H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025

Bill · 118th Congress (2023–2024). Passed House, 24 Jul 2024. Introduced 11 Jul 2024.

Official title: Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and for other purposes.

Vote results

House, 24 Jul 2024: Passed, 210 Yea, 205 Nay, 0 Present, 17 Not voting. The House’s roll call
President: Not presented to the President.

How each member voted

House

Yea (210): 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); 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); Darrell Issa (R-CA-48); Virginia Foxx (R-NC-5); Michael T. McCaul (R-TX-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); 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); Austin Scott (R-GA-8); Daniel Webster (R-FL-11); Steve Womack (R-AR-3); Mark E. Amodei (R-NV-2); Andy Barr (R-KY-6); David P. Joyce (R-OH-14); 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); Dan Newhouse (R-WA-4); 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); Darin LaHood (R-IL-16); 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); 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); Debbie Lesko (R-AZ-8); 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); 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); Andrew R. Garbarino (R-NY-2); 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); Michael Lawler (R-NY-17); Laurel M. Lee (R-FL-15); Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL-13); Morgan Luttrell (R-TX-8); Richard McCormick (R-GA-6); Max L. Miller (R-OH-7); 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); Celeste Maloy (R-UT-2); Vince Fong (R-CA-20); Michael A. Rulli (R-OH-6); Greg Lopez (R-CO-4); Matt Gaetz (R-FL-1); Kelly Armstrong (R-ND-AL).

Nay (205): 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); 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); Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA-31); Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL-9); Mike Thompson (D-CA-4); Rick Larsen (D-WA-2); Betty McCollum (D-MN-4); Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA-8); 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); Tom McClintock (R-CA-5); Chellie Pingree (D-ME-1); Paul Tonko (D-NY-20); Judy Chu (D-CA-28); Bill Foster (D-IL-11); William R. Keating (D-MA-9); David Schweikert (R-AZ-1); Terri A. Sewell (D-AL-7); 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); Thomas Massie (R-KY-4); 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); Ann M. Kuster (D-NH-2); 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); Bradley Scott Schneider (D-IL-10); 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); Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY-3); Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY-25); Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-5); 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); Dean Phillips (D-MN-3); 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); Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14); Jennifer Wexton (D-VA-10); Jake Auchincloss (D-MA-4); Jamaal Bowman (D-NY-16); 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); Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA-37); Greg Landsman (D-OH-1); 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); Gabe Amo (D-RI-1); Timothy M. Kennedy (D-NY-26); Adam B. Schiff (D-CA-30); Andy Kim (D-NJ-3); Jeff Jackson (D-NC-14).

Not voting (17): Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY-7); Kay Granger (R-TX-12); Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ-7); C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD-2); Michael R. Turner (R-OH-10); Patrick T. McHenry (R-NC-10); Mike Quigley (D-IL-5); John Garamendi (D-CA-8); Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20); Richard Hudson (R-NC-9); Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12); Dwight Evans (D-PA-3); Clay Higgins (R-LA-3); Katie Porter (D-CA-47); Dan Bishop (R-NC-8); Cori Bush (D-MO-1); Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-9).

Not in office (13): LaMonica McIver (D-NJ-10); Erica Lee Carter (D-TX-18); Tony Wied (R-WI-8); Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18); Brian Higgins (D-NY-26); Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-20); Bill Johnson (R-OH-6); David N. Cicilline (D-RI-1); Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D-NJ-10); Chris Stewart (R-UT-2); Ken Buck (R-CO-4); Mike Gallagher (R-WI-8); George Santos (R-NY-3).

Summary

Main subject: Provides fiscal year 2025 appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, the Indian Health Service and related agencies, and sets conditions on how funds may be used. Title I, Title II, Title III, Title IV

Its core areas: Department of the Interior bureau appropriations; Environmental Protection Agency programs and state grants; Forest Service and wildland fire funding; Indian Health Service and Tribal programs; Smithsonian, arts, humanities and other related agencies; Federal oil and gas leasing requirements; Wildland firefighter pay; Limits on using funds for named rules, plans and policies.

