The Interior Budget in Brief May 2017
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Fiscal Year 2018 The Interior Budget in Brief May 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS DEPARTMENTAL HIGHLIGHTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ DH - 3 DEPARTMENTAL OVERVIEW ............................................................................ DH - 5 America's Energy ................................................................................................. DH - 6 The Nation’s Infrastructure ................................................................................ DH - 8 Permitting ......................................................................................................... DH - 8 Infrastructure Management ........................................................................... DH - 8 America’s Lands ................................................................................................... DH - 10 America’s Trust Responsibilities ........................................................................ DH - 12 Management and Reforms.................................................................................. DH - 13 The Numbers ........................................................................................................ DH - 16 Department of the Interior Facts ........................................................................ DH - 17 LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS AND OFFSETTING COLLECTIONS ....................... DH - 19 Legislative Proposals ........................................................................................... DH - 19 Offsetting Collection Proposals .......................................................................... DH - 20 BUREAU HIGHLIGHTS Bureau Highlights ................................................................................................ BH - 3 Bureau of Land Management ............................................................................. BH - 7 Bureau of Ocean Energy Management ............................................................. BH - 19 Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement ......................................... BH - 23 Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement ............................... BH - 29 Bureau of Reclamation ........................................................................................ BH - 33 Central Utah Project Completion Act ................................................................ BH - 45 U.S. Geological Survey ........................................................................................ BH - 49 Fish and Wildlife Service..................................................................................... BH - 59 National Park Service .......................................................................................... BH - 69 Indian Affairs ........................................................................................................ BH - 77 Departmental Offices ........................................................................................... BH - 87 Department-wide Programs ............................................................................... BH - 97 APPENDICES Comparison of 2016, 2017, and 2018 Budget Authority ................................. A - 1 Maintaining America's Heritage ........................................................................ B - 1 Construction Program ......................................................................................... C - 1 Land and Water Conservation Fund ................................................................. D - 1 Recreation Fee Program ...................................................................................... E - 1 Grants and Payments .......................................................................................... F - 1 Invasive Species .................................................................................................... G - 1 Receipts by Source Category .............................................................................. H - 1 Mineral Revenue Payments to States ................................................................ I - 1 Staffing ................................................................................................................... J - 1 iii Table of Contents FOREWORD BACKGROUND AND ORGANIZATION This document highlights the programs of the Department of the Interior and its 2018 President’s budget request. The DEPARTMENTAL HIGHLIGHTS section summarizes budgetary resource requirements at the Department level and presents major Department-wide initiatives, programs, and budget propos- als. The BUREAU HIGHLIGHTS section presents a narrative summary of the budget request for each bureau and an in-depth comparison in tabular form of 2017-2018 budgetary resource estimates with brief descriptions of programmatic changes. The APPENDICES present tabular summaries of perti- nent budgetary data. Appendix A is a Department-wide table, presenting the 2018 request with prior year amounts. Other appendices contain summaries of Interior initiatives and crosscutting programs including maintenance and construction; recreation fees; invasive species; grants and payments; receipt amounts; mineral revenue payments to States; and staffing levels. USAGE AND TERMINOLOGY All years references are fiscal years unless noted, and amounts presented reflect budget authority unless otherwise specified. Numbers in tables and graphs may not add to totals because of rounding. Numbers shown in brackets [ ] are displayed for informational purposes and are not included in totals. At the time the budget was prepared, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017, establishing a full year appropriation for the Department, was not yet enacted. In lieu of an enacted bill, the 2018 Interior Budget in Brief displays 2017 funding as the 2017 CR baseline, 2017 CR, or 2017. These amounts reflect an annualized level of funding made available under the three Continuing Resolutions passed since the beginning of the fiscal year. The 2017 amounts appearing in this volume reflect adjustments required in the OMB Report to Congress on the Joint Committee Reductions for Fiscal Year 2017 issued on February 9, 2016. References to 2016 Estimate, 2016 Appropriations, or 2016 Actual signify amounts appropriated in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, P.L. 114-113, for both Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations and Energy and Water Development Appropriations. The 2016 amounts appearing in this volume reflect adjustments required in the OMB Report to Congress on the Joint Committee Reductions for Fiscal Year 2016 issued on February 2, 2015. Fixed costs refer to costs that are unavoidable in the short term (e.g. cost of living pay increases, General Services Administration- negotiated space rate costs, unemployment compensation, and government-wide changes in health benefits). Additional information on the basis for the amounts used in this document is provided in the note following Appendix A. A listing of frequently used acronyms follows: BIA Bureau of Indian Affairs NRDAR Natural Resource Damage BIE Bureau of Indian Education Assessment and Restoration BLM Bureau of Land Management OIA Office of Insular Affairs BOEM Bureau of Ocean Energy Management OIG Office of Inspector General BSEE Bureau of Safety and Environmental ONRR Office of Natural Resources Revenue Enforcement OS Office of the Secretary CR Continuing Resolution OSMRE Office of Surface Mining CUPCA Central Utah Project Completion Act Reclamation and Enforcement DO Departmental Offices OST Office of the Special Trustee DWP Department-wide Programs for American Indians FWS Fish and Wildlife Service PILT Payments in Lieu of Taxes IBC Interior Business Center SOL Office of the Solicitor LWCF Land and Water Conservation Fund USGS U.S. Geological Survey NIGC National Indian Gaming Commission USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers NPS National Park Service WCF Working Capital Fund v DEPARTMENTAL HIGHLIGHTS Introduction The last day of the Thirtieth Congress, March 3, 1849, was also the eve of President-elect Zachary Taylor’s inauguration. The House of Representatives and the Senate were busy at work on two bills: the first, to find a formula for giving the newly acquired territory of California a civil government. The second, no less contentious, was also related to the recent enlargement of the national domain: legislation to create a Cabinet agency known as the Home Department, or Department of the Interior. The bill to create such a Department passed the House of Representatives on February 15, 1849. Two weeks later, the bill reached the Senate floor and late in the evening of March 3rd, the Senate voted 31 to 25 on the House-passed bill. President Polk was waiting in the Senate chambers and signed the bill creating a Department of the Interior. 1/ In 1849, when the Congress created the Home Department, it charged Interior with managing a wide variety of programs. In the last half of the 19th century, these programs ran the gamut of over- seeing Indian Affairs, exploring the western wilderness, directing the District of Columbia jail, constructing the National Capital’s water system, managing hospitals and universities, improving historic western emigrant routes, marking boundaries, issuing patents, conducting the census, and conducting research on the geological resources of the land. Following the conservation movement at the beginning of the 20th century, there was