Summary of Amendments Submitted to the Rules Committee for Division A of H.R. 6147 - Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019
Summaries Derived from Information Provided by Sponsors
Listed in Alphabetical Order
July 16, 2018 6:18 PM
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REVISED Prevents the enforcement of limitations or prohibitions on the use of genetically modified crops in commercial agricultural operations conducted on National Wildlife Refuges |
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REVISED Prohibits funds from being used to reassign Senior Executive Staffers of the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. |
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REVISED Decreases and then increases the EPA Environmental Programs and Management account fund by $742,000. This increase is to emphasize the need for greater funding for the Environmental Justice program area within the account. |
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Prohibits funds for the Department of the Interior to issue a permit for any oil and gas drilling operation that is located within 1,500 feet of a home, school, or other building that requires special protection. |
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Funds Interior’s body camera pilot program for Law Enforcement Officers. |
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Strikes section 431, which repeals the Clean Water Rule |
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Strikes section 430, which allows a loophole in Federal water quality permitting requirements for pollution discharges. |
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REVISED Strikes Endangered Species Act riders in sections 115, 116, 117, 438, and 440. |
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Strikes section which legislates that biomass be treated as carbon neutral. |
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LATE Bans the use of funds for keeping multiple calendars for the Administrator of the EPA, the Secretary of the Interior, and their Deputy Secretaries. |
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LATE Reduces the Department of Interior’s Office of the Secretary account by $1 million and increases the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the Inspector General’s account by $1 million. |
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Transfers funds from the Forest Service land acquisition account to the spending reduction account. |
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LATE Transfers funds from the NPS land acquisition account to Indian Education. |
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LATE REVISED Transfers funds from the BLM Land acquisition account to the NPS Parks Maintenance Backlog. |
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LATE Reduces discretionary budget authority by one percent for Fiscal Year 2019 Appropriations for Department of Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, and related agencies. |
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Increases the Historic Preservation Fund by $5 million to restore level funding with FY 2018. |
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LATE Decreases $1M from the Office of the Secretary of the Interior and increases $1M to EPA's environmental programs and management account for the purpose of, within 90 days from the date of enactment, publishing a maximum contaminant level goal and promulgating a national primary drinking water regulation for perfluorinated compounds (including perlfluorooctanesulfonic acid and perfluorooctanoic acid, PFOS and PFOA) under the Safe Drinking Water Act. |
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REVISED Prohibits funds made available under this act to be used to contravene Section 642 of the Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1373). |
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REVISED Eliminates federal funding for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. |
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Prohibits funds to be used to include in the 2019-2024 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Program an oil and gas lease sale in any area categorized as ‘No Oil and Gas Activity’ in the DoD Mission Compatibility Planning Assessment: BOEM 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Draft Proposed Program, published on October 30, 2015. |
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Restores $7,877,000 to the Fish and Wildlife Service for new listings under the Endangered Species Act, level with final FY 2018 funding. Reduces the Office of the Secretary by the same amount. |
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LATE Places a funding limitation on the EPA's ability to utilize the Title 42 special pay authority. |
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REVISED Prevents the re-purposing of Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act funds. |
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States that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to process any application under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) for a permit to drill or a permit to modify, that would authorize use of hydraulic fracturing or acid well stimulation treatment in the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf. |
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Increases funding by $5.4 million to ensure EPA can help protect communities from the impacts of oil spills. |
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WITHDRAWN Prevents funds from being use to implement a rule requiring Tier 4 marine engines on commercial vessels until those Tier 4 marine engines are available for vessels with various restrictions, such as pilot boats. |
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REVISED States that no funds may be used to include (a) any area of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico that is referred to in section 104(a) of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006; (b) the portion of the South Atlantic Planning Area south of 30 degrees 43 minutes North Latitude; or (c) the Straits of Florida Planning Area in any OCS leasing program developed under OCSLA Section 18. |
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REVISED States that no oil and gas leasing or preleasing or any related activity may be offered of any tract located in (a) any area of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico that is referred to in section 104(a) of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006; (b) the portion of the South Atlantic Planning Area south of 30 degrees 43 minutes North Latitude; or (c) the Straits of Florida Planning Area. |