Unexpected Items: 120 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 (15)

Sec. 142: Bars use of Act funds by the National Park Service to provide housing to an alien without lawful status under the immigration laws.
Sec. 155: Bars use of funds in this Act to oppose a trademark application for a named team logo or to pursue trademark infringement litigation against a named team over that logo.
Sec. 156: Amends Public Law 99–338 to raise the number of renewals from 3 to 7 and to strike the words "of Southern California Edison Company" from the first section.
Sec. 416: Bars use of funds in this 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 related activities.
Sec. 430: Directs the Secretaries of Energy and Agriculture and the EPA Administrator to set federal forest bioenergy policy, including policies that treat forest bioenergy as carbon neutral and renewable.
Sec. 433: Allows certain Interior and Agriculture funds subject to 54 U.S.C. 200402 limits to be allocated or reallocated to the Federal Highway Administration for transportation projects.
Sec. 441: Amends the Coastal Barrier Resources Act to allow use of a sand source within a System unit by federal coastal storm risk management projects that used a System unit for sand at least once between 2008 and 2023.
Sec. 442: Rescinds the unobligated balances of amounts made available under section 50224 of Public Law 117–169; the section text does not say which agency or program holds them.
Sec. 447: Bars use of funds from this Act or prior appropriations Acts for discriminatory actions against a person on the basis of a religious belief or moral conviction that marriage is a union of one man and one woman, and defines those actions to include tax, grant, benefit, accreditation and property-access decisions.
Sec. 451: Amends the mining claim fee law to give a claimant who pays the location and maintenance fees the right to use, occupy and conduct operations on public land with or without discovery of a valuable mineral deposit, and deems that payment to satisfy fair market value requirements.
Sec. 453: Directs the Secretary of the Interior to reinstate two hardrock mineral leases in the Superior National Forest in Minnesota within 30 days, not subject to further judicial review.
Sec. 455: Enacts into law provisions of two other 118th Congress bills: H.R. 548 as passed by the House and Title III of H.R. 7408 as ordered reported by committee.
Sec. 459: Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey National Forest System land in Riverside County, California, to a named flood control district at fair market value, and limits the Secretary's hazardous-substance remediation duty to disclosure.
Sec. 489: Extends a date in section 8206(b)(2)(C)(ii) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 from 2024 to 2025 and applies title III of the America’s Wildlife Habitat Conservation Act, as enacted by section 455, to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Sec. 460: Bars use of funds made available by this or any other Act for the Climate Justice Alliance.

Applies only to a specific place or group (3)

Title I, “Bureau of indian education — ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS”: Requires continued use of the section 5(f) distribution formula for any grantee that received indirect and administrative costs under it in fiscal year 2003 or 2004; the section also bars Bureau funds for Alaska schools and grandfathers certain existing charter schools.
Title I, “OFFICE OF NATURAL RESOURCES REVENUE”: Makes $50,000 available for overpayment refunds on certain Indian leases where the Secretary concurred with the claimed refund, and to pay amounts owed to Indian allottees or Tribes. ($50,000)
Sec. 488: Requires the EPA Administrator to report within 30 days on a plan to qualify any fuel derived from waste plastic or waste tires as cellulosic biofuel under the Clean Air Act.

Policy change made through a dollar amount (1)

Sec. 513: Reduces the salary of the named Secretary of the Interior to $1. ($1)

Funds a specific named project or event (19)

