Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024

Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 239.

Nov 7, 2023

This bill appropriates fiscal year 2024 funds to the Department of the Interior and its component bureaus (including the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, and bureaus handling ocean energy, Indian affairs, and surface mining). The bill also provides appropriations to the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and designated offices within the Department of Health and Human Services (Indian Health Service, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry). Additionally, it funds the Council on Environmental Quality, multiple cultural and arts institutions (including the Smithsonian Institution, National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, and Kennedy Center), and several commemorative and advisory bodies. The bill establishes requirements and restrictions governing how appropriated funds may be used.

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Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 This bill provides FY2024 appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and several related agencies. The bill provides appropriations to Interior for the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Indian Education, the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration, Departmental Offices, and Department-Wide Programs. The bill also provides appropriations to the EPA and the Forest Service. Within the Department of Health and Human Services, the bill provides appropriations for the Indian Health Service, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. The bill provides appropriations to several related agencies, including the Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation, the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Commission of Fine Arts, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. the National Capital Planning Commission, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the World War I Centennial Commission, and the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission. Additionally, the bill sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this and other appropriations acts.