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WITHDRAWN Provides that no funds may be made available to install a private phone booth in or near the office of the Secretary of the Interior. |
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REVISED Prohibits the inclusion of areas off the coast of New England in any plan for oil and gas drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf. |
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LATE Affirms the support of Congress for the construction of the World War I Memorial at Pershing Park in Washington, D.C. and urges other Federal Agencies, as appropriate, to support and participate in commemoration activities. |
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Increases funding by $2 million for Historic Preservation Fund grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. |
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Prohibits the use of funds to enter into any new contract, grant, or cooperative agreement with any Trump related business listed in the President Trump’s Annual Financial Disclosure Report submitted to the Office of Government Ethics as well as certain Trump related properties listed on the Trump Organization’s website. The specific properties are listed in the amendment. |
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Prohibits the use of funds to enter into any new contract, grant, or cooperative agreement with any Trump related business listed in the President Trump’s Annual Financial Disclosure Report submitted to the Office of Government Ethics. The specific properties are listed in the amendment. |
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Prohibits funds from being used to change or modify the 2015 federal coal ash rule (80 Fed. Reg. 21301 (April 17, 2015). |
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Prohibit funds to finalize EPA rulemakings initiated by former Administrator Pruitt until the Inspector General’s investigations into the former Administrator’s activities are complete. |
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Provides funding for the U.S. Geological Survey to develop a map showing pyrrhotite occurrences across the United States. |
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Courtney (CT), Larson, John (CT), Neal (MA), Esty (CT), DeLauro (CT), Himes (CT), McGovern (MA) |
Designates $300,000 within the Operation of the National Park System for the New England Scenic Trail. |
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Prevents implementation of the Bureau of Land Management Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation rule. |
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DeGette (CO), Dingell (MI), DeSaulnier (CA), Sanford (SC), Carson (IN) |
Prohibits funding being used to implement, administer, or enforce EPA’s Memorandum relating to Conditional No Action Assurance Regarding Small Manufacturers of Glider Vehicles. |
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Prohibits funds from being used to implement DOI Secretarial Orders 3349 and 3360. |
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REVISED Prevent's federal funds from being used to implement the State of California's Bay-Delta Plan. |
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LATE Increases the WIFIA administrative expenses account by $2 million and decreases the DOI Office of the Secretary account by the same amount. |
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REVISED Increases USGS funding by $250,000 for fisheries assessment to continue and expand advanced technologies research in the Ecosystem Fisheries Program in accordance with Congressional direction that mission areas and accounts would be maintained at the enacted level. |
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Prevents funds from going to local governments that permit individuals who are not citizens of the United States to vote in elections for state or local office. |
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REVISED Prohibits use of funds made available by the Act to add the Panama City crayfish to the list of endangered and threatened wildlife published under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. |
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Prohibits funding from being used to implement a January 13, 2017 effort by the U.S. Department of Interior and Agriculture to restrict all leasing, exploration, and potential development of approximately 234,328 acres of federal land in Northeast Minnesota. |
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REVISED Helps cities and towns clean up brownfield sites in their local communities by increasing funding to “brownfields projects” within the State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) by $7 million by pulling $7 million from the Office of the Secretary. |
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LATE Ensures none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement the Presidential Proclamation entitled “Modifying the Bears Ears National Monument” issued on December 4, 2017. |
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LATE Ensures none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to issue any permit for mineral exploration or mining on lands reserved under the Presidential Proclamation entitled “Establishment of the Bears Ears National Monument” issued on December 28, 2016. |
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LATE Ensures none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to issue grazing permits or leases in contravention of BLM regulations. |
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Garamendi (CA), McNerney (CA), Huffman (CA), Bera (CA), Lofgren (CA) |
Strikes Section 437. Section 437 prohibits judicial review of California WaterFix. |
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Garamendi (CA), McNerney (CA), Huffman (CA), Bera (CA), Lofgren (CA) |
Strikes Section 44 which prohibits judicial review of CALFED projects, the Central Valley Project (CVP) and the State Water Project (SWP). |
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LATE REVISED Allows for voluntary consultation by the Secretary of Agriculture if new information regarding a species or critical habitat could affect a land management plan. |
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Goodlatte (VA), Thompson, Glenn (PA), Shuster (PA), Perry (PA) |
Prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency from using any funds to take retaliatory, or EPA described “backstop” actions, against any of the six states in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in the event that a state does not meet the goals mandated by the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load. |
