COMMITTEE ON RULES - Summary of Amendments Submitted to H.R. 2996 - Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010

Jun 24, 2009
6:10PM

Summary of Amendments Submitted to the Rules Committee for H.R. 2996 - Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 (summaries derived from information provided by sponsors) Listed in Alphabetical Order Jun 24, 2009 4:34PM
Bishop, Rob (UT)	#36	Would prohibits funds from being used to condemn property.
Bishop, Rob (UT)	#37	Would prohibit funds from being used to restrict access by Customs and Border Control agents to wilderness areas.
Bishop, Rob (UT)	#40	Would prohibit funds from being used to ban mechanical thinning of trees in wilderness areas to prevent forest fires.
Bishop, Rob (UT)	#41	Would prohibit the Department of the Interior, the U.S. Forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency from making grants or entering into cooperative agreements with nonprofit organizations that have sued the relevant agency.
Bishop, Rob (UT)	#76	Would prohibit funds made available under the Act to implement an injunction against a final regulation regarding guns in national parks and national wildlife refuges.
Blackburn (TN)	#12	Would reduce spending in the bill by 5% across-the-board.
Blackburn (TN)	#13	Would prohibit the EPA from using any funds appropriated in this bill to finalize their April 24, 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gases published in 74 Federal Register 18886, or to otherwise propose or issue any finding under section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7251(a)), regarding emission of air pollutants.
Blackburn (TN)	#14	Would prohibit the EPA from using any funds appropriated in this bill to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) for purposes of addressing the effects of such air pollutants on climate change.
Broun (GA)	#57	Would strike language directing the National Park Service to complete a special resource study along the route of the Mississippi River in the counties contiguous to the river from its headwaters in the State of Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.
Broun (GA)	#58	Would prohibit funds made available under this Act to be used to fund Presidential Rank Award payments for Distinguished Executive or Meritorious Executive award recipients.
Broun (GA)	#59	Would prohibit funds available under this Act from being used to restrict or limit the use of lead bullets, lead-containing ammunition, and lead fishing tackle on lands under administrative jurisdiction of the National Park Service.
Broun (GA)	#60	Would prohibit funds available under this Act from going to bonuses or increases in salaries (except cost-of-living adjustments) for, or net increases in the number of, employees of the Federal government.
Broun (GA)	#75	Would increase the Resource Management account of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service by $12,189,610, offset by a reduction of $24,700,000 to the FY09 level for the Land Acquisition account of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Broun (GA)	#80	Would reduce the amount appropriated or otherwise available under this Act by 0.5 percent.
Broun (GA)	#81	Would reduce funds available under the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities by 50 percent.
Broun (GA)	#82	Would reduce the amount of the discretionary appropriations otherwise made available in this Act for any department or agency by an amount equal to the unobligated balance (on the date of the enactment of this Act) of the discretionary appropriations made available for such department or agency in division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–5).
Broun (GA)	#83	Would prohibit funds used by the EPA from being used to regulate green house gas emissions.
Broun (GA)	#84	Would eliminate funds under the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities.
Broun (GA)	#102	Would prohibit any funds from being used by the EPA to carry out a program that places a cap on greenhouse gas emissions.
Broun (GA)	#104	Would prohibit any funds made available under this Act from being used to acquire private lands through the Federal condemnation process.
Buyer (IN)	#56	Would require the Secretary of Interior to contract with a private independent entity to conduct a study on improving the condition of national cemeteries under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, and to require the Secretary to submit a 5 year plan for implementation of the study recommendations.
Calvert (CA)	#65	Would increase funding for grants under the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act by $15 million, offset by a decrease in funding for the EPA Environmental Programs and Management Operations and Administration account by $15 million.
Campbell (CA)	#66	Would strike the $1 million earmark for the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation in San Francisco, CA.
Campbell (CA)	#67	Would strike the $150,000 earmark for The Friends of Mozartina Musical Arts Conservatory in Tarrytown, NY.
