H.R. 4821: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
Bill · 118th Congress (2023–2024). Passed House, 3 Nov 2023. Introduced 24 Jul 2023.
Official title: Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes.
Vote results
- House, 3 Nov 2023: Passed, 213 Yea, 203 Nay, 0 Present, 17 Not voting. The House’s roll call
- President: Not presented to the President.
How each member voted
House
Yea (213): Harold Rogers (R-KY-5); Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ-4); Ken Calvert (R-CA-41); Frank D. Lucas (R-OK-3); Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL-4); Kay Granger (R-TX-12); Michael K. Simpson (R-ID-2); Pete Sessions (R-TX-17); Sam Graves (R-MO-6); Joe Wilson (R-SC-2); Michael C. Burgess (R-TX-26); John R. Carter (R-TX-31); Tom Cole (R-OK-4); Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL-26); Mike Rogers (R-AL-3); Michael R. Turner (R-OH-10); Darrell Issa (R-CA-48); Virginia Foxx (R-NC-5); Michael T. McCaul (R-TX-10); Patrick T. McHenry (R-NC-10); Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA-5); Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL-12); Vern Buchanan (R-FL-16); Jim Jordan (R-OH-4); Doug Lamborn (R-CO-5); Adrian Smith (R-NE-3); Robert E. Latta (R-OH-5); Robert J. Wittman (R-VA-1); Steve Scalise (R-LA-1); Tim Walberg (R-MI-5); Brett Guthrie (R-KY-2); Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO-3); Tom McClintock (R-CA-5); Bill Posey (R-FL-8); Glenn Thompson (R-PA-15); Larry Bucshon (R-IN-8); Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (R-AR-1); Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-4); Jeff Duncan (R-SC-3); Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN-3); Paul A. Gosar (R-AZ-9); H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA-9); Andy Harris (R-MD-1); Bill Huizenga (R-MI-4); Mike Kelly (R-PA-16); David Schweikert (R-AZ-1); Austin Scott (R-GA-8); Daniel Webster (R-FL-11); Steve Womack (R-AR-3); Mark E. Amodei (R-NV-2); Thomas Massie (R-KY-4); Andy Barr (R-KY-6); Richard Hudson (R-NC-9); Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-1); Scott Perry (R-PA-10); Ann Wagner (R-MO-2); Randy K. Weber, Sr. (R-TX-14); Brad R. Wenstrup (R-OH-2); Roger Williams (R-TX-25); Jason Smith (R-MO-8); Rick W. Allen (R-GA-12); Brian Babin (R-TX-36); Mike Bost (R-IL-12); Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA-1); Tom Emmer (R-MN-6); Garret Graves (R-LA-6); Glenn Grothman (R-WI-6); J. French Hill (R-AR-2); Barry Loudermilk (R-GA-11); John R. Moolenaar (R-MI-2); Alexander X. Mooney (R-WV-2); Gary J. Palmer (R-AL-6); David Rouzer (R-NC-7); Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY-21); Bruce Westerman (R-AR-4); David G. Valadao (R-CA-22); Trent Kelly (R-MS-1); Warren Davidson (R-OH-8); James Comer (R-KY-1); Jodey C. Arrington (R-TX-19); Don Bacon (R-NE-2); Jim Banks (R-IN-3); Jack Bergman (R-MI-1); Andy Biggs (R-AZ-5); Neal P. Dunn (R-FL-2); A. Drew Ferguson IV (R-GA-3); Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX-34); Clay Higgins (R-LA-3); Mike Johnson (R-LA-4); David Kustoff (R-TN-8); Brian J. Mast (R-FL-21); John H. Rutherford (R-FL-5); Lloyd Smucker (R-PA-11); Ron Estes (R-KS-4); Ralph Norman (R-SC-5); John R. Curtis (R-UT-3); Michael Cloud (R-TX-27); Troy Balderson (R-OH-12); Kevin Hern (R-OK-1); James R. Baird (R-IN-4); Tim Burchett (R-TN-2); Ben Cline (R-VA-6); Dan Crenshaw (R-TX-2); Russ Fulcher (R-ID-1); Lance Gooden (R-TX-5); Mark E. Green (R-TN-7); Michael Guest (R-MS-3); Dusty Johnson (R-SD-AL); John Joyce (R-PA-13); Daniel Meuser (R-PA-9); Carol D. Miller (R-WV-1); Greg Pence (R-IN-6); Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA-14); John W. Rose (R-TN-6); Chip Roy (R-TX-21); Pete Stauber (R-MN-8); Bryan Steil (R-WI-1); W. Gregory Steube (R-FL-17); William R. Timmons IV (R-SC-4); Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ-2); Michael Waltz (R-FL-6); Claudia Tenney (R-NY-24); Dan Bishop (R-NC-8); Gregory F. Murphy (R-NC-3); Mike Garcia (R-CA-27); Thomas P. Tiffany (R-WI-7); Ryan K. Zinke (R-MT-1); Cliff Bentz (R-OR-2); Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK-5); Lauren Boebert (R-CO-3); Kat Cammack (R-FL-3); Jerry L. Carl (R-AL-1); Andrew S. Clyde (R-GA-9); Byron Donalds (R-FL-19); Pat Fallon (R-TX-4); Randy Feenstra (R-IA-4); Michelle Fischbach (R-MN-7); Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI-5); Scott Franklin (R-FL-18); Carlos A. Gimenez (R-FL-28); Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23); Bob Good (R-VA-5); Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14); Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-1); Ashley Hinson (R-IA-2); Ronny Jackson (R-TX-13); Young Kim (R-CA-40); Jake LaTurner (R-KS-2); Nancy Mace (R-SC-1); Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY-11); Tracey Mann (R-KS-1); Lisa C. McClain (R-MI-9); Mary E. Miller (R-IL-15); Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA-1); Barry Moore (R-AL-2); Blake D. Moore (R-UT-1); Troy E. Nehls (R-TX-22); Jay Obernolte (R-CA-23); Burgess Owens (R-UT-4); August Pfluger (R-TX-11); Matthew M. Rosendale, Sr. (R-MT-2); Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL-27); Victoria Spartz (R-IN-5); Michelle Steel (R-CA-45); Beth Van Duyne (R-TX-24); Julia Letlow (R-LA-5); Jake Ellzey (R-TX-6); Mike Carey (R-OH-15); Mike Flood (R-NE-1); Brad Finstad (R-MN-1); Rudy Yakym III (R-IN-2); Mark Alford (R-MO-4); Aaron Bean (R-FL-4); Josh Brecheen (R-OK-2); Eric Burlison (R-MO-7); Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR-5); Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ-6); Mike Collins (R-GA-10); Elijah Crane (R-AZ-2); Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY-4); Monica De La Cruz (R-TX-15); John S. Duarte (R-CA-13); Chuck Edwards (R-NC-11); Mike Ezell (R-MS-4); Russell Fry (R-SC-7); Harriet M. Hageman (R-WY-AL); Erin Houchin (R-IN-9); Wesley Hunt (R-TX-38); John James (R-MI-10); Thomas H. Kean, Jr. (R-NJ-7); Jennifer A. Kiggans (R-VA-2); Kevin Kiley (R-CA-3); Nick LaLota (R-NY-1); Nicholas A. Langworthy (R-NY-23); Laurel M. Lee (R-FL-15); Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL-13); Morgan Luttrell (R-TX-8); Richard McCormick (R-GA-6); Cory Mills (R-FL-7); Nathaniel Moran (R-TX-1); Zachary Nunn (R-IA-3); Andrew Ogles (R-TN-5); Keith Self (R-TX-3); Dale W. Strong (R-AL-5); Derrick Van Orden (R-WI-3); Brandon Williams (R-NY-22); Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-20); Bill Johnson (R-OH-6); Ken Buck (R-CO-4); Matt Gaetz (R-FL-1); Mike Gallagher (R-WI-8); Kelly Armstrong (R-ND-AL); George Santos (R-NY-3).
Nay (203): Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD-5); Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-9); Nancy Pelosi (D-CA-11); Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ-6); Richard E. Neal (D-MA-1); Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT-3); Maxine Waters (D-CA-43); Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-12); Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA-2); James E. Clyburn (D-SC-6); Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA-16); Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA-3); Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY-7); Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS-2); Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-37); Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-18); Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-3); Danny K. Davis (D-IL-7); Diana DeGette (D-CO-1); James P. McGovern (D-MA-2); Brad Sherman (D-CA-32); Adam Smith (D-WA-9); Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY-5); Barbara Lee (D-CA-12); John B. Larson (D-CT-1); Mike Thompson (D-CA-4); Rick Larsen (D-WA-2); Betty McCollum (D-MN-4); Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA-8); Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ-7); C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD-2); David Scott (D-GA-13); Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA-38); Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO-5); Jim Costa (D-CA-21); Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28); Al Green (D-TX-9); Gwen Moore (D-WI-4); Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-25); Doris O. Matsui (D-CA-7); Kathy Castor (D-FL-14); Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY-9); Steve Cohen (D-TN-9); Joe Courtney (D-CT-2); Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA-4); John P. Sarbanes (D-MD-3); André Carson (D-IN-7); Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA-11); James A. Himes (D-CT-4); Chellie Pingree (D-ME-1); Paul Tonko (D-NY-20); Mike Quigley (D-IL-5); Judy Chu (D-CA-28); John Garamendi (D-CA-8); Bill Foster (D-IL-11); William R. Keating (D-MA-9); Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL-24); Dina Titus (D-NV-1); Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-7); Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1); Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA-1); Joyce Beatty (D-OH-3); Ami Bera (D-CA-6); Julia Brownley (D-CA-26); Matt Cartwright (D-PA-8); Tony Cárdenas (D-CA-29); Lois Frankel (D-FL-22); Jared Huffman (D-CA-2); Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY-8); Daniel T. Kildee (D-MI-8); Derek Kilmer (D-WA-6); Grace Meng (D-NY-6); Scott H. Peters (D-CA-50); Mark Pocan (D-WI-2); Raul Ruiz (D-CA-25); Eric Swalwell (D-CA-14); Mark Takano (D-CA-39); Juan Vargas (D-CA-52); Marc A. Veasey (D-TX-33); Robin L. Kelly (D-IL-2); Katherine M. Clark (D-MA-5); Alma S. Adams (D-NC-12); Donald Norcross (D-NJ-1); Pete Aguilar (D-CA-33); Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA-8); Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA-2); Ed Case (D-HI-1); Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA-10); Debbie Dingell (D-MI-6); Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-3); Ted Lieu (D-CA-36); Seth Moulton (D-MA-6); Norma J. Torres (D-CA-35); Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12); Bradley Scott Schneider (D-IL-10); Dwight Evans (D-PA-3); Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA-44); Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE-AL); Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA-24); J. Luis Correa (D-CA-46); Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13); Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1); Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5); Steven Horsford (D-NV-4); Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7); Ro Khanna (D-CA-17); Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-8); Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-19); Jamie Raskin (D-MD-8); Darren Soto (D-FL-9); Jimmy Gomez (D-CA-34); Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY-25); Susan Wild (D-PA-7); Colin Z. Allred (D-TX-32); Sean Casten (D-IL-6); Angie Craig (D-MN-2); Jason Crow (D-CO-6); Sharice Davids (D-KS-3); Madeleine Dean (D-PA-4); Veronica Escobar (D-TX-16); Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX-7); Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX-29); Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL-4); Jared F. Golden (D-ME-2); Josh Harder (D-CA-9); Jahana Hayes (D-CT-5); Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-6); Susie Lee (D-NV-3); Mike Levin (D-CA-49); Lucy McBath (D-GA-7); Joe Neguse (D-CO-2); Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14); Ilhan Omar (D-MN-5); Chris Pappas (D-NH-1); Katie Porter (D-CA-47); Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-7); Kim Schrier (D-WA-8); Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ-11); Elissa Slotkin (D-MI-7); Abigail Davis Spanberger (D-VA-7); Greg Stanton (D-AZ-4); Haley M. Stevens (D-MI-11); Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-12); Lori Trahan (D-MA-3); David J. Trone (D-MD-6); Jake Auchincloss (D-MA-4); Jamaal Bowman (D-NY-16); Cori Bush (D-MO-1); Sara Jacobs (D-CA-51); Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM-3); Kathy E. Manning (D-NC-6); Frank J. Mrvan (D-IN-1); Deborah K. Ross (D-NC-2); Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10); Ritchie Torres (D-NY-15); Nikema Williams (D-GA-5); Troy A. Carter (D-LA-2); Melanie A. Stansbury (D-NM-1); Shontel M. Brown (D-OH-11); Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL-20); Mary Sattler Peltola (D-AK-AL); Patrick Ryan (D-NY-18); Becca Balint (D-VT-AL); Nikki Budzinski (D-IL-13); Yadira Caraveo (D-CO-8); Greg Casar (D-TX-35); Jasmine Crockett (D-TX-30); Donald G. Davis (D-NC-1); Christopher R. Deluzio (D-PA-17); Valerie P. Foushee (D-NC-4); Maxwell Frost (D-FL-10); Robert Garcia (D-CA-42); Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA-3); Daniel S. Goldman (D-NY-10); Val T. Hoyle (D-OR-4); Glenn Ivey (D-MD-4); Jonathan L. Jackson (D-IL-1); Greg Landsman (D-OH-1); Michael Lawler (R-NY-17); Summer L. Lee (D-PA-12); Seth Magaziner (D-RI-2); Morgan McGarvey (D-KY-3); Robert Menendez (D-NJ-8); Marcus J. Molinaro (R-NY-19); Jared Moskowitz (D-FL-23); Kevin Mullin (D-CA-15); Wiley Nickel (D-NC-13); Brittany Pettersen (D-CO-7); Delia C. Ramirez (D-IL-3); Andrea Salinas (D-OR-6); Hillary J. Scholten (D-MI-3); Eric Sorensen (D-IL-17); Emilia Strong Sykes (D-OH-13); Shri Thanedar (D-MI-13); Jill N. Tokuda (D-HI-2); Gabe Vasquez (D-NM-2); Jennifer L. McClellan (D-VA-4); Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-9); Adam B. Schiff (D-CA-30); Brian Higgins (D-NY-26); Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D-NJ-10); Andy Kim (D-NJ-3); Jeff Jackson (D-NC-14).