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LATE REVISED Helps meet U.S. energy security needs, provide for the common defense and ensure the availability of certain critical minerals by prohibiting funds to carry out Public Land Order 7787. |
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LATE Supports recreational shooting, K-12 education and responsible energy development by prohibiting funds for the Ironwood Forest National Monument that was unilaterally designated under the Antiquities Act. |
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LATE Prohibits funds to be used by the Forest Service to post signs designating an area as wilderness that is not an actual designated wilderness area. |
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LATE Provides regulatory certainty by preventing funds in this Act from being used by the EPA to issue preemptive and retroactive vetoes, consistent with the June 26, 2018 Memorandum from the EPA Administrator. |
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LATE Prevents implementation of the EPA’s climate change agenda by defunding the Endangerment Finding rule issued by the previous administration. |
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The amendment prohibits funds for the construction of a border wall in the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge. |
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Increases the budget for the Department of the Interior Inspector General’s Office by $2.5 million. |
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Ensures no funds may be used to consider uranium as a critical mineral under EO 13817 (Dec. 20, 2017). |
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REVISED Ensures none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to process any permit authorizing the importation, from any country, of sport-hunted trophies for elephants or lions in contravention of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) or part 17 of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations. |
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LATE REVISED Prohibits funds for reducing or revoking national monuments established by the Antiquities Act. |
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LATE Prohibits sending DOI law enforcement personnel to assist with Border Patrol efforts if doing so would leave a permanent duty station unmanned. |
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LATE Prohibits funds made available by this Act to be used to implement or enforce the EPA’s ground level ozone rule. |
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LATE Reduces funding for the National Endowment on the Arts and the Humanities by 15 percent. |
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REVISED Increases the USGS Surveys, Investigations and Research account by $4,798,500, intended to be used for the Volcano Hazards Program to ameliorate impacts caused by volcanic eruptions. |
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Directs EPA to fund the Clean Watersheds Needs Survey. |
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LATE REVISED States that no funds should be made available for Environmental Justice Small Grants issued by the Office of Environmental Justice. |
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WITHDRAWN Increases the Capital Improvement and Maintenance account for Forest Service road repairs. |
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States no funds shall be used to reassign or transfer members of the Senior Executive Service at the Department of the Interior. |
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States no funds shall be used to withdraw the EPA Region 10 proposed determination to protect the Bristol Bay watershed and wild salmon from the impacts of the Pebble Mine. |
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REVISED States none of the funds may be used for implementation of Section 20001 of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, related to oil and gas development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. |
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States none of the funds may be used for oil and gas leasing or activities in the Pacific Region of the Outer Continental Shelf. |
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LATE WITHDRAWN Expresses support for National Historic Areas and for continuation of national policy to preserve for public use historic sites, buildings, and objects of national significance. |
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LATE WITHDRAWN Prohibits funds to be used to limit outreach programs administered by the Smithsonian Institution. |
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LATE WITHDRAWN Prohibits the use of funds to eliminate or restrict programs aimed at reforestation of urban areas. |
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LATE REVISED Prohibits funds to be used to limit outreach programs administered by the Smithsonian Institution. |
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LATE REVISED Prohibits the use of funds to eliminate or restrict programs aimed at reforestation of urban areas. |
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LATE Expresses support for National Historic Areas and for continuation of national policy to preserve for public use historic sites, buildings, and objects of national significance. |
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LATE Prohibits funds to be used to house migrant children who have been involuntarily separated from family members or responsible adults. |
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LATE Increases by $500,000 the amount of funds provided for the Historic Preservation Fund to be used for competitive grants for the survey and nomination of properties to the National Register of Historic Places and as National Historic Landmarks associated with communities currently under-represented. |
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LATE States that of the funds provided for the Historic Preservation Fund, increase by $1,000,000 those funds allocated for grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. |
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LATE Increases support for environmental justice program activities by $1 million, offset by a reduction of like amount in funding from same account. |
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Prohibits funds from being used to contravene Executive Order 12898 relating to Federal actions to address environmental justice in minority populations and low-income populations. |