Campbell (CA)	#68	Would strike the $150,000 earmark for Traditional Arts in Upstate New York in Canton, NY.
Cassidy (LA)	#77	Would strike the authority to spend funds derived from the new inspection fee authorized under Section 114 of the Act and strikes Section 114.
Cassidy (LA)	#79	Would reduce the Bureau of Land Management application to drill permit fee by $2,500 to the FY09 level.
Cassidy (LA)	#85	Would prevent funding under this bill from being used to delay the development of the 2010-2015 Oil and Gas Leasing plan for the Outer Continental Shelf.
Cassidy (LA)	#86	Would increase funding for Mineral Management Service's offshore oil and gas leasing account by $8,181,818, offset by reduction in the Department of Interior's Office of the Secretary salaries and expenses account by $10,000,000. The funding increase is specifically intended for conducting environmental studies for proposed OCS leasing areas.
Chaffetz (UT)	#88	Would provide that no recreation grants made using funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund may be used to acquire land or make improvements in State or local parks.
Cohen (TN)	#94	Revised Would increase funding for the Saving America’s Treasures Account, offset by reducing funding from the Construction account of the National Park Service.
Conaway (TX)/ Bean (IL)	#17	Would make it the sense of the House of Representatives that any reduction in the amount appropriated by this Act achieved as result of amendments adopted by the House should dedicated to deficit reduction.
Dent (PA)	#44	Would provide that no funds should be obligated under Section 20(b)(1) (allowing off-reservation casino gambling) of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (25 U.S.C. 2719(b)(1)).
Dicks (WA)	#32	Revised Would allow the abandoned mine land funding to be used for the non-Federal share of the cost of certain environmental restoration projects funded by the Federal Government that repair acid mine drainage from coal abandoned mines.
Flake, Jeff (AZ)	#22	Would strike $1 million in funding for the “Restore Good Fellow Lodge, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore” and reduce the overall cost of the bill by a commensurate amount.
Flake, Jeff (AZ)	#23	Would strike $1 million in funding for the “Mass Marketing of Hatchery of Fish” and reduce the overall cost of the bill by a commensurate amount.
Flake, Jeff (AZ)	#24	Would strike $150,000 for the “Tarrytown Music Hall Restoration” and reduce the overall cost of the bill by a commensurate amount.
Flake, Jeff (AZ)	#25	Would strike $150,000 in funding for the “Historic Fort Payne Coal and Iron Building Rehabilitation” and reduce the overall cost of the bill by a commensurate amount.
Flake, Jeff (AZ)	#26	Would strike $200,000 for the “Blount Mansion Historic Restoration” and reduce the overall cost of the bill by a commensurate amount.
Flake, Jeff (AZ)	#27	Would strike $100,000 in funding for the “Swayne Hall Historic Restoration and Renovation” and reduce the overall cost of the bill by a commensurate amount.
Flake, Jeff (AZ)	#28	Would strike $150,000 in funding for the “Sterling Opera House Renovation” and reduce the overall cost of the bill by a commensurate amount.
Flake, Jeff (AZ)	#29	Would strike $150,000 in funding for the “Restoration of Historic Coe Mansion” and reduce the overall cost of the bill by a commensurate amount.
Flake, Jeff (AZ)	#30	Would strike $1 million in funding for the “Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research” and reduce the overall cost of the bill by a commensurate amount.
Flake, Jeff (AZ)	#31	Would strike $2 million in funding for the “Ice Age National Scenic Trail” and reduce the overall cost of the bill by a commensurate amount.
Foxx (NC)	#54	Would eliminate $10 million in appropriations for grants to localities to develop plans and projects with the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Garrett (NJ)	#70	Would increase funding for land conservation partnerships authorized by the Highlands Conservation Act by $2,000,000 and reduce funding for construction, repair, improvement, extension, alteration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency by $2,000,000 million.
