Appropriations for FY2002: Interior and Related Agencies (CRS Report for Congress)
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| Release Date |
Revised Feb. 1, 2002 |
| Report Number |
RL31006 |
| Report Type |
Report |
| Authors |
Carol Hardy-Vincent, Resources, Science, and Industry Division; and Susan Boren, Domestic Social Policy Division |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
| Older Revisions |
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Summary:
The Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations bill includes funds for the Department of the
Interior (DOI), except the Bureau of Reclamation, and funds for some agencies or programs within
three other departments--Agriculture, Energy, and Health and Human Services. It also funds
numerous smaller agencies.
On April, 9, 2001, President Bush submitted his FY2002 budget for Interior and Related
Agencies, totaling $18.19 billion compared to the $19.07 billion enacted for FY2001 ( P.L. 106-291 ).
These figures reflect scorekeeping adjustments. (See Table 10 and Table
11 ). Title VIII of the
FY2001 law created a new discretionary "conservation spending category." See Table
12 .
On June 19, 2001, the House Appropriations Committee reported the FY2002 Interior and
Related Agencies Appropriations bill ( H.R. 2217 , H.Rept. 107-103 ). The House
debated and passed H.R. 2217 (376-32) on June 21, 2001, with a total of $19.00 billion.
On June 29, 2001, the Senate Appropriations Committee reported H.R. 2217 ( S.Rept.
107-36 ) with amendments. The Senate debated the bill on July 11 and 12, 2001, and passed
H.R. 2217 by voice vote on July 12, 2001,with a total of $18.53 billion, a lower level
than the House.
House and Senate conferees met on October 10, 2001, and filed a report containing their
agreement ( H.Rept. 107-234 ) on October 11, 2001. On October 17, 2001, the conference report
passed the House (380-28) and the Senate (95-3). The bill was signed into law on November 5, 2001
( P.L. 107-63 ).
The FY2002 law contains a total of $19.18 billion, higher than the House and Senate levels.
For agencies within DOI, it contains $9.44 billion, while the Forest Service is funded at $4.13
billion. There is $1.77 billion for energy programs, and $2.76 billion for the Indian Health Service.
The Smithsonian Institution receives $497.2 million; the National Endowment for the Arts $98.2
million; and the National Endowment for the Humanities $124.5 million.
The conferees addressed a number of significant energy and mineral issues. The FY2002 law
drops provisions that barred funds from being used to: suspend or revise existing hardrock mining
regulations, implement the Kyoto Protocol, or execute a final lease agreement for oil and gas drilling
in the "Lease Sale 181" area of the Gulf of Mexico. It includes provisions to bar the use of funds
for offshore energy leasing activities in several areas, and for energy leasing activities within
presidentially-proclaimed national monuments as they were on January 20, 2001. The law also
extends the Recreational Fee Demonstration Program for two years, and modifies the Steel Loan
Guarantee Program.
In response to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, a $40 billion
emergency supplemental appropriation was enacted ( P.L. 107-38 ). The National Park Service has
received $3.1 million of the initial fund allocation for emergency response costs in New York City
and Washington D.C.