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Jayapal (WA), Quigley (IL), Cohen (TN), Castor (FL), Beyer (VA), Titus (NV), Cicilline (RI) |
Prohibits any changes to the National Park Service rule preventing fringe hunting. |
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Reduces then adds back $12 million to EPA’s Superfund account to underscore the importance of Superfund enforcement. |
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Jayapal (WA), McEachin (VA), Smith, Adam (WA), Ruiz (CA), Barragán, (CA) |
Increases the amount available for EPA's environmental justice grants to $16 million. |
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LATE Prohibits use of funds by the National Park Service to purchase or display a confederate flag except in situations where such flags would provide historical context pursuant to a National Park Service memorandum. |
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Restores the number of Appalachian states eligible for grants for the reclamation of abandoned mine lands to be used for economic and community development from 3 to 6. |
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REVISED Provides for a balanced distribution of funds among Appalachian states for reclamation of abandoned mine lands in conjunction with economic and community development, offset by funds from the Environmental Programs and Management account. |
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WITHDRAWN Increases funding for capitalization grants for the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds by $160 million. |
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REVISED Prohibits funds from being made available to take any parcel of land now held in trust for the benefit of a tribe out of trust absent the tribe’s express consent. |
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REVISED Funds the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission. |
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Allocates funding for research into PFAS mitigation and harmful impacts. |
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LATE Allocating funding for states and localities to improve water filtration systems to address extreme PFAS levels in municipal drinking water. |
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REVISED Increases funding to USGS to eradicate grass carp by $1 million. Reduces funding from the Office of the Interior Secretary by the same amount. |
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LATE REVISED Reduces and increases by $5,000,000 the amount of funding appropriated to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service Agency Resource Management Program for controlling Invasive Asian Carp in the Mississippi and Ohio River Basins and preventing them from entering and establishing in the inland river systems of Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee. |
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LATE REVISED Increases funding to the National Forest System account for purposes of eradicating, enforcing, and remediating illegal marijuana grow operations on National Forest System land. |
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Prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce the threatened species or endangered species listing of any plant or wildlife that has not undergone a review as required by section 4(c)(2) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973. |
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Prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce the threatened species listing of the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse under the Endangered Species Act. |
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WITHDRAWN Sets aside $6 million dollars from the “Fish Wildlife Service – Resource Management” account for the Delaware River Basin Restoration Program. |
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REVISED Increases funding for the Delaware River Basin Restoration Program by $1 million. |
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REVISED Provides funding for the Southern New England Estuaries Program under EPA Geographic Programs. |
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States that none of the funds made available in this Act may be used to limit the functions of the EPA’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. |
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States none of the funds made available in this Division may be used to make a payment to or reimburse expenses incurred at Trump Organization properties. |
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LATE REVISED Increases the Clean Water State Revolving Fund and the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund each by $10 million. Reduces the appropriation for the Department of the Interior Office of the Secretary and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management each by $10 million. |
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REVISED Prohibits funds from being used to regulate trailers under the Clean Air Act. |
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REVISED Prohibits funds from being used to delay implementation or repeal provisions of the BLM methane waste prevention rule. |
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REVISED Prohibits funds from being used to implement any recommendations of the Royalty Policy Committee related to compliance with National Environmental Policy Act. |
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REVISED Decreases and increases State and Tribal Assistance Grants by $4 million to direct the EPA to work with the affected States and Indian tribes to a long-term monitoring program for water quality of the Animas and San Juan Rivers in response to the Gold King Mine spill as authorized by the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act. |
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REVISED Prohibits the EPA from using funds to propose a rule to end the One National Program for greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards for light-duty vehicles. |
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Refunds the National Academy of Sciences study “Potential Human Health Effects of Surface Coal Mining Operations in Center Appalachia.” |
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REVISED Prevents funds from being used to consolidate or terminate the EPA's National Center for Environmental Research, or grants or research carried out by the National Center for Environmental Research. |
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REVISED Prevents DOI from obstructing an investigation by the Government Accountability Office, Office of Special Counsel, or DOI Inspector General. |
