FY 2022 Interior Budget in Brief
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Fiscal Year 2022 The Interior Budget in Brief May 2021 Table of Contents DEPARTMENTAL HIGHLIGHTS . DH-1 DEPARTMENTAL OVERVIEW . DH-3 The 2022 Budget . DH-3 Addressing Climate Challenges and Building Resilience . DH-5 Working Together to Make America’s Lands and Waters Healthier and More Resilient . DH-6 Tackling Climate Challenges . DH-8 Creating Jobs to Meet Environmental and Energy Challenges . DH-10 Advancing and Incorporating Science Across Interior . DH-14 Strengthening Tribal Nations . DH-16 Promoting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion of Underserved Communities . DH-20 Building Agency Capacity . DH-22 LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS . DH-31 BUREAU HIGHLIGHTS . BH-1 Bureau Highlights Summary . BH-3 Bureau of Land Management . BH-7 Bureau of Ocean Energy Management . BH-21 Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement . BH-29 Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement . BH-37 Bureau of Reclamation . BH-43 Central Utah Project Completion Act . BH-55 U.S. Geological Survey . BH-59 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service . BH-69 National Park Service . BH-87 Bureau of Indian Affairs . BH-101 Bureau of Indian Education . BH-117 Bureau of Trust Funds Administration . BH-127 Office of Insular Affairs . BH-131 Departmental Offices . BH-137 Departmentwide Programs . BH-145 APPENDIXES . I Comparison of 2020, 2021, and 2022 Budget Authority . A-1 Maintaining America’s Heritage . B-1 Construction Program . C-1 National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund . D-1 Land and Water Conservation Fund—Permanent Funding . E-1 Land and Water Conservation Fund—Project List . F-1 Grants and Payments . G-1 Receipts by Source Category . H-1 Energy Revenue Payments to States . I-1 Staffing . J-1 iii Foreword Background and Organization This document highlights the programs of the Department of the Interior and its 2022 President’s Budget request. The DEPARTMENTAL HIGHLIGHTS section summarizes budgetary resource requirements at the Department level and presents major Departmentwide 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 2021–2022 budgetary resource estimates with brief descriptions of programmatic changes. The APPENDIXES present tabular summaries of pertinent budgetary data. Appendix A is a Departmentwide table, presenting the 2022 request with prior-year amounts. Other appendixes contain summaries of Interior initiatives and crosscutting programs includ- ing land acquisition, maintenance and construction, grants and payments, receipt amounts, energy rev- enue payments to States, and staffing levels. Usage and Terminology All year 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. References to 2021 Estimate, 2021 Appropriations, or 2021 Enacted signify amounts appropriated in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (P.L. 116-260), for both the Department of the Interior, Environ- ment, and Related Agencies Appropriations and the Energy and Water Development Appropriations. The 2021 amounts appearing in this volume reflect adjustments required in the OMB Report to Congress on the Joint Committee Reductions for Fiscal Year 2021 issued on February 10, 2020. References to 2020 Actual, 2020 Appropriations, or 2020 Enacted signify amounts appropriated in the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (P.L. 116-94), for both the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations and the Energy and Water Development Appropri- ations. The 2020 amounts appearing in this volume reflect adjustments required in the OMB Report to Congress on the Joint Committee Reductions for Fiscal Year 2020 issued on March 18, 2019. Fixed costs refer to costs that are unavoidable in the short term (e.g. cost-of-living pay increases, Gen- eral Services Administration-negotiated space rate costs, unemployment compensation, and govern- mentwide changes in health benefits). Additional information on the basis for the amounts used in this document is provided in the notes following Appendix A. v A listing of frequently used acronyms follows: BA Budget Authority NEPA National Environmental Policy Act BIA Bureau of Indian Affairs NIGC National Indian Gaming Commission BIE Bureau of Indian Education NPS National Park Service BLM Bureau of Land Management NRDAR Natural Resource Damage BOEM Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Assessment and Restoration BSEE Bureau of Safety and Environmental OIA Office of Insular Affairs Enforcement OIG Office of Inspector General BTFA Bureau of Trust Funds Administration ONRR Office of Natural Resources Revenue CR Continuing Resolution OS Office of the Secretary CUPCA Central