Not voting (17): Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA-31); Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL-9); Terri A. Sewell (D-AL-7); Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20); David P. Joyce (R-OH-14); Ann M. Kuster (D-NH-2); Dan Newhouse (R-WA-4); Darin LaHood (R-IL-16); Debbie Lesko (R-AZ-8); Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-5); Dean Phillips (D-MN-3); Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14); Jennifer Wexton (D-VA-10); Andrew R. Garbarino (R-NY-2); Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA-37); Max L. Miller (R-OH-7); Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18).
Not in office (12): Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY-3); Gabe Amo (D-RI-1); Celeste Maloy (R-UT-2); Timothy M. Kennedy (D-NY-26); Vince Fong (R-CA-20); Michael A. Rulli (R-OH-6); Greg Lopez (R-CO-4); LaMonica McIver (D-NJ-10); Erica Lee Carter (D-TX-18); Tony Wied (R-WI-8); David N. Cicilline (D-RI-1); Chris Stewart (R-UT-2).
Summary
Main subject: Provides fiscal year 2024 appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, the Indian Health Service and related agencies, and sets conditions, limits and requirements on the use of funds. Title I, Title II, Title III, Title IV
Its core areas: Department of the Interior land, wildlife, park, and mineral agency funding; Environmental Protection Agency programs and state water infrastructure grants; Forest Service funding; Wildland fire and wildfire suppression funding; Indian Health Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Education programs; Smithsonian, arts, humanities and cultural agencies; Outer Continental Shelf and onshore oil and gas lease sale requirements; Limits on using funds for specific rules, programs and executive orders.
Unexpected Items: 112 provisions
These provisions fall outside the bill’s main subject or apply narrowly. This describes the text; it is not a judgment.
Not related to the bill’s main subject (9)
- Title I, “ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES”: Appropriates $107,857,000 for assistance to territories and other jurisdictions, including grants to the judiciary and government of American Samoa and grants to the governments of the Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. ($107,857,000)
- Title I, “COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION”: Appropriates $1,463,000 for grants and expenses under the Compacts of Free Association with Palau, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia. ($1,463,000)
- Title I, “Administrative provisions”: At the Governor of Guam's request, allows transfer of funds allocated for Guam to the Secretary of Agriculture for loan subsidy costs for Guam projects, with loans made without regard to population, credit-elsewhere requirements and eligible-entity restrictions.
- Sec. 110: Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to or enter cooperative agreements with private nonprofit organizations designated by the Secretary of Labor under title V of the Older Americans Act, for programs using older Americans.
- Sec. 115: Lets the Secretary set higher minimum basic pay rates, up to 15 percent above the normal minimum, for Department of the Interior employees in the Appraiser (GS–1171) job series at grades 11 through 15 in fiscal year 2024.
- Sec. 416: Bars use of funds in the Act to maintain or establish a computer network unless it is designed to block access to pornography websites, with an exception for law enforcement and criminal investigation activities.
- Sec. 430: Directs the Secretaries of Energy and Agriculture and the EPA Administrator to set joint federal policy on forest bioenergy and forest biomass as an energy source.
- Sec. 444: Amends 30 U.S.C. 28f to give mining claimants a right to use, occupy, and conduct operations on public land, with or without discovery of a valuable mineral deposit, if fees are paid.
- Sec. 483: Bars use of funds to take discriminatory action, as defined in the section, against a person who acts in accordance with a belief that marriage is a union of one man and one woman.
Applies only to a specific place or group (1)
- Title I, “OFFICE OF NATURAL RESOURCES REVENUE”: Makes $15,000 available for refunds of overpayments on certain Indian leases where the Secretary concurred with the claimed refund, to pay Indian allottees or Tribes or correct prior erroneous payments. ($15,000)
Funds a specific named project or event (23)
- Title I, “OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM”: Within the National Park Service operations appropriation, directs $11,661,000 to planning and interagency coordination for Everglades restoration and $2,500,000 to purposes of the 400 Years of African-American History Commission Act.
- Title I, “HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND”: Within the Historic Preservation Fund appropriation, sets $11,000,000 for grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities and $10,000,000 for a competitive grant program honoring the semiquincentennial anniversary of the United States.
- Title I, “Bureau of indian affairs — CONSTRUCTION”: The Bureau of Indian Affairs construction appropriation of $153,309,000 includes construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project and allows funds for that project to be transferred to the Bureau of Reclamation.