Title I, “OPERATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM”: Directs $3,300,000 of the National Park Service operations funds to the purposes of the 400 Years of African-American History Commission Act and moves that Act's July 1, 2025 dates to July 1, 2026. ($3,300,000)
Title I, “HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND”: Sets aside $7,000,000 within the Historic Preservation Fund for competitive grants tied to the semiquincentennial anniversary of the United States, made without the usual matching requirement. ($7,000,000)
Title I, “Bureau of indian affairs — CONSTRUCTION”: Funds Bureau of Indian Affairs construction, including construction of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project, and allows those project funds to be transferred to the Bureau of Reclamation.
Title I, “INDIAN LAND AND WATER CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS PAYMENTS TO INDIANS”: Provides $32,263,000 for implementing Indian land and water claim settlements under three listed Public Laws and other land and water rights settlements. ($32,263,000)
Title I, “ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES”: Funds assistance to territories, including named grants to the judiciary and government of American Samoa and to the governments of the Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Title I, “COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION”: Provides $813,000 for Federal services and programs for three named countries. ($813,000)
Title I, “WORKING CAPITAL FUND”: Allows charges and space leases for the National Indian Program Training Center, with the proceeds credited to and used for that Center's expenses.
Title II, “Administrative provisions—Environmental protection agency”: Authorizes the Administrator to use Environmental Programs and Management funds to provide grants to implement a named regional watershed program, and sets aside not less than $2,500,000 for National Estuary Program competitive awards.
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, “Forest service”: Allows Forest Service funds of up to $3,000,000 to be advanced in a lump sum to the National Forest Foundation, and up to $3,000,000 to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, for conservation projects. ($3,000,000)
Title III, “PAYMENT TO THE INSTITUTE”: Provides $13,125,000 as a payment to a named institute, available July 1, 2025, and remaining available until September 30, 2026. ($13,125,000)
Title III, “Smithsonian institution — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Allows Smithsonian rent payments funded by this Act to be deposited into trust funds for expenses of purchasing part of a named building, and places conditions on any sale of its ownership interest.
Title III, “REPAIR, RESTORATION AND RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS”: Of $17,266,000 for National Gallery of Art building work, designates $5,651,000 for completing an off-site art storage facility in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution, transferable to the Smithsonian. ($5,651,000)
Title III, “OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE”: Provides $32,000,000 for operation, maintenance, and security of a named performing arts center, available until September 30, 2026. ($32,000,000)
Title III, “CAPITAL REPAIR AND RESTORATION”: Provides $6,000,000 for capital repair and restoration of the building and site of a named performing arts center, available until expended. ($6,000,000)
Title III, “Woodrow wilson international center for scholars — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides $12,000,000 for a named center under its authorizing act, available until September 30, 2026. ($12,000,000)
Title III, “HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM”: Provides $65,231,000 for a named museum, with set amounts for its equipment replacement, repair and rehabilitation, and outreach programs. ($65,231,000)
Title III, “United States semiquincentennial commission — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides $15,000,000 for the United States Semiquincentennial Commission to plan and coordinate observances and activities for the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. ($15,000,000)
Sec. 429: Directs the Secretaries to allocate fiscal year 2025 amounts from the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund and the Land and Water Conservation Fund to the stations, unit names, projects and activities listed in tables in the accompanying report.

Different amount for specific places or groups (4)

Title I, “STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS”: Sets wildlife grant apportionment shares for named jurisdictions: the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico each get up to one-half of 1 percent, and Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands each get up to one-fourth of 1 percent, while other States get shares between 1 and 5 percent.
Title I, “ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION FUND”: Provides an additional $135,000,000, of which $88,850,000 goes in equal amounts to the three Appalachian States with the greatest unfunded needs, $34,400,000 to the three with the next greatest, and $11,750,000 to Tribal grants.
Sec. 115: Lets the Secretary set higher minimum basic pay, up to 15 percent above the normal minimum, for Interior employees in the Appraiser (GS–1171) series at grades 11 through 15.
Title II, “State and tribal assistance grants”: Within the state and tribal assistance grants, sets separate amounts or reserve shares for named places, including $30,000,000 for grants to the State of Alaska, $45,000,000 for the United States-Mexico Border area, and a reserve of up to 1.5 percent of clean water funds for American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, and the United States Virgin Islands.

Exception or delay for a subset (13)

Title I, “Administrative provisions”: At the Governor of Guam's request, allows transfer of Guam-allocated funds to the Secretary of Agriculture for loan subsidy costs, with loans made without regard to population, credit-elsewhere and eligible-entity restrictions.
Title III, “NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM”: Allows the Secretary of Agriculture to credit up to 50 percent of the calculated National Grassland grazing fee to a Grazing Association or direct permittee for an approved conservation practice.
Sec. 404: Bars use of funds to accept or process mining and mill site patent applications, except for claims with an application filed on or before September 30, 1994 that met specified requirements by that date.
Sec. 409: Requires Appropriations Committee approval before funds are used for condemnation filings for land acquisition, but exempts funds for the Everglades National Park Act and for Federal assistance to the State of Florida for Everglades land.
Sec. 431: Bars use of funds to implement or enforce a 2011 EPA regulation for units in Alaska defined as small, remote incinerators, and keeps prior law and regulations in effect for them until a new regulation is issued.
Sec. 432: Bars advertising deficit-rate timber sales in Alaska's Region 10 and sets separate rules for western red cedar and Alaska yellow cedar from those sales, including export to foreign markets.
Sec. 492: Gives the force and effect of law to the EPA's December 22, 2020 notice approving Florida's request to run a Clean Water Act section 404 dredge and fill permit program.
Sec. 516: Bars use of funds from this Act to implement, administer, or enforce an EPA 2022 final rule on ozone attainment and reclassification only with respect to Allegan, Berrien, and Muskegon Counties, Michigan.
Sec. 527: No designation of Permian Basin as nonattainment for ozone: Bars use of funds to designate or redesignate the Permian Basin, or any portion of it, as nonattainment for ozone under Clean Air Act section 107(d).
Sec. 105: Lets the Secretary redistribute Tribal Priority Allocation funds and limits any Tribe's reduction to 10 percent in fiscal year 2025, except in cases of dual enrollment, overlapping service areas or inaccurate distribution methodologies.
Title III, “Office of navajo and hopi indian relocation — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Bars use of funds to evict a Navajo or Navajo family who was domiciled on the partitioned lands as of November 30, 1985, unless a new or replacement home is provided.
Sec. 410: Requires executive branch contracts to follow specified procurement law and the Federal Acquisition Regulation, with exceptions including formula grants, Tribal contracts, and contracts awarded before enactment.
Sec. 456: Special base rates of pay for wildland firefighters: Sets special base pay rates for wildland firefighters. Subsection (e) provides that, notwithstanding another law, an earlier salary increase does not apply to the positions described in section 40803(d)(4)(B) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for service on or after the effective date.

