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Updated 1/28/2006
President’s 2005 Budget for Interior Emphasizes Cooperative Conservation, Commitments, Solutions
This successful restoration project in Pennsylvania
is part of the Abandoned Mine Lands Program, which has a $53 million increase
in the President's budget.
WASHINGTON -- President
Bush’s proposed Fiscal Year 2005 budget of $11.0 billion for the Department
of the Interior expands both cooperative conservation and citizen stewardship
initiatives, while simultaneously fulfilling the President’s commitments
to protect communities against catastrophic wildfire, repair and replace
Indian schools, and address the $4.9 billion National Park Service maintenance
backlog.
The largest request in the department’s history, the 2005 budget calls
for reforming the Abandoned Mine Lands program to accelerate by at least
two decades the elimination of these deadly hazards while saving $3.2 billion
over the program’s life. It also provides increased funding for both
Water 2025 and Klamath Basin initiatives that address chronic water supply
problems. More