- Title I, “INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS”: Appropriates $825,000 for implementation of Indian land and water claim settlements under Public Laws 99–264 and 116–260 and other land and water rights settlements. ($825,000)
- Title I, “WORKING CAPITAL FUND”: Directs that fees and lease receipts from training and space use at the National Indian Program Training Center be credited to the account and used for that Center's expenses, within an $89,758,000 Working Capital Fund appropriation.
- Title II, “Administrative provisions—Environmental protection agency”: Authorizes Environmental Programs and Management funds for grants to implement the Southeast New England Watershed Restoration Program. The same section also allows up to $368,000,000 of Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funds to be transferred to other agencies.
- Title III, “ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS SPECIAL ACTS”: Provides $664,000, derived from forest receipts, for land acquisition within the boundaries of national forests named in Utah, Nevada, California and Arkansas. ($664,000)
- Title III, “ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FOREST SERVICE”: Allows Forest Service funds to be advanced to named organizations: up to $3,000,000 to the National Forest Foundation and up to $1,500,000 to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. It also allows a cooperative agreement with the Forest Service International Foundation.
- Title III, “Forest service”: Makes Forest Service funds available for payments to counties within the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, under sections of Public Law 99–663; no dollar amount is stated.
- Title III, “Office of navajo and hopi indian relocation — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides $3,060,000 from prior-year unobligated balances for the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation, and bars use of funds to evict certain Navajo families domiciled on the Hopi-partitioned lands as of November 30, 1985 unless a replacement home is provided. ($3,060,000)
- Title III, “PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE”: Provides $13,000,000 as a payment to the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, available starting July 1, 2024. ($13,000,000)
- Title III, “Smithsonian institution — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides $852,215,000 for the Smithsonian. It also lets appropriated lease or rent payments be deposited in trust funds toward purchase of part of the building at 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, and sets conditions on any sale of that interest.
- Title III, “OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE”: Provides $20,000,000 for the operation, maintenance and security of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. ($20,000,000)
- Title III, “CAPITAL REPAIR AND RESTORATION”: Provides $10,000,000 for capital repair and restoration of the building and site of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. ($10,000,000)
- Title III, “Woodrow wilson international center for scholars — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides $12,000,000 for expenses under the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968, for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. ($12,000,000)
- Title III, “HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM”: Provides $67,000,000 for the Holocaust Memorial Museum, including set amounts for its equipment replacement, repair and rehabilitation, and outreach programs. ($67,000,000)
- Title III, “World war I centennial commission — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides $1,500,000 for the World War I Centennial Commission and lets it accept money, personnel services and support from any executive branch agency. ($1,500,000)
- Title III, “United States semiquincentennial commission — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides $15,000,000 for the United States Semiquincentennial Commission to plan and coordinate observances of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. ($15,000,000)
- Sec. 493: Appropriates $5,000,000 to the U.S. Geological Survey for the Saline Lake Ecosystems in the Great Basin States Assessment and Monitoring Program and reduces Departmental Operations by the same amount. ($5,000,000)
- Sec. 494: Appropriates $5,500,000 each to the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service for carrying out section 4 of the Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act, with offsetting reductions to Interior Departmental Operations. ($5,500,000)
- Title III, “MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR SUBSISTENCE USES”: Provides $1,099,000 for the Forest Service to manage Federal lands in Alaska for subsistence uses under title VIII of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. ($1,099,000)
- Title III, “REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS”: Provides $18,000,000 for National Gallery of Art building work, allowing funds to be used to design and build an off-site art storage facility in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution. ($18,000,000)
- Sec. 429: Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to allocate fiscal year 2024 Legacy Restoration Fund and Land and Water Conservation Fund amounts to the agencies, stations, units, and projects listed in tables in the accompanying report, and bars other allocations.
Different amount for specific places or groups (4)
- Title I, “OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS”: Appropriates $60,000,000 for resource management on the Oregon and California Railroad grant lands and sets 25 percent of receipts from those lands as a charge against the Oregon and California land-grant fund, transferred to the General Fund. ($60,000,000)
- Title I, “STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS”: Sets apportionment shares of the $72,612,000 wildlife grant appropriation: not more than one-half of 1 percent each for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and not more than one-fourth of 1 percent each for Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands, with other States apportioned by land area and population.
- Title I, “ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND”: Of an additional $136,000,000, distributes $89,042,000 in equal amounts to three Appalachian States with the greatest unfunded needs, $35,218,000 to the three with the next greatest, and $11,740,000 to federally recognized Indian Tribes.