Delays or blocks a specific regulation (57)

Sec. 116: Bars use of funds to write or issue any proposed or final rule on the greater sage-grouse, or to implement or enforce its threatened or endangered status.
Sec. 117: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, administer or enforce the Draft Resource Management Plan Amendment or Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Greater Sage-Grouse Rangewide Planning.
Sec. 124: Provides that the final environmental impact statement for the Lava Ridge Wind Project (89 Fed. Reg. 48681) has no force or effect.
Sec. 125: Bars use of funds to prohibit or issue regulations on lead ammunition or tackle on Federal land or water for hunting or fishing, unless a wildlife decline finding and State consistency or approval conditions are met.
Sec. 127: Bars use of funds to implement, administer or enforce the 2022 final rule listing the lesser prairie-chicken (87 Fed. Reg. 72674).
Sec. 128: Bars use of funds to implement, administer or enforce the 2022 final rule on endangered status for the northern long-eared bat (87 Fed. Reg. 73488).
Sec. 129: Bars use of funds to implement, administer or enforce the threatened or endangered species status of the dunes sagebrush lizard.
Sec. 131: Bars use of funds to implement, administer or enforce the 2023 final rule listing the North American wolverine as threatened (88 Fed. Reg. 83726).
Sec. 132: Bars use of funds to implement, administer or enforce the 2024 final rule establishing a nonessential experimental population of grizzly bear in the North Cascades Ecosystem (89 Fed. Reg. 36982).
Sec. 133: Bars use of Interior funds to establish an experimental population of the grizzly bear in the Bitterroot Ecosystem of Montana and Idaho.
Sec. 134: Bars use of Interior funds to implement, administer or enforce a proposed or final Endangered Species Act rule regarding fish legally held in captivity or a controlled environment kept separate from wild populations.
Sec. 136: Bars use of Act funds to implement, administer or enforce three April 2024 final Endangered Species Act rules on general regulations, listing and critical habitat, and interagency cooperation.
Sec. 137: Requires reissuing Secretary's Order 3368 on consent decrees and settlement agreements within 60 days and bars Act funds to rescind it or to implement Order 3408 or a substantially similar order.
Sec. 138: Bars use of funds to implement, administer or enforce the Bureau of Land Management final rule “Conservation and Landscape Health” (89 Fed. Reg. 40308).
Sec. 139: 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. 141: Bars use of funds to finalize, implement, administer or enforce the proposed National Wildlife Refuge System rule on Biological Integrity, Diversity, and Environmental Health (89 Fed. Reg. 7345).
Sec. 149: Bars use of funds to implement restrictions, stipulations or mitigation on offshore energy activity meant to reduce disturbance to three named whale species, with an exception for actions needed to comply with certain court orders or Gulf of Mexico lease sale documents.
Sec. 151: Bars use of Act funds to implement, administer or enforce any recommendation of the Interagency Working Group on Mining Regulations, Laws, and Permitting in its September 12, 2023 report.
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.
Sec. 434: Bars use of funds from this or any other Act to issue or implement any regulation requiring Clean Air Act title V permits for emissions from biological processes associated with livestock production.
Sec. 435: Bars use of funds from this or any other Act to implement any rule provision requiring mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure management systems.
Sec. 436: Bars use of funds from this or any other Act to regulate the lead content of ammunition, ammunition components, or fishing tackle under the Toxic Substances Control Act or any other law.
Sec. 452: Bars use of funds from this or any other Act to enforce Public Land Order 7917.
Sec. 463: Bars use of funds from this Act to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce a specific proposed rule on the scope of the mining sector under the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act.
Sec. 464: Bars use of funds from this Act to issue or revise any regulation under Section 17(o) of the Mineral Leasing Act relating to oil and gas development of outstanding and reserved mineral rights within the Allegheny National Forest.
Sec. 468: Bars use of funds from this or any other Act to implement, administer, or enforce a specific 2024 EPA final rule on effluent limitations for the steam electric power generating category.
Sec. 469: Bars use of funds from this or any other Act to approve a California waiver request under Clean Air Act section 209(e) for its small off-road engine regulations.
Sec. 470: Bars use of funds from this or any other Act to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA final rule known as the Federal “Good Neighbor Plan” for the 2015 ozone standards.
Sec. 472: Bars use of funds from this or any other Act to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA's 2024 final rule on greenhouse gas standards for fossil fuel-fired electric generating units.
Sec. 473: Bars use of funds from this Act to finalize or implement the proposed interim decision and draft risk assessment addendum for ethylene oxide, unless the Commissioner of Food and Drugs makes a specified certification.