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Transfers funds from the Office of the Secretary to the Human Capital and Diversity office in the Office of Policy, Management and Budget to conduct a employee climate survey on harassment. |
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Limits funding for the implementation of Washington State's revised water quality standard. |
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LATE REVISED Provides an additional $1 million in funding to reduce the grazing permit backlog. |
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Boosts funding for the Smithsonian by $500,000 to better support efforts, including the creation of temporary or permanent exhibits, that better tell and increase understanding and education about the history, voices, and narratives of underrepresented communities, including African-Americans and tribal communities. |
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REVISED Maintains FY 2018 funding for an authorized program to address lead in drinking water. |
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Bars the use of funds to reorganize or eliminate the Great Lakes Advisory Board. |
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REVISED States that none of the funds may be used in contravention of executive order 13627. |
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LATE REVISED Increases funding for the NEA to support a program of activities to commemorate the International Decade for People of African Descent and build greater appreciation and understanding of the history and heritage of people of African descent. |
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LATE Prohibits the use of funds for enforcing the Obama Administration's EPA Methane Rule. |
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Mullin, Markwayne (OK), Gohmert (TX), Gosar (AZ), Perry (PA), Gianforte (MT) |
LATE Prohibits funds from implementing the Social Cost of Carbon rule. |
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Transfers $12 million from provisions of the Woodrow Wilson International Center to the United States Geological Survey agency. |
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Reduces Interior operations funds and increase BIA construction funds by 10 million dollars. |
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Reduces and increases by $36,000,000 the amount of funding appropriated to the Bureau of Indian Affairs construction account for public safety and justice facility construction. |
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REVISED Moves $3,000,000 from the Office of the Special Trustee to the Office of Navajo-Hopi Indian Relocation. |
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Prohibits changes to Public Land Order 7787 using funds appropriated in this act. |
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REVISED States that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to research, investigate, or study offshore drilling or conduct a lease sale for the development or production of oil and gas in any area located in the North Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, or Straits of Florida Outer Continental Shelf Planning Area. |
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Ensures that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the Environmental Protection Agency's Criminal Enforcement Division. |
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Eliminates funding for Diesel Emission Reduction Grants and sends the savings to the spending reduction account. |
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Prevents funds from being used to treat the New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse as an endangered species. |
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REVISED Prevents funds from being used to carry out any rule-making on the status of the Lesser Prairie Chicken |
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LATE Prohibits the use of funds for any federal advisory committee of the EPA that is not in compliance with the directive entitled "Strengthening and Improving Membership on EPA Federal Advisory Committees" published by the EPA on October 31, 2017. |
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LATE Prohibits the EPA from using funds to give formal notification under, or prepare, propose, implement, administer, or enforce any rule or recommendation pursuant to, section 115 of the Clean Air Act. |
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LATE Prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce section 211(o) of the Clean Air Act (relating to the renewable fuel program). |
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Prohibits funds from being used to hinder, suppress, or block any report required by statue related to climate change and would prohibit funds from being used to suppress communications to the public, or any Congressional entity, regarding science related to climate change. |
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Requires the Department of Interior to conduct a study on best drainage water management practices on publicly-owned lands and wetlands to reduce the risk of flooding. |
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REVISED Adds a funding limitation on the implementation of the Department of Interior December 28, 2017 guidance for financial assistance actions. |
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Strengthens necessary support for insular territories of the United States (to equal Senate levels). |
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LATE Reduces by $20,000,000 and then increases by the same amount the National Recreation and Preservation account with intent to use the funds for the National Maritime Heritage grant program. |
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Increases funds for hazardous fuels management activities by $10 million, decreases funds provided for forest products by the same amount. |
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Increases state and forestry private account by $2 million to add funding for Volunteer Fire Assistance grant program, and decreases Wildland Fire Management account by the same amount. |
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LATE REVISED Decreases funds for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management used for oil and gas by $2 million, and applies the funds to the spending reduction account. |
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LATE No funds will be made available in contravention of Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.101(a) with respect to aviation helmets. |