- Title II, “State and tribal assistance grants”: Within the EPA water grants account, sets $30,558,000 for grants to the State of Alaska for drinking water and wastewater needs of rural and Alaska Native Villages, with a 25 percent State match and its own spending conditions. ($30,558,000)
Exception or delay for a subset (13)
- Title I, “Bureau of indian education — ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS”: Requires continued indirect and administrative cost distribution under a section 5(f) formula for grantees that received funds that way in fiscal year 2003 or 2004; the section also bars Bureau of Indian Education funds for operating schools in the State of Alaska (other than public school assistance) and limits school funding to schools in the system as of September 1, 1996.
- Sec. 105: Caps any Tribe's Tribal Priority Allocation reduction at 10 percent in fiscal year 2024, but states the cap does not apply in cases of dual enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate distribution methodologies.
- Title III, “NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM”: Lets the Secretary of Agriculture credit up to 50 percent of the calculated National Grassland grazing fee to a Grazing Association or direct permittee for an approved conservation practice, notwithstanding the Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant Act fee provision.
- Title III, “NATIONAL CAPITAL ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS”: Provides $4,750,000 under Public Law 99–190 and, for fiscal year 2024, inserts “calendar year 2020 excluded” into the second paragraph of the 1986 program provision. ($4,750,000)
- Sec. 404: Bars use of funds to accept or process patent applications for mining or mill site claims, except for claims with an application filed on or before September 30, 1994 that met the listed requirements by that date; applicants may fund a third-party mineral examination.
- Sec. 409: Requires Appropriations Committee approval before funds are used to file condemnation declarations or complaints for land acquisition, but exempts funds for the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989 and Federal assistance to the State of Florida for Everglades restoration land.
- Sec. 432: Bars advertising of deficit-appraised timber sales in Alaska's Region 10 and sets terms for sale or export of western red cedar and Alaska yellow cedar from those sales.
- Sec. 443: Requires the Secretary of the Interior to reinstate two identified hardrock mineral leases in the Superior National Forest in Minnesota within 30 days, not subject to further judicial review.
- Sec. 453: Requires special recreation permit cost-recovery fee regulations for competitive or organized group events to exempt at least the first 100 hours of work per year, and orders a revision to 43 CFR 2932.31(e).
- Sec. 458: Amends the Coastal Barrier Resources Act so section 5 does not apply to federal spending for a borrow source in the System that was used by a coastal storm risk management project at least once before December 31, 2008.
- Sec. 460: Bars use of funds for pre-leasing, leasing, or conveying leases for onshore wind energy in Idaho until the Comptroller General completes a report on wind energy effects.
- Sec. 468: Bars use of funds for pre-leasing, leasing, or conveying leases for offshore wind energy in the Florida administrative boundary until the Comptroller General submits a study.
- Sec. 469: Requires the Secretary of the Interior to issue a new Record of Decision for the Caldwell Canyon Mine project by September 30, 2024, addressing deficiencies found by a federal district court.
Delays or blocks a specific regulation (48)
- Sec. 116: Bars use of funds by the Secretary of the Interior to write or issue a proposed or final rule on greater sage-grouse populations, or to implement or enforce three listed rules on the Bi-State Distinct Population Segment of greater sage-grouse.
- Title III, “ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE”: Bars Indian Health Service funds from being used to implement the final rule published September 16, 1987 on eligibility for IHS health care services until a budget request reflecting the added costs is included in an enacted appropriations Act.
- Sec. 407: Provides that the Secretary of Agriculture is not in violation of the forest plan revision requirement solely because more than 15 years have passed without revising a National Forest System unit plan; the exemption is void if the Secretary is not acting expeditiously and in good faith.
- Sec. 431: Bars use of funds to implement or enforce the March 21, 2011 air regulation for 'small, remote incinerator' units in Alaska, and keeps the prior rules in effect until a new regulation is issued.
- Sec. 434: Bars use of funds to promulgate or implement any regulation requiring Clean Air Act title V permits for certain emissions from biological processes associated with livestock production.
- Sec. 435: Bars use of funds to implement any provision of a rule that requires mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure management systems.
- Sec. 436: Bars use of funds to regulate the lead content of ammunition, ammunition components, or fishing tackle under the Toxic Substances Control Act or any other law.
- Sec. 441: Provides that the January 18, 2023 rule revising the definition of 'Waters of the United States' has no force or effect.
- Sec. 442: Bars obligating funds in this Act to enforce Public Land Order 7917 (88 Fed. Reg. 6308, January 31, 2023).
- Sec. 448: Bars use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce the November 25, 2022 rule listing the lesser prairie-chicken as threatened or endangered.
- Sec. 457: Bars use of funds to implement the final rule on endangered species status for the northern long-eared bat.
- Sec. 462: Bars obligation of funds to finalize, administer, or enforce the March 29, 2023 proposed steam electric power generating effluent limitations rule.
- Sec. 463: Bars use of funds to approve a Clean Air Act section 209(e) waiver submitted by the State of California for its Small Off-Road Engine Regulations: Transition to Zero Emissions.