Sec. 474: Bars use of funds from this or any other Act to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA's 2024 final rule on multi-pollutant emissions standards for model year 2027 and later light-duty and medium-duty vehicles, or any substantially similar rule.
Sec. 475: Bars use of funds from this or any other Act to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA's Phase 3 greenhouse gas standards for heavy-duty vehicles, or any substantially similar rule.
Sec. 476: Bars use of funds from this Act to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA's Clean Water Act Section 401 Water Quality Certification Improvement Rule.
Sec. 479: Bars use of funds from this Act to implement, administer, or enforce the Council on Environmental Quality's 2022 final rule revising National Environmental Policy Act implementing regulations.
Sec. 480: Bars use of funds from this Act to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the Council on Environmental Quality's Phase 2 final rule revising National Environmental Policy Act implementing regulations.
Sec. 481: Bars use of funds from this Act to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA's 2024 final rule on performance standards and emissions guidelines for the oil and natural gas sector.
Sec. 482: Bars use of funds from this Act to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA's 2024 final rule on accidental release prevention and risk management programs.
Sec. 483: Bars use of funds from this or any other Act to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA's 2024 final rule revising greenhouse gas reporting for petroleum and natural gas systems.
Sec. 484: Bars use of funds from this Act to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the EPA's proposed effluent limitations rule for the meat and poultry products category.
Sec. 485: Bars use of funds from this Act to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA's 2024 final rule on disposal of coal combustion residuals, including legacy surface impoundments.
Sec. 487: Bars use of funds from this Act to implement a California regulation that classifies metal shredding facilities as hazardous waste treatment facilities.
Sec. 490: Bars use of funds from this Act to develop, finalize, or enforce regulations implementing Clean Air Act section 136(c), or to impose, collect, or enforce a charge on methane emissions under that section.
Sec. 491: Bars use of funds from this Act to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA's 2024 final rule on hazardous air pollutant standards for coal- and oil-fired electric utility steam generating units.
Sec. 494: Bars use of funds from this or any other Act to finalize, implement, or administer the addition of the Upper Columbia River, Washington site to the National Priorities List in the March 7, 2024 proposed rule.
Sec. 496: Bars use of funds from this Act to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA's 2024 final rule reconsidering the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter.
Sec. 503: Bars use of Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund payments to States and Tribes from being used to implement, administer, or enforce section 200.311 of title 2, Code of Federal Regulations.
Sec. 509: Guadalupe Fatmucket, Texas Fatmucket, Guadalupe Orb, Texas Pimpleback, Balcones Spike, False Spike, and Texas Fawnsfoot: Bars use of funds from this Act to implement, administer, or enforce the Fish and Wildlife Service final rule listing seven named freshwater mussel species, with critical habitat.
Sec. 512: Fluid mineral leases: Bars use of funds from this Act to implement, administer, or enforce the April 2024 final rule “Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process.”
Sec. 517: Texas kangaroo rat: Bars use of funds from this Act to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule listing the Texas kangaroo rat as endangered and designating critical habitat.
Sec. 519: Bars use of funds from this Act to implement or enforce the EPA's January 2023 final rule on heavy-duty engine and vehicle standards.
Sec. 520: Bars use of funds from this Act to approve a Clean Air Act section 209(e) waiver for the California Air Resources Board's In-Use Locomotive Regulation.
Sec. 521: Mineral Leasing Act modernization: Bars use of funds from this Act to implement, administer, or enforce section 50262 of Public Law 117–169.
Sec. 526: Bars use of funds from this Act to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA's July 2024 final rule on hazardous air pollutant standards for lime manufacturing plants.
Sec. 135: Bars use of Interior funds to facilitate or allow the introduction of American bison on the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.
Sec. 152: Bars use of funds made available by this Act to implement, administer, or enforce a specific final rule on ten-day notices and corrective action for State regulatory program issues.
Sec. 154: Bars use of funds made available by this Act to implement, administer, or enforce a specific Bureau of Land Management final rule on the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, or any substantially similar rule.
Title III, “ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE”: Bars use of Indian Health Service funds to implement a specific 1987 final rule on eligibility for Indian Health Service care until a budget request reflecting its increased costs is included in an enacted appropriations Act.

