Carol Hardy Vincent, Coordinator
Specialist in Natural Resources Policy
The Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill includes funding for the Department of the Interior (DOI), except for the Bureau of Reclamation, and for agencies within other departments—including the Forest Service within the Department of Agriculture and the Indian Health Service (IHS) within the Department of Health and Human Services. It also includes funding for arts and cultural agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency, and numerous other entities.
The President requested $32.43 billion for FY2011 for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, a $108.1 million (0.3%) increase over the FY2010 level of $32.32 billion. Despite the relative stability of this total funding, the President sought increases for some agencies and decreases for other agencies. Among the proposed increases for FY2011, over FY2010 appropriations, would be:
Specialist in Natural Resources Policy
The Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill includes funding for the Department of the Interior (DOI), except for the Bureau of Reclamation, and for agencies within other departments—including the Forest Service within the Department of Agriculture and the Indian Health Service (IHS) within the Department of Health and Human Services. It also includes funding for arts and cultural agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency, and numerous other entities.
The President requested $32.43 billion for FY2011 for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, a $108.1 million (0.3%) increase over the FY2010 level of $32.32 billion. Despite the relative stability of this total funding, the President sought increases for some agencies and decreases for other agencies. Among the proposed increases for FY2011, over FY2010 appropriations, would be:
- $354.1 million (9%) for the Indian Health Service;
- $86.4 million (63%) for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement; and
- $79.4 million (1%) for the Forest Service.
Among the proposed decreases would be:
- $271.9 million (3%) for the Environmental Protection Agency;
- $53.6 million (2%) for the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and
- $16.8 million (9%) for the Office of Special Trustee for American Indians.
No regular appropriations bill to fund Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies for FY2011 has been enacted to date. Instead, a series of laws has been enacted to continue appropriations for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, mostly at FY2010 account levels. Most recently, P.L. 112-6 extended funding through April 8, 2011. The law also reduced funding for FY2011 for about two dozen accounts within the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill.
Congress typically considers a variety of funding and policy issues when considering each year’s appropriations legislation. These issues have included energy development onshore and offshore, wildland fire fighting, Indian trust fund management, royalty relief, climate change, DOI science programs, and wild horse and burro management. Other issues have included the appropriate funding levels for Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement and education; Indian Health Service construction and contract health services; wastewater/drinking water needs; the arts; land acquisition through the Land and Water Conservation Fund; and the Superfund program.
Date of Report: March 24, 2011
Number of Pages: 62
Order Number: R41258
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