Utah Project Completion Act OSMRE Office of Surface Mining DO Departmental Offices Reclamation and Enforcement DWP Departmentwide Programs OST Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians ECRP Energy Community Revitalization Program PILT Payments in Lieu of Taxes EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency SIPI Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute ESA Endangered Species Act SOL Office of the Solicitor FWS U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service TPA Tribal Priority Allocations GSA General Services Administration USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers GAOA Great American Outdoors Act USBM U.S. Bureau of Mines HCP Habitat Conservation Plan USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture IBC Interior Business Center USFS U.S. Forest Service LBBP Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations USGS U.S. Geological Survey LRF [National Parks and Public Land] Legacy Restoration Fund WCF Working Capital Fund LWCF Land and Water Conservation Fund vi Departmental Highlights Departmental Overview “We must use every lever at our disposal to make necessary progress . This Nation has the opportunity of a lifetime to strengthen our country, fight climate change, and improve our way of life for generations to come . To Build Back Better, we need a strong annual budget for the Department .” Secretary Deb Haaland April 20, 2021 The Department of the Interior (DOI) plays an inte- to lift up the Nation in this unprecedented time gral role in conserving and managing the Nation’s by addressing the climate crisis, providing much- natural resources and cultural heritage for the ben- needed resources to Tribal nations, restoring bal- efit and enjoyment of the American people. Interior ance on public lands and waters, advancing envi- is the steward of 20 percent of America’s lands, ronmental justice, and investing in a clean energy managing national parks, national wildlife refuges, future. The 2022 budget lays out the important and other public lands. Interior works closely with role Interior will play to accomplish the Adminis- States, Tribal nations, and other partners to help tration’s goals to move our country forward. This accomplish shared natural and cultural resource request includes the President’s American Jobs management goals across the country. Plan, which provides a longer term strategy to create millions of good-paying union jobs, rebuild Key to this work is science. Science, resource and our country’s infrastructure, and position America hazard monitoring, and predictive modeling tools to out-compete others on the global stage. inform the evidence-based decisions of resource management, disaster preparedness officials, and on-the-ground adaptive management—not only The 2022 Budget of Interior lands but also in local communities The Department’s 2022 budget totals $17.6 billion throughout the Nation. in current authority ($17.4 billion in net discretion- Interior’s wide-ranging programs create economic ary authority)—an increase of $2.5 billion, or 17 opportunities and jobs for the American people. As percent, from the 2021 enacted level. An additional reflected in the DOI Economic Contributions Report $330.0 million is available through a budget cap for Fiscal Year 2019, Interior’s mission activities adjustment to ensure necessary funds are available supported an estimated 1.9 million jobs and $336 in the event of a severe fire season without harming billion in economic output. Interior has an import- other Interior programs. The budget also provides ant and unique mission to uphold and honor the an estimated $9.5 billion in permanent funding in Nation’s trust responsibilities and commitments to 2022. Within the increase for 2022, $218.6 million Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and affiliated will be used to cover fixed-cost increases, such as island communities to help them prosper. rent and Federal salary adjustments. The Administration’s 2022 budget request will The Administration’s support for Interior’s discre- help implement the President’s ambitious vision tionary programs in 2022 reflects the Biden-Harris Departmental Highlights | DH-3 Administration’s commitment to— identifies baseline funding associated with specific priorities, including climate resilience, climate sci- • strengthen climate resilience and ence, conservation, and clean energy. These base- conservation partnerships; lines reflect program funding for activities primar- • create jobs and invest in healthy lands, ily focused on a specific Administration priority, waters, and economies of energy although many programs support multiple prior- communities across the country; ities. These baseline amounts are cited throughout