Changes a government process (8)

Sec. 143: Requires an environmental impact statement before approving an operations permit for non-federal oil or gas operations within the Big Cypress National Preserve.
Sec. 144: Directs the Secretary to issue a new Record of Decision for the Caldwell Canyon Mine project by December 31, 2024, addressing deficiencies found by a federal district court.
Sec. 157: Directs the Secretary of the Interior to reissue a 2017 final rule on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bear population within 180 days without regard to other law, and bars judicial review of the reissuance.
Title III, “COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY”: Provides $1,000,000 and, notwithstanding the National Environmental Policy Act, makes the Council on Environmental Quality a one-member body serving as chairman with all powers, functions, and duties of the Council.
Title III, “Chemical safety and hazard investigation board — SALARIES AND EXPENSES”: Provides funds for the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board and makes the EPA Inspector General also the Board's Inspector General, using EPA Inspector General personnel.
Sec. 465: Amends section 5 of the Act of June 22, 1948 to replace “fair appraised value” with the highest fair appraised value, including the historical fair appraised value, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture.
Title III, “TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH”: Lets the ATSDR Administrator conduct other health studies in place of health assessments, sets aside the statutory deadlines for them, and caps toxicological profiles at 40 during fiscal year 2025.
Sec. 411: Directs any agency receiving funds under this Act to post congressionally required reports on its website when the agency head determines it serves the national interest, after a 45-day wait, with exceptions.

What it does

Title I, “MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES”: Provides $1,185,063,000 for management of lands and resources under the Bureau of Land Management, to remain available until September 30, 2026.
Title I, “WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT”: Provides $1,195,086,000 for Department of the Interior wildland fire management, including fire preparedness, fire suppression operations, fuels management and emergency rehabilitation.
Title II, “State and tribal assistance grants”: Provides funds for environmental programs and infrastructure assistance, including capitalization grants for the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds.
Title III, “WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT”: Provides $2,407,735,000 for Forest Service wildland fire management, to remain available until expended.
Title III, “INDIAN HEALTH SERVICES”: Provides $5,124,311,000 for the Indian Health Service that becomes available on October 1, 2025, and remains available through September 30, 2027.
Sec. 106: Requires the Secretary of the Interior to collect annual nonrefundable inspection fees from offshore facility operators, such as $10,500 for facilities with no wells but with processing equipment or gathering lines.
Sec. 146: Requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct at least 2 region-wide oil and gas lease sales each year in the Central and Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Areas, except in areas under existing moratoria, and at least 2 each year in the Alaska region.
Sec. 455: Enacts H.R. 548 (Eastern Band of Cherokee Historic Lands Reacquisition Act) and Title III of H.R. 7408 (America’s Wildlife Habitat Conservation Act) into law.
Sec. 456: Creates special base pay rates for wildland firefighters of the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior, raising the General Schedule base rate by a percentage set by grade, from 42 percent at GS–1 to 1.5 percent at GS–15.
Sec. 472: Bars use of funds in the Act to implement, administer or enforce the Environmental Protection Agency final rule on greenhouse gas emissions standards for fossil fuel-fired electric generating units published May 9, 2024.

Written automatically from the official text by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model. Written 1 Oct 2026 and published after the automatic checks, without a person reading it first. Every line names the section it came from.