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No funds may be used to make changes to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement well control rule and production safety systems rule. |
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LATE Requires the EPA Administrator and Deputy Administrator to publicly disclose all travel costs paid by EPA within 10 days of travel. |
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LATE Increases the lifetime federal funding cap for the Essex National Heritage Area, Ohio and Erie National Heritage Canalway, and the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area from $17 million to $19 million. |
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LATE REVISED Prohibits funds to the Fish and Wildlife Service for issuing permits for importing elephant trophies. |
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Ensures that no funds are used to create a net loss of access to recreational hunting or fishing on public lands. |
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REVISED Prohibits the use of funds to change the designations of Gold Butte National Monument and Basin and Range National Monument as national monuments. |
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REVISED States that no funding made available by this act shall be used to divert water being conveyed from the San Bernardino National Forest to the city of Banning, California. |
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REVISED Prohibits funds to conduct offshore drilling and seismic testing |
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Increases funding for competitive grants to preserve the sites and stories of the Civil Rights Movement by $2,500,000, and reduces departmental operations for the Office of the Secretary of Interior by the same amount. |
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Prevents the payment of attorney's fees as part of any settlement the Federal Government enters into under the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act. |
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LATE Prevents funds from being used to designate critical habitat on private land under the Endangered Species Act. |
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Increases funding for the National Estuary Program by $468,000. |
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Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from acting in contradiction of section 104(a) of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006. |
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Increases funding for the National Wildlife Refuge System by $500,000 for the Wildlife and Habitat Management of invasive species. |
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WITHDRAWN Prohibits the removal of the Florida Panther from the endangered species list. |
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REVISED States that no funds may be used to conduct a lease sale for oil and gas production or development in any area within the North Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, or Straits of Florida Planning Area. |
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States no funds may be used to conduct a lease sale for oil and gas production or development in any area within the offshore administrative boundaries of the State of Virginia. |
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LATE WITHDRAWN Restores funding for the Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation pilot program by $25,000,000 while reducing EPA's Environmental Programs and Management by the same amount. |
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Tonko (NY), Curbelo (FL), Costello (PA), Johnson, Eddie Bernice (TX), Price, David (NC) |
Prohibits funding to be used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce EPA’s Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science proposed rule. |
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LATE REVISED Prevents the use of funds to carry out a reorganization of the Department of the Interior, unless all Tribes likely to be impacted by such reorganization have been meaningfully consulted and concerns raised in the context of such consultations have been adequately addressed. |
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Increases funding for the U.S.-Mexico Border Water Infrastructure Program by $5 million. |
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Restricts funding from being used to conduct an oil and gas lease sale on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, Straits of Florida, or Eastern Gulf of Mexico planning area, as such planning areas are depicted in the leasing program prepared under section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344), entitled the ‘‘2017–2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program.’’ |
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REVISED Prohibits the EPA from issuing Renewable Volume Obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard that will worsen environmental outcomes as reported in the Second Triennial Report to Congress (U.S. EPA. Biofuels and the Environment: The Second Triennial Report to Congress. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-18/195, 2018.)” |
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REVISED Prohibits EPA from using any funds to issue Small Refinery Waivers under the Renewable Fuel Standard without making public, through press release and publishing on the EPA’s website, the following information: name of company granted a waiver; reason for the waiver; number of gallons covered by the waiver; and, the impact of the waiver on overall RVO for the year. |
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REVISED Increases and decreases the State and Private Forestry Account account by $5 million to indicate that the amount should be used to help mitigate the spread of and the Emerald Ash Borer. |
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REVISED Increases funding for the Lake Champlain Basin Program by $4 million to the FY18 enacted level. Decreases the Office of the Secretary of Interior account by the same amount. |
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REVISED Prohibits the EPA from developing, implementing, or enforcing new regulations altering the Reid vapor pressure limitations of section 211(h) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(h)).” |
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Prevents funds from being used to change existing placer mining plan of operations with regard to reclamation activities. |
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Exempts National Forests in Alaska from the Roadless Rule. |
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