indian forest 6

land assistance account established for the benefit of the 7

holder of the funds within the holder’s trust fund account: 8

Provided further, That any such unobligated balances not 9

so transferred shall expire on September 30, 2022: Pro-10

vided further, That in order to enhance the safety of Bu-11

reau field employees, the Bureau may use funds to pur-12

chase uniforms or other identifying articles of clothing for 13

personnel: Provided further, That the Bureau of Indian 14

Affairs may accept transfers of funds from U.S. Customs 15

and Border Protection to supplement any other funding 16

available for reconstruction or repair of roads owned by 17

the Bureau of Indian Affairs as identified on the National 18

Tribal Transportation Facility Inventory, 23 U.S.C. 19

202(b)(1). 20

CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS 21

For payments to tribes and tribal organizations for 22

contract support costs associated with Indian Self-Deter-23

mination and Education Assistance Act agreements with 24

the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian 25


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Education for fiscal year 2020, such sums as may be nec-1

essary, which shall be available for obligation through Sep-2

tember 30, 2021: Provided, That notwithstanding any 3

other provision of law, no amounts made available under 4

this heading shall be available for transfer to another 5

budget account. 6

CONSTRUCTION 7


For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-9

nance of irrigation and power systems, buildings, utilities, 10

and other facilities, including architectural and engineer-11

ing services by contract; acquisition of lands, and interests 12

in lands; and preparation of lands for farming, and for 13

construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project pur-14

suant to Public Law 87–483; $146,014,000, to remain 15

available until expended: Provided, That such amounts as 16

may be available for the construction of the Navajo Indian 17

Irrigation Project may be transferred to the Bureau of 18

Reclamation: Provided further, That not to exceed 6 per-19

cent of contract authority available to the Bureau of In-20

dian Affairs from the Federal Highway Trust Fund may 21

be used to cover the road program management costs of 22

the Bureau: Provided further, That any funds provided for 23

the Safety of Dams program pursuant to the Act of No-24

vember 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), shall be made available 25


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on a nonreimbursable basis: Provided further, That this 1

appropriation may be reimbursed from the Office of the 2

Special Trustee for American Indians appropriation for 3

the appropriate share of construction costs for space ex-4

pansion needed in agency offices to meet trust reform im-5

plementation: Provided further, That of the funds made 6

available under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be derived 7

from the Indian Irrigation Fund established by section 8

3211 of the WIIN Act (Public Law 114–322; 130 Stat. 9

1749). 10

INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND 11

MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS 12

For payments and necessary administrative expenses 13

for implementation of Indian land and water claim settle-14

ments pursuant to Public Laws 99–264, 100–580, 101– 15

618, 111–11, 111–291, and 114–322, and for implemen-16

tation of other land and water rights settlements, 17

$45,644,000, to remain available until expended. 18

INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 19

For the cost of guaranteed loans and insured loans, 20

$12,784,000, of which $1,725,000 is for administrative 21

expenses, as authorized by the Indian Financing Act of 22

1974: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of 23

modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 24

of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided fur-25


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ther, That these funds are available to subsidize total loan 1

principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed or insured, 2

not to exceed $199,075,370. 3


The Bureau of Indian Affairs may carry out the oper-5

ation of Indian programs by direct expenditure, contracts, 6

cooperative agreements, compacts, and grants, either di-7

rectly or in cooperation with States and other organiza-8

tions. 9

Notwithstanding Public Law 87–279 (25 U.S.C. 15), 10

the Bureau of Indian Affairs may contract for services in 11

support of the management, operation, and maintenance 12

of the Power Division of the San Carlos Irrigation Project. 13

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 14

available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for central office 15

oversight and Executive Direction and Administrative 16

Services (except executive direction and administrative 17

services funding for Tribal Priority Allocations, regional 18

offices, and facilities operations and maintenance) shall be 19

available for contracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative 20

agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the 21

provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act or the 22

Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 (Public Law 103– 23

413). 24


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In the event any tribe returns appropriations made 1

available by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this 2

action shall not diminish the Federal Government’s trust 3

responsibility to that tribe, or the government-to-govern-4

ment relationship between the United States and that 5

tribe, or that tribe’s ability to access future appropria-6

tions. 7

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 8

section 113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106– 9

113, if in fiscal year 2003 or 2004 a grantee received indi-10

rect and administrative costs pursuant to a distribution 11

formula based on section 5(f) of Public Law 101–301, the 12

Secretary shall continue to distribute indirect and admin-13

istrative cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) 14

distribution formula. 15

BUREAU OF INDIAN EDUCATION 16

OPERATION OF INDIAN EDUCATION PROGRAMS 17

For expenses necessary for the operation of Indian 18

Education programs, as authorized by law, including the 19

Snyder Act of November 2, 1921 (25 U.S.C. 13), the In-20

dian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 21

1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Education Amend-22

ments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2001-2019), and the Tribally 23

Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), 24

$1,000,233,000, to remain available until September 30, 25


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2021, except as otherwise provided herein: Provided, That 1

federally recognized Indian tribes and tribal organizations 2

of federally recognized Indian tribes may use their Tribal 3

priority allocations for unmet welfare assistance costs: 4

Provided further, That not to exceed $721,690,000 for 5

school operation costs of Bureau-funded schools and other 6

education programs shall become available on July 1, 7

2020, and shall remain available until September 30, 8

2021: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 9

provision of law, including but not limited to the Indian 10

Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) 11

and section 1128 of the Education Amendments of 1978 12

(25 U.S.C. 2008), not to exceed $81,508,000 within and 13

only from such amounts made available for school oper-14

ations shall be available for administrative cost grants as-15

sociated with grants approved prior to July 1, 2020: Pro-16

vided further, That in order to enhance the safety of Bu-17

reau field employees, the Bureau may use funds to pur-18

chase uniforms or other identifying articles of clothing for 19

personnel. 20

EDUCATION CONSTRUCTION 21

For construction, repair, improvement, and mainte-22

nance of buildings, utilities, and other facilities necessary 23

for the operation of Indian Education programs, including 24

architectural and engineering services by contract; acquisi-25


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tion of lands, and interests in lands; $387,252,000 to re-1

main available until expended; Provided, That for fiscal 2

year 2020, in implementing new construction, replacement 3

facilities construction, or facilities improvement and repair 4

project grants in excess of $100,000 that are provided to 5

grant schools under Public Law 100–297, the Secretary 6

of the Interior shall use the Administrative and Audit Re-7

quirements and Cost Principles for Assistance Programs 8

contained in part 12 of title 43, Code of Federal Regula-9

tions, as the regulatory requirements: Provided further, 10

That such grants shall not be subject to section 12.61 of 11

title 43, Code of Federal Regulations; the Secretary and 12

the grantee shall negotiate and determine a schedule of 13

payments for the work to be performed: Provided further, 14

That in considering grant applications, the Secretary shall 15

consider whether such grantee would be deficient in assur-16

ing that the construction projects conform to applicable 17

building standards and codes and Federal, tribal, or State 18

health and safety standards as required by section 19

1125(b) of title XI of Public Law 95–561 (25 U.S.C. 20

2005(b)), with respect to organizational and financial 21

management capabilities: Provided further, That if the 22

Secretary declines a grant application, the Secretary shall 23

follow the requirements contained in section 5206(f) of 24

Public Law 100–297 (25 U.S.C. 2504(f)): Provided fur-25


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ther, That any disputes between the Secretary and any 1

grantee concerning a grant shall be subject to the disputes 2

provision in section 5208(e) of Public Law 107–110 (25 3

U.S.C. 2507(e)): Provided further, That in order to ensure 4

timely completion of construction projects, the Secretary 5

may assume control of a project and all funds related to 6

the project, if, not later than 18 months after the date 7

of the enactment of this Act, any grantee receiving funds 8

appropriated in this Act or in any prior Act, has not com-9

pleted the planning and design phase of the project and 10

commenced construction. 11


The Bureau of Indian Education may carry out the 13

operation of Indian programs by direct expenditure, con-14

tracts, cooperative agreements, compacts, and grants, ei-15

ther directly or in cooperation with States and other orga-16

nizations. 17


available to the Bureau of Indian Education for central 19

office oversight and Executive Direction and Administra-20

tive Services (except executive direction and administra-21

tive services funding for Tribal Priority Allocations, re-22

gional offices, and facilities operations and maintenance) 23

shall be available for contracts, grants, compacts, or coop-24

erative agreements with the Bureau of Indian Education 25


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under the provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act 1