Garrett (NJ)	#71	Would increase funding for the Environmental Protection Agency Hazardous Substance Superfund by $2 million, offset by reducing funds for Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Programs and Management by $2 million.
Garrett (NJ)	#72	Would increase funding for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Land Acquisition account by $2 million, offset by a decrease in funding for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Management account by $2 million.
Gingrey (GA)	#4	Would prohibit funds in this bill from being used to carry out activities of a labor organization pursuant to subsections (a) and (c) of 5 U.S.C. section 7131 (allowing the use of civilian federal employee paid work time for union activities).
Goodlatte (VA)/ Holden (PA)	#53	Would prohibit funds made available in this Act to be used by the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate or enforce any law or regulation involving the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from nitrous oxide, water vapor, carbon dioxide, or methane.
Hastings, Doc (WA)	#38	Would strike increases from the FY09 appropriation level in the land acquisition accounts for the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service.
Heller (NV)	#47	Would prohibit funds made available by this Act from being spent to build an interagency facility in one specific location in Carson City, Nevada.
Heller (NV)	#48	Would increase Bureau of Land Management funding by $23 million to combat the rate of destruction of native sagebrush ecosystems and wildlife habitat caused by encroachment of pinyon-juniper, invasive weeds such as cheat grass, and invasive species. The amendment would decrease the funding for the Capital Improvement and Maintenance account of the U.S. Forest Service by $25 million.
Hensarling (TX)/ Conaway (TX)/ Gingrey (GA)/ Blackburn (TN)	#55	Would prohibit any funds in the bill from being used to enforce Section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
Hensarling (TX)	#61	Would strike the earmark for the Angel Island State Park Immigration Station Hospital Rehabilitation project.
Hensarling (TX)	#62	Would strike the earmark for the Sterling Opera House Renovation project.
Hensarling (TX)	#63	Would strike the earmark for the Cottrill's Opera House restoration project.
Hensarling (TX)	#64	Would strike the earmark for the Tarrytown Music Hall Restoration project.
Hill (IN)	#89	Would increase by $20 million funds for Clean Water State Revolving Funds Program, offset by a reduction of the same amount from the Environmental Programs and Management Account at the Environmental Protection Agency. The funds are intended to be used for state water quality protection projects for wastewater treatment, nonpoint source pollution control, and watershed and estuary management.
Hinojosa (TX)/ Rodriguez (TX)/ Grijalva, Raul (AZ)	#9	Would increase funding for the US-Mexico border water and wastewater program by $10 million, offset by a reduction for the Environmental Protection Agency science and technology account.
Issa (CA)	#35	Would prohibit EPA from regulating stationary sources that annually emit up to 100,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, or the CO2 equivalent of other greenhouse gases, under Title I, part C or Title V of the Clean Air Act.
Jordan (OH)	#8	Would reduce overall spending in the bill by $5.75 billion to reflect FY2008 spending levels.
Kanjorski (PA)	#42	Would increase funding for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation by $5.17 million, offset by a decrease in funding for the Department of Interior's Office of the Secretary by an equal amount.
Kanjorski (PA)	#43	Would allow funds made available to the Office Surface Mining to be used as the non-federal share of environmental restoration projects related to treatment of abatement of acid mine drainage from abandoned mines.
King, Steve (IA)	#91	Would increase funding for the operation of the National Park Service by $100 million, to be used for the construction of vehicle and people barriers along the borders of our southern National Parks. Would decrease funding for the Hazardous Substance Superfund account of the Environmental Protection Agency by $323 million.
King, Steve (IA)	#92	Would prohibit any funds in the Act from being used to employ illegal workers as defined in section 274A(h)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a(h)(3)).
King, Steve (IA)	#93	Would prevent EPA from using funds for the implementation of any rule that requires mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions.
King, Steve (IA)	#105	Would prevent the EPA from using funds to classify animal waste from farm animals as toxic waste.