- Sec. 466: Bars use of funds in this Act to implement, administer, or enforce Public Land Order No. 7921, a withdrawal of public land for satellite calibration in Railroad Valley, Nye County, Nevada.
- Sec. 467: Bars use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce the June 5, 2023 final 'Good Neighbor Plan' rule for the 2015 ozone air quality standards.
- Sec. 480: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, or enforce the April 24, 2023 proposed rule on hazardous air pollutant standards for coal- and oil-fired electric utility steam generating units.
- Sec. 481: Bars use of funds to prohibit lead ammunition or tackle, or to issue lead-level regulations, on federal land or water open for hunting or fishing unless specified wildlife-decline and state-consistency conditions are met.
- Sec. 482: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the May 23, 2023 proposed greenhouse gas rule for fossil fuel-fired electric generating units.
- Sec. 485: Bars use of funds to finalize or enforce two April 13, 2023 EPA ethylene oxide actions unless the Commissioner of Food and Drugs certifies no adverse impact on sterile medical product availability.
- Sec. 486: Bars use of funds to implement a final rule listing the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard as endangered or threatened.
- Sec. 487: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce decisions proposed in the November 29, 2022 EPA notice of proposed interim decisions for rodenticides.
- Sec. 488: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the May 5, 2023 proposed multi-pollutant emissions standards for model year 2027 and later light- and medium-duty vehicles, or any substantially similar rule.
- Sec. 489: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the April 27, 2023 proposed Phase 3 greenhouse gas standards for heavy-duty vehicles, or any substantially similar rule.
- Sec. 490: Bars use of funds to develop, finalize, issue, implement, or enforce the Bureau of Land Management's April 3, 2023 proposed 'Conservation and Landscape Health' rule or any substantially similar rule.
- Sec. 497: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for the Rock Springs RMP Revision, Wyoming.
- Sec. 501: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule listing the Salina mucket and Mexican fawnsfoot and designating critical habitat.
- Sec. 503: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the Draft Resource Management Plan or Draft Supplemental EIS for the Colorado River Valley and Grand Junction Field Offices in Colorado (88 Fed. Reg. 51855).
- Sec. 504: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the July 24, 2023 proposed 'Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process' rule.
- Sec. 506: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce three June 22, 2023 proposed Endangered Species Act rules on interagency cooperation, listing and critical habitat, and general regulations.
- Sec. 507: Bars use of funds to implement or enforce EPA's December 15, 2009 final rule on endangerment and cause or contribute findings for greenhouse gases under section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act.
- Sec. 511: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the September 8, 2023 proposed rule on management and protection of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
- Sec. 512: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed amendments to the North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule.
- Sec. 517: Bars BOEM and BSEE from using funds to implement the terms of a July 21, 2023 Stipulated Agreement to Stay Proceedings and BOEM Notice to Lessees NTL No. 2023-G01 on Rice's Whale protection in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Sec. 519: Bars use of funds to finalize, revise, implement, administer, or enforce the Council on Environmental Quality interim guidance on NEPA consideration of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change (88 Fed. Reg. 1196).
- Sec. 520: Bars use of funds to implement or enforce EPA's September 27, 2023 final Clean Water Act Section 401 Water Quality Certification Improvement Rule.
- Sec. 521: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule listing the Texas kangaroo rat and designating critical habitat.
- Sec. 522: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the Draft Resource Management Plan or Draft EIS for the Redding and Arcata Field Offices, California (88 Fed. Reg. 67344).
- Sec. 526: Bars use of funds to implement or enforce EPA's January 24, 2023 final rule on heavy-duty engine and vehicle air pollution standards.
- Sec. 532: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, or enforce the January 27, 2023 proposed rule reconsidering the national ambient air quality standards for particulate matter.
- Sec. 537: Bars use of funds to give formal notification under, or prepare, propose, implement, administer, or enforce any rule or recommendation under section 115 of the Clean Air Act.
- Sec. 540: Bars use of funds to implement or enforce the Council on Environmental Quality's April 20, 2022 final rule revising its NEPA implementing regulations.
- Sec. 541: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, or enforce the July 31, 2023 proposed Phase 2 revisions to the Council on Environmental Quality's NEPA implementing regulations.
- Sec. 450: Bars use of funds to prepare an environmental impact statement for, or to implement, administer, or enforce, the North Cascades Ecosystem Grizzly Bear Restoration Plan (87 Fed. Reg. 68190).
- Sec. 471: Bars use of funds for management of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument except in compliance with the February 2020 Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plans.
- Sec. 479: Bars the Secretary of the Interior from using funds to implement or execute Secretarial Order No. 3410, dated March 3, 2023, or any appendix to it.