or the Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994 (Public Law 2

103–413). 3

In the event any tribe returns appropriations made 4

available by this Act to the Bureau of Indian Education, 5

this action shall not diminish the Federal Government’s 6

trust responsibility to that tribe, or the government-to- 7

government relationship between the United States and 8

that tribe, or that tribe’s ability to access future appro-9

priations. 10


available to the Bureau of Indian Education, other than 12

the amounts provided herein for assistance to public 13

schools under 25 U.S.C. 452 et seq., shall be available to 14

support the operation of any elementary or secondary 15

school in the State of Alaska. 16

No funds available to the Bureau of Indian Edu-17

cation shall be used to support expanded grades for any 18

school or dormitory beyond the grade structure in place 19

or approved by the Secretary of the Interior at each school 20

in the Bureau of Indian Education school system as of 21

October 1, 1995, except that the Secretary of the Interior 22

may waive this prohibition to support expansion of up to 23

one additional grade when the Secretary determines such 24

waiver is needed to support accomplishment of the mission 25


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of the Bureau of Indian Education, or more than one 1

grade to expand the elementary grade structure for Bu-2

reau-funded schools with a K-2 grade structure on Octo-3

ber 1, 1996. Appropriations made available in this or any 4

prior Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be avail-5

able, in accordance with the Bureau’s funding formula, 6

only to the schools in the Bureau school system as of Sep-7

tember 1, 1996, and to any school or school program that 8

was reinstated in fiscal year 2012. Funds made available 9

under this Act may not be used to establish a charter 10

school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term is defined 11

in section 1141 of the Education Amendments of 1978 12

(25 U.S.C. 2021)), except that a charter school that is 13

in existence on the date of the enactment of this Act and 14

that has operated at a Bureau-funded school before Sep-15

tember 1, 1999, may continue to operate during that pe-16

riod, but only if the charter school pays to the Bureau 17

a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau for 18

the use of the real and personal property (including buses 19

and vans), the funds of the charter school are kept sepa-20

rate and apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau does 21

not assume any obligation for charter school programs of 22

the State in which the school is located if the charter 23

school loses such funding. Employees of Bureau-funded 24

schools sharing a campus with a charter school and per-25


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forming functions related to the charter school’s operation 1

and employees of a charter school shall not be treated as 2

Federal employees for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, 3

United States Code. 4

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 5

section 113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106– 6

113, if in fiscal year 2003 or 2004 a grantee received indi-7

rect and administrative costs pursuant to a distribution 8

formula based on section 5(f) of Public Law 101–301, the 9

Secretary shall continue to distribute indirect and admin-10

istrative cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) 11

distribution formula. 12

Funds available under this Act may not be used to 13

establish satellite locations of schools in the Bureau school 14

system as of September 1, 1996, except that the Secretary 15

may waive this prohibition in order for an Indian tribe 16

to provide language and cultural immersion educational 17

programs for non-public schools located within the juris-18

dictional area of the tribal government which exclusively 19

serve tribal members, do not include grades beyond those 20

currently served at the existing Bureau-funded school, 21

provide an educational environment with educator pres-22

ence and academic facilities comparable to the Bureau- 23

funded school, comply with all applicable Tribal, Federal, 24

or State health and safety standards, and the Americans 25


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with Disabilities Act, and demonstrate the benefits of es-1

tablishing operations at a satellite location in lieu of incur-2

ring extraordinary costs, such as for transportation or 3

other impacts to students such as those caused by busing 4

students extended distances: Provided, That no funds 5

available under this Act may be used to fund operations, 6

maintenance, rehabilitation, construction or other facili-7

ties-related costs for such assets that are not owned by 8

the Bureau: Provided further, That the term ‘‘satellite 9

school’’ means a school location physically separated from 10

the existing Bureau school by more than 50 miles but that 11

forms part of the existing school in all other respects. 12

DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES 13

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 14

DEPARTMENTAL OPERATIONS 15


For necessary expenses for management of the De-17

partment of the Interior and for grants and cooperative 18

agreements, as authorized by law, $131,232,000, to re-19

main available until September 30, 2021; of which no less 20

than $1,000,000 shall be for the hiring of additional per-21

sonnel to assist the Department with its compliance re-22

sponsibilities under 5 U.S.C. 552; of which not to exceed 23

$15,000 may be for official reception and representation 24

expenses; and of which up to $1,000,000 shall be available 25


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for workers compensation payments and unemployment 1

