Summary of 2014 Omnibus: Interior and Environment

January 15, 2014
Press Release
Summary of 2014 Omnibus: Interior and Environment

2013 enacted level:               $29.8 billion

2014 Committee mark:         $24.3 billion

2014 Omnibus:                       $30.1 billion

·         $3.938 billion for wildland fire, which is $417 million more than the 2013 enacted level.

·         $4.4 billion for the Indian Health Service, which is $78 million more than the 2013 enacted level.

·         $2.5 billion for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which is $18 million more than the 2013 enacted level.

·         $8.2 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which is $143 million less than the 2013 enacted level and $299 million more than the post-sequester level.

o   A total of $2.35 billion for the Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water Funds, which is $4.7 million less than 2013 enacted levels but $119 million more than the post-sequester level.

·         $2.6 billion for the National Park Service, which is $29 million more than the 2013 enacted level.

·         $1.1 billion for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which is $7 million more than the 2013 enacted level.

·         $1.4 billion for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is $32 million less than the 2013 enacted level but $45 million more than the post-sequester level.

·         $2.4 billion for the U.S. Forest Service (non-fire), which is $52 million more than the 2013 enacted level.

·         $146 million each for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, which is equal to their 2013 enacted levels.

·         The final agreement rejects egregious policy riders contained in the House bill, including (1) prohibiting regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from electric utilities; and (2) prohibiting EPA from changing or supplementing guidance or rules clarifying Federal jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act.

113th Congress