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Committee a Report [FULL COMMITTEE PRINT] 116TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! 2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116–XXX DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2021 lll l, 2020.—Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Ms. MCCOLLUM, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following R E P O R T [To accompany H.R. l] The Committee on Appropriations submits the following report in explanation of the accompanying bill making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021. The bill provides regular annual appropriations for the De- partment of the Interior (except the Bureau of Reclamation and the Central Utah Project), the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other related agencies, including the Forest Service, the Indian Health Service, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities. CONTENTS Page number Bill Report Title I—Department of the Interior: 2 11 Bureau of Land Management ............................................................ 2 11 United States Fish and Wildlife Service ........................................... 8 15 National Park Service ......................................................................... 15 31 United States Geological Survey ....................................................... 21 40 Bureau of Ocean Energy Management ............................................. 24 49 Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement ......................... 25 50 Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement ................. 28 51 Bureau of Indian Affairs .................................................................... 31 52 Bureau of Indian Education ............................................................... 35 63 Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians ......................... 42 68 Office of the Secretary ........................................................................ 44 69 Insular Affairs ..................................................................................... 47 70 38–857 VerDate Sep 11 2014 07:21 Jul 07, 2020 Jkt 038857 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6659 Sfmt 6659 E:\HR\OC\A857.XXX A857 SSpencer on DSK126QN23PROD with HEARING 2 Page number Bill Report Office of the Solicitor .......................................................................... 50 72 Office of Inspector General ................................................................. 50 73 Department-wide Programs: 50 73 Wildland Fire Management, Interior Department ........................... 50 74 Central Hazardous Materials Fund .................................................. 55 75 Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration ................. 55 75 Working Capital Fund ........................................................................ 56 75 Office of Natural Resources Revenue ................................................ 57 76 General Provisions, Department of the Interior ............................... 58 76 Title II—Environmental Protection Agency: 72 77 Science and Technology ...................................................................... 72 81 Environmental Programs and Management ..................................... 73 86 Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Fund ....................... 74 98 Office of Inspector General ................................................................. 75 99 Buildings and Facilities ...................................................................... 75 99 Hazardous Substance Superfund ....................................................... 75 100 Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program ............. 76 102 Inland Oil Spill Programs .................................................................. 77 102 State and Tribal Assistance Grants .................................................. 77 103 Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program Account ... 88 108 Administrative Provisions .................................................................. 90 109 Title III—Related Agencies: 96 110 Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environ- ment .................................................................................................. 96 110 Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture .............................. 96 110 Wildland Fire Management, Forest Service ..................................... 101 121 Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ............................................................................................ 111 122 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ..................... 121 133 Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ......................... 121 134 Other Related Agencies: 122 135 Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality .............................................................................................. 122 135 Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board ........................... 123 136 Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation ................................... 124 136 Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development .................................................................................... 125 137 Smithsonian Institution ..................................................................... 125 137 National Gallery of Art ....................................................................... 128 141 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ............................ 130 142 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars ........................ 130 143 National Endowment for the Arts ..................................................... 131 144 National Endowment for the Humanities ......................................... 131 145 Commission of Fine Arts .................................................................... 133 146 National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs ...................................... 133 147 Advisory Council on Historic Preservation ....................................... 134 147 National Capital Planning Commission ............................................ 134 148 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum .................................... 134 148 Presidio Trust ...................................................................................... 135 149 Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission ...................................... — 149 Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission ................................. 135 149 World War I Centennial Commission ................................................ 135 150 Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission ...................... — 150 Title IV—General Provisions: 136 151 Title V—Additional Infrastructure Investments: 164 153 INTRODUCTION The Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agen- cies Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2021 totals $36,760,000,000, VerDate Sep 11 2014 07:29 Jul 07, 2020 Jkt 038857 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6659 Sfmt 6602 E:\HR\OC\A857.XXX A857 SSpencer on DSK126QN23PROD with HEARING 3 $771,000,000 above the fiscal year 2020 enacted level and $5,108,262,000 above the fiscal year 2021 budget request. Addition- ally, the bill includes a title for emergency-designated infrastruc- ture investments totaling $15,000,000,000 for the Bureau of Indian Education, Environmental Protection Agency, and the Indian Health Service. The amounts in the accompanying bill are reflected by title in the table below. References throughout this report to the enacted bill and the budget request refer to the fiscal year 2020 enacted level and the fiscal year 2021 budget request unless otherwise stat- ed. DISCRETIONARY BUDGET AUTHORITY RECOMMENDED IN BILL BY TITLE Committee bill Activity Budget estimates, Committee bill, compared with budget fiscal year 2021 fiscal year 2021 estimates Title I, Department of the Interior: New budget authority ........................ $11,987,032,000 $13,765,738,000 +$1,778,706,000 Title II, Environmental Protection Agency: New budget authority ........................ $6,704,071,000 $9,375,691,000 +$2,671,620,000 Title III, Related Agencies: New budget authority ........................ $15,306,635,000 $15,968,571,000 +$661,936,000 Title IV, General Provisions: New budget authority ........................ $4,000,000 $0 ¥$4,000,000 Title V, Infrastructure: New budget authority (emergency) .... $0 $15,000,000,000 +$15,000,000,000 Grand total, New budget au- thority ............................... $34,001,738,000 $54,110,000,000 +$20,108,262,000 Less emergencies ................. $0 ¥$15,000,000,000 Less Fire Cap Adjustment .... ¥$2,350,000,000 ¥$2,350,000,000 Net, New budget authority ... $31,651,738,000 $36,760,000,000 +$771,000,000 COMMITTEE OVERSIGHT Members of Congress have provided considerable input in fash- ioning this bill. In total, 378 Members submitted 7,225 pro- grammatic requests relating to multiple agencies and programs. The Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee conducted fourteen oversight hearings this year (including four hearings involving American Indians and Alaska Natives) to care- fully review the programs and budgets under its jurisdiction. The Subcommittee held the following oversight hearings: Chronic Wasting Disease—October 17, 2019 Strengthening Community Recycling—February 5, 2020 Public
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