compensation payments associated with the orderly clo-2

sure of the United States Bureau of Mines; and of which 3

$9,000,000 for the Office of Valuation Services is to be 4

derived from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and 5

shall remain available until expended; and of which 6

$11,061,000 for Indian land, mineral, and resource valu-7

ation activities shall remain available until expended: Pro-8

vided, That funds for Indian land, mineral, and resource 9

valuation activities may, as needed, be transferred to and 10

merged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs ‘‘Operation of 11

Indian Programs’’ and Bureau of Indian Education ‘‘Op-12

eration of Indian Education Programs’’ accounts and the 13

Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians ‘‘Fed-14

eral Trust Programs’’ account: Provided further, That 15

funds made available through contracts or grants obli-16

gated during fiscal year 2020, as authorized by the Indian 17

Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), 18

shall remain available until expended by the contractor or 19

grantee. 20


For fiscal year 2020, up to $400,000 of the payments 22

authorized by chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, 23

may be retained for administrative expenses of the Pay-24

ments in Lieu of Taxes Program: Provided, That the 25


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amounts provided under this Act specifically for the Pay-1

ments in Lieu of Taxes program are the only amounts 2

available for payments authorized under chapter 69 of 3

title 31, United States Code: Provided further, That in the 4

event the sums appropriated for any fiscal year for pay-5

ments pursuant to this chapter are insufficient to make 6

the full payments authorized by that chapter to all units 7

of local government, then the payment to each local gov-8

ernment shall be made proportionally: Provided further, 9

That the Secretary may make adjustments to payment to 10

individual units of local government to correct for prior 11

overpayments or underpayments: Provided further, That 12

no payment shall be made pursuant to that chapter to oth-13

erwise eligible units of local government if the computed 14

amount of the payment is less than $100. 15

INSULAR AFFAIRS 16

ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES 17

For expenses necessary for assistance to territories 18

under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior 19

and other jurisdictions identified in section 104(e) of Pub-20

lic Law 108–188, $108,631,000, of which: (1) 21

$99,140,000 shall remain available until expended for ter-22

ritorial assistance, including general technical assistance, 23

maintenance assistance, disaster assistance, coral reef ini-24

tiative and natural resources activities, and brown tree 25


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snake control and research; grants to the judiciary in 1

American Samoa for compensation and expenses, as au-2

thorized by law (48 U.S.C. 1661(c)); grants to the Govern-3

ment of American Samoa, in addition to current local rev-4

enues, for construction and support of governmental func-5

tions; grants to the Government of the Virgin Islands, as 6

authorized by law; grants to the Government of Guam, 7

as authorized by law; and grants to the Government of 8

the Northern Mariana Islands, as authorized by law (Pub-9

lic Law 94–241; 90 Stat. 272); and (2) $9,491,000 shall 10

be available until September 30, 2021, for salaries and 11

expenses of the Office of Insular Affairs: Provided, That 12

all financial transactions of the territorial and local gov-13

ernments herein provided for, including such transactions 14

of all agencies or instrumentalities established or used by 15

such governments, may be audited by the Government Ac-16

countability Office, at its discretion, in accordance with 17

chapter 35 of title 31, United States Code: Provided fur-18

ther, That Northern Mariana Islands Covenant grant 19

funding shall be provided according to those terms of the 20

Agreement of the Special Representatives on Future 21

United States Financial Assistance for the Northern Mar-22

iana Islands approved by Public Law 104–134: Provided 23

further, That the funds for the program of operations and 24

maintenance improvement are appropriated to institu-25


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tionalize routine operations and maintenance improvement 1

of capital infrastructure with territorial participation and 2

cost sharing to be determined by the Secretary based on 3

the grantee’s commitment to timely maintenance of its 4

capital assets: Provided further, That any appropriation 5

for disaster assistance under this heading in this Act or 6

previous appropriations Acts may be used as non–Federal 7

matching funds for the purpose of hazard mitigation 8

grants provided pursuant to section 404 of the Robert T. 9

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 10

(42 U.S.C. 5170c). 11

COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 12

For grants and necessary expenses, $3,236,000, to 13

remain available until expended, as provided for in sec-14

tions 221(a)(2) and 233 of the Compact of Free Associa-15

tion for the Republic of Palau; and section 221(a)(2) of 16

the Compacts of Free Association for the Government of 17

the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated 18

States of Micronesia, as authorized by Public Law 99– 19

658 and Public Law 108–188. 20



At the request of the Governor of Guam, the Sec-23

retary may transfer discretionary funds or mandatory 24

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188 and Public Law 104–134, that are allocated for 1