Lamborn (CO)	#39	Would prohibit the use of funds to amend or alter the Bureau of Land Management commercial oil shale leasing regulations.
Lamborn (CO)	#69	Would reduce appropriations in title II by the amount of $2,959,288,000.
Lewis, Jerry (CA)	#73	Would prohibit funds in the Act from being used by the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate, issue, implement, administer, or enforce any addition or change to its regulations on greenhouse gas emissions in effect on June 24, 2009.
Lewis, Jerry (CA)	#74	Would reduce climate change funding to the FY2009 enacted level..
Linder (GA)	#95	Would decrease then increase by $3 million funds in the U.S. Geological Survey's Surveys, Investigation, and Research account. The intent for coordination of USGS with the Council on Environmental Quality to develop a comprehensive water strategy. USGS is directed to coordinate a study of current water management programs with CEQ of Federal agencies that are directed at increasing water supplies and improving the availability, reliability, and quality of freshwater resources. As part of that study a review of existing and possible future single purpose water supply facilities, above and below ground, shall be conducted as a result of possible changes in climatic conditions and a report furnished to the respective authorizing Committees in Congress.
Linder (GA)	#96	Would decrease then increase by $3 million the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Operation of Indian Programs account. The intent is to direct the Bureau of Indian Affairs to work with Council on Environmental Quality and U.S. Geological Survey on an assessment of Native American community future water supply and demand needs.
Linder (GA)	#97	Would decrease then increase by $2 million funding for the Executive Office of the President Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality. The intent is to direct the Council on Environmental Quality to coordinate a study of current water management programs of Federal agencies that are directed at increasing water supplies and improving the availability, reliability, and quality of freshwater resources. As part of that study a review of existing and possible future single purpose water supply facilities, above and below ground, shall be conducted as a result of possible changes in climatic conditions and a report furnished to the respective authorizing Committees in Congress within one year of enactment.
Linder (GA)	#98	Would decrease then increase by $3 million the EPA's Science and Technology account. The intent of the amendment is for coordination with the Council on Environmental Quality to develop a comprehensive national water strategy.
Mack (FL)	#34	Would strip all Davis-Bacon prevailing wage provisions from the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010.
Marshall (GA)	#46	Would increase funding for the U.S. Geological Survey by $6.5 million and designate that increase for state/local water resource investigations. The offset comes from a $9 million decrease in funding for the EPA’s Environmental Programs and Management Account.
McCarthy, Carolyn (NY)	#5	Would require that $250,000 of the funds appropriated to the "Smithsonian Institution, Salaries and Expenses" be allocated for the Civil Rights Oral History Project.
McCaul (TX)	#19	Would prohibit funds appropriated in the bill form being used to fund programs or projects named after Current members of Congress.
McGovern (MA)	#99	Would increase the allocation for the Land and Water Conservation Fund Stateside program from $30 million to $60 million, by reducing the allocation for the Office of Secretary of Interior by $30 million.
Neugebauer (TX)	#90	Would reduce funding in the Act by $5,694,736,000.
Nunes (CA)	#51	Would provide that no funds made available under this Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior to implement the December 15, 2008 Biological Opinion by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the June 4, 2009 Biological Opinion by the National Marine Fisheries Service on the Long–Term Operations of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project in California.
Paulsen (MN)	#1	Would increase funding for the National Park Service's National Recreation and Preservation programs by $1 million, offset by reducing funding for the Department of Interior's Office of the Secretary salaries and expenses by $1 million.
Price, Tom (GA)	#10	Would reduce funding for the Department of Interior by $100 million.
Price, Tom (GA)	#11	Would reduce overall spending in the bill by $323 million.
Putnam (FL)	#49	Would direct the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the activities, effectiveness, and goals, of the National Invasive Species Council, including a review of the coordination, or lack thereof, of the member agencies.
