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What's New at Budget?
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Budget in Brief
The Department of the Interior "Budget in Brief" highlights and describes details of the fiscal year 2009 request.
Note: This document is presented as several separate PDF-formatted files. To view these files requires that you have Adobe Acrobat Reader® loaded on your computer. For a printed copy of the "Highlights" contact Margaret Kuyumjian in the Department's Office of Budget.
Summary of Congressional Action on the Fiscal Year 2009 Department of the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act
The House Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill was reported out of Subcommittee on June 11, 2008. The full bill and report are not available, however, some details of the mark-up are provided below. Following Subcommittee markup, full Committee action was not scheduled. At a June 19 Appropriations Committee markup of the Labor-HHS-Education and Agriculture bills, the minority proposed through amendment to insert the Interior bill, including an amendment to delete a long-standing provision relating to Outer Continental Shelf activities. The markup was ended and since that time there has been no further action on the 2009 Interior appropriation bill in the House.
Senate markup of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill scheduled for July 23- 24, 2008, was postponed and not rescheduled. Senate Democrats will attempt to bring up the supplemental in September.
House Committee action on the Energy and Water Development appropriations bill took place June 25, 2008. Senate Committee mark-up took place on Thursday July 10, 2008. For Reclamation, the House provides $1.035 billion compared to the Senate markup of $1.085 billion. The House bill is funded in part with an offset of $120 million from funding provided in the Farm Bill for Desert Terminal Lakes. The Senate does not propose the rescission but instead includes a reduction of $21.6 million in under financing. Water for America is funded at $31.9 million, the request level, by both House and Senate. CALFED is funded at $37 million in the House mark and $42 million in the Senate.
House Subcommittee Markup
On June 11, the House Interior Subcommittee approved the 2009 bill which provides $27.9 billion for agencies in the bill, including $10.5 billion for programs under the Department of the Interior, $577 million or nearly 6 percent over the 2008 enacted level, including:
- $1 billion for the Bureau of Land Management.
- $1.4 billion for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, $469 million of which would be allocated to the National Wildlife Refuge System.
- $2.6 billion for the National Park Service, $2.1 billion of which would be allocated to Park Service operations.
- $1.1 billion for the U.S. Geological Survey.
- $2.4 billion for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
- $182 million for the Office of Special Trustee.
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Budget Justifications
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Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
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Testimony from 2009 Budget Hearings
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Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Subcommitte on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
- Statement of Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of the Interior before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies on the 2009 President's Budget Request - February 7, 2008 (PDF Format)
- Statement of C. Stephen Allred Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals Management and Randall B. Luthi Director, Minerals Management Service United States Department of the Interior Before the Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies United States Senate - February 26, 2008 (PDF Format)
- Statement of Henri Bisson, Deputy Director Bureau of Land Management U.S. Department of the Interior Before the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Hearing on the FY 2009 Budget Request of the Bureau of Land Management - February 27, 2008 (PDF Format)
- Statement of Mark D. Myers, Director U.S. Geological Survey Department of the Interior Before the Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies U.S. House of Representatives - February 28, 2008 (PDF Format)
- Statement for the Record H. Dale Hall Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies - February 28, 2008 (PDF Format)
- Statement of Carl J. Artman Assistant Secretary Indian Affairs Accompained by Ross O. Swimmer Special Trustee for American Indians Before the House Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies on the Fiscal Year 2009 President's Budget Request for Indian Programs - March 5, 2009 (PDF Format)
- Statement of Mary A. Bomar, Director, National Park Service, Before the Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies of the House Appropriations Committee Concerning the Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Request for the National Park Service - March 6, 2008 (PDF Format)
- Statement of Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of the Interior Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies on the 2009 President's Budget Request - April 15, 2008 (PDF Format)
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
- Statement of Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of the Interior Before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on the 2009 President's Budget Request - February 13, 2008 (PDF Format)
- Statement of Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of the Inteior Before the House Committee on Natural Resources on the 2009 President's Budget Request - February 14, 2009 (PDF Format)
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