S-3034 : Still Just a Bill


Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022

This bill provides FY2022 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 Office of the Special Trustee For American Indians,
  • 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 Presidio Trust,
  • the World War I Centennial Commission,
  • the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children, and
  • the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission

Additionally, the bill sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this and other appropriations acts.

Action Timeline

Action DateTypeTextSource
2021-10-20IntroReferralRead twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.Senate
2021-10-20IntroReferralIntroduced in SenateLibrary of Congress

Sponsor :

Jeff Merkley [D] (OR)
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Policy Area :

Economics and Public Finance
Related Subjects
  • Advisory bodies
  • Agricultural conservation and pollution
  • Air quality
  • Alternative and renewable resources
  • Animal protection and human-animal relationships
  • Appropriations
  • Art, artists, authorship
  • Birds
  • Buy American requirements
  • Coal
  • Commemorative events and holidays
  • Congressional oversight
  • Disaster relief and insurance
  • Ecology
  • Economic development
  • Educational facilities and institutions
  • Education programs funding
  • Endangered and threatened species
  • Energy efficiency and conservation
  • Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
  • Environmental health
  • Executive agency funding and structure
  • Federal-Indian relations
  • Fires
  • First responders and emergency personnel
  • Fishes
  • Forests, forestry, trees
  • Government lending and loan guarantees
  • Government trust funds
  • Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
  • Health facilities and institutions
  • Health information and medical records
  • Health programs administration and funding
  • Historical and cultural resources
  • Historic sites and heritage areas
  • Humanities programs funding
  • Hunting and fishing
  • Indian claims
  • Indian lands and resources rights
  • Indian social and development programs
  • Lakes and rivers
  • Land transfers
  • Land use and conservation
  • Licensing and registrations
  • Livestock
  • Mammals
  • Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
  • Marine pollution
  • Metals
  • Military history
  • Mining
  • Minority health
  • Monuments and memorials
  • Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
  • Oil and gas
  • Outdoor recreation
  • Parks, recreation areas, trails
  • Performing arts
  • Pollution liability
  • Public contracts and procurement
  • Research administration and funding
  • Research and development
  • Solid waste and recycling
  • User charges and fees
  • U.S. history
  • U.S. territories and protectorates
  • Wages and earnings
  • War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity
  • Water quality
  • Water resources funding
  • Watersheds
  • Water use and supply
  • Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
  • Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
Related Geographic Entities
  • Africa
  • Alabama
  • Alaska
  • Asia
  • California
  • Caribbean area
  • District of Columbia
  • Latin America
  • Mexico
  • New Jersey
  • New Mexico
  • Oregon
  • Pennsylvania
  • Puerto Rico
Related Organizations
  • Commission of Fine Arts
  • Department of Agriculture
  • Department of Health and Human Services
  • Department of the Interior
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Executive Office of the President
  • National Capital Planning Commission
  • National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Smithsonian Institution

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