- Sec. 515: Bars use of funds to finalize or implement a Commercial Services Strategy for the Crab Island Area of the Gulf Islands National Seashore.
- Sec. 516: Bars use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce Presidential Proclamation 10606 of August 8, 2023, which established a national monument.
- Sec. 542: Bars use of funds to develop, finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the Ocean Justice Strategy referenced in a notice at 88 Fed. Reg. 37518.
Changes a government process (14)
- Title III, “COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY”: Provides $3,750,000 for the Council on Environmental Quality and, notwithstanding section 202 of the National Environmental Policy Act, makes the Council a one-member body appointed by the President with Senate consent.
- Title III, “Chemical safety and hazard investigation board — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides $12,960,000 for the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board and provides that the EPA Inspector General also serves as the Board's Inspector General, using EPA Office of Inspector General personnel.
- Sec. 411: Directs any agency receiving funds in this Act to post on its public website reports required by Congress when the agency head determines it serves the national interest, after 45 days with the requesting Committee, with exceptions for national security and proprietary information.
- Sec. 433: Allows certain Interior and Agriculture funds subject to the 54 U.S.C. 200402 allocations to be allocated or reallocated to the Federal Highway Administration for transportation projects.
- Sec. 446: Requires the Secretary of the Interior to issue, within 60 days, the January 12, 2021 final rule on Endangered Species Act interagency cooperation regulations.
- Sec. 447: Bars use of funds to consider or incorporate the social cost of carbon in cost-benefit analyses, rulemakings, guidance, or other agency actions.
- Sec. 452: Requires the Secretary of the Interior to reissue, within 60 days, the November 3, 2020 final rule removing the gray wolf from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife.
- Sec. 461: Bars use of funds to issue guidance, take regulatory action, or approve labeling that differs from the conclusion of a pesticide human health assessment or carcinogenicity classification.
- Sec. 465: Requires the Secretary of the Interior to reissue Order No. 3368 on consent decrees and settlement agreements within 60 days and bars funds to rescind it or implement Order No. 3408.
- Sec. 491: Requires the Secretary of the Interior to reissue, within 180 days, the 2017 final rule removing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bear population from the federal list, without regard to other law, and bars judicial review.
- Sec. 492: Requires the National Park Service to prepare an environmental impact statement before approving an operations permit for non-federal oil or gas operations in the Big Cypress National Preserve.
- Sec. 496: Bars use of funds to promulgate new rules that the OIRA Administrator finds have resulted or are likely to result in an annual economic effect of $100,000,000 or more, major cost increases, or significant adverse effects on competition or related areas.
- Sec. 509: Bars use of funds in this Act to finalize any rule that meets the definition of a major rule in section 804(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code.
- Title III, “TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH”: Provides $76,000,000 for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, lets it substitute other health studies for health assessments, exempts it from the statutory assessment deadlines, and caps toxicological profiles at 40 in fiscal year 2024.
What it does
- Title I, “MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES”: Provides $1,180,645,000 for management of lands and resources under the Bureau of Land Management, to remain available until September 30, 2025.
- Title III, “INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES”: Provides $273,556,000 for the Indian Health Service, and in addition $4,901,524,000 that becomes available on October 1, 2024.
- Title II, “State and tribal assistance grants”: Funds Environmental Protection Agency environmental programs and infrastructure assistance, including capitalization grants for the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds, and sets conditions on how those grants are used.
- Title III, “WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION OPERATIONS RESERVE FUND”: Provides $2,300,000,000 for the Forest Service wildfire suppression operations reserve, available until transferred to Forest Service or Department of the Interior wildland fire accounts.
- Title III, “Smithsonian institution — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides $852,215,000 for salaries and expenses of the Smithsonian Institution, to remain available until September 30, 2025, except as otherwise provided.
- Title III, “National endowment for the arts — GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION”: Provides $186,300,000 to the National Endowment for the Arts for projects and productions in the arts and for administering the Act, to remain available until expended.
- Sec. 106: Requires the Secretary of the Interior to collect nonrefundable inspection fees in fiscal year 2024 from designated operators of offshore facilities, and sets the fee amounts and billing schedule.
- Sec. 438: Permanently rescinds $7,765,000,000 of unobligated balances of amounts made available for Environmental Protection Agency activities under section 134(a) of the Clean Air Act.
- Sec. 441: Provides that the 2023 rule revising the definition of "Waters of the United States" has no force or effect.
- Sec. 473: Requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct at least four onshore oil and gas lease sales each fiscal year in each of listed States, including Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Alaska.
Written automatically from the official text by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model. Written 2 Oct 2026 and published after the automatic checks, without a person reading it first. Every line names the section it came from.