Putnam (FL)	#50	Would direct the Secretary of the Interior to provide a report to Congress on the environmental and economic impacts of invasive pythons and other constrictor snake species on the Florida Everglades and to provide a plan for controlling or eradicating the species in the short term. It would also direct the Secretary to provide a follow-up report on the researched control methods and their effectiveness.
Putnam (FL)	#52	Would direct the Secretary of the Interior to provide a report to Congress on the environmental and economic impacts of the redbay ambrosia beetle and laurel wilt disease affecting wetland tree species in the southeastern United States, including the Florida Everglades and to provide a plan for controlling this disease in the short term. The amendment also directs the Secretary to provide a follow-up report on the researched control methods and their effectiveness.
Rahall (WV)	#7	Would allows funds made available under the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program to be used as a non-federal match for other federal funds, such as from EPA, for abatement projects which combat acid mine drainage under watershed cooperative agreements.
Roe (TN)	#33	Would prohibit funds made available in this Act from being used to implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act’’ published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on April 24, 2009 (74 Fed. Reg. 18886 et seq.).
Schock (IL)	#78	Would prohibit funds from being used to implement or continue a policy, law or regulation which uses changes in international land use to determine the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of a fuel.
Sestak (PA)	#6	Would prohibit funding used for the construction of buildings after enactment that cost more than $1 million and are funded by more than 50% of federal funds, unless consideration is given during the design phase regarding the life-cycle cost of the buildings.
Simpson (ID)	#45	Would protect state and local authority to manage water by preventing the EPA from expanding its regulation to include intrastate bodies of water under the Clean Water Act for any reason other than for drinking water uses.
Smith, Lamar (TX)	#18	Would allocate $25 million for the Forest Service’s Law Enforcement and Investigations drug enforcement efforts, including removal of marijuana sites and clandestine methamphetamine labs from the National Forest System and interdiction of drug traffickers on NFS lands that share a common border with Canada and Mexico.
Stearns (FL)	#20	Would decrease the funding included in the Interior and Environment Appropriations Act for the Environmental Protection Agency by 38% to reduce spending to 2009 levels.
Stearns (FL)	#21	Would decrease the funding included in the Interior and Environment Appropriations Act by 17% to reduce spending to 2009 levels.
Terry (NE)	#2	Withdrawn Would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from spending any FY2010 funds to calculate indirect greenhouse gas emissions from international indirect land use changes until a peer reviewed methodology is developed to measure these emissions.
Terry (NE)	#3	Revised Would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from spending any FY2010 funds to calculate indirect greenhouse gas emissions from international land use changes for purposes of determining the lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels.
Tiahrt (KS)	#101	Would prohibit the use of funds for the salaries or expenses of Department of Interior and Environmental Protection Agency personnel who obligate funds made available under Title VII of Division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (P.L. 111-5)
Tiahrt (KS)	#103	Would prohibit the use of funds for the salaries or expenses of Department of Interior and Environmental Protection Agency personnel who obligate funds made available under Title VII of Division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (P.L. 111-5)
Upton (MI)	#15	Would prohibit the EPA from using funds to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Upton (MI)	#16	Would prohibit the EPA from using funds to regulate greenhouse gas emissions 1) unless China and India enter into a treaty or international arrangement that obligates them to reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions; or 2) if such regulations will result in a) an increase in domestic gasoline prices or an increased dependency on imported fuel; b) domestic electric energy rates to increase by more than 50 percent; or c) national unemployment to rise above 15 percent.
Walden (OR)	#87	Would increase funding by $2.5 million for forest health and community wildfire protection activities executed under the Healthy Forest Restoration Act authority (P.L. 107-148), offset by a reduction in funding for Bureau of Land Management's Management of Lands and Resources by $2.5 million.
Weiner (NY)	#100	Revised Would prohibit funds in the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2010 from being used for closing public access to the Statue of LIberty, including public access to the Crown.