Guam, to the Secretary of Agriculture for the subsidy cost 2

of direct or guaranteed loans, plus not to exceed three per-3

cent of the amount of the subsidy transferred for the cost 4

of loan administration, for the purposes authorized by the 5

Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) 6

of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act for 7

construction and repair projects in Guam, and such funds 8

shall remain available until expended: Provided, That such 9

costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be 10

as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 11

of 1974: Provided further, That such loans or loan guaran-12

tees may be made without regard to the population of the 13

area, credit elsewhere requirements, and restrictions on 14

the types of eligible entities under the Rural Electrifica-15

tion Act of 1936 and section 306(a)(1) of the Consolidated 16

Farm and Rural Development Act: Provided further, That 17

any funds transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture shall 18

be in addition to funds otherwise made available to make 19

or guarantee loans under such authorities. 20

OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 21

SALARIES AND EXPENSES 22

For necessary expenses of the Office of the Solicitor, 23

$66,816,000. 24


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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 1

SALARIES AND EXPENSES 2

For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 3

General, $55,986,000, to remain available until September 4

30, 2021. 5

OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN 6

INDIANS 7

FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 8

(INCLUDING TRANSFER AND RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 9

For the operation of trust programs for Indians by 10

direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, 11

compacts, and grants, $97,613,000, to remain available 12

until expended, of which not to exceed $17,911,000 from 13

this or any other Act, may be available for historical ac-14

counting: Provided, That $10,000,000 shall not be avail-15

able for obligation until the Secretary provides the report 16

required by section 304(a)(3) of the Indian Trust Asset 17

Reform Act (Public Law 114–178) to terminate the Office 18

of the Special Trustee in its entirety, to the Committees 19

on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 20

Senate: Provided further, That funds for Trust Manage-21

ment improvements and litigation support may, as needed, 22

be transferred to or merged with the Bureau of Indian 23

Affairs ‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ and Bureau of 24

Indian Education, ‘‘Operation of Indian Education Pro-25


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grams’’ account; the Office of the Solicitor, ‘‘Salaries and 1

Expenses’’ account; and the Office of the Secretary, ‘‘De-2

partmental Operations’’ account: Provided further, That 3

funds made available through contracts or grants obli-4

gated during fiscal year 2020, as authorized by the Indian 5

Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), 6

shall remain available until expended by the contractor or 7

grantee: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 8

provision of law, the Secretary shall not be required to 9

provide a quarterly statement of performance for any In-10

dian trust account that has not had activity for at least 11

15 months and has a balance of $15 or less: Provided fur-12

ther, That the Secretary shall issue an annual account 13

statement and maintain a record of any such accounts and 14

shall permit the balance in each such account to be with-15

drawn upon the express written request of the account 16

holder: Provided further, That not to exceed $50,000 is 17

available for the Secretary to make payments to correct 18

administrative errors of either disbursements from or de-19

posits to Individual Indian Money or Tribal accounts after 20

September 30, 2002: Provided further, That erroneous 21

payments that are recovered shall be credited to and re-22

main available in this account for this purpose: Provided 23

further, That the Secretary shall not be required to rec-24

oncile Special Deposit Accounts with a balance of less than 25


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$500 unless the Office of the Special Trustee receives 1

proof of ownership from a Special Deposit Accounts claim-2

ant: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 102 3

of the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform 4

Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–412) or any other provision 5

of law, the Secretary may aggregate the trust accounts 6

of individuals whose whereabouts are unknown for a con-7

tinuous period of at least five years and shall not be re-8

quired to generate periodic statements of performance for 9

the individual accounts: Provided further, That with re-10

spect to the ninth proviso, the Secretary shall continue to 11

maintain sufficient records to determine the balance of the 12

individual accounts, including any accrued interest and in-13

come, and such funds shall remain available to the indi-14

vidual account holders. 15


available for the Office of the Special Trustee for Amer-17

ican Indians, $3,000,000 is permanently rescinded: Pro-18

vided, That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts 19

that were designated by the Congress as an emergency re-20

quirement pursuant to the Concurrent Resolution on the 21

Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 22

Control Act of 1985. 23


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DEPARTMENT-WIDE PROGRAMS 1

WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 2

(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 3

For necessary expenses for fire

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