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An Act Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the "Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005".
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Sec. 3. References.
Sec. 4. Statement of appropriations.
DIVISION A--AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2005
Title I--Agricultural Programs
Title II--Conservation Programs
Title III--Rural Development Programs Title IV--Domestic Food Programs
Title V--Foreign Assistance and Related Programs
Title VI--Related Agencies and Food and Drug Administration
Title VII--General Provisions
DIVISION B--DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, AND STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2005
Title I--Department of Justice
Title II--Department of Commerce and Related Agencies
Title III--The Judiciary
Title IV--Department of State and Related Agency
Title V--Related Agencies
Title VI--General Provisions
Title VII--Rescissions
Title VIII--Patent and Trademark Fees
Title IX--Oceans and Human Health Act
DIVISION C--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2005
Title I--Department of Defense--Civil
Title II--Department of the Interior
Title III--Department of Energy Title IV--Independent Agencies
Title V--General Provisions
Title VI--Reform of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority
DIVISION D--FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND RELATED PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2005
Title I--Export and Investment Assistance
*2810 Title II--Bilateral Economic Assistance
Title III--Military Assistance
Title IV--Multilateral Economic Assistance
Title V--General Provisions
DIVISION E--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2005
Title I--Department of the Interior
Title II--Related Agencies
Title III--General Provisions
Title IV--Urgent Wildland Fire Suppression Activities
Title V--General Reduction
DIVISION F--DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2005
Title I--Department of Labor
Title II--Department of Health and Human Services
Title III--Department of Education
Title IV--Related Agencies
Title V--General Provisions
DIVISION G--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2005
Title I--Legislative Branch Appropriations
Title II--General Provisions
DIVISION H--TRANSPORTATION, TREASURY, INDEPENDENT AGENCIES, AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2005
Title I--Department of Transportation
Title II--Department of the Treasury
Title III--Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President
Title IV--Independent Agencies
Title V--General Provisions
Title VI--General Provisions
DIVISION I--DEPARTMENTS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2005
Title I--Department of Veterans Affairs
Title II--Department of Housing and Urban Development
Title III--Independent Agencies
Title IV--General Provisions
DIVISION J--OTHER MATTERS
Title I--Miscellaneous Provisions and Offsets
Title II--225th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemoration Act
Title III--Rural Air Service Improvement Act of 2004
Title IV--L-1 Visa and H-1B Visa Reform Act
Title V--National Aviation Heritage Area Act
Title VI--Oil Region National Heritage Area Act
Title VII--Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area Act
Title VIII--Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act
Title IX--Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004
Title X--Snake River Water Rights Act of 2004
DIVISION K--SMALL BUSINESS
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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. 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, 2005.
DIVISION E--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2005
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)), $848,939,000, to remain available until expended, of which $1,000,000 is for high priority projects, to be carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps; $4,000,000 is for assessment of the mineral potential of public lands in Alaska pursuant to section 1010 of Public Law 96-487; (16 U.S.C. 3150); and of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be derived from the special receipt account established by the Land and Water Conservation Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l-6a(i)); and of which $3,500,000 shall be available in fiscal year 2005 subject to a match by at least an equal amount by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation *3040 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, $32,696,000 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 $848,939,000, 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.
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General Provisions, Department of the Interior
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 are hereby designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 402 of S. Con. Res. 95 (108th Congress), as made applicable to the House of Representatives by H. Res. 649 (108th Congress) and applicable to the Senate by section 14007 of Public Law 108-287, and 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 *3063 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 are hereby designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 402 of S. Con. Res. 95 (108th Congress), as made applicable to the House of Representatives by H. Res. 649 (108th Congress) and applicable to the Senate by section 14007 of Public Law 108-287, and 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.
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SEC. 143. (a) SHORT TITLE.--This section may be cited as the "Migratory Bird Treaty Reform Act of 2004".
(b) EXCLUSION OF NON-NATIVE SPECIES FROM APPLICATION OF CERTAIN PROHIBITIONS UNDER MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT.--Section 2 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703) is amended--
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(1) in the first sentence by striking "That unless and except as permitted" and inserting the following: "(a) IN GENERAL.--Unless and except as permitted"; and
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(2) by adding at the end the following:
"(b) LIMITATION ON APPLICATION TO INTRODUCED SPECIES.--
"(1) IN GENERAL.--This Act applies only to migratory bird species that are native to the United States or its territories.
"(2) NATIVE TO THE UNITED STATES DEFINED.--
"(A) IN GENERAL.--Subject to subparagraph (B), in this subsection the term 'native to the United States or its territories' means occurring in the United States or its territories as the result of natural biological or ecological processes.
"(B) TREATMENT OF INTRODUCED SPECIES.--For purposes of paragraph (1), a migratory bird species that occurs in the United States or its territories solely as a result of intentional or unintentional human-assisted introduction shall not be considered native to the United States or its territories unless--
"(i) it was native to the United States or its territories and extant in 1918;
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"(ii) it was extirpated after 1918 throughout its range in the United States and its territories; and
"(iii) after such extirpation, it was reintroduced in the United States or its territories as a part of a program carried out by a Federal agency.".
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(c) PUBLICATION OF LIST.--
(1) IN GENERAL.--Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary of the Interior shall publish in the Federal Register a list of all nonnative, human-introduced bird species to which the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703 et seq.) does not apply. As necessary, the Secretary may update and publish the list of species exempted from protection of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
(2) PUBLIC COMMENT.--Before publishing the list under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall provide adequate time for public comment.
(3) EFFECT OF SECTION.--Nothing in this subsection shall delay implementation of other provisions of this section or amendments made by this section that exclude nonnative, human-introduced bird species from the application of